Wide Layout Update 3

[TomFulp]

Goldfish has just launched the third series of updates to the new wide view page. Here's what has changed:

1) Ad-Blocker users no longer get a broken layout.
2) If you turn the lights off and on, your browser's back button will work as expected and not toggle page elements.
3) The page should now appear to load faster, as the ads don't start loading until the page itself has loaded!

So less lag, less bugs... An overall better experience!

In other news...

Adam Atomic has just released flixel! What is flixel? To quote Adam:

"flixel is a completely free collection of Actionscript 3 files that helps organize, automate, and optimize Flash games; an object-oriented framework that lets anyone create original and complex games with thousands of objects on screen in just a few hours, without using any of the Flash libraries."

There's a lot of potential for flixel to usher in a new universe of awesome Flash games, so we're offering a $250 prize to the best flixel-made game submitted to NG in the next month! If you make a flixel game and submit it before July 5th, PM me with a link!

Check out the Acapella Music Collab!

BTW some stuff accidentally got pushed from staging that implied the Art Portal might be going live tonight. Sorry, it isn't! More news on that later.

Can we digg this?

[Imacow]

Wheres my art portal?

Lol, looking forward to it.

[Aryk]

Cool, but you should've mentioned the ting in the top left corner. Blah!

Ad-block banners look nice!

[SacredShit]

Cool, I hope to see good submissions in the Art Portal when you release it.

[Armerad]

The Adblocker pictures wont show up for me.

[Vortex00]

The Art portal is going to be awesome

[Pokemonpoeguygcn]

The Wide Layout and Art Portal is going to be awesome
Hope you make some more updates!

[Jolly]

What about the navbar?

[Boss]

At 6/5/09 08:36 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote:

At 6/5/09 08:31 PM, TomFulp wrote:
BTW some stuff accidentally got pushed from staging that implied the Art Portal might be going live tonight. Sorry, it isn't! More news on that later.

I noticed that little error first. Do I get a prize?

Also, I'm not noticing the changes in the layout too much. But I guess it's good news for those who did experience bugs and lag.

If you get a prize my ass better get a prize because i noticed all that jazz second.

[shadowthing]

1) Ad-Blocker users no longer get a broken layout.

yaaaaaaaa my add blocker won't try to gut wide layout yaaaaaaa

[Xaotik]

One problem... I'm using Safari, and no ad-blocker, and now I get a broken layout! The Flash Portal button appears like 35 pixels too long and pushes the Store button onto a new line, also, there's a button under the tank that says "Check out the New Art Portal" but it's a dead link...

I've tried clearing my cache, but no luck...

[N1N-JA]

Sweet, i'll try it out now.

[Aryk]

At 6/5/09 08:41 PM, N1N-JA wrote: Sweet, i'll try it out now.

Tom you're encouraging people to get Ad-Blocker.

[Tystarr]

Hey Tom,

The Top Navigation is messed up in the regular layout in the Google Chrome Browser.

[drakelord-nK]

Hey Fulp, any reason why there isn't a donate button on the site anywhere?

[xports]

I was about to send angry PM's about the whole "back button and lightening/darkening pages," but you guys got it covered.

Also, I demand my Art Portal.

[gta0004]

there is a glitch with the buttons:
http://i40.tinypic.com/9ablw9.jpg

[Zyphonee]

I think I am more interested in all of these updates that have appeared in the FAQ section.

And that Art portal link.

[JOHNNY29]

New stuff to check out in wide screen layout:

• 

  Nameless 6 Vol.3 Part 1/2

  by LazyMuffin

  The gang wraps things up!

  Movie

  153,317 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Facebook Twitter

  by JohnnyUtah

  Gigantor is pretty disappointed with Draconious.

  Movie

  768,213 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Be back with more (tomorrow).

[dx5231]

Page loading faster? Awesome.

[Andrewboy895]

I think the wide layout is fully awesome.

[TomFulp]

BTW the changes to the ads are across the site, so any page that has just a top and bottom banner should load a lot faster now. Pages with additional ads need to be addressed individually still.

[Zyphonee]

NG Update Hunt thread is happy with these updates!

[Ismael92]

Cool changes, nice to see the wide layout getting better every day. I noticed NG loading faster, and I'm sure that those with slower connections will appreciate it a lot.

BTW, I can't wait for the art portal :O

[Aryk]

It's cool how the faster page loading is actually noticeable. :)

[Xaotik]

Well, I suppose that using Firefox for a while is Ok, but please take note of the fact that the site has a ton of formatting errors on Apple Safari...

[TheNutman321]

Are you kidding me with all these stupid ad's for your damn store. Talk about overkill.

[Armerad]

I put in some exception rules, especially so I can see the Anti-Adblock ads, but whenever loading a page, it just says

"!!!!!!!!====Load Scripted Ad Here=====!!!!!"

Or something like that in the Ad spot then it dissapears after a few seconds.

[Life-Stream]

Good to see that the blocked small ads that used to cover the Store/Log out button is fixed, looks alot nice now.

Only one thing that i find kinda annoying, even though it's a minor detail - the vote panel is quite far down the page, you have to scroll quite a bit to get to it. I personally think it would be nice to have it right under the flash where those suggested movie/games are right now.

[FattyWhale]

So that's why the layout looked so retarded....

I still like the old one better.