A few site updates
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 5:13 pm
Hello Coders,
This weekend I have spent hours (a lot of them lol) trying to update certain areas of the site by changing the layouts to make things look a little better and add some new stuff in the process.
So far I have updated 2 areas of the site and I wanted to point them out just in case you didn't notice lol.
Profile page:
This page has been bugging me for a very long time because it just looked too plain and the tabs were extremely annoying and also quite old looking so I wanted to change it and make it look better and add more information about the user. In the new page layout everything is on a single screen (no messy tabs) and includes a lot of information about the users account and activity on site. About me details, recently posted topics, medals/awards they have won, groups they are a member of, software/shop listings and more. I plan to continue to add more information to the profile page over the next few weeks.
Video gallery section:
Although we have quite a few videos posted in this section it has never really been a place people viewed or used and I think one of the reasons for that is because it looked quite boring and not really inviting. So again I set to work changing the layout and adding some new features and I still have some work to do buts its already looking so much better.
The video gallery now has a main page showing a featured video and the 12 newest videos making it super easy to see whats new and the featured block brings a users attention to your videos.
Many videos posted are tutorial videos and many are based on textual tutorials posted in the forums so I thought wouldn't it be great if you were watching a video and it contained a link to a step-by-step tutorial posted on the site...so I added the option to submit a tutorial link when submitting a video to the gallery.
If a video has a tutorial linked to it then you will now see an orange button in the video viewer:
You can now also view all videos posted by the same user so if you really like a video you can view all the other videos that user has posted.
Those are the updates so far but I still have loads more to do and I will keep you updated as I go along.
Hope you like the new layouts and features cooll;
This weekend I have spent hours (a lot of them lol) trying to update certain areas of the site by changing the layouts to make things look a little better and add some new stuff in the process.
So far I have updated 2 areas of the site and I wanted to point them out just in case you didn't notice lol.
Profile page:
This page has been bugging me for a very long time because it just looked too plain and the tabs were extremely annoying and also quite old looking so I wanted to change it and make it look better and add more information about the user. In the new page layout everything is on a single screen (no messy tabs) and includes a lot of information about the users account and activity on site. About me details, recently posted topics, medals/awards they have won, groups they are a member of, software/shop listings and more. I plan to continue to add more information to the profile page over the next few weeks.
Video gallery section:
Although we have quite a few videos posted in this section it has never really been a place people viewed or used and I think one of the reasons for that is because it looked quite boring and not really inviting. So again I set to work changing the layout and adding some new features and I still have some work to do buts its already looking so much better.
The video gallery now has a main page showing a featured video and the 12 newest videos making it super easy to see whats new and the featured block brings a users attention to your videos.
Many videos posted are tutorial videos and many are based on textual tutorials posted in the forums so I thought wouldn't it be great if you were watching a video and it contained a link to a step-by-step tutorial posted on the site...so I added the option to submit a tutorial link when submitting a video to the gallery.
If a video has a tutorial linked to it then you will now see an orange button in the video viewer:
You can now also view all videos posted by the same user so if you really like a video you can view all the other videos that user has posted.
Those are the updates so far but I still have loads more to do and I will keep you updated as I go along.
Hope you like the new layouts and features cooll;
