mrimer
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Matt, may we add a "Downloads" link to the row of links at the top of the page (under the logo) that goes to

http://forum.caravelgames.com/downloads.php ? We've got lots of new people that can't find the way to navigate to it.

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That bit looks fairly full (and quite neat). Could we have "Downloads" under the sailing ship?

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Elfstone wrote:
That bit looks fairly full (and quite neat).

We could have several rows of links. Works in KoL just fine.

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When it comes to discoverability for new players, putting everything in one spot is a good thing. I suspect a lot of new people don't even realise that the sailing ship button is a link.

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There's a ship on the forum now? ...oh, the top right corner? I've never even looked there. No kidding.

And yeah, the downloads link should really be put in a more obvious place. It'd be helpful to have some kind of "you can't view this because you don't have a login" notice on there too.

The holds link on the bottom doesn't mention TCB at all either. Makes it look kind of odd. The instructions on the hold page itself are pretty outdated as well, I don't see that "Where" button anywhere in JtRH/TCB...

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Blah. I don't like how it looks, but it's up there. If we get a couple more links I'll split it off into two lines maybe.

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Maybe we should have kept it at "CaravelNet Forum" in order to keep the banner longer.

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It looks fine here. Aiming for pixel-perfect on the web is kinda hard unless you know all your users have the same browser and the same defaults (or you specify font sizes in px, which is kinda rude to people with vision problems).

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[Last edited by Tuttle at 07-07-2008 06:12 AM]