[Gypsy Knights Games] Our website is up and running!

[DFW]

When I go to products section and click on a product nothing happens.

Well, the picture of the product is not clickable. There is (currently) a clickable button in the lower right hand corner.

Nope. Nothing clickable on lower right corner. Using both Firefox & Chrome.
And, the pics on the product cause the cursor to change to indicate that you can click on them.

 

[rust]

Nope. Nothing clickable on lower right corner. Using both Firefox & Chrome.
And, the pics on the product cause the cursor to change to indicate that you can click on them.

It is still a work in progress. Right now the clickable (and now black)
lower right corner appears when you move the cursor onto the picture,
but I think they are still working on it.

 

[DFW]

Nope. Nothing clickable on lower right corner. Using both Firefox & Chrome.
And, the pics on the product cause the cursor to change to indicate that you can click on them.

It is still a work in progress. Right now the clickable (and now black)
lower right corner appears when you move the cursor onto the picture,
but I think they are still working on it.

Unless it is 1X1 pixel in size, my browser's don't register it. I try back in a few days.

 

[rust]

@ Gypsy Knights Games

By the way, Drive Thru RPG is occasionally down, for example for main-
tenance and thelike. Once you have your website up and running to your
satisfaction and a little time to spend, it could be worth the additional ef-
fort to link from the product pictures to your own page with a short des-
cription of the product, and add the link to DTRPG there. This way your
visitors get the information even when DTRPG is down or has too many
connections for its server to handle.

 

[BP]

Yep - blank, black page for Firefox/Mac if scripts from site are allowed to run, but Facebook and Wix are not allowed... :wink:

With no Javascript, the site content 'appears' sans any flash crap, but is badly scrambled...

I've reported this to our webguy and we'll get this addressed. Sorry you're having trouble but I appreciate you letting us know there is a problem.

Excellent response! 8)

A best practice is to check how a site works (and looks) with no Javascript/CSS or any other extras and when the width is reduced a lot (for portable devices). HTML was designed from the outset to support flowed layout (not fixed). Designing a website in this way requires nothing more than a text editor, some knowledge of a handful of instructions and a web browser - and it can still look nice.

Then view it with the bells and whistles that make things more interesting and appealing - though this will always lead to incompatibilities (CSS, flash, silverlight, activeX, etc.) so conditional and browser specific code must be added (and maintained) for best effect and the site should still 'work' when extra features are not available. Despite the 'appeal' of doing so (mostly for the developers and the owner, in actuality) - besides costing money, this can also cost viewers/customers (ironic since the idea is usually to attract more people - but such is the 'truth' behind most marketing 'technology').

 

[DFW]

A best practice is to check how a site works (and looks) with no Javascript/CSS or any other extras and when the width is reduced a lot (for portable devices). HTML was designed from the outset to support flowed layout (not fixed). Designing a website in this way requires nothing more than a text editor, some knowledge of a handful of instructions and a web browser - and it can still look nice.

Excellent advice. I wish more webmasters would follow those practices.

 

[phavoc]

Congrats on getting online.

Here's my comments on things.

Call me old-school, but I like the smaller cover icons for things, with a short description and a link to click on to get more info. A few of your quick worlds have planetary views as covers, but most don't. The "page-turning" was a little slow on my work computer, but I'm thinking it would be faster on my home system which has a fiber-optic connection. However not everyone is going to have a system like that, and some may be on wireless, which would have a slower connection than my own here.

And when I want to click on them to get more info it takes me to Drivethru's website - which doesn't give much info on each module. Before I get sent to another site (which won't work if you have pop-ups blocked) I would inform the user that they are being redirected to another site. It's a good security protocol to enact.

But I would really prefer to do my review of products on your website, and if I chose to purchase it, THEN send me off to Drivethru's site.

Anyway, just my $.02... good to see other publishers out there contributing to the game. Just please review your stuff PRIOR to publishing!

 

[Gypsy Knights Games]

Unless it is 1X1 pixel in size, my browser's don't register it. I try back in a few days.

Actually, now the product covers are clickable and the button is now gone. As I say, poor design choice on my part. Live and learn.

 

[Gypsy Knights Games]

Also, consider an iOS friendly mobile site...

We now have a mobile device friendly site. Going to our website with a mobile device should take you directly to it.