Hey All,
As you may or may not have noticed we've applied some changes to the sites homapage design layout today.
The main focus of this update is to bring better article thumbnails next to each post on the homepage.
This hopefully will add some colour to the homepage as well as providing you with an idea about the post before clicking on it.
For articles that don't have images, we will be display the standard icons that we did previously although these have been updated thanks to CJ Sonic.
All the thumbnails on the homepage are clickable so that they will take you to the article.
Other changes in this update.
- As a result of using article images on the homepage, the homepage should now load a little quicker.
- The Labels/Categories under the Article Title have a softer grey to stop detracting from the main article title
- The Author and Post date have also been reduced slightly to better fit into the design.
- In the sidebar, we now show 6 Trending Topics, all colour coded from hottest to coolest.
- The trending topics area has also been tidied up to improve font and line spacing to improve readability.
- The Recent Reviews area has also been tidied up to improve font and line spacing to improve readability.
- The Recent Comments area now shows 6 Comments rather than 4
- The Select Your Show dropdown font has been increased to improve readability
- The Search box at the top of the sidebar is now more visible.
- The Mobile site has been updated to reflect the new thumbnails and icons
- We now show 2 more articles on the homepage
Known Issues
- FIXED: The large widescreen version of the site has some formatting issues in the sidebar. We hope to have these finished later this week, if not sooner.
- There maybe a few minor bugs issues. If you find any, please let us know in the comments below.
A big thanks to CJ for helping me with the Icons and graphics, and to the SpoilerTV Team who helped test and propose changes during our internal testing phase.
We know that most people dislike change, including me, so we don't expect everyone to fall in love the with the design right away. The new design will remain unchanged for 2-3 weeks while we collate any feedback. Depending on the amount and type of feedback we get we may look to tweak slightly any little annoyances or bugs etc.
If you have any feedback, either good or bad or have any suggestions, we would love for you to provide them in the comments below. Please try to avoid feedback like "I hate it!!!!!" and nothing else. If you hate, please try to be specific about it. eg are certain things too large, too small, too bright, too dull etc. The more precise feedback you can give us the better we'll be able to understand the areas we might need to look at.
We do truly value all our readers input and even whilst we may not be able to implement your ideas/changes/suggestions we do record every single one of them and I personally review each one.
So let us know what you think and if you find any actual bugs/errors please also let us know in the comments below.
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