Post by trog @ 01:03am 09/10/02 | 80 Comments
It has been a long time coming, but finally the AusGamers crew are proud to present an all-new look for Australia's biggest gaming community network - the new AusGamers.com.
We hope that this new look will allow more visitors to the AusGamers Network to find out more about all the awesome services that are on offer here for Australian gamers, and that it will encourage more interaction amongst the continually growing local gaming community!
The new site will grant easier access to our ever growing collection of downloadable files - AusGamers Files is one of the major download points for gaming-related files in the Asia Pacific region, and is constalty updated with the latest and greatest downloads. In addition, the AusGamers Forum is one of the most active gaming forums around, with many users discussing all manner of topics and getting the chance to have their say on the latest happenings in the gaming world.
The new AusGamers site has been designed with ease of use in mind, allowing simple access to the major parts of the AusGamers Network. Over the coming weeks, we will be migrating the other network sites into these new templates in order to make everything consistent, so please be patient while we sort everything out.
In addition to these changes, there are many other exciting features planned for the new website. As usual, if you have any suggestions or comments, we'd love to hear them - please just leave your thoughts as a comment to this news item!
Mad props go out to Cold for his usual stellar job in helping out getting this up and running. Big thanks to Seven for the awesome new templates, and thanks to the guys that helped us out testing it out in the background!
We hope that this new look will allow more visitors to the AusGamers Network to find out more about all the awesome services that are on offer here for Australian gamers, and that it will encourage more interaction amongst the continually growing local gaming community!
The new site will grant easier access to our ever growing collection of downloadable files - AusGamers Files is one of the major download points for gaming-related files in the Asia Pacific region, and is constalty updated with the latest and greatest downloads. In addition, the AusGamers Forum is one of the most active gaming forums around, with many users discussing all manner of topics and getting the chance to have their say on the latest happenings in the gaming world.
The new AusGamers site has been designed with ease of use in mind, allowing simple access to the major parts of the AusGamers Network. Over the coming weeks, we will be migrating the other network sites into these new templates in order to make everything consistent, so please be patient while we sort everything out.
In addition to these changes, there are many other exciting features planned for the new website. As usual, if you have any suggestions or comments, we'd love to hear them - please just leave your thoughts as a comment to this news item!
Mad props go out to Cold for his usual stellar job in helping out getting this up and running. Big thanks to Seven for the awesome new templates, and thanks to the guys that helped us out testing it out in the background!
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Posted 01:05am 09/10/02
very interesting
*looks around*
Posted 01:17am 09/10/02
(also, trog, any chance of my getting ausgamers news posting back? I'm not sure what happened to it :))
Also, nice choice of time to intro it :P
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Posted 02:01am 09/10/02
Snazzy new design, I love the subject icons.
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Posted 02:12am 09/10/02
now I'm going to use the forum less :(
Posted 02:13am 09/10/02
done :) the gold bit at the top now links back
yea, check out this page for a list of what they mean.
gotta love the bling bling!
Posted 03:04am 09/10/02
Posted 04:08am 09/10/02
Still, it looks a bit... busy.
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Posted 08:48am 09/10/02
hope that gets fixed.
Posted 08:52am 09/10/02
I agree with cyph... the drop down menus are going behind the xbox flash ads.
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Posted 10:02am 09/10/02
It would be cool to have the functionality for threaded discussion for each news item. a la slashdot
Posted 10:03am 09/10/02
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Posted 10:05am 09/10/02
wart you love me
Posted 10:07am 09/10/02
i concurr
but the site does look good
Posted 10:13am 09/10/02
Only at 4 in the morning ;)
Posted 10:16am 09/10/02
btw. yes the site does look like Gamespy and IGN... thats because most designers "Borrow" ideas from other websites
Posted 10:38am 09/10/02
Other than that, great work, like it a lot.
Posted 10:41am 09/10/02
Posted 10:43am 09/10/02
i like the banner pic!!
Posted 10:45am 09/10/02
Posted 10:47am 09/10/02
The old one was starting to look a bit crap with all the tack'd on bits you guys added over the months.
Also I logged on to ausgamers.com, when I clicked on the link to forums my session wasn't carried over and I had to re logon. You might want to see if you can fix that up. Also the login to forum link colour made it realy hard to read on the dark BG.
Otherwise it looks all good.
Posted 10:50am 09/10/02
My favourite thing about the new site is it is FASTER!
Posted 10:54am 09/10/02
all in all, its good!
Posted 11:22am 09/10/02
Too me it just seems way too proffesional for a gaming site, and the frontpage looks really cluttered.
What can I say, if it aint broke, don't fix it!
Posted 11:26am 09/10/02
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Posted 11:28am 09/10/02
As far as coding goes, we can pretty much do anything we care to, but I think everyone would agree, the biggest failing of AusGamers as a group has always been its lack of a decent graphic artist. Having said that, if any other good gfx type dudes want to help out, send us a line!
new site == win!
Posted 11:32am 09/10/02
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Posted 12:40pm 09/10/02
A change is always good from time to time
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Posted 02:35pm 09/10/02
Ok, to try and explain it a bit better I think the old site just needed a little spruce up, this seems to be going to far...
As far as i see it a games site should be fast, look good (IMHO the old site worked well, but did need a LITTLE face lift) and have all content available and easy to find.
I also said something about this site seems to going towards a business focus and maybe going towards a subscription based server (this is only mine and a few other peoples opinions...)
Well, hopefully this time my two cents will get posted... :)
Posted 04:29pm 09/10/02
So what's the problem?
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Posted 08:44pm 09/10/02
i like the new login idea as well.
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Posted 04:46am 10/10/02
.....................works i opera =)
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Apart from that, well done everybody.
Posted 02:16pm 10/10/02
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Posted 03:47pm 10/10/02
only place I get my news is from QGL and if the site were to change... I'd have to find a new site :(
Ohh well new site is okay... like some of the others said a bit too busy... its like a fat guy wearing 2 shirts too small... and that Xbox ad thingy is annoying.
They old one with new colours and moving of objects woulda been fine... New one is great thoe.. but like at the top area its kinda uno... fat guy, shirt size too small
Laterz
LA
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Posted 08:13pm 10/10/02
Get your stuff from Gamespy ffs.. its closer to you...
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Posted 11:55am 18/10/02
Apart from that not bad
Posted 11:45am 19/10/02
when i first came to see it..which was just then...i was like WOW!!!! that in the hell happened to this place...it was very umm lets say more into the present rather than the old style that most sites use....a very unique style of taste ^^
in other words....mad~~~
Posted 11:49am 19/10/02