Questions tagged [design]
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Design for Game Development Site
Hi all. I'm Jin and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflects its topic. However, ...
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Can we get a hyperlink style for chat that is less subtle?
I'm open to suggestions as far as whether we should change the color, underline links, or both, but as it is it's a little too subtle for less than perfect monitors and viewing angles.
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Link clarity in code tags
Sometimes it is useful to link directly to documentation for a specific function in your questions/answers. And in many cases, one will often want to put the function name in `` tags, like this: "[`...
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Buttons on mainsite look disabled
Take a look at the following two screenshots. They are our close dialog and our flag dialog.
I have selected an option, and the button is enabled and I can click it to submit my close vote or my flag....
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New Design Launched
Hi guys,
Thank you for your input on the design I proposed. The new design has launched, and let me be the first to congratulate you!
Please let me know if you see any css/styling issues on both ...
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Site design updates are live!
A majority of the changes are not be visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:
We have updated the site's CSS to a newly refactored LESS system, so that it'...
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Game Development updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Could GDSE's low-visibility hyperlinks please be revisited and improved on main, meta and in chat?
GDSE has a bunch of issues with its links having major perception issues across the board. Could link colors on this site's main, meta, and chat please be revisited? My request would be that our links ...
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Votes on “Hot Meta Posts” have low contrast
At the "Hot Meta Posts" area, you can see how many votes the popular question have.
Main site:
But at meta, the contrast is very low and the numbers are near invisible:
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Tags are overlapping text in user profile “About Me”
I'm using tags in my user profile "About Me" and I've noticed that the tag link is overlapping the "About Me" text like in the following example:
EDIT: I've noted that the same happens when you use ...
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Link Colors for Visited and Non-Visited Links too Similar
I have been browsing gamedev for a while and at first noticed that the color differences between a clicked link and a non-clicked link were rather similar. I attributed this to my poor eyesight (...
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In-content [tag]'s have a CSS, margin issue
Through out the whole site, where [tag:something] is used, or where framework inherits the same behavior, there is a problem with CSS.
Check thismechanics (before ...
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Game Development Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Can we have more visible question highlighting?
I find the faint yellow background given to "interesting" posts (those that have some of my favourite tags on them) a little too faint. Depending on my angle to the screen, I sometimes can't discern ...
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Questions on user pages don't show ones with marked answers
When I look at a user page (take this for example), if the user has asked questions, they show in the Questions list. That's fine and expected. However, if the user has marked a question as answered, ...
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Can anything be done to make the “unread items” icon more clear?
I've been comin' to gamedev since around when it started, and have been having a repeat experience:
I log onto the site after perhaps half a week to a week away.
I see a weird icon of a rectangle ...
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Chat room color theme is too bright
The current version is way too bright.
It would be superb if we had color theme we can customize for the chat room.
If such feature is too much to ask, I at least desire to tone down the color a bit....
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Little inbox notification number is slightly off its alignment
Almost the exact problem as in this question... but backwards! I'm seeing the number slightly above the line - again, in Chrome, on Windows.
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White image background in the top status bar
Since today the three badges and StackExchange images have an ugly white background in all common browsers.
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Downvote suggestion layout issue
I was downvoting a question today, and I noticed an issue with the tags behind the blue suggestion box. Part of the tags are behind but the triangles in the end are in-front. The tags in the question ...
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Text background color in code snippets slightly different color than the area background color
It's easiest if I just show a picture. Screenshot from here: Flash framerate reliability
What it looks like on the site: (Chrome, win7)
If you can't see it, the background of the areas where there ...
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Scrollbars on tag synonym page
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?filter=all&tab=newest
See the issue show up in Chrome.
Probably related to https://gamedev.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/278/scrollbars-on-...
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Page not found image… not found
The image that's supposed to show up on the "Page not found" page is missing:
Maybe it's just Chrome, but the image is sitting on a server that's different enough from stackexchange.com, it doesn't ...
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Bounty Award button misaligned
Creating my first bounty on SE today, I noticed that the Bounty Award Button is slightly misaligned. Maybe I'm just OCD about it but I think it should be fixed. Just centered and a nice space between ...
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gamedev.stackexchange: logo info
the logo of gamedev.stackexchange is of interest to me. specifically does anyone know who designed it? how long ago it was made? and i am also curious how the design came about.
i ask because for ...
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Badges on user pages are a bit off
Would it be possible to nudge the class specifier for badges one pixel down?
In the current setting; the class of the badge (at least for bronze; the only kind of badges I have) is one pixel too far ...
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Why do all questions appear as answered?
As of today, all questions appear like they have already been answered (eg. filled green hexagon).
Is that a bug or some design change? I think it's rather confusing.
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StackExchange notification icon badge slight bug
Not sure if this is a gamedev-specific bug or a stackexchange bug, but the red "number of replies" badge doesn't completely cover the stackexchange logo. It looks like it's a pixel or two too low. ...
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Visual bug with chat layout
The current layout for the chat room needs some fix to avoid partially hiding the enable desktop notification link.
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Missing whitespace for title in tag wikis
The image explains it all - feels like it needs some padding / margin from top.
The only concern I have, is, whether this whitespace is lost due to the information box about priviledges below.
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Header has disappeared
Simply put, the header image on the main site doesn't load for me. I get:
Server Error
404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name ...
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Game Development or Game Developers?
This site seems to have an identity problem. The site name in the logo is Game Development. But the page title is Game Developers, and that name is used in the FAQ as well. I know the site's name ...
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Why doesn't SE work in IE7?
Most pages have no formatting and most scripts break while viewing the pages in IE7. Why is this? Was this overlooked?
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“Suggested Edits” page style seems broken
The text is the same color as the background, and the background isn't consistent with the rest of the /review pages.
Related, the "suggested edit count" box at the top (not shown) is just a solid ...
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Do we have a new favicon?
One thing I've noticed about the design is that the site icon is still the "sketchy" looking GD. Is this just a caching issue on my end, or do we not have a new one yet?
Edit: the main site seems to ...
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Psychedelic 90s banner-style header has got to go
The parent Game Dev site's banner-style header reminds me of a bad 90s website with an added MySpace ad. It's distracting and wastes space. Look to the sister sites for efficient, non-distracting ...
