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[BobTheJanitor]

Bob, that's actually an intentional effect, part of the Joomla template we use: http://demo.rockettheme.com/?template=maelstrom  I didn't design it, but I really like it.  At any rate, what you're seeing is what it should look like.

I see. I think what throws me off is the text in the titles being cut off. That template example looks fine there, because the pictures have no text and don't lose anything by having a bit shaved off the top and bottom. If it were to shrink the image to fit instead of cropping it I think it would work much better for me. I just look at it and my first thought is that something is wrong. But whatever, the general consensus seems to be all in favor, and I don't want to be the one dreary little raincloud at the picnic. Very much looking forward to more info about AVWW!

[Echo35]

Joomla is an open-source CMS, one of the more popular ones.  It's got a lot of Javascript stuff, although none of the stuff on our version includes any JQuery.  There's plenty of AJAX through other tools, though, so definitely lots of JScript in general.  I haven't poked around in the innards too much on this one, obviously -- a departure for me since my old job was hand-coding ASP.NET and Javascript and such, but that's part of the benefit of the CMS idea, is that I can focus my attention on things I'm more up-to-date on and more interested in.

Dang, I would have assumed something like that would be full of JQuery. That's some ninja'd AJAX there.

[CoyoteTheClever]

I love the new page guys! Very sleek and professional looking, though the older one had charm too.

[Nalgas]

Notice anything different?  The site has gone through a major overhaul.

I apparently noticed it just before this post went up, because I was looking for something about it and didn't find it.  Unlike everyone else, apparently, I'm not really a huge fan, but I'll probably get used to it after a bit and not really mind/care.  It's slicker-looking, but it feels a bit less usable in a couple ways.

It loads really slowly compared to the old one, though, presumably because of the big images or something (or maybe scripts that run on load or something like that, but I didn't look into it at all), and it was nice not having a hugegantic header before so a good chunk of the most recent post was visible without having to scroll down on my dinky little laptop screen when I'm not on my desktop's big monitor, instead of just the first line now.  The large, bold links look a little out of place, too, but maybe that's just me.

Ok, ok.  I'll stop complaining already and do something more fun, like look at the new AVWW stuff.  Heh.

[snrub_guy]

I know this might be a little early... But is there any way I can HAVE AVWW NOW?

New look is pretty good, a lot more modern, and if my first comment hasn't clued you in, I am very excited by the preview of AVWW.

Very. Flipping. Excited.

[Ozymandiaz]

looking good!

[Burnstreet]

I know this might be a little early... But is there any way I can HAVE AVWW NOW?

New look is pretty good, a lot more modern, and if my first comment hasn't clued you in, I am very excited by the preview of AVWW.

Very. Flipping. Excited.

Where / when can we buy it?

about the website, it looks nice, but...
for me it took >1 minute to load - no wonder at 3mb all inclusive.
Just having it open in IE8 made it use 50% of all my 4 cores.
The scroller is jerky in both FF and IE8.

You should optimize there a bit more - if I didn't know Arcen beforehand I would probably have left before the site finished loading.

Btw, the scroller is buggy in FF, see below:

[x4000]

I know this might be a little early... But is there any way I can HAVE AVWW NOW?

New look is pretty good, a lot more modern, and if my first comment hasn't clued you in, I am very excited by the preview of AVWW.

Very. Flipping. Excited.

Where / when can we buy it?

Probably not until March.  Then it will be at our site, and distributors yet to be determined.  Hopefully all our existing ones, by 1.0, but I don't know how many will be participating in the alpha.

about the website, it looks nice, but...
for me it took >1 minute to load - no wonder at 3mb all inclusive.
Just having it open in IE8 made it use 50% of all my 4 cores.
The scroller is jerky in both FF and IE8.

You should optimize there a bit more - if I didn't know Arcen beforehand I would probably have left before the site finished loading.

Wow, that's crazy long.  Check it out now, it should be doing better.  I'm using lower-quality jpegs instead of the higher-quality pngs, and it's using a bunch of caching, etc, now.

[BobTheJanitor]

By the way, this looks fine now that I'm looking at it on a work computer, but that's because this is in 1280x1024 and 4:3. From here, the side images just look like nice picture of starfields or whatever until you scroll over to them. My home monitor is at 1680x1050 widescreen, which is why it shows the text cut in half in the side images. Maybe not a lot of people are looking at it on widescreen resolutions and not seeing the problems I was seeing.

[x4000]

By the way, this looks fine now that I'm looking at it on a work computer, but that's because this is in 1280x1024 and 4:3. From here, the side images just look like nice picture of starfields or whatever until you scroll over to them. My home monitor is at 1680x1050 widescreen, which is why it shows the text cut in half in the side images. Maybe not a lot of people are looking at it on widescreen resolutions and not seeing the problems I was seeing.

That's probably true.  I've put it in to simplify the site content areas in general, though, so it actually won't be cropping those down at all at the moment.  The effect is slightly less nice on the smaller monitors, but it should load faster, etc.

[Zhaine]

Been stalking these forums for a while but seems like the time to start posting!

New site is great and AVWW sounds incredible and I think I'll love it if it achieves half of what you're setting out to do. Oh, and that little strategy game you've already released is pretty awesome too.

Keep up the good work 

[x4000]

Thanks, Zhaine.  And welcome to the forums!

[TechSY730]

My personal blog has also undergone a transformation, and is now called "Games By Design."

Wait, you have a personal blog? How have I been stalking these forums so long and not notice this until now.  

[x4000]

No idea, heh. 

[TechSY730]

I was about to report that the site is broken on Safari on an iPhone, but then I tried it again and it is working now. Looks like I was beaten to it.