We’ve had the Colonial Marines theme since 2012 and the site seems to get a new theme every few years. With Alien Isolation around the corner, I thought it was about time to update the site with a new design. We’ve always had the three-column layout ever since we launched 13 years ago so this may be a radical departure. I’ve gone for a blog style layout this time which I think looks a lot neater. All the content can still be found via the above dropdown menus. I want the website to get back to focussing on bringing you the best Alien and Predator news out there. There are a few more changes:
- News posts are excerpt based on the frontpage and feature a specific image. I think the layout looks neater than before and you will only see the news you want to see instead of things you might not be interested in.
- There’s a lot of self-loading tabs so you can get to things more quickly.
- The user profile information is back on the homepage.
- The poll is back too.
- The comments system on the news posts has undergone some work. It shows the proper comment count now and it looks a lot more self-contained now.
- Guests are now free to comment on news articles like we used to have it.
- You can also post comments on pages now.
The default forum theme matches the homepage now. The old theme is still there and I’ve set most of our active members to the old theme. You change themes in your profile. Feel free to post any feedback or report any bugs you may find.
Big thank you to locusta for allowing me to use his alien render in the banner. Apart from the new graphics, there's some new features.
-The forum and gallery are now mobile and tablet friendly. It's not as good as the experience you'll get on tapatalk but for the average person on their phone, it works okay.
-New headlines in the box above will be properly highlighted.
-Youtube embeds are now slightly bigger.
-Some new forum icons here and there.
-Slightly different layout on topics now. Got rid of the repeated forum title above everybody's posts.
-Automatic twitter embeds.
All the above only applies to the default theme. New members won't be allowed to select any other theme. Just because they're so outdated. I do advise people, especially whoever is still using the two older default themes to change to the new one. You can do so by clicking the link in the announcement.
Twitter embeds look like this:
becomes this:
https://twitter.com/AndroidAuth/status/637302666322952192
Plus every time I post it tells me to report an error screen to an admin.
I like the littile gameplay with the alien.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10629856_10152299935466583_7071806410370349145_n.jpg?oh=0704c3632f46fc6684bfd05662dee8d5&oe=54EFE59A&__gda__=1424918924_0a08a0c06ef611975c584f1597432d36
Like the one I'm wearing here. Anyone interested? Will probably be around £15 including P&P.
Well I'm a lot more used to it now and like it now. Some things just threw me off before, but I like the theme now and it's what I've been using.
Don't know why there's two scrollbars in that picture though.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=8216.new#new
I'd also like to add that I have no problem with the "Main Website" page. It's noticeably more organized.
I do see the scroll bar on the quote as I preview this post, but considering the size of the quote it's not bad, the quote boxes with scroll bars was just way too small when the theme first started up and in my opinion not necessary for smaller sized quotes. The quoting in this theme is spot on now.
Gonna do some exploring now, be back with more thoughts.
EDIT
The transition from the old to the new wasn't as shocking as I thought it would be. Got used to the new layout pretty quickly and have already grown fond of it. Nice work.
(already posted by 'Oliver'. That's me, I was unsuire how to login - sorry)
Other than that it's great.
Better than old one.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FF3XyrZO.jpg&hash=462b7e7c2e22ae346abfe89b1b533294564d93ae
A small symbol shows up in front of the news post information.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fc0gHQRx.jpg&hash=8778b659663139c3de98b127cafb1b050bc05de8
You can read the announcement about the Alien Isolation theme here: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2014/05/31/avpgalaxy-gets-new-alien-isolation-design/