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Seafury
09-28-2004, 11:21
I just have a couple quick suggestions that I've been meaning to forward for weeks now. Hopefully this 10min break will be enough. Please take all this as creative critizism and nothing more.

1) The web site not newbie friendly.

There is a beautiful intro splash screen and a beautiful cockpit. But as for user friendlyness, the first time I went to it I was confused and eventually just left. It comes down the two things:

a) News people have no idea that UHF = Forum, Data Link = Links to other sites of interest, Load Out = Downloads, etc... I personally found that very confusing. It is something you very quickly get use to, but like I said, not instantly user friendly.

b) Only about 1/3 of the page is usable. The cockpit screen is always up and while it is nice, it is not practical in my opinion.

2) Area 51 Site.

a) How about an updates page. Listing when the updates were given and what they include.

b) Have the page in the same style as the main fighterops page. It seams kinda unconjoined with the different style and layout.

3) Instead of a post saying it was posted "3 weeks ago" is it possible to have the date at which it was posted?

I have more, but I'm running out of time. I hope something here was constructive.

Patrick
09-28-2004, 11:34
There will be a new website in the future which should service to put to rest all of your concerns. Unlike the present site, which is written in HTML, it will be written in PHP so it will have much more advanced functionality and will be substantially more user friendly. I have 2 large projects for FO which are more time sensative, so it may be a bit until this is done, but it will happen and I'm sure you will be quite pleased with it.

JohnTheLuck
09-29-2004, 19:37
Cool.

JTL

Seafury
09-29-2004, 23:15
Hey, Great to hear that. I am looking forward to seeing the redesign. Good luck with it.