It is done! Sorta. Kinda.
The new site is here and it's somewhat beautiful. It's also broken as hell at this stage, with much work ahead of me, little new features for the reader, and the feeling that all will break down if you look at it from the wrong angle, but hey, baby steps. Our new content management system has way more potential than our previous one and I'm quite proud for actually getting this far without any previous knowledge on how to do any of this.
The reason it launches in this state? 50 Shades Of Unprofessionalism! And our previous CMS would like money again.
Next step: I'll try to fix as many issues as possible until Gamescom, teach our writers how to actually use our new CMS (yeah, potential disaster in the making), someone else will hopefully find the time to fix at least the most recent posts (pictures/videos are missing, some other stuff too) and you guys leave comments about how much you love us, that you are super proud and that you like the new design.
After Gamescom I'll look into the option to select a different color scheme (some people maybe don't like the dark as much) and you will get a bit of video content from Germany.
That's it from me for today. My brain is pretty much exploding at this point and I need to get drunk fast.
And lets test the comments. We still use the same comment system from before, so you don’t have to get a new account
works, perfect!
no no no no i remember joystiq doing this years back and no one liked it, its awkward as fuck and laggy..please give us the old site as an option at least edit: and scrolling takes about 20 years..
hmm, strange. scrolling works fine when i use firefox, but it’s somehow screwed up in chrome. i’ll look into it.what
exactly is awkward as fuck and laggy? theme changes are possible, but
not happening soon, unless most people are really unhappy with it and rather have a very stock wordpress template for now (going to gamescom next week). Our servers also aren’t
the fastest for now. I might look into an upgrade, but only if it makes
sense. again: we work on a budget. like a really tight budget. like
money out of my wallet…which is tight…and light
look, the old CMS wasn’t the greatest fundament and a change was needed. I am a bit over my head when it comes to being a fucking webmaster (i’m not even decent at html) and the site release had to happen today. I’ll try to fix as many issues people have with it, but it will take some time.
i didnt mean to come off as a dick, its just i was so used to the other one this one feels too flashy which makes it awkward, the pictures seem to lag in to view aswell, id be content with the scrolling fixed for now to be honest, its really killing it on chrome
yeah, it’s fine. just got a short fuse right now when it comes to this monster.
temporary fix is pressing the middle mouse button, i’ll look into a real fix tomorrow
no more smooth scrolling on chrome. messes up the slider a bit when you scroll. i’ll look into finding a different solution after gamescom
Dude this is awesome!
thanks, that’s at least 50/50 then.
again, lots of work still needed, but it has potential.
Woooot! No more Weebly!!!!!
Site looks nice so far. And it still functions with my work mandated old-ass IE browser…so there’s that.
Congrats!
Testing testing 123.
Its alive!!!!!
I like the new look. Very slick, and I’ve seen no troubles viewing it on Chrome from my PC. I’ll try it on my phone later.
Yeah site looks even better on a desktop PC, finally fucking home. But where is Non-Stiq!!?!? ahg 7/10!!