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The Website needs some work.
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The Website needs some work:
- Main Page: Shows login option even tho your already logged in. Missing account tab.
- Forums Page Link (Not the Main Page: Leads to: Whoops! parseerror. It has been fixed.
- Forums Page Link (From Main Page): Works Fine.
- Forums Page Has no return link to Main Page
- Store Page No products were found matching your selection. Fixed store is working again.
- Popular Tags on forums page, is Yellow on Gray pretty hard to view and looks tacky.
The Navigation Header on the Main Page is inconsistent with the Navigation Header on rest of the pages. The Forums Page is missing the Navigation Header. This could be fine but there should at the very least be a option to return to the Main Site.
Honestly you folks, should just make the Navigation Header standard between all the pages. Each page could have it's own Banner. This includes the Forums.
The inconsistency of navigation gives it a very amature feel and does not lend to the confidence in the project. I do not say this to be critical, rather to be constructive, cause I wan the game to succeed.
The initial feel it gave me was if they cant work on proper website navigation headers how will they do with the game. This is not the impressions you want to leave people when they first visit the site.
Other than those things the website looks great, those things tho are pretty important and shouldn't be hard to fix.
Cheers looking forward to playing this game. Please make the website worthy of the project. I say this with Love.
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There are no items in the shop currently due to the wrong shipping calculator that will be fixed on monday.
There is a sticky explaining why the shop is currently offline.
I also agree with the sentiment that I would rather have them working on getting the basic core functions of the game in place at this point rather than devoting time and energy to stuff like web design and functionality. But as someone pointed out above, since they are trying to guerrilla market this thing to the masses by not spending money on traditional advertising and instead using their strategy of getting web content creators to promote it through word of mouth and referrals, it does get important that new people looking at the website for the first time don't think it is some fly-by-night cash grab as so many others have been.
Also fixing header drop downs is not exactly rocket science and it does not take that much effort to fix something like that. But first impressions at this stage of the game is very important.
The more people come in and are impressed the more they will spread the word and draw more attention.
The more people come in and see simple fixes to something as simple as wesite navigation being off it sends out the wrong message.
Now I'm not a web designer but I have done some of my own websites for games that I have played and fixing Headers for website navigation is not that hard.
And fixing broken links to drop down navigation links is not hard either they should be simple fixes.
As a new comer and noticing what I did in just the first moment of navigating the website I can say it leaves a bad impression.
Website navigation should be consistent from page to page and common links that will be used a lot like lets say the links to the forums are not links that should be broken.
If I can do this for the armature websites I have done then this is definitely something that people will be like WTF when a game company can't make their website flow properly and have broken links on dropdown cells that get used regularly.
Current Header for forums no return link to main site:
Could be:
or
The Main Page is inconsitant with the rest of the site:
Current Main Page:
Could be more consistent with the rest of the site like this:
For the most part the website looks great so it's a shame that a few things that are simple to fix takes away from that.
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In the short time that I posted on reddit and here they have already fixed the broken link to forums which is great
p.s. i'll move this to tech support.
Sorry I probably should have put it in here in the first place but still getting used to the forum format here.
Overall I think the forums and the website looks great for the most part and made these post casue I want new people visiting to come here with awe rather than concerns