[Survey] Website Revamp

Zalmah

Community Manager

Posts: 6

1

Monday, December 12th 2011, 5:11pm

Which sample do you prefer?

A total of 63 Votes have been submitted.

59%

Dark Version (37)

41%

Light Version (26)

Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,

Our web development team has been working secretly on a new and shiny website for Runes of Magic. Our goal is to have a much cleaner, easier to navigate and state of the art website. Additionally, the new design and layout allows a lot more freedom and options to implement additional features.

We're now at a point were we'd like to ask you -our community- to vote on one of two upcoming matters, helping us with the final decision. The results will be taken into our final discussions.

Please check out the images below and let us know in the poll whether you prefer the "dark version" or the "light version".

The survey will be closed on Wednesday, around 15:00 CET/6:00 am PST. On Wednesday we will also launch another survey about a different topic involving our upcoming website revamp.

Thanks for your time and effort!

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icishoot

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Location: Farmington Hills, MI

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2

Monday, December 12th 2011, 5:37pm

Images don't work for me - when I try clicking them I get taken to the EU forums and I get this message in germen:

"Note: Either you have no right in this area / for this function or you are not logged."

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Zalmah

Community Manager

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3

Monday, December 12th 2011, 5:46pm

Quoted from "icishoot;492747"

Images don't work for me - when I try clicking them I get taken to the EU forums and I get this message in germen:

"Note: Either you have no right in this area / for this function or you are not logged."

Benhur

Thanks for reporting this. I've just fixed the links! They should work fine now, although the preview text is in German *_*.

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icishoot

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4

Monday, December 12th 2011, 6:04pm

Thats fine - don't have to understand what one is reading to see the color scheme

links worked perfectly this time... thanks for the quick fix.

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camagic

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5

Monday, December 12th 2011, 6:16pm

two reasons supporting the light version

1-light enviornments helps the human brain to be more alert and process information better. (I can use all the help I can get

)

2-it is easier to turn down the brightness on the light, avoiding whiteout, than up the brightness on the dark, aiding in seeing content, due to how most monitors are usually set to 80-100% brightness anyways.

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EsxCape

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Location: USA

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6

Monday, December 12th 2011, 6:49pm

I have to go with the dark one for the purpose of saving energy.

"Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen."

Source: http://enduse.lbl.gov/Info/LBNL-48581.pdf

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icishoot

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7

Monday, December 12th 2011, 7:01pm

I voted dark - I just like dark themes with the way they look.

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BJHawk

Intermediate

Posts: 306

8

Monday, December 12th 2011, 7:06pm

Dark. Definitely dark. It shows the texture better, is more readable due to contrast, and the light one looks... almost pink. Bleh.

Edit: Remember, we'll likely be looking at this for the next 3 years, so don't vote pink.

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Malignatus

Master of All I Survey

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9

Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:11pm

Quoted from "BJHawk;492770"

Dark. Definitely dark. It shows the texture better, is more readable due to contrast, and the light one looks... almost pink. Bleh.

Sorry, had to cancel out your dark vote with a light vote. The lighter scheme is easier on the eyes, especially old ones like mine. :p

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Edit: Remember, we'll likely be looking at this for the next 3 years, so don't vote pink.

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'wiffo will be disappointed that you're discriminating against him! :cool:

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mrmisterwaa

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Location: Kuwait

10

Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:12pm

I like both but ... I want to be against being Greener to the environment. >.>

So Light!

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vfwiffo

Rustypedia

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11

Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:19pm

Quoted from "Malignatus;492789"

Sorry, had to cancel out your dark vote with a light vote. The lighter scheme is easier on the eyes, especially old ones like mine. :p

Ditto. Some of us old geezers need all the help we can get. Light side rocks.

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'wiffo will be disappointed that you're discriminating against him!

Yeah!!! What he said! Some of my favorite things in life (many of which I should definitely NOT mention on this forum) are very much pink. :p

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BJHawk

Intermediate

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Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:42pm

Quoted from "Malignatus;492789"

Sorry, had to cancel out your dark vote with a light vote. The lighter scheme is easier on the eyes, especially old ones like mine. :p

Really? Visual bombardment from high-frequencies is easier on the eyes? Strange, because the dark one is much easier for me to read. Just go down into your man cave, turn all the lights down low, and you're ready for some seriously intense forum posting (or zombie-killing, whichever you prefer

).

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'wiffo will be disappointed that you're discriminating against him!

Quoted from "vfwiffo;492792"

Yeah!!! What he said! Some of my favorite things in life (many of which I should definitely NOT mention on this forum) are very much pink. :p

I like pink too. I just don't think it's in the mood. Whatever is chosen, it's not like I'll ragequit over a color. I just like rich brown forums over peachy pink forums.

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Rossbot

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13

Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:44pm

The dark one is easier to see in a dark room, for me at least.

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donmuerte

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Location: San Francisco, CA

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14

Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:49pm

White text has always been a faux pas in web development because often people have colors and such turned off or customized in a certain way on their end making white text invisible or hard to read. This is, however, a very antiquated thought on things and it's almost 2012, so we can probably ignore it. That said, the light version was kind of hard to read because the contrast isn't very good, so dark version it is. If the light version background was a bit more "light" then it'd be perfect.