New Website Design - Feedback

[Vail]

I like it better, I tend to prefer forums with darker colors though, as they are a lot easier on the eyes than bright white.. But other than that I like it better than the current look. ^-^

[vestergardi]

Look cool.
A few points though...

Front page
Top Bar:
- What happens if/when more "sidebar" pulldowns are added (more than one patch, MLG event etc)? Left/right scrolling?
- Same with lower resolutions - 1680x1050 is a pretty high res to set as standard.

Forum/Blue boxes:
- I would love to be able to see which sub-forum the posts are in (in both boxes). E.g. ["We are nerfing you!" | "Paladin"].

Logo:
I want a the mmo-dude as an animated GIF pop-up, when you hover over the "new" logo. Make him dance! (Like a tauren preferably)

[Metian]

just quick remake

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Think it's better to align the ad in the header to the right.

[lewo_darkfluffy]

Its soooo shiny i love it

[Benitora]

It looks ok, though I miss the MMO-Champion warrior kiddo.
He's the mascot of this site after all. (Right next to Garfield)

Overall, looks nice, though the green color be slightly darker and the background sligtly lighter.
But that's just me though.

[Crypt]

nice to see the mmo-champion guy go, he wouldn't fit there at all and never did imo. Just keep that new logo there, looks very nice

[Targo]

I said in the news post and I'll say it in here: it is way better than the current design and I hope it's brought live as soon as possible.

[Zeryx]

I love it! I want it right now!

[Sidius]

it looks rly nice

[Vehemence]

nice to see the mmo-champion guy go, he wouldn't fit there at all and never did imo. Just keep that new logo there, looks very nice

BURN THE HERETIC, BE PURIFIED BY FLAME!!

Anyway, the ads also take up too much space, and bring the Champion back, the site is it as it is the site.

Also the site should be a bit more brighter, this feels more inviting.

[dusia]

Think it's better to align the ad in the header to the right.

on full size it should be in center I think. Until it hits logo wall.

[Wildfang]

First off I'd like to say I very much so like the new look overall.

Some things I would change are the picture of patch 3.3 on the top right it feels a bit out of place with the awesome deathwing next to it.
Also didnt like the fact that the 300x250 ad is without white border. Another suggestion on my part would be to have a bit of a gap on the top before the actual page comes in. so it would show a little bit of the green background first. Makes it a little more soothing to the eyes I think but hey that was just me. A new icon for the blue post tracker, this one is out of place with the simplicity of the recent post icon removing the 'entertainment' lettering helps a lot already imho, it's hardly readable as is, even on my resolution. I think the 728x90 ad is fine there, but i do believe it helps a lot by removing the line above it so it isnt so much 'boxed in' like it is now. Search bar is fine there imho, love the darker green but the squares could be accentuated a bit more i think, they are hard to spot.

Good luck with the new design there it is definatly a very nice improvement

[Morksen]

A Curse premium access without the ads would be nice.

[Verth]

It's not bad but i've always found the sidebar very convenient.
Also, instead of removing the mmo-champion guy just replace his head with the mmo-report guy's head. Now that's gonna be awesome.

[Kody]

It looks better IMO, however if it takes longer to load than WoR then ill be going there for my news just like I started coming here when they unveiled their "improved" site design a few years back

This was a mistake that will NOT be repeated. The guy redesigning MMO-Champion is the same one who designed wowsteadbeta.com and sc2replayed.com. To put it bluntly, he kicks ass. He's huge on user experience, something we lacked pretty badly in the design area when we tackled switching WoR over to the dark website and even the curse.com you see today.

[Narfuin]

I miss background's oblique stripes already...

I'd switch BlueTracker frame with the RecentForumPosts frame, I'd give up RecentForumPosts for RecentArticles actually.

Otherwise keep ForumPosts but implement a button to minimize each article on the frontpage.

There is also something that kind of annoy me in the current design: since you added that popup frame for images I can't open'em in a new tab while I continue my reading.
I usually CTRL-Click the whole gallery (i.e. Darkshore rewamp) or pick what I feel interesting, and then scroll through tabs when I'm done with the article and every img is fully loaded.
Right now I'm forced to stop because of this frame popping up and slappimg me in da face. How rude.

If you really feel more designish having this tool, at least make every single set of images you post with the NEXT button to scroll through the glallery,
Cataclysm - Glyph Interface Preview didn't have it Cataclysm Work In Progress - Twilight Highlands had it.

What am I sayng, it's annoying anyways, just make it possible to open the image in a new tab, please, PLEASE!

Excuse me for my English

[skrump]

I like the new layout though I do have some suggestions

#1 double the size of the Recent form post box to display twice as many posts (even if it is just a user customization option
#2 Give a profile option to replace the blue tracker with the old RecentArticles
#3 Color Scheme options including forum (I like Graphite themes)

Either way DO NOT REMOVE the Recent Forum Posts Frame as it is the main reason people visit the site multiple times per day.

[xwonic]

On Account settings you could add a option show either Europe or US Blue Posts.

Also add a Picture Gallery (maybe videos links from YouTube and other sources as well.) and add the shortcut near Raid composition.
The Picture Gallery is a must in my opinion, every picture from old news and even put a Picture of the day or week.

That current system that you did where you click on a picture and shows the animation of the pics increasing and we click next is amazing.

The "What's New?" if it leads to the forums new post could be improved as well. Don't really know how, just looks sad.

In overall its cleaner this new design and i like it.

also finally that little guy on mmo-champion logo is gone

[Kody]

On Account settings you could add a option show either Europe or US Blue Posts.

My main thought here is, why would you only want to see EU blue posts? To be honest the EU forums are quite neglected -- most of the interesting posts (Ghostcrawler / devs) take place on the US forums first (or exclusively in a lot of cases). That said, it could be cool to be able to "follow" a region so you see when important updates are posted as "stickies" or something, like for downtimes, etc.

[Oddophile]

Nothing to complain about, except that I'd like the patch/expansion menu to be at the left site as it's right now