New website design

[drwr]

The fancy new RSW website design is live as of this morning. The hope is to make the game look more attractive to new users--the look of the website should reflect the depth of the game itself. At the same time, I want the game to remain accessible to users with text-based browsers and screen readers, or slow internet connections. Tell me what you think!

David

[Gorf]

Looks very slick! I like it. Are you using a CMS now?

[drwr]

No CMS, just hand-rolled HTML and Javascript. The webpages are almost entirely dynamically generated, under control of the Python server; integrating with an off-the-shelf CMS for a project like this would be a bit of a challenge. It's doable, of course, but probably not worth the effort for the relatively small changes I just put in.

David

[Gorf]

I have firebug installed on my browser, saw a lot of CSS

assumed that you did not want to deal with that. or did you?

yea; a CMS requires a lot templates

I'm dabbling with joomla, wordpress. Interesting stuff

Gorf

[drwr]

Oh, sure; the CSS is hand-rolled too. But the vast majority is cut-and-pasted from a standard CSS template; I only added maybe 20 categories. CSS is not any more difficult to code by hand than HTML.

David

[Gorf]

yes; I know CMSystems do not generate that stuff

Great job! (yet again)! Thanks for doing what you do! Very Awesome & Impressive.

Regards, Gorf

[Raf]

What happened to the game signup link?

[drwr]

I moved some things around to declutter the interface a bit. There were too many links across the top.

In particular, I combined the "My games" link and the "Game signup" link into the new "Play" button. If you click the "Play" button, it will take you to a page which lists your current games; and from there you can click the "Signup" button (scroll down the page) to sign up for a new game.

Or, just click the "currently signed up for X games" link on your home page to go directly to the signup page.

Or, if you have email notifications on, you can click on the link for a particular game from the email announcement.

David

[ZenCat]

Hey Dave, this is really slick! I've nosed around a bit and am very impressed. It's obvious you put a lot of time and thought into this. Great job....