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Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 07, 2009, 03:17:40 PM
Exilian Website (http://exilian.110mb.com)

In case you haven't noticed, a basic navigation bar has appeared on the website. Positioning etc is not sorted yet, as I put it in at 2 in the morning. I am also trying to solve the glitch with the M&B page, and am in the process looking for advice to improve the layout and design of the website. Go ahead.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 07, 2009, 04:24:58 PM
Fixed the M&B page, and changed the link colours so they stand out better.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Jubal on January 07, 2009, 06:38:52 PM
Looking good - any chance of an ETW section?
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 07, 2009, 06:54:54 PM
I've also been a nitpicking git and changed all Jubal's semicolons to colons. :P                                                      

Yeah, I'll make a page, if someone else will write the content.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 07, 2009, 07:53:10 PM
A technicality, but should I make the navbar link to the forum open a new tab/window by default so people can still view the site? A lot of sites do this.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 07, 2009, 09:09:14 PM
Changed the navbar, no longer buttons, but has rounded corners now. ;)
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 08, 2009, 01:13:39 AM
Added the ETW page: http://exilian.110mb.com/empire-total-war.php (http://exilian.110mb.com/empire-total-war.php)

Feel free to comment as well guys. ;)
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Private Clark on January 08, 2009, 01:43:29 AM
I like the style but the site could use a nicer design, everything seems really basic ATM such as instead of having a solid 1 color bar, maybe make a jpg with a design on it and just make the site more aestheticaly pleasing :). Also, i had a problem switching tabs between the forum and the site, it slows fire fox down alot, the lag between switching tabs was unbelieveable...
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 08, 2009, 01:49:07 AM
Odd, I've noticed no slowdown. There's nothing incorporated in the site that would slow it down.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Private Clark on January 08, 2009, 05:46:34 AM
Must just be firfox, ever since firefox 3 ive found it MUCH slower than before :(
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 08, 2009, 10:12:57 AM
Ironic, I've always found it faster. :P                                                      

About making the site more aesthetically pleasing, I'll see what I can do. My main problem is creating images that don't look like rubbish.

renamed all the pages to make them more search engine friendly.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: CN2 on January 08, 2009, 06:56:03 PM
The link doesnt work  :(                                                      

Scrap That...

Yeah I like it! The colours match up n everything and  The navbar is pretty simple to use, but... on the main page I take it there is going to be a picture there?
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Son of the King on January 11, 2009, 11:05:35 AM
QuoteA technicality, but should I make the navbar link to the forum open a new tab/window by default so people can still view the site?
Yes :).

Anyways, I like it.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 11, 2009, 07:32:46 PM
Made some subtle changes to the nav bar. Now it's up to you guys to suggest how to improve the rest of the site. I'm thinking of a new banner, that incorporates M&B work in it.
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 13, 2009, 12:12:14 PM
We now have our own domain! Check out http://exilian.net/index.php (http://exilian.net/index.php). It's the same as the old site, but now we have the freedom to expand a lot more, and looks more professional. ;)
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: stormcloud on January 13, 2009, 04:25:30 PM
Aha, finally a url simple enough for me to remember :P                                                      

yeah I'm pretty bad at them
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Son of the King on January 17, 2009, 11:06:05 PM
Just noticed this on the RTW page:

QuoteRome Total War is also a game with may modifications for it, several of which are bing developed on Exilian.

Just a couple of typos  ;)                                                          .
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Marcus on January 18, 2009, 02:08:04 AM
Not my typing, blame Jubal. :P
Title: New Navigation Bar and site suggestions
Post by: Jubal on January 18, 2009, 09:09:53 AM
Sorry, my keyboard is dyign slowly atm and keeps missing keys I press,e specially when I type fast.