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Welcome to the THX.com MP beta. Free codes.

Submitted by rapture on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 6:01pm.

We need your feedback. You are looking at the "base" of the next Hushed Casket theme. It's your turn to help grow it. Post your feedback and we'll take note. [If this theme is broken in your browser, you can change to a different them by going to "My Account" and "Edit" to select a new theme.]

Notable differences:
1) Shoutbox. Enough said.
2) 100% wide layout. This layout will span the entire width of your monitor. This should make the forum a little more usable and free up space.
3) More columns. We've got more room to present information.
4) Performance improvements. This website should load a little faster now. It will load even faster once the final edits are made.

Things to fix/work on:
1) The comments. The look like crap. They run together and aren't laid out well.
2) Size/color of some text.
3) Add date/time to posts on front page.

Features coming:
1) Add YOUR screenshots to the top of the website. I want you to submit your screenshots to me so that I can add them to the top of this website. So, on random days you might see your leet HALO 3 screenshot (which you can save to Bungie.net) a the top of the website. [-ed. I think it would be cool to have a few screenshots with our gamertags in them]
2) Aggregated content. The site will automatically post content from the THX.com network to the front page.
3) Links. We will be linking to related content from the front page. The links will appear as posts and link you directly to the content.
4) Secretz.

Questions:
1) Internet Explorer users. I'm guessing this theme is broken in your browser. It looks OK in IE7.0. How does the banner at the top of the page look (not look) in IE 6.0 and IE5.0?

New look? Hang in there. We're working on the layout for the website. We've kept the website online so that you can still use it. Expect the website to look different in the short while ahead.

Trust us. On the backend we've done a lot of work.

rapture's picture

testing the upload

testing the upload feature.

currently playing: Shadowrun, Call of Duty 4 MP beta
currently supporting: Ron Paul

Master Kim's picture

I miss the old lay out. :(

Let's hope for the best!

Mintz's picture

Any ETA for everything to

Any ETA for everything to work again? The site looks promising.

Currently Playing: Bioshock

rapture's picture

Fuction, then visuals.

Mintz wrote:
Any ETA for everything to work again? The site looks promising.

We are working on the FUNCTION of the website before we work on the look of the website.

The new look will resemble the old. And I'm going to try hard to make sure to add web2.0-ish with some leetsauce.

narcogen's picture

rapture wrote:New look?

rapture wrote:
New look? Hang in there. We're working on the layout for the website. We've kept the website online so that you can still use it. Expect the website to look different in the short while ahead.

Trust us. On the backend we've done a lot of work.

Looks like Drupal 5 now.. theme a variation on NewsFlash?

If you're sticking with it, remove the border in the .profile picture CSS entry, a lot of the avatars look better without it.

Have fun :)

Rampant for over seven years.

Xray's picture

site background

I hope the site will look cool with the new background.

Master Kim's picture

Me no like it.

I don't want to complain, but that's all I seem to do here: I liked the white text against the black background before. Reading black text on a white background is like staring at a light bulb, and I liked that The Hushed Casket was a cool, relaxing dark on my eyes.

Oculus's picture

to quote rap:

to quote rap:
"We are working on the FUNCTION of the website before we work on the look of the website.

The new look will resemble the old. And I’m going to try hard to make sure to add web2.0-ish with some leetsauce."

XBL GT: Mikeulus

JDOGG85's picture

I like the yellowish links

I like the yellowish links on the right, the light gray at the top look good, but I just don't like the bright red all over the pages.

rapture's picture

Browser stats

Internet Explorer barely has the lead. Almost every Firefox user has the same version.

Internet Explorer: 47.3%
IE7.0: 59.5%
IE6.0: 40.29%

Firefox: 45.5%
FF2.0.0.6: 91.23%
FF2.0.0.4: 2.42%

@JDOGG: I don't like the red either. It will change to a less bold color.

Sideburnt's picture

I digg

All the columnz!

Master Kim's picture

Yay.

This beta is awesome because we don't need to win a contest or get lucky in a random drawing to test it!

Xray's picture

Words

The only thing I dont like is that some of the text for forums are overlaping eachother

Mintz's picture

You can’t read

You can't read quotes...

Currently Playing: CoD4 Beta, Bioshock

rapture's picture

Quotes are viewable

Mintz wrote:
You can't read quotes...

Actually you can. The .css files on people's computers are being cached. If you hit SHIFT-RELOAD you should be good to go and see minor changes to the layout and colors as they happen.

JDOGG85's picture

Very nice, liking the new

Very nice, liking the new font color alot.

I set a red vertical bar on the left of the last 5 comment boxes on this page...do you? What about chaning the frame around the profile pics to the same color as the goldish link color?

rapture's picture

Red bars next to comments =

Red bars next to comments = new comments. I want it to be easy for our members to tell which comments are new. The Red vertical bar should help with this.

Good suggestion on the profile pics. Will work on it.

It’s looking ALOT better.

It's looking ALOT better. If only IE7 would load the image at the top faster. FF has no trouble with it and unlike IE it doesn't reload the image for every page.

JDOGG85's picture

Ah, ok on the vertical

Site is looking awesome.

Ah, ok on the vertical line...was curious what it was.

So if you are in a forum thread, the thread name and your comment links are supposed to be blacked out on the right column, right?

rapture's picture

@Reverend: Try a

@Reverend: Try a CTRL+REFRESH in IE and let me know if it works better. I think it might. Do you see the scanlines on top of the H3 screenshot?

@JDOGG: The black links are an accident. But, I got to thinking. Those links lead you to the page you are currently on. Why would you want to click a link to take you to the page you are currently on. I'm going to leave it as-is until there's more requests to change it.

@everyone: Thanks for the feedback. I'm reading your posts and going right to the code and programming your requests and making them live.

JDOGG85's picture

Makes sense to me, was just

Makes sense to me, was just making sure you noticed it. And if for some reason people want to click them they still can.

I really think the site looks alot better now...the layout seems alot less jumbled with information...gg

Mintz's picture

I was wondering if you could

I was wondering if you could do away with the "recent comments" block all-together. There's no way to see which comments you've read/not read. On the previous site, there would be red lines that would disappear, indicating they've been read.

Instead, how about a "Recent Topics" block (or similar) where you click the link, and it takes you to the first unread comment in that thread?

Currently Playing: CoD4 Beta, Bioshock

trigger119's picture

Me likey

Me likey

@ Rap

Much better now and the lines are still there. Faster than the old site too.

D15AV0W3D's picture

"Access Denied"

When trying to navigate to the forums via the column on the left-hand side, I can get as far as http://hushedcasket.com/forums, but when trying to select a particular one, i.e. "Gaming" or "Foulbreed Hill", I get the msg: "Access Denied", (and also "Pimped by EA and Oculus"! haha).

I can, however, navigate to certain forum topics by the "Recent Comments" list, using those links.

I am logged in. I also did a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) just to be sure-- same result. I haven't tried it while logged out yet. Will let you know if it's any different.

rapture's picture

Fixing the forums

Forums: can you guys enter and post now?

Oculus's picture

There are already

There are already plans for this. It requires a bit of effort though, but that's my first priority this weekend. The recent comments will be much different soon.

D15AV0W3D's picture

I can get into forums now.

I can get into forums now. GG on the new site. It's looking pretty freakin' sweet!

goku2057's picture

I like it.

Alot. it's loading faster, and it looks better. I'd say you guys are batting 1000 right now.

rapture's picture

I got rid of subject lines

I got rid of subject lines in the comments.

Since 99% of the people view expanded comments, subject lines don't have much utility. They are also a minor main when QUOTING someone.

R.I.P.

Mintz's picture

Thanks man, I’m looking

Thanks man, I'm looking forward to the change.

Currently Playing: CoD4 Beta, Bioshock

Mintz's picture

Will the signatures be

Will the signatures be integrated into posts instead of being pre-pasted into the comments box?

Currently Playing: CoD4 Beta, Bioshock

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