New website is up and running!

[Adam Schmelzle]

I am not forwarding any traffic to it at the moment, but you guys can check it out at...

browse.00adam.com

I like it. It still has a couple finishing touches before it's 100% finished, but it's worth a look. Feedback would be appreciated.

[vlad]

Looks nice.

I bet you appreciate honest and constructive criticism.

Arial is so widely used that many websites that use it almost look the same. Try Verdana or any other available on every PC.

I really dislike the game description text box. Feels very ackward.

I understand why you are using red buttons, but, could you darken them a bit and take a look at some blues you are using on hover-text. It's like the colour-scheme doesn't fit well together.

But... Regarding organization and ease of use, I like it. It's more aesthetics stuff.

Hope it helps and gratz on the site.

[Adam Schmelzle]

Thanks for the quick feedback! I didn't really expect anyone to actually visit it.....

I've made some changes, and a lot of what you mentioned was stuff I was thinking about as well. Someone else worked up a bunch of the graphics and color scheme for me, so it still needed some fine tuning. I also don't have 100% control over the content/layout, since this is kinda like a prototype 'white label' site I have been helping greystripe with. My site is the first to utilize their customizable 'white label' partner website. Mostly all I can do is fiddle with the graphics, and a .css file that has colors/positions in it. The pages are almost all hosted on greystripe's server, with only the login and registration pages on my own, along with some web services to handle the user data between the servers.

Some links have been placed at the top/bottom of the page, however it's a bit hard to read at the bottom. The link to the forums is busted at this moment, and I have to wait for somebody at greystripe to fix it up. Unfortunately the color for links is the same for the top and bottom of the page. I can make it show up better at the bottom if I re-work a graphic for the footer.

Anyhoo, it shouldn't hurt your eyes nearly as much with the red buttons now, and I haev fixed the graphics on the tabs.

[MrDee]

This is a very slick looking site.
any chance of adding a simple list screen showing all games with ability to filter / sort (no need to show a graphic here) - kinda like GetJar (but if you coded it, then it would useful)
I see there is a 'show games by Adam' hyper link (a bit too well hidden) - ideally if there is a game I like I would like it to be REALLY easy to find other titles by that author.

[vlad]

You can expect feedback daily from me. This forum is on my daily reading bookmark folder.

Yeah, I noticed some changes. In my humble opinion it will need some work, but the audience is probably not that concerned with perfect design. I guess they are looking for fun free mobile games.

Keep up the good work mate.

[Adam Schmelzle]

Re: MrDee - Welcome back, it's been a while! Unfortunately, because of the reasons I mentioned earlier, I am unable to add/change the functionality of the site. I'm mostly just skinning it.

I want to be able to find games by author as well, and as you know my old site: 00adam.mobi has that built in. Since I only have access to the .css, I'm not sure if I have the ability to make that kind of change to the new site.


Re: vlad - Yeah, I bet you're a bit more discerning than the average bear . That being said, I still appreciate the feedback. I'm not a graphics/web design expert by any stretch, just a code monkey making games. The part I enjoyed about working on the website, was the web services and other various server side work(old mobile site 00adam.mobi). The 'graphical fiddlyness', as I like to call it is simply a necessary evil.