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A Peek At V3.0s Look

by doodirock| Published: Wednesday, June 24 @ 18:32:03 EDT

After a few months of trial and error, constant feed back from SCC members, and donations from the community, I'm happy to show off what should become the new face of 2old2play.

SCC (Senior Citizen Card) members have already been working with me and the designers to help guild the new look of 2old2play, but we think it is time to share the design with the rest of the community. For version 3, our goal was to keep the same feel as Version 2 has, with a bit more refinement and polish.

We started by stripping out a lot of the bloat that we have accumulated throughout the years of V2's launch and tried to refine the areas of navigation, log-in, donation, and news. We also wanted to brighten up the text and create a better contrast that is a bit more easy on the eyes. After all, the idea of a dark contrast for older gamers never really made much sense in the first place.

We then wanted to make blogs a bit easier to sift throughout all pages so we added arrows on both sides. This way you wont have to go to the blogging page every time you want to look beyond the top 7. In a similar move we tried to make clans much more accessible on the home page by creating one area for people to search, research, and learn more about the clans of 2old2play. The main focus is to get more people into more 2o2p clans faster, so we hope this is yet another step in that direction.

All the babbling aside, thank you so much to all the members that helped to fund this design with their donations from SCC, Events, Art Auctions, and site donations. We are now looking to complete the next phase of development and can't wait to share more information once it's available. If you have any suggestions, ideas, or reasons to bitch, please feel free to do so here. Without further adieu, I give you v3.0.

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v3 (Score: 1)
Posted By swooshdave on Wednesday, June 24 @ 19:15:56 EDT
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Nice, looking forward to the release.



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By Dahji on Wednesday, June 24 @ 21:23:16 EDT
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That's pretty. Don't forget to update the member search ... so people can search for my member.


Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By seanfletcher on Thursday, June 25 @ 09:32:55 EDT
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Cool - they are enabling microsearches in V3!





Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By Flywalker on Wednesday, June 24 @ 22:14:03 EDT
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Pretty cool, Looks great,,, I really like the white background and black lettering.



v3 is T3 approved (Score: 1)
Posted By T3muJin on Thursday, June 25 @ 01:38:01 EDT
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very nice work. i really like the podcast list on the front page and i can click one there and listen to it.



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By takadud1 on Thursday, June 25 @ 08:40:41 EDT
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Nice looking - lighter and brighter. All the major stuff still easily accessible.

I like the changes you listed as well.

Now if we can just get more people to come to the front page more often.


Whah!?! (Score: 1)
Posted By swooshdave on Thursday, June 25 @ 12:39:07 EDT
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There's a front page?





Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By Caesar on Thursday, June 25 @ 09:50:57 EDT
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you already know i think its teh hotness



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Posted By SUICIDESQUIRREL on Thursday, June 25 @ 09:57:17 EDT
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very nice, looking forward to this



Editorials (Score: 1)
Posted By TANK on Thursday, June 25 @ 14:14:16 EDT
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How are the top 3 editorials chosen? Not knowing how that works at the moment, if it's just on like thumbs up or something, i think that's a lot of space that could become fairly static. I'd almost prefer the 'top' ones to be on the little side bar where 'editorials' is now and have the larger one be the current editorials to showcase them more.



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By doodirock on Thursday, June 25 @ 14:53:56 EDT
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Thats actually something Im thinkin a lot about right now. The new itself is still a hot topic. The layout is very flexible so there is nothing set in stone until the dev goes through.





Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By creepyunkle on Thursday, June 25 @ 14:55:28 EDT
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looking good. thanks for the hard work.



thats sexy (Score: 1)
Posted By Gatsu on Thursday, June 25 @ 16:57:43 EDT
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looks damn good.



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By FreynApThyr on Thursday, June 25 @ 20:04:00 EDT
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This site sucks. That site will suck too.


Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By AcidSnow on Thursday, June 25 @ 21:09:46 EDT
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gotta lol at your sarcasm




Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By BCKinetic on Wednesday, July 01 @ 22:01:44 EDT
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He's serious.





Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By Pulsaris on Thursday, June 25 @ 21:22:37 EDT
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That looks fantastic!!!
Great job! Can't wait until it goes live!



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By jcotter13 on Friday, June 26 @ 21:40:49 EDT
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Sweet!!



Me Likey! (Score: 1)
Posted By wilderz on Sunday, June 28 @ 09:11:40 EDT
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This looks real good Doodi. The contrast in colors are great, and the page looks more modern. Lookin' forward to this being rolled out.


Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By you_again on Sunday, June 28 @ 21:55:12 EDT
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I like the new layout, looks modern too!




Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By gunja_1513 on Wednesday, July 15 @ 15:30:17 EDT
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Yay for bevel and emboss. All the interwebs should use it.





Wow! (Score: 1)
Posted By DEEP_NNN on Friday, July 03 @ 07:36:05 EDT
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That looks very good.



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By hilskie on Friday, July 03 @ 11:43:28 EDT
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Really like it! Can't wait! Would you get it released already!?? :D



Untitled (Score: 1)
Posted By Snipe on Tuesday, July 07 @ 19:56:10 EDT
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WOW looks really good, great job on the lay out. cant wait till we can use it



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