Planned theme changes

Planned theme changes

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Based on user feedback thus far, I'm planning some changes to the theme:

  • Bringing back the OGA mascot
  • Shrinking the art preview boxes to make room for more of them.  Instead of 2 rows of 3, I'm thinking 4 rows of 4, for a total of 16 instead of 6.
  • A placeholder image for audio where no preview image is available (this is more of a bug, really)
  • The comment box will no longer extend all the way across the screen (it looks bad this way, and I've been planning to fix it, but I figured it was usable in the short term).
  • Apparently most people don't like Blue as much as me.  Since we're bound to get complaints regardless of the color scheme, I think what I'm going to do is implement some way that people can submit and share user stylesheets to recolor the site.  This will be done later on, since there are more pressing things to deal with first.
  • Fix funky formatting issues (horizontal scrollbars on some browsers, occasional double titles, etc)
  • Another thing I want to do is allow people to customize some of the blocks that appear on the front page.  Filtered by art type, maybe a random rotation, art by people you've friended, etc.  This is another OGA 2.0 feature that will be coming eventually.
  • I originally had this theme set up to be fixed width, and I made it fluid in response to some comments from people.  Based on what I'm seeing here, though, I suspect that people in general might prefer fixed width.
  • Bring back the stats blocks (popular art, challenges, etc) -- this was planned anyway, but I figured we could go without them for a few days.
  • Fix forum navigation (this is a bug, not intentional)
  • For browsers that don't support HTML5 audio, bring back flash audio previews in those cases.  If your browser *does* support HTML5 audio, you won't have to deal with Flash.
  • Someone asked why the sidebar on comments is so big just for an avatar pic.  There's going to be some more stuff there when I'm done with it:  Medals (like on the old site, except more compact, no bronze when you have silver, etc), basic user stats (number of submissions etc), a link to a private message form, and an abbreviated list of the game projects (if any) that they're involved in.

As always, I'm open to comments and suggestions. :)