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CCP Guard
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Posted - 2012.02.07 14:15:00 -
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The new EVE Online website has been deployed. It was first announced in this dev blog and further introduced in this video.
The old eveonline.com as we know it is gone, but we've moved the various resources and support tools from it, to the new community site:
community.eveonline.com
The deployment of the new sites is staged, which means that while some will see them immediately, for others it will take a little while longer.
Please take your time to browse both sites, we are eager to hear your feedback. CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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CCP Guard
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Posted - 2012.02.07 14:24:00 -
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Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:Huh... does the new eveonline dot com look like the old one? i am hitting refresh and all i see just looks like the old website?
That's because the launch is staged. I'm told that anything up to an hour is considered normal while some will see it right away.
My CCP ip is picking it up right away and I'm gonna go ship spin 'til I throw up now CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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CCP Guard
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Posted - 2012.02.07 14:49:00 -
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Grideris wrote:Mashie Saldana wrote:Amazing, how the heck did you managed to NOT place a link to the forums in the Community tab?
Yes the "EVE Websites" dropdown is the completely wrong place for it. If I'm not mistaken, there's one on the left hand side at the bottom. But I can see the logical thing to do is to put one up the top with the rest where it should be.
Noted. Keep the feedback coming. CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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CCP Alice
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.02.07 15:02:00 -
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darmwand wrote:While I greatly applaud the fact that the new ship spinner doesn't require flash, it doesn't seem to show the ship models, I only see the "lights" (tested on Chromium 16 and Firefox 9). Screenshots and/or exact user agent strings available on request.
Are you on a windows or mac OS?
CCP Alice -á Web Architect
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CCP Alice
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Posted - 2012.02.07 15:09:00 -
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Talthrus wrote:Great job on the new website CCP. It was refreshing to wake up to a more vibrant page this morning. One piece of criticism: Mashie Saldana wrote:Amazing, how the heck did you managed to NOT place a link to the forums in the Community tab?
Yes the "EVE Websites" dropdown is the completely wrong place for it. I'm not a big fan of the 'EVE Websites' dropdown either. It blends in to the background and it significantly smaller than the other buttons in the top menu bar. This is arguably the most important menu on the whole EVE website and I didn't even notice it until I read the dev blog that pointed it out. It should definitely stand out a lot more if it continues to carry the important links that are in there right now. I suggest further categorizing these items to make that area more noticeable and easier to navigate: EVE Community+ Forums + Community + EVE Gate Accounts and Support+ Account Management + Support etc. On a similar note, I also think the menu's current label is a bit misleading. If I was new, I wouldn't think to look at a menu labeled 'EVE Websites' to find my account management page or the forums.
Thanks for the feedback. This whole area is one that we will be expanding on as the main anchor point across all the websites, especially when we are at the point where you can be signed in across all the websites from any one (yes we are working towards this). The most basic EVE Websites dropdown was an initial step, so anything you would like to suggest here is good input.
*continues taking notes* :)
CCP Alice -á Web Architect
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CCP Byzantine
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Posted - 2012.02.07 15:16:00 -
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Salpun wrote:ship spinning is not working for me. Windows Internet Explorer 8
That is expected. In all browsers that don't support WebGL, we fallback on static images of the ships.
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CCP Byzantine
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Posted - 2012.02.07 15:47:00 -
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MailDeadDrop wrote:Salpun wrote:ship spinning is not working for me. Windows Internet Explorer 8 CCP Byzantine wrote:That is expected. In all browsers that don't support WebGL, we fallback on static images of the ships.
Had to go into about:config and set webgl.force-enabled to true to make things work. Is that expected? Also there seems to be a number of ships missing (Harbinger, Prophecy, Ferox, ...) And the "All" tab doesn't seem to work either (only lists Capsule). Firefox 10.0 on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. MDD
We'll look into the config thing, as far as I know there shouldn't be a need to explicitly enable webgl in Firefox, however FF 10 is relatively recent, things might have changed since the last we checked.
Currently we are not listing all of the ships available ingame, only a selection of about 50 of them. Regarding the "All" tab, "All" is referring to the races this ship belongs to. The only ship that all races have in common is the Capsule.
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CCP Phantom
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Posted - 2012.02.07 16:00:00 -
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Ordais wrote:Also, i don't see the new corporation-forums? How to activate them?
The new corporation forums are independent of the new websites and not activated yet.
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CCP Guard
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Posted - 2012.02.07 20:45:00 -
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Crucis Cassiopeiae wrote:Wollari wrote:I find the community section and especially how fansites and fan creations are presented very old fashioned ... it's a plain copy&paste of the old spreadsheet with lots of dots.
I hope this sections gets revamped as well someday. Some grouping and a list with screenshot/logo and short intro text to introduce the fansite, creation or 3rd party application. I agree, too. Community site need to feel like new EVE online site, and not just copy paste. Or... only new players deserves good stuff and once you are in community no needs for updates for you.
Good news then. We are going to build a new Community site and the part I look forward to the most is to make a whole new fansite listing page which allows players to find the type of fansite they are after and improves the promotion of fansites. We don't like this old fansite page any more than you guys do ;). We have lots of ideas for the new fansite page and we're going to be talking to fansite operators at Fanfest among other things and discussing the way forward.
That being said, I think the current community site is a lot easier to navigate than the old EVE-O site. But that's just my opinion :) CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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CCP Byzantine
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Posted - 2012.02.07 21:10:00 -
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Regarding the issue of our other sites that don't have the "EVE Websites" dropdown. Do not panic, we'll add that soon enough, we just didn't want to be deploying ALL of our websites the same day.
Also, as CCP Alice pointed out earlier the EVE Websites dropdown is just the first step towards a more comprehensive solution to this problem, we'll be iterating on this in the future. |
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CCP Byzantine
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.02.07 21:19:00 -
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Bloodpetal wrote:Before I get into this, I think your main page is supposed to have "Text Slides" that change periodically? That's not happening for me. The first one says : "One Universe To Explore and Conquer" the next says "Discover your future in the sandbox", and they're not changing as I believe they should be.
This is actually how it's supposed to be for now, we'll add the automatic sliding real soon.
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CCP Byzantine
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Posted - 2012.02.07 21:24:00 -
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Palovana wrote: The Capsule looks like a round, green, deranged disco mirror-ball with one plume of exhaust (disconnected from the ball) instead of an actual capsule model.
These are actually the new designs for Capsules. Coming this spring we'll all be flying around in green deranged disco balls.
Nah. Kidding.
Are you on Linux by any chance Palovana? |
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CCP Byzantine
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Posted - 2012.02.08 11:51:00 -
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Thanks! Fixed it. |
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CCP Guard
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Posted - 2012.02.08 14:27:00 -
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Elbert Ainstein wrote:From being a functional site for the players, it has now become a 99% advertising site for the game Sorry, but I can not use the new site for anything
That is actually the plan and I've noticed that we may not have managed to publicize our web strategy widely enough.
EVE needed a website that shows off EVE. Gives an instant glimpse into EVE. Instantly takes hold of the imagination and that sense of adventure that propelled us oldies into the game a long time ago. We need to reach new EVE players out there and help them realize that they belong in our universe. EVE has need that for a long time and she finally has it.
The old main site was a mixed bag of everything and nothing. It had something like 1020+ unique pages I was told, and I have to admit that after 9 years of working here, I still caught myself not finding stuff on occasion (maybe it was just this darned dev bar blocking my view...but I think I wasn't the only one who had some trouble with the navigation).
My opinion (your's may vary) is that the new Community site is a huge upgrade in terms of hosting easy-to-find resources for existing players and staff, although all of us here are fully aware that there is work to be done yet. This is an interim site while we build a completely new community site that will consolidate these resources and do absolute justice to the needs of info hungry pilots.
We've gotten a lot of good feedback and tips so far and they will be of great use moving forward. So keep it coming! CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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CCP Guard
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Posted - 2012.02.08 15:11:00 -
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Grey Stormshadow wrote:malaire wrote:CCP Guard wrote:Elbert Ainstein wrote:From being a functional site for the players, it has now become a 99 percent advertising site for the game Sorry, but I can not use the new site for anything That is actually the plan and I've noticed that we may not have managed to publicize our web strategy widely enough. If only players would have read the devblog before commenting... It clearly says that showoff site will be published first, new community site later. so you think that the new community.eveonline.com hasn't been published yet?
The new interim community site yes, the final one we'll spend most of the year building probably...nope :)
CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |
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CCP Delegate Zero
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.02.08 15:50:00 -
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Bloodpetal wrote: Any word on making the profession quiz awesomer?
I think you need more questions to weight the results a little better, and people that love those quizzes want some fun with it. My current responses from mates has been kinda lackluster.
It's definitely something we'll be thinking about.
More generally, all the feedback on content in this thread is very useful. Thanks and keep on making points as they occur to you.
CCP Delegate Zero | Content Editor |
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CCP Delegate Zero
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Posted - 2012.02.09 14:21:00 -
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Thanks, Ciar Meara. Most people are seeing the correct pilot orientation movie but there is an error that will cause some to see the trailer you mention instead. We've tracked this down and a fix will go out soon.
CCP Delegate Zero | Content Editor |
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