Post by trog @ 08:00pm 07/05/08 | 61 Comments
Following several months of on-and-off development, we're proud to unveil the new version of the AusGamers website!
While the older style has served us faithfully for many years, it was long overdue for a refit, so we've taken the time to give it a flash new look as well as sneaking a bunch of neat new features:
As part of the goings-on, we're also running a survey to find out more about AusGamers visitors and the Australian gamer in general. While we're sure that everyone would be falling over themselves to fill it out anyway, to sweeten the deal we're also running a competition for anyone that enters.
All you have to do is fill out the survey, pop over the competition page, answer just one more question - and then if your answer is awesome enough, you could win an Xbox 360 console, courtesy of.. well, us. The two runner-up entries will each receive a Nintendo DS as well.
As always with any new release there are a few bugs; we're aware of most of them but if you find any please feel free to let us know. We're also interested in feedback, so hit up the comments and tell us what you think.
We've still got a lot of other improvements and updates planned for the immediate future, but for now we'd like to take the time to thank everyone that continues to visit AusGamers regularly and contributes to the awesome gaming ecosystem that we have here. We have a bunch of good stuff coming so stay tuned!
While the older style has served us faithfully for many years, it was long overdue for a refit, so we've taken the time to give it a flash new look as well as sneaking a bunch of neat new features:
- Improved interaction - we've made it a lot easier for new people to get involved in the AusGamers community.
- Improved search - a new and improved search system for our extensive files archive is the first of several search improvements.
- Improved performance - we've completely overhauled the codebase and have moved to much, much faster hardware.
- More games content - we've expanded our already-massive games database to include more information, more screenshots, and more videos.
- More contributors - we're getting more people on board to help grow our editorial coverage to keep you informed. Interested? Let us know.
- New competitions - a brand new competition system will be giving you more opportunities to win some awesome prizes - starting today.
- More information - new modules on the front page show you what is popular on AusGamers, right across the board.
- Updated forums - we're expanding on our popular gaming forums with a variety of other topics.
As part of the goings-on, we're also running a survey to find out more about AusGamers visitors and the Australian gamer in general. While we're sure that everyone would be falling over themselves to fill it out anyway, to sweeten the deal we're also running a competition for anyone that enters.
All you have to do is fill out the survey, pop over the competition page, answer just one more question - and then if your answer is awesome enough, you could win an Xbox 360 console, courtesy of.. well, us. The two runner-up entries will each receive a Nintendo DS as well.
As always with any new release there are a few bugs; we're aware of most of them but if you find any please feel free to let us know. We're also interested in feedback, so hit up the comments and tell us what you think.
We've still got a lot of other improvements and updates planned for the immediate future, but for now we'd like to take the time to thank everyone that continues to visit AusGamers regularly and contributes to the awesome gaming ecosystem that we have here. We have a bunch of good stuff coming so stay tuned!
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Posted 08:05pm 07/5/08
- RSS doesn't work
- screenshots link in menu doesn't work
- some links go to the wrong spot
- some reviews still have old content or broken screenshots
Posted 08:05pm 07/5/08
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Posted 08:19pm 07/5/08
site looks very swish.
Posted 08:23pm 07/5/08
this page: http://www.ausgamers.com/competitions/index.php/AusGamers-Survey-Competition/Enter
says "It would appear that you have not yet completed the survey.
Please click here to complete the survey."
I click there and it says on an otherwise empty page: Thank you for taking the survey
I click on competitions up the top, it now doesn't say that i haven't completed the survey, but when I "click here to enter" it takes me back to that original link complaining about me not having done the survey.
Posted 08:30pm 07/5/08
Posted 08:37pm 07/5/08
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Posted 08:40pm 07/5/08
Posted 08:54pm 07/5/08
Well done
Edit: Holy f*** its quick too.
Like quick as a Brand new Black BMW X5 with hot new bigger rims with no chips or marks. THATS F*****G QUICK!!
last edited by Fnukle at 20:54:24 07/May/08
Posted 08:51pm 07/5/08
Posted 08:53pm 07/5/08
Note that we're taking the competition seriously - if you come up with a good suggestion chances are you'll not only win, but we'll build it too!
Posted 08:54pm 07/5/08
Needs more torrents for the larger files (1GB+), ie Cinematic Mod v7.0.
S***e, I forgot to enter
Posted 09:02pm 07/5/08
I'll prolly just read everything here on Qgl forum instead though
Posted 09:21pm 07/5/08
under the news section, are we supposed to choose 1 because we see it here on the forum anyway? or does it only count if we go to the AG site?
this only allows one choice..
go to town with the options here. you prolly should add OCAUs gaming forum as an option. Agg deserves some credit. Come to think of it, so does TOG
last edited by koopz at 21:21:32 07/May/08
Posted 09:14pm 07/5/08
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Posted 09:19pm 07/5/08
i feel dirty for having to use IE though
Posted 09:48pm 07/5/08
"it has me in an endless loop i can't get out of
this page: http://www.ausgamers.com/competitions/index.php/AusGamers-Survey-Competition/Enter
says "It would appear that you have not yet completed the survey.
Please click here to complete the survey."
I click there and it says on an otherwise empty page: Thank you for taking the survey
I click on competitions up the top, it now doesn't say that i haven't completed the survey, but when I "click here to enter" it takes me back to that original link complaining about me not having done the survey."
Posted 09:51pm 07/5/08
Changed my Ausgamers account email address to the same as the one I submitted at the end of the survey, my gmail account.
Posted 09:56pm 07/5/08
Posted 10:07pm 07/5/08
Posted 10:22pm 07/5/08
I know I didn't have many but I'd like them back :)
Posted 11:31pm 07/5/08
Posted 11:50pm 07/5/08
I can now abuse sigs and avatar privledges once more!!! hahahaha
ermm what the f***!! You racist bastards.. Or geographically discriminating tosspots... or something.. Apparantly I can't manage my account because im not currently in Australia..
Posted 11:52pm 07/5/08
Posted 04:00am 08/5/08
Posted 04:49am 08/5/08
Posted 04:50am 08/5/08
Ahh this made me lol hard at 4:30 in the morning, thanks!
Posted 07:49am 08/5/08
f***les has a habit of doing that
Posted 08:26am 08/5/08
the email confirmation went straight to spam in my gmail a/c - might want to sort that s*** out
Posted 09:11am 08/5/08
Posted 09:39am 08/5/08
ie.
I fill in the survey, get e-mail, open e-mail link, it prommpts me to log in, I get sent back to the front page, now can't enter competition.
If you were able to set up so that once I logged in, it went to the "enter competition" page, that would be good.
Posted 09:46am 08/5/08
Posted 09:47am 08/5/08
As I was writing the copy for that email I was thinking "this reads exactly like spam/phishing" (even mentioned it to the guys) :(
Posted 09:51am 08/5/08
Well done
Posted 10:24am 08/5/08
Otherwise the new site looks great!
Posted 10:41am 08/5/08
I assume this is the cause of no top menu...
Oh and 15 POSTS??? AGN posts 2091?
Posted 10:42am 08/5/08
Posted 11:16am 08/5/08
Edit for Jim:
I fill in the survey, get e-mail, open e-mail link, it prommpts me to log in, I get sent back to the front page, now can't enter competition.
I get the error: "It would appear that you have not yet completed the survey. Please click here to complete the survey."
last edited by mongie at 11:16:26 08/May/08
Posted 11:08am 08/5/08
sorry, couldn't resist :)
Posted 11:15am 08/5/08
Posted 11:18am 08/5/08
edit: obviously you shouldn't need to, but pending us fixing it it seems to be the fastest workaround
Posted 11:19am 08/5/08
I'm not concerned about the competition, I thought you might like to address the issue so other users don't have the same problems.
Posted 11:21am 08/5/08
edit: oh you edited your post; you first up had "it isn't the same issue". I think I got it now, ta
last edited by trog at 11:21:43 08/May/08
Posted 12:07pm 08/5/08
Posted 12:17pm 08/5/08
Posted 02:56pm 08/5/08
any screenshots wider than the thread go out of it instead of having a scrollbar
the ausgamers files/reviews/news/videos/blah/blah dissapears when you go to the main forum or sub forums, but appears again when you go into threads
Posted 03:52pm 08/5/08
Posted 03:54pm 08/5/08
lol!
OH GOD IM ON FIRE IN THIS THRED^^%!@#$^&@%#$%^@!
Posted 04:04pm 08/5/08
This thread is the only thing keeping me from doing my assessments, WOOT.
Posted 04:11pm 08/5/08
Posted 05:15pm 08/5/08
Posted 05:23pm 08/5/08
i know there is only 1 ad, but all the inhouse ad's for reviews/comps/downloads makes it messy and rather annoying.
what im trying to say is at first glance i thought i was looking at a bunch of ad's basically.
other then that the site is great on the eyes and very easy to navigate.
oh and it loads so quickly, ooohh the quickness.
Posted 12:30am 09/5/08
Two other things which I think would help streamline content.
Using a mouseover box for website content ads. So you have a single, wider box with mouseover buttons to show different boxes. The boxes across the top with the offsite ad making a bunch of them shorter than the first looks crap IMO.
Other issue is the way images are implemented into news items. Something about it rubs me wrong, that just might be me though... I have no idea what you could do to fix it cause Im not 100% why it seems off but IMO it is :P
But I think its got A LOT of potential, its miles ahead of the previous style.
edit: Just looking at it again, I think its got something to do with the text getting within a couple pixels of the images in some items and possibly the fact that items are so unsplit within each day, they kind of blend weirdly to me... I think you could split them up more than they are now but maintain the major focus on day by day splitting.
Does splitting by day even really matter that much?
last edited by qmass at 00:30:11 09/May/08
Posted 08:24am 09/5/08
Posted 06:45pm 10/5/08
P.S if it hasn't already been mentioned the piece of text 'more' under 'latest threads' on the right hand side bar links to the files section instead of the forums.
Posted 08:42pm 10/5/08
http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/index.php
Posted 08:43pm 10/5/08
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