Love the front page new look!

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Spoofee, I'm loving the new look you've put on the front page! It's so nice and clean :-).

I went to spoofee early this morning, half blurry-eyed, and was horrified that spoofee changed. Well, with a closer look, you've done a great job.

Keep the great work up.
 
Thanks Tekmaven, there was just too much difference from the way the front page looked and the forum. The front page really looked like a copy/paste work before with difference font size/colors everywhere randomly.
 
Spoofee said:
Thanks Tekmaven, there was just too much difference from the way the front page looked and the forum. The front page really looked like a copy/paste work before with difference font size/colors everywhere randomly.

Very nice Spoofee!!! More consistence looking front page. :claps: :claps: :claps:
 
Spoofee, I'm a web developer who loves to get nice comments... I just figure all other web developers are the same :-).

The forums look great too, vB is such a nice forum system - too bad its written in PHP :-P. I wonder if there will ever be a spoofee deal on vB ;-).
 
If you give me a preference to be able to have details on all the time, then it's ok. :) I like pictures, and the new way doesn't help me just glance at things like the old way. Now I actually have to read text. :eek:

The new way also looks kind of crowded which I don't like. So maybe I just like the old way. ;)

So my feature requests here:
1) Allow details to be shown all the time.
2) How about adding some space before the next date bar is displayed? It's too damn crowded. (If details are on, this isn't usually a problem, since they have some extra space under them.)
 
I agree with Ordanos, the site does look too cluttered right now. I definitely liked the site better the old way, not it just looks like every other deal site out there. Glancing through the pictures and finding stuff I wanted easily was the reason why I liked using spoofee.
 
I think it is a bit cluttered too, but, that may just take some time for me to get used to. I'll keep it the NEW way for a while...although I miss having the Radio button on the front page.
 
Yeah, the reason why Spoofee came up with something new is that now super moderators are able to keep the page up to date during the day with new deals. Since there are now new deals being posted throughout the day, there are a lot more and we have to find a way to organize them or else the page becomes REALLY long because of all the deals. I'm sure Spoofee can address the clutter look over time, but I think that this is a great improvement because it's easier to read the deals.
 
Erik said:
Yeah, the reason why Spoofee came up with something new is that now super moderators are able to keep the page up to date during the day with new deals. Since there are now new deals being posted throughout the day, there are a lot more and we have to find a way to organize them or else the page becomes REALLY long because of all the deals. I'm sure Spoofee can address the clutter look over time, but I think that this is a great improvement because it's easier to read the deals.
Agreed!

i do miss the images, though, but i like not having to scroll down a LONG listing of deals. I just click on the "show details" button for all the deals i want to see - much more tidy this way & 56kbps friendly.

Also, it's nice that deals can be placed on the front page by the supermods. It's also great that the deal info seen on the front page can be edited/updated by all the mods.

Props to Spoofee for all the changes he's been working so diligently on to make the site better for all of us.

Spoofee, you da man! :D :hail:
 
Thanks for the comments guys, this really helps.

If you like the old style, for now, please bookmark this page
http://www.spoofee.com/index.php?section=prev

I will add the deal ratings and such on there tonight so the old format people won't miss out. :)
 
penpen said:
Agreed!
- much more tidy this way & 56kbps friendly.
While that'd be nice to think, it's not true. :) It's probably taking more space to contain the javascript code, and everything is still being loaded, it's just hidden. :) The page is so small, and can be compressed, though, so the whole 56kbps thing shouldn't be a real issue.

Hmm, I just took a look at the front page. It looks like Spoofee has expanded the descriptions on all the current day items. This is a really good idea I think, and since I check the site every day, not having the other ones expanded is alright.

Spoofee said:
I will add the deal ratings and such on there tonight so the old format people won't miss out.
Spoofee, it might make it easier on you, if you just copied the new page, and then automatically expanded all the tr's when CGI section=prev. That'd basically be the old page. :) Then again the old page might be more browser compatible (like super old browser) so that might not be such a good idea.

Thanks for taking input on this. I really don't mind scrolling down a long page, so the compressed look doesn't really have an advantage for me. :) There's just something about having a bunch of deals compressed together with no pictures that makes my eyes start blurring. :)

Thanks again, and thanks for the great site.
 
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