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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2007, 07:58:33 pm »
It was loading quite quickly when I was uploading to my host (Xordan \o/) while testing. I suppose I can try seeing if some images can be made smaller.

Another comment is that I think the download link should not be in the menu under account. I would create an entry on its own since it is one of the things players ask most "where can i download"? and that is not on the first page and not clear in the menu

Way ahead of you :] Did you notice this part?



I suppose I didn't ;-) Maybe change font color to something that catch more the attention? Ok, I was at work and I was not studying the homepage but looking briefly, but if I didn't see it, how many people won't?
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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2007, 08:29:53 pm »

I suppose I didn't ;-) Maybe change font color to something that catch more the attention? Ok, I was at work and I was not studying the homepage but looking briefly, but if I didn't see it, how many people won't?
* AryHann doesn't want to be polemic - the website is 20000 times better than before!

Hate to be the original web designer. Not only is there the insult of his work being replaced, but there's about 15 comments of how much better it is... :P

You should be ashamed of yourself for your good work, Kary...

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2007, 09:34:44 pm »
Looks great :)
Good work

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #33 on: January 19, 2007, 09:54:12 pm »
One thing I like is now you can see male and female drawings for each race (except kran of course).  I see female klyros for the first time!  \\o//
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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #34 on: January 19, 2007, 10:37:43 pm »
Congrats for the work!

Just one comment: it is extremely heavy to download (even if I have a super duper connection at work). It took really a lot of time if it is not cached. Maybe some image can be lighter?

Another comment is that I think the download link should not be in the menu under account. I would create an entry on its own since it is one of the things players ask most "where can i download"? and that is not on the first page and not clear in the menu

The site loaded fairly slowly for me when I checked just after Talad's announcement, and I don't have a dialup connection. I think the main problem is that everyone's viewing the site now and the server can't quite keep up. Still, this might prove interesting: WSO Speed Report

For your amusement, here is the same thing calculated for the old site, and here is the report for the hydlaa.com site (a slightly different version of it)

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #35 on: January 19, 2007, 11:38:50 pm »
Karyu, you're great!! Really, new graphics really rocks!

Also, I'm very proud to have a special place inside the new site, honoured!

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #36 on: January 20, 2007, 12:08:22 am »
First of all, great work on the site, very pleasing for the user and the eye.

I haven't been around for a while and I don't know what has been going on, so I assume the picture on the main page is a screenshot? Looks very nice, but the tower caught my eye. I wonder what impressions it has in addition to the base architecture of the kran? For it resembles my unofficial fan art challenge entry quite much (spikes on the top and the overall look):


I tried to find some information on the tower but find none, so could someone help me on this?:)
« Last Edit: January 20, 2007, 12:11:11 am by Clayzekiel »

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #37 on: January 20, 2007, 08:03:47 pm »
Thank you for your hard work Karyuu!  The website is a beauty due to your brilliant talents!

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2007, 10:59:15 pm »
Nice facelift!

Thumbs up from here.  :thumbup:

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2007, 09:39:26 pm »
GREAT!!!
I like all new info appeared on site - it became more informative  and complex. Also new design looks very contemporary (imho)
МОЛОДЕЦ!!!

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #40 on: January 26, 2007, 01:39:41 am »
Nice on all aspects, except for one: I think this site is pretty heavy for dial-up users (My 312Kbps DSL took some time to load the images), perhaps it is possible to optimize the file sizes for the images without losing quality?

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #41 on: January 26, 2007, 02:43:16 am »
As awesome as the website is, I'm more excited about the "because the engine is finally stable enough to add REAL good features and build on top of what we have created until today."  Browsing through the code at the moment it appears there are some awesome features being planned to come in soon, I can't wait to see what actually comes in this year.

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #42 on: January 26, 2007, 09:06:36 am »
As awesome as the website is, I'm more excited about the "because the engine is finally stable enough to add REAL good features and build on top of what we have created until today."  Browsing through the code at the moment it appears there are some awesome features being planned to come in soon, I can't wait to see what actually comes in this year.

But it also makes me shiver ... so it has a light smell of a soon coming wipe ...   :o

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #43 on: January 27, 2007, 02:06:12 am »
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But it also makes me shiver ... so it has a light smell of a soon coming wipe ...   Shocked

Who cares?? New features > character stats...

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Re: Happy new year and new web site
« Reply #44 on: January 29, 2007, 08:53:10 am »
each year the game takes big steps forwards its good to see that it might go faster developing new content