Petopia Usability Improvements
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And re "fixes": *sigh* I fixed that before but only remotely and I copied over it today when I uploaded. Thanks for pointing it out; I'll go fix it now.
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And I just saw the search-thingy by google.
Neat! Or has it been there all the time?
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Oh, one little thing. Do you think you'll be adding a link to Arcania? I know they're technically separate sites, but I'm lazy and usually used the External Resources page to quickly hop over and check the blog. x)
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Amg, I didn't even notice the hover effect!Sarayana wrote:I'm going to sound like I'm just jumping on the bandwagon by now, but that's seriously great work Mania! I really like it. I was like "ooh the front page is different!" *clicks a family* "oooooh the family page is different" *cursor over a pet* "OOOOOOH!!!!!!" It's great!
Mania, if it's possible, you may want to mention sonewhere, that some parts of the site require the user to allow scripts from yahooapis.com to display everything right. I use NoScript and the info you get while hovering a specific skin shows just the HTML if Yahooapis.com is blocked. Also I'd rather change the "______ That Can Be Tamed" to "Tameable ________", but that's just me going into the tiniest details. :P
And one more suggestion: instead of having an icon for every food a family eats, you could just have a single "diet" icon to hover for the family's diet. That way the amount of the icons up there would stay uniform most of the time, making things easier to understand.
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*nod* When I started running really really late getting this up I decided to skip the links for the moment, but they are on my list to add back in. And I'll try to remember Arcania.Vephriel wrote:Oh, one little thing. Do you think you'll be adding a link to Arcania? I know they're technically separate sites, but I'm lazy and usually used the External Resources page to quickly hop over and check the blog. x)
Whoops. I didn't realize quite how bad that looked. I just hacked the tooltips a bit: for the moment if JavaScript is disabled you won't get the fancy tooltips, but you also won't get a nasty block of HTML code either. I'll see what else I can do with this -- at the very least the talent trees need some sort of labels on the talents. But for now its not quite so ugly.Safrienaer wrote:Mania, if it's possible, you may want to mention sonewhere, that some parts of the site require the user to allow scripts from yahooapis.com to display everything right. I use NoScript and the info you get while hovering a specific skin shows just the HTML if Yahooapis.com is blocked.
Do you think the changing number of icons are more confusing than they are useful to see the different types of foods? I went back and forth on that quite a bit myself and I'm still not sure how I feel about it, so I'd love to know how the members here might use that information.Safrienaer wrote:And one more suggestion: instead of having an icon for every food a family eats, you could just have a single "diet" icon to hover for the family's diet. That way the amount of the icons up there would stay uniform most of the time, making things easier to understand.
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Initial impression: me likey. The only downside was having trouble finding the Cataclysm information above the ad; didn't take too long to locate it, though, so it wasn't a dealbreaker or anything. I love that the pets are all on the main page now, since that's really why we're all there in the first place. Also, the pictures make it shiny.
So, excellent work, Mania!
(And good re: Arcania returning; I was distraught seeing the link go missing and immediately reupdated my bookmarks. xD)
Edit: *dies* I hadn't even gotten to clicking on the individual families yet. Niiiiiiiiiiiice! That's REALLY handy, especially for drooling over untameable pets. >_>
Edit edit: Are your personal notes going to go back on the pages at all? Or are the links to wowhead, etc. going to be it?
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But yeah, nice work. Do like.
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Thottbot is the first of the three off-site links listed under "Notes." The other two are Allakhazam and Wowhead.FuzzyDolly wrote:I just went to look up a pet. As I said before it looks awesome, however... when you're looking at an animals page, there is no longer the thottbot link to get to a map of the pet's location. I used that feature almost every time I checked Petopia. Any chance on putting it back or even just linking to a map directly?
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I've allowed everything on the site and cookies and all that. Only thing blocked is ads.
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Also it seems that the Nether Rays have no npcs shown at all. :) No idea if you just haven't gotten to making them yet, though.
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Much gratitude to Spiritbinder for the signature and Vephriel for the avatar! <3