Re: [pygame] preview of new pygame website... HiFi part

[Paul Vincent Craven <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I appreciate the work that went into the website, but I'll vote for a cleaner interface. I think the following should be up front:

* What is pygame with a pretty set of images showing what it can do

* Link straight to download (including installation instructions)

* Link to documentation 

* Link to tutorials

* List of 'news'

I think scrolling is ok in a normal interface, but only for older news stories.

I really like the book "don't make me think" for doing UI on a website.

Paul Vincent Craven

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Ibbotson <thomas.ibbotson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

FWIW, I really like the design. I like the feel of everything being there and navigating around it. I much prefer that to paginated websites, which I feel I can get lost in. For me, more is definitely more. However, I agree that so much information could be daunting to casual browsers and I think it's the right thing to have a 'LoFi' version.

I don't have anything constructive, I just wanted to say that I liked it, because there were a lot of people saying they didn't!

On 8 April 2014 18:48, Jake b <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Phone versions:
    Android 4.4.2

    Chrome 34.0.*

    firefox 29 (beta and stable)

For highlighting game updates, maybe use the widget steam has (I think it's called: carousel, ex: http://store.steampowered.com/  ) It cycles through large images + links.

I had a thought about the data density:

If using a steam widget to feature the 5 most recent (or manually featured games). Then continue more in the column, like it currently does.

If using the a slideshow / steam widget above: you could remove the news section. If there's recent news, insert items into the steam-slideshow widgit. (Clicking it will navigate to the full-news page)

The same thing could work for videos. (If new ones aren't submitted real frequently, yet it'd still be nice to have on the front.)

Maybe news and videos will be frequent enough always using a column is best.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the notes Jake.

Perhaps if I play a subtle highlighting animation on page load, and highlight the arrow keys as the Left/Right buttons are that might help people notice them.

btw, your phone is an android?

cheers,

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Jake b <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Minor notes .

I didn't realize the top menu at first. Might be too subtle.

I tested it on my phone, chrome and Firefox.

Chrome
+ doesn't work with swipe gesture.
+ arrow buttons: About 10% of the time the site scrolls 2 columns.

While swipe works on ffx, but is giving false positives. If I scroll up / down. Ex displacement of 10px x, 300px y, it pages.

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Jake