Well...that took a damn "site" longer than expected.
So, we have basically a bells and whistles framework to start working with. The show's most certainly not over and in the coming weeks, months, years we have plenty more to pack into our new and shiny site. Vincebot will be keeping you posted with updates in development who is seriously starting to run out of batteries as I've kept him up until the small hours to complete this - so slap that droid on the back people.
Hope you all enjoy, and please post any constructive feedback and feature requests into the post Vince puts up shortly ;)
Looking good.
Not had a proper investigate yet, but the "Media" link appears to be broken.
cheers for the heads up, taking a look now :)
Working again ;)
Not sure if the moving banner thing is genius or creepy... either way, AWESOME.
-pj
lol never thought about "creepy" - but that pic of Red freaks me a bit ::)
I'll vote for "creepy", especially the way Dante's cock pops up like that!
Thanks Vincebot, w3bz and the rest of that much-vaunted web-bot crack team.
We appreciate it. Now go and have an oil break.
Quote from: The Cosh on 25 August, 2009, 10:54:04 PM
I'll vote for "creepy", especially the way Dante's cock pops up like that!
HAHAHAH that's her finger tapping on the chair...holy cowbag I hadn't seen it from that angle... :-[
Dare I mention that both the front page spot 1650, and the page it links to, claim that the line up is Nikolai Dante: Tour of Duty, Shakara and Kingdom.
Shurely Shome Mishtake?
Cheers
Jim
sorry..still find that funny - had to castrate Dante - the anim had lowered since last I took a look - whoopsie :)
Very impressive.
Is the character/creator information the barney information brought back onto the main site? Its all very nicely fine-grained and also search engine-friendly (top SEO marks all round ;) ).
One thing I noticed though was that the creators are being sorted by first name not surname.
Anyway fresh oil all round.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 25 August, 2009, 10:58:54 PM
Dare I mention that both the front page spot 1650, and the page it links to, claim that the line up is Nikolai Dante: Tour of Duty, Shakara and Kingdom.
Shurely Shome Mishtake?
Cheers
Jim
Yeah should be dredd. There will be a couple of these over the next few days I'm sure as we iron through things :)
Ha Ha funny moving banner!
Looks like Joe is pumping some bellows.
Zenith? over his shoulder has seriously aged and is hiding from the paps.
Nemesis is steam powered.
Dante has the worst gut rot ever.
Red is a man in drag.
Tor Cyan? is wiggling his man boobs.
And everyone's drinks are empty, must be Sinister's round!
Brilliant.
Rest of the site is great too.
Not sure the staff section is very enlightening though.
Quote from: Emperor on 25 August, 2009, 11:03:30 PM
Very impressive.
Is the character/creator information the barney information brought back onto the main site? Its all very nicely fine-grained and also search engine-friendly (top SEO marks all round ;) ).
One thing I noticed though was that the creators are being sorted by first name not surname.
Anyway fresh oil all round.
Yeah (slaps Vin) - it will be by surname
Quote from: Minkyboy on 25 August, 2009, 11:05:01 PM
Ha Ha funny moving banner!
Looks like Joe is pumping some bellows.
Zenith? over his shoulder has seriously aged and is hiding from the paps.
Nemesis is steam powered.
Dante has the worst gut rot ever.
Red is a man in drag.
Tor Cyan? is wiggling his man boobs.
And everyone's drinks are empty, must be Sinister's round!
Brilliant.
Rest of the site is great too.
Not sure the staff section is very enlightening though.
Staff section is having piccies done but other than that they'll get linked to creators as and when people do stuff :)
Looking great fellas, well done to all. One thing though, with the site now being so wonderfully huge, it could do with a 'Search' option.
Ha W3BZ, the droid that castrated Dante!
Search is later, but will be available it's on our ever expanding "to do or hide from" list :o
Quote from: w3bz on 25 August, 2009, 11:05:38 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 25 August, 2009, 11:03:30 PMOne thing I noticed though was that the creators are being sorted by first name not surname.
Yeah (slaps Vin) - it will be by surname
Cheers.
Will there eventually be somewhere people can enter the weekly competition online?
Son of a-
New thread for issues and whatnot, with a to-do list by myself: 2000 AD Online - New site teething tome (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,26009.0.html).
Quote from: Emperor on 25 August, 2009, 11:10:00 PM
Quote from: w3bz on 25 August, 2009, 11:05:38 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 25 August, 2009, 11:03:30 PMOne thing I noticed though was that the creators are being sorted by first name not surname.
Yeah (slaps Vin) - it will be by surname
Cheers.
Will there eventually be somewhere people can enter the weekly competition online?
Again on the list. Eventually you'll be able to login on the site and access quizes, competitions and other such non-science willy nilly
Looks great. Love all the characters at the top. Nice to see the archives - both creators and progs - back in a new revised format. Thrillpower has returned to the 2000AD website. :)
Well it took a while but well done to everyone involved in its creation, it looks fantastic.
Looks zarjaz! Slaine wallpaper duly downloaded.
Hope to see the site expand as the weeks go by!
Steev
This is so effing cool....
congratulations guys!
Looks great, but Flash navigation makes me cry inside (and after attempting to use it for more than about 5 minutes, outside too). :(
With all due respect that banner thing is shit.
What exactly is the point of it? And did the end result justify the time and effort spend actually achieving it?
I mean.. 'ohh look the characters heads giggle about abit in an unconvincing manner!'
pifft!
Will check out the rest of the site in due course, but looking at that home page (which is mostly just a big white space) I'm in no hurry.
Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 26 August, 2009, 01:14:59 AM
With all due respect that banner thing is shit.
What exactly is the point of it? And did the end result justify the time and effort spend actually achieving it?
I mean.. 'ohh look the characters heads giggle about abit in an unconvincing manner!'
pifft!
Will check out the rest of the site in due course, but looking at that home page (which is mostly just a big white space) I'm in no hurry.
Had the same thought about the banner but the fact is this is the first time the site proper has actually worked since I joined the forum so I figure I can live with a minor irritant that, lets face it, is hardly going to detract from the rest of the great stuff on there(and more to come) in any meaningful way.
Wow! It's back. I'm so happy that I even re-registered for the forums! Woooooooo!
Nice work guys!
Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 26 August, 2009, 01:14:59 AM
With all due respect that banner thing is shit.
What exactly is the point of it? And did the end result justify the time and effort spend actually achieving it?
I mean.. 'ohh look the characters heads giggle about abit in an unconvincing manner!'
pifft!
Will check out the rest of the site in due course, but looking at that home page (which is mostly just a big white space) I'm in no hurry.
With all due respect that was a really douchey way to go about saying that. I too thought the top banner was a little 'busy' when I first loaded it. But it didn't turn me into a raging ass-hat that felt the needs to slap the very people that spent so long redesigning the site for us!
Urgh, see, this is is why I don't use forums. This is the first time I have logged on since 2007, and I had to remake my account then because I forgot my previous one. I'm already thinking of logging off again...
I'll admit I have mixed feelings about the new banner. It's creepy and quirky... so yes, lets keep it. I miss that animation of Dredd riding up on his bike though. It would be great if that could reappear somewhere, although I understand it's probably best not on the front page considering the amount going on... but
Nice work fellas, I'm gonna have a good nose about this evening.
Nice one! Looking very swish there. Good work and thanks.
-Bouwel-
I'm not usually prone to superlative outbursts, so lets just say it rocks!
A general reply to people in general:
Just use the top links if you don't want to use the flash ones.
The flash banner up top was an idea of 2000 AD's that I put into use, there's no real biggy with changing it up a bit, particularly when we get the accounts side of things sorted then you can choose what to appear. And no it didn't take long, so I'm sure we
QuoteWith all due respect that banner thing is shit.
Yawn. With all due respect I only have time for people being constructive.
Loathful of Flash and weak of Broadband though I am, I really like it. Exciting!
Quote from: w3bz on 26 August, 2009, 09:06:56 AM
Yawn. With all due respect I only have time for people being constructive.
Quite, that wasn't at all helpful or polite - two things I've come to expect from this forum. w3bz and Vincebot have been working their rears off for the site (read: US - the fans) so the least we can do if we don't like something is the offer a reason why we dislike it and maybe a way it can be improved in your eyes.
Personally I really like it. Particularly Finny wandering about. Shades of that birthday story where Sin/Dex are working the door and Ramone knows Dredd, Johnny and Nikolai but poor Finny hasn't got any friends..... AH!
Looking good. Nice surprise for me this morning.
I do like the news announcement 'Strontium Dog returns...' etc images.
Regarding the new banner, I think it is important that plenty of 2000AD characters are featured rather than just Dredd as on the old site (even though the old animation of Dredd was excellent). But the overall structure is there and there is content in all the sections. The banner can be updated or amended from time to time I'm sure, as has already been mentioned.
Glad to see the vault and creator lists. No doubt in due course all the links will be active eg 'View All' in Thrill Vault.
Well done to all involved for the hard work.
Can add my Yay! to finally getting a working website :)
List of coming features looks good as well.
Cool, cool, good work everyone, looks lovely!
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 26 August, 2009, 10:10:44 AM
Glad to see the vault and creator lists. No doubt in due course all the links will be active eg 'View All' in Thrill Vault.
That was a bug, the "View All" links should work now. You can also use the links across the top of the page to access sections of the Vault, such as character list, creator list, series list, etc.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 25 August, 2009, 10:58:54 PM
Dare I mention that both the front page spot 1650, and the page it links to, claim that the line up is Nikolai Dante: Tour of Duty, Shakara and Kingdom.
Fixed, the lookup table picked the wrong "Tour of Duty" when the data-entry happened. There's likely to be a few of these, the more recent the issue, the more squiffy the data.
Let's think happy thoughts. I've met Umpty a few times and he's a good lad. Be gentle with him.
As for the website: nice work! I like it.
- Trout
Quote from: VinceBot on 26 August, 2009, 10:59:19 AMFixed, the lookup table picked the wrong "Tour of Duty" when the data-entry happened. There's likely to be a few of these, the more recent the issue, the more squiffy the data.
I add a leading space to keep the titles unique, so assuming that those were preserved when the new database was created, there shouldn't be a problem. The data entry point I use for BARNEY won't let me add duplicate titles (in the same table - there are Megazine stories with the same titles as 2000AD stories).
Cheers,
Wake
Quote from: King Trout on 26 August, 2009, 11:07:36 AM
Let's think happy thoughts. I've met Umpty a few times and he's a good lad. Be gentle with him.
As for the website: nice work! I like it.
- Trout
I've never met Umpty/Buddy but He's a regular here, that makes him a good guy.
I'm sure he meant no offence and I'd like to apologise if my comment may have caused him or anyone else even minor upset - not my intention at all. I just want us ALL to be fwiends.
GROUP HUG?
Though I was eeing things when I loaded up the fornt page. There moving but onl;y subltely, like you might think your eyes are playing tricks on you. That's really cool, but a shame it was so much trouble and I'm wondering if you going to do the other side with Slaine.
No 2000AD banner, animated or not is complete without Slaine.
Quote from: Mardroid on 26 August, 2009, 02:57:25 AM
I'll admit I have mixed feelings about the new banner. It's creepy and quirky... so yes, lets keep it. I miss that animation of Dredd riding up on his bike though. It would be great if that could reappear somewhere, although I understand it's probably best not on the front page considering the amount going on... but
Good point, and I wouldn't have noticed until you mentioned this.
Well I bloody love it. For one thing, the banner made me think of how Kev Walker's style would really work in animated form. A proper cartoon - hmmm, think I recall that being mentioned a few months back.
Quote from: Wake on 26 August, 2009, 11:08:34 AM
I add a leading space to keep the titles unique
That might explain a few things.
Unfortunately we're trimming and normalise all the story titles in order to get the SEF URL stuff to work. Two actual titles can be the same, but the normalised versions can't.
I hope I haven't broken anything in the early prints due to the name duplication.
So you didn't fancy animating Judge Fire then, huh? I suppose I can forgive you :)
It all looks excellent.
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 26 August, 2009, 11:27:45 AM
Well I bloody love it. For one thing, the banner made me think of how Kev Walker's style would really work in animated form. A proper cartoon - hmmm, think I recall that being mentioned a few months back.
My thoughts exactly, a first glimpse the cahracter moving. A preveiw.
Congrats on that.
BTW has there been anymore news on the 2000AD cartoons?
Quote from: uncle fester on 26 August, 2009, 11:42:52 AM
So you didn't fancy animating Judge Fire then, huh? I suppose I can forgive you :)
Hmmmmm, fire's hard enough to draw, I'm with you there Fester.
And we NEED that ABC Warriors saturday morning cartoon. NOW.
Quote from: w3bz on 26 August, 2009, 09:06:56 AM
A general reply to people in general:
Just use the top links if you don't want to use the flash ones.
The flash banner up top was an idea of 2000 AD's that I put into use, there's no real biggy with changing it up a bit, particularly when we get the accounts side of things sorted then you can choose what to appear. And no it didn't take long, so I'm sure we
QuoteWith all due respect that banner thing is shit.
Yawn. With all due respect I only have time for people being constructive.
Ahhh... sorry about that... was havin a bad day and didn't mean to be so obtuse.
Please ignore what I said.
/hang head in shame/
Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 26 August, 2009, 11:53:32 AM
Ahhh... sorry about that... was havin a bad day and didn't mean to be so obtuse.
Please ignore what I said.
/hang head in shame/
Pick up that head, Buddy. You're practically an institution around here.
What about that group hug, people?
I'm loving it!! great work droids
It looks beautiful .
Thanks to everyone involved.
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 26 August, 2009, 11:48:49 AM
Quote from: uncle fester on 26 August, 2009, 11:42:52 AM
So you didn't fancy animating Judge Fire then, huh? I suppose I can forgive you :)
Hmmmmm, fire's hard enough to draw, I'm with you there Fester.
And we NEED that ABC Warriors saturday morning cartoon. NOW.
"
Judge Fire has been contained, his flames turned right down by order of the Mega City One Fire Brigade and City CouncilActullely they seem to be all shimmering in a slight haze like they are feeling the effects of having Judge Fire close by.
To quote from "Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"......
QuoteArthur Dent: You know, if this is Southend, there's something very odd about it.
Ford Prefect: What, you mean the way the sea stays steady as a rock and the buildings keep washing up and down? Yes, I thought that was odd
I quite like the wobbly-shimmer effect, it's a bit mad. I like the way Durham's boobies jiggle (though they don't jiggle half as much as Rogue's moobs) and the way Finny keeps popping up in different places.
haven't had a chance to try out all the archive and index stuff, but it's looking fab, nice work guys.
I was intrigued by the "copyright holder" link in the Creators section, but it only brings up 2 entries - The Dan Dare Corporation and , oddly, DC Comics, with no further details on either!
DC owns Metalzoic, I think...
Yeah that was part of trying not to lose data - I think there were two entries where a series had a "copyright holder", so there you go.
You can't see any details on them because creators don't show their series ownership.
Great work guys, but I hope the Shop site is on your To Do list. It's old and clunky and the revamped homepage only serves to highlight how basic it looks - especially the way extra tabs have been jammed in at the top every time new merchandise becomes available.
Also the on-line back-issue ordering is still under construction. I now realise that the placeholder that says it is being worked on by a "crack team of web-bots" actual translates as "robots on crack" - they're certainly not doing working on anything in that area! And to think Julian told me "We're just sorting out the encryption at the moment so it should be sorted soon" back in December!
Some really great feedback, it's nice to see you all taking the time to let us know how you're getting on with the site 8) and like I said before, I'm sure there'll be a few animations to come, it was something I wanted to do before but then got too busy with not only the new site but everything else that gets thrown at us :)
I'm sure you'll be happy to know that the shop IS on the to-do list, and strangely while the back issues list was almost done I decided in the end to scrap it much to the annoyance of you lot I'm sure, but it just wasn't going to be as good as getting our main site up and then putting it together properly as a feature.
And Umpty, don't worry about it - after being up until 11 doing the site I was a little cranky myself ;)
Good vibes people, keep up the decent feedback!
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 August, 2009, 01:20:10 PM
I quite like the wobbly-shimmer effect, it's a bit mad. I like the way Durham's boobies jiggle (though they don't jiggle half as much as Rogue's moobs) and the way Finny keeps popping up in different places.
haven't had a chance to try out all the archive and index stuff, but it's looking fab, nice work guys.
Concerning Rogue's man boobs. They look normal for a weightlifter. I didn't look at the facade long enough to notice Finster was popping up in different places.
I'd say that would be just right for Ukko on the other side.
BTW, looking at the same Kev Walker picture thats been placed on opposing edges of the screen or quite a while now.
(http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action-post;quote=448756;topic=26008.45;num_replies=60;sesc=d722633ff56adf510431691792ef4a69)
It's just abit biazed against Slaine and his drinking buddies.
You can only see the top of his head.
I hope that feedback is descent enough.
Looking great! Well done, boys.
I'll post more specific (and hopefully constructive) feedback as and when it occurs to me.
Very nice ! well done....
Looking good time well spent, will peruse the site when I have the time.
V
New sites looks great. I'm so glad the old functionality of having things broken down by strip name, and being able to see what episodes appear in what issues is back. That thing was invaluable.
However.
I think you need a back and forward scroll button on the regular 'view prog' screen (like this one (http://www.2000adonline.com/vault/progs/1650)). So we can jump easily through prog contents. Also the return of a 'enter specific prog/megazine issue number' prompt. Again, fro easy browsing of the back catalog.
Again, website looks great.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 27 August, 2009, 06:45:57 AM
I think you need a back and forward scroll button on the regular 'view prog' screen
Whoops, yeah that should be on the to-do list.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 27 August, 2009, 06:45:57 AM
Also the return of a 'enter specific prog/megazine issue number' prompt. Again, fro easy browsing of the back catalog.
Needs doing, but for now you can just change the URL - when you're viewing a prog it says /vault/progs/1234, and you can just change that number to whatever prog you want to jump to, if you so desire.
The site is looking good! Nice to have the individual issues information back, but I did prefer the old layout for that info, or the www.2000ad.org (http://www.2000ad.org) layout.
Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 27 August, 2009, 07:53:39 PM
The site is looking good! Nice to have the individual issues information back, but I did prefer the old layout for that info, or the www.2000ad.org (http://www.2000ad.org) layout.
Well, it's still there mostly.... minus a messageboard.
Well done, web-bots.
At last Tharg has a website he can gloat about again.
For too long I kept hearing about "bugs" in the system. I assume they're a new breed of Thrillsucker, that Tharg as finally learned to control.
Is there still a "Dreddworld" section (for example showing maps of Dredd's world, and listing the CJ's timeline)?
Once again, well done on the new look, glad normal service has been resumed.
Pretty damn slick site! No wonder it took so long to do.
Great work, the site's back to its former glory! I've got a new desktop background too!
im not saying at first the site was crap but it needed improving and im glad they have done that lol there is more stuff to look at on the site now good work 2000ad work team!
the new updated site rulez! ;D
You are probably aware of this, but currently all the Prog 20XX issues (the end of the year 100 page monsters) are missing from the site database, and therefore the stories contained within are not archived/indexed.
I'm sure you're already aware of this, but since I couldn't find any mention of it in the thread (granted I did just do a quick scan), I figured I'd mention it. Just in case.
Yep, known issue. These were contained separately from the progs and megs of the old database and thus weren't converted in the initial batch. They'll be done along with the Graphic Novels, Reprints, etc, when we get some spare time to work on the database.
Yay, Judge Fire is now burning.
Really?
I'm going to have a look now.
QuoteYay, Judge Fire is now burning.
Hah, nice. I still love the way Robert 'Rights Issue' MacDowell keeps popping his domino mask into view.
Site's looking very good, also simple to use and quick.
Apologies but can't help lamenting the lack of online back issue ordering. I'm missing progs 1639 and 1640 and I know I could make a phone call- but if I knew I could just make a few clicks I'd have got them ages ago. I'm sure newcomers would also use it to to do a bit of catching up.
Quote from: flesario on 05 September, 2009, 01:47:50 PM
Site's looking very good, also simple to use and quick.
Apologies but can't help lamenting the lack of online back issue ordering. I'm missing progs 1639 and 1640 and I know I could make a phone call- but if I knew I could just make a few clicks I'd have got them ages ago. I'm sure newcomers would also use it to to do a bit of catching up.
And also we overseas readers in different time zones. If I want to call the number I have to stay up until 2am or some such silly time. It's just too inconvenient.
The fact that some of the black copy top left (Forum/ view new replies etc) disappears into the mono image on the left (right about near Dante's head if you glance about four inches <<<<< that way) when you scroll down is very annoying.
i just had a quick scan and it is awesome