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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jul 21st at 2:13pm 2005

I'm working at a Belgian gamesite called Gamequarter. We've been working with our new design for 3 months now, and most of the bugs should be out of the system right now.

I know most of you guys do not understand a single word in dutch, but could you please give your opinion on the site design & lay-out.

Thank you, very much.

Force

http://www.gamequarter.be



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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Thu Jul 21st at 6:15pm 2005

I like, looks professional and smooth. Why doesn't google translate dutch...

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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jul 21st at 6:28pm 2005

The site loads slowly from Arkansas. Could be on my end, might not be. Has anyone attempted to make a 56k friendly version? I have 1.5 DSL and I am slow how would it be for them.

Then again, how many people from here will actually join the site?

Overall, I like the easy on the eyes color scheme, but the pages look cluttered. Can you not put a few of those links on secondary pages? Are all of them vital to the site on page #1?

Perhaps its just me but it feels cramped like PHL's pages.

I wish I could read it, but I will have to content myself with looking at visuals.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

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Posted by Captain P on Thu Jul 21st at 6:59pm 2005

It's a nice looking site, not as rushed with adverts and as colorfull and distracting as most other gaming sites.
But perhaps it's a bit too dull looking with that dark-grey theme...

Anyway, I found the site to be easily accessible. Only thing I noticed about the menu was that, while on the forums, the Forum button is replaced by a Home button, which also has a different location. Why? It's confusing...

Besides, that, the site looks good.



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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jul 21st at 7:35pm 2005

Looks great, but it also looks like every other game site out there.

I know there isn't much you can do to make the site easy to navigate and unique...

CP is right about the color. I would keep the grey theme but add some natural earth tones, dark green, dark orange/brown, some light grey and some sand type colors.




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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jul 21st at 7:51pm 2005

Well there you go. The young like the colors less than the old fart.

oh well. Perhaps a version that caters to the geriatric who still play.





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Posted by Captain P on Thu Jul 21st at 8:05pm 2005

VERC comes to mind with it's various different color styles to choose from...

Actually, Snarkpit comes to mind as well when thinking about that...

But that's for registered users only, not really something for a first impression.



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Posted by Cyax on Thu Jul 21st at 8:17pm 2005





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Posted by Crono on Thu Jul 21st at 9:15pm 2005

Big fan of the gamespy design?

I've seen that layout so many times ... why didn't you choose something more original?


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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 22nd at 12:11am 2005

? quoting Cyax





Good contribution.




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Posted by Captain P on Fri Jul 22nd at 12:41am 2005

? quote:
Good contribution.


It's that time of year... :P



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Posted by DrGlass on Fri Jul 22nd at 2:22am 2005

? quote:
why didn't you choose something more original?


agreed.

@Orph - I'm talking about neutral colors, and earth tones. The kind of colors that even old farts can enjoy!




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Posted by rival on Fri Jul 22nd at 3:50am 2005

its well laid out and looks professional. but on a 4mb cable over here in seattle it takes a little while for me as well....




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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jul 22nd at 1:52pm 2005

? quote:
its well laid out and looks professional. but on a 4mb cable over here in seattle it takes a little while for me as well....


Well, it's a site for dutch-speaking visitors, so our server probably doesn't have the balls for overseas-connections.



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Posted by Senshi on Fri Jul 22nd at 7:40pm 2005

Loads up real quick here in the UK.
Looks pretty sweet, easy to navigate, all good IMO <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Crono on Fri Jul 22nd at 7:40pm 2005

That's not true. It loads in 4 seconds (maximum) for me and I'm on the West Coast.


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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 22nd at 7:41pm 2005

Up here in Kanata it loaded right away. I love me country <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by BlisTer on Sun Jul 24th at 11:42am 2005

looks nice, and i like how a news item is only one (clickable) line to keep a good oversight.




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Posted by Underdog on Sun Jul 24th at 12:00pm 2005

Site took 6-10 seconds to load complete page for me here in the states.

I have DSL as well.




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Posted by rival on Tue Jul 26th at 4:02am 2005

? quoting Crono
That's not true. It loads in 4 seconds (maximum) for me and I'm on the West Coast.

thats what im talking about 4 secs is a long time for high speed internet




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