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Nexus redesign finalised, launching next week

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A few weeks back I posted a heads-up regarding my plans to launch a redesigned look to the Nexus Sites by the end of August. The feedback to the redesign was mostly good and some of the constructive criticism provided has either already been incorporated in to the final design or has been noted, perhaps for addition later on down the line.

Listed below are test examples for each of the Nexus Sites. These are very close to final now and I'm not going to be making any major changes before the change over.

Dragon Age Nexus
Fallout 3 Nexus
New Vegas Nexus
TESNexus
Witcher Nexus

A few things:
  • Some thumbnail images will be broken in the test sites, they won't be broken after release.
  • You might get a cookie error page if you're logged in to a Nexus site and trying to look at the test site for that Nexus site. To fix this just log out of the Nexus site you're using.
  • Don't try to upload any images for your files through the test sites.
  • These sites are not IE7 compatible; we dabbled with the idea but making them IE7 was too much work for the 1.5% of people who still use IE7 and visit this site. It would have also limited some of the things we've done in the design. Seriously, consider upgrading your 5 year old browser!!


I will be doing the change-over early next week and there will be some short down-time while I get the designs rolled out. Hopefully no longer than an hour or so for each site. Having said that I'm still taking on feedback, especially bug-reports (please remember to tell me what browser and version you're using!) so feel free to leave any comments.

After the release Axel is very close to finalising his rework of all the code for the sites. This is very, very exciting news because he's a genius and he's already made lots of awesome stuff, and there's lots more to come. Mod authors, you're going to love him. I'll post up more information about this via my blog posts and in the news closer to the time.

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  1. olafreinhardweyer
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    The site lags a lot on my machine, but i like the new design very much now <img class=">
    The only setback is you don't have to type anything anymore when endorsing
    an image.
  2. Mircala von Dracul
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    Danke für die schnelle Antwort. Momentan geht es wieder.
    Herzlichen Dank für die Hilfe.

  3. Mircala von Dracul
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    Internet Explorer 9
  4. amycus
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    Sorry,
    aber seit der Umstellung habe ich immer wieder Download Probleme . Momentan geht überhaubt nichts mehr.


    Thankfully I still remember SOME of my german...
    If you have download problems it helps a lot more if you write what browser and version you are using.
  5. Mircala von Dracul
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    Sorry,
    aber seit der Umstellung habe ich immer wieder Download Probleme . Momentan geht überhaubt nichts mehr.
  6. Mur_Zik
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  7. ThD17gj692
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    After reading comments from others, mine would just be a repeat of the complaints. The new site was not designed with the member in mind. Every thing you want to do is slower, less efficient, and aggravating, since we have something to compare it to. I thought space was wasted in the previous design, but you have managed to redefine "wasted space". Maybe the tweaks and improvements you have mentioned for the future will address all of our concerns, but as you said, the foundation dictates the ultimate capacity and utility of the site and so far all I see is a lot of fluff and no substance [yes, just like my complaint]. As I've said other members have expressed their concerns in greater detail and with more eloquence; I'm hoping my views add weight to the message that you seem to have left out the user in your redesign. Who does it benefit?
    P.S.
    Was planning to upgrade to premium, now I'm not.
  8. homaredou
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    TO be honest i'm so pissed with the new design.
    The [search] are not as effective as before but most of all everything is completely vague compare to the previous... not to mention the image sliders. All text rich and hardly attractive.

    I'd say more, but i probably will get teh bann hammer for talking too much critics.
    Guess we'll just have to live with it.

    Edited:
    * Face palm.
  9. Jason8289
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    people (including myself) don't like change. Keep on keeping on and thanks for maintaining the greatest user created content site and community. P.S. Bethesda owes you guys a HUGE thanks too!
  10. klitchov
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    Maybe we need some time to appreciate (or not)the new style...Personally,I like it but the chosen colors are too garish. Anyway, the real problem is that I cannot look for the files by sorting because there is no button to confirm the type of search in the index category if I want to sort by number of downloads or by upload dates etc...).