VLOG: Shiny New Site Upgrades & More!
January 21, 2015 by warzan
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I really love these Vlogs, guys. They make a great addition to the site and community.
Please keep ’em coming,
Bryan
Nice, fresh look on the new site = Good!
Personally I´m more interested in the videos rather than articles, but there´s a good mix I think.
-First thing to address; Justin’s beard face grew very quickly. (Rad) 🙂
-Second I am really happy with the web site changes. Great work on that team BoW.
-Thirdly, Lloyd deserved the coffee.
Loving it guys
looks good what I have seen.
I am an old man and I fear change, but the improvements get two thumbs up!
I am really pleased with what I have seen so far with the changes. Thumbs up guys. For the Vlog 🙂
I love these Vlogs, they make a great addition to the site .
Website is loking better every day, keep up the good job.
@Warzan I guess you mean the wheeled resupply vehicle from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, which was later replaced by the mortar-toting walker in Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Which I have never, ever managed to get working in co-op.
Bah!
Your prejudice towards abhumans is duly noted! You will be hearing from the RDL soon(Ratling Defamation League).
Lol
Glad to see you guys are working on the site layout and such. I’ve got a couple suggestions that hopefully you’ll consider. My first suggestion is to move the log-in. Scrolling to the bottom of the frontstage page to log in to the backstage is really annoying. In my opinion, the login should be at the very top left of the navigation panel. Also, for some reason, even though I have it set to auto-log in, I’m finding that most of the time I have to log in manually anyway. Not sure if that’s browser specific, or code breaking, but… Read more »
There is a login link at the very top left of the page 🙂
We are looking to make it more noticeable
We are also looking at some layout possibilities 🙂
So stay tuned 🙂
Huzzah. So there is a login link. I never see that link because I scroll down to read, then realize I’m not logged in… Speaks to browsing habits, and perhaps a bit of an overwhelming nav/bar. Thanks for listening!
I’m liking the changes and your reference to age made me smile. One of my tenets in life is Simple always works best.
Also looks better on my phone as well.
The Imperial Navy army is looking cool Warren, I love the Puppets War vehicles – got one of those APCs and one of their VTOLs for my warpath enforcers, so if you wind up dropping it from the army I’ll take it off your hands 😉 You might want to check out the Puppets War Dragonfly Mark II transport, it is a true beast of a flying machine and would make a kick ass Valkyrie!
Looking great guys. You’re really building that magazine feel.
Love these Vlogs and the updates to Backstage. Warren, nice Bed Head ;-). Justin, Man that beard is looking Epic, I’m jealous. I agree Lloyd deserves a coffee.
I have an issue when you say magazine style. For me the really tiny frame BoW are running in gives the text like 400px to live in. I would love to see BoW upgraded in width to acomodate more modern screen resolutions. Now it just feelst tiny in its 1024 resolution. Fore me a magazine layout wold eliminate the left add column and be wider in text. To be honest I cant se a big difference beteween the normal layout and the magazine layout. For me eliminating the left side to widen the text would make a huge difference because… Read more »
Remember currently we have to take tablets and things into account (yes we know all about responsive design, but that’s easier said than done)
But we will evolve it as I think we’re on the same wavelength as you.
Is looking a lot better but it will be great if it will were a responsive layout, using more of the screen space, sometimes i tend to scroll-zoom the site in order to get a better view and i’m not using any kind of tablet.
No news about using AJAX/Backbone/Angular for posting comments and avoiding the entire reload of the site ?
It would be nice to be able to filter the hobby and painting videos by game, by category and technique that would be great. For example if you tagged Dust to Dust with weathering and then gave that same tag to some of John’s older tank god videos. Right now browsing through the archives of backstage is a bit of a chore unless you know exactly what you are looking for.
You are clicking the weathering tag that’s currently there yes?
FIrst, I’m loving the magazine layout for articles when I’m logged in to backstage, but like someone mentioned previously, it sometimes doesn’t stay logged in despite ticking the “remember me” box, so the layout shifts from time to time. Not major, but something to look into. Second, Warren, if you’re going for a Navy/Rescue theme with this Militarum force, how cool would Valkyries done in coast guard colors (white/orange) look? Especially as a contrast to the dark blue armor/uniforms of other models in the force! And of course, the usual light ghost grey color of other navy vehicles. Keep at… Read more »
The site doesn’t actually log you out, it’s serving you up a cached page by mistake.
A refresh of Ctrl F5 will almost always resolve this.
Because of the high tragic levels we have to use ‘smart’ systems for reducing server load, unfortunately they can be ‘smart to the point if dumb’ some times !
Would that work the same on my phone? Because it always logs me out!
Great changes! I’ve read more articles in the past week,than total in the previous 2 years! You’ll see from my comments to follow that my main interaction with the site is the videos but written articles have become more accessible for me with the he design. New pages seem much faster to load and scroll on my iPad. The sidebar and other improvements look to make the whole site more usable to me. At some point once most of improvements are done you might consider a short video on how to “use” the site in some common use conditions like… Read more »
New magazine layout is a better way to browse the site.
I like the new design of recent topics from forum .
Can you make button/link for login/logout more visible?
Loving the new regular vlogs, nice changes to the website, definitely improved the look.
@Warzan – Completely with you on the ogryns and ratlings, I love my guard army but there’s no way in hell those subhumans are going in it! lol
On the buttons for your forum links, one of them is spelt wrong. Pulp, punk, horror and “WIRED” should be “WEIRD”.