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Title: Turnarcades website 2.0 in development
Post by: Turnarcades on April 29, 2009, 10:27:29 pm
It's been a long time in coming but the Turnarcades website is now undergoing a complete re-design by one of our very own BYOAC members and should be ready in the next month or so.

The new website will include:


The development website is currently found at the following link;

Turnarcades development website (http://aura.thinkl33t.com/~parag0n/turnarcades/)

but please bear in mind the site is still in development and will change frequently in the coming weeks. Any queries should continue to be e-mailed direct to me or sent by PM in the BYOAC forum. I'd welcome any productive comments or suggestions and some feedback info on navigation and various browser tests that I can pass to the designer in the coming weeks as this will help iron out the creases early on. I have already passed on a few bugs/changes that will soon be addressed for my preference but I may well have missed some key points.

Craig

*Please note the overall design and look is finalised and apart from a few graphical changes/touch-ups will remain as is so please no suggestions for new graphics etc. Also, the photos will slowly be replaced by higher-res shots in the coming months so forgive any mis-sized/low quality images.
Title: Re: Turnarcades website 2.0 in development
Post by: surface tension on April 30, 2009, 04:59:48 pm
Maybe you've passed this on and I don't think it fits in the 'creative' bracket...

The first thing I tried was to look at one of your machines. Then I went to click on the next machine and menu had all collapsed again, meaning I had to go through it all again. That's frustrating.

A small thing, your T&C page has a bunch of words joined together most likely from a notepad cut & paste exercise.

Anyway, looking much better I have to say.
Title: Re: Turnarcades website 2.0 in development
Post by: Sir Headless VII on April 30, 2009, 05:46:24 pm
I agree about the collapsing menu, it should stay open unless you collapse it yourself. Basically it should function like the folders bar of windows explorer.
Title: Re: Turnarcades website 2.0 in development
Post by: Turnarcades on April 30, 2009, 05:51:07 pm
Thanks st, it is a big improvement over the original of course and hopefully will increase our appeal further.

I have already noticed the collapsing product list; the tiled maze background also kind of 'shifts' on the right-hand side when expanding/collapsing and these should be addressed in due course. I'm thinking of moving the category column and expanded lists over to the left a bit more too, allowing a little more space for the description text and product pictures. I will possibly move the photo alignment to be under the description text, on the right-hand side opposite the prices with a more uniform size.

The text in in the T+C's is a quick typing effort to check page spacing elements and the missing spaces were caused by pasting as you described. This will be re-worded, spell and grammar checked with some elements moved to other pages once the site is fully populated.