Comments on: Petopia Gets a New Skin

By: Mania

Mania — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:16:24 +0000

Ayrianna: It sounds like the Browse Pet Families page might be more suited as a starting point for your purposes.

By: Ayrianna

Ayrianna — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:20:40 +0000

please please PLEASE take the pet “quick jump” OUT of the javascript drop down menu! It’s getting REALLY annoying to have to select the pet, and then click the button. Well over 50% of web surfers use browser that have Tabbed browsing, but those javascript drop downs completely make tabs useless. I have come here many times since the layout change, and it’s incredibly frusterating to not be able to have several pet families open in different tabs. I see that you added in a comparison table for the pets, but it’s still just so much easier to have two separate windows to compare them.

If you really MUST have the pets in a drop-down format, there are plenty of ways to do it Via CSS so your users can still right-click on the link to either copy the link location or open the page in a new tab and/or window.

By: Kanaru

Kanaru — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:03:51 +0000

I really like the new layout. ^^D I like the coler and King Banglash on the front page. It’s awsome. Good job. :-)

By: Seidouyumi

Seidouyumi — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:08:54 +0000

I made an error in my last post, I’ve checked two out of four.

By: Seidouyumi

Seidouyumi — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:08:07 +0000

On the subject of recomended pets-

Someone mentioned that certain pets get the spell bonus while most don’t. Most skills don’t benifit from the spell bonus (I checked), but certain, specific, pet skills did.

Those skills are Lightning Breath, Fire Breath, Scorpid Poison, and Poison Spit. I’ve checked two out of three of these and will be checking the other two shortly. Scorpid poison does, at rank one, one nature damage per tick, but it gets a huge bonus from the spell bonus. My scorpid’s poison was doing three nature damage per tick at rank one, and with only one application. Lightning Breath gets almost a full bonus from the spell bonus as well.

For a Marksman Hunter, that spell bonus could drive the DPS of these specific pets pretty high comparitively.

By: Bomyne

Bomyne — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:37:46 +0000

In Opera, to force refresh you use Shift-F5. Ctrl-F5 cascades the mini-windows. :)

By: Kaylink

Kaylink — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:10:47 +0000

To be honest with you, I very much dislike the new layout of this site. The color scheme of mint greens is nothing less than painful to the eyes, the older colors were much more appealing. Neutral tones are key to making an appealing backdrop, it draws your attention to the features rather than the blank space. Even a faint pattern would have been nice, the whole BOOM PLAIN GREEN really is tacky looking, as is the new layout. It looks like a Multimedia 101 project, all flat and basic and very boring. The new interface is rather sloppily done too, the old left-side menu was fast and efficient. This one has more steps and is clumsy to navigate. Don’t get me wrong, the info is great as always, but the way it is organized has gone down in quality. I would seriously reconsider trying out new skins and interface options, I am sure you can come up with something much better.

Also, I am having major issues with the two illustrations on the front page, of the Ghost saber and King B. They look, I’m sorry to say, incredibly cheap. The cliche Photoshop drawings, if you will. Sloppy shading, ill-use of coloring tools, no substantial anatomy visible. As an artist myself, I would seriously recommend either trashing them altogether, as they make the site look childish, or getting someone to make new ones. if you paid more than 45 a piece for them you were very much ripped off.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but I am very disappointed in the new look, as I can see several other people are too. I hope that you decide to alter some of the things myself and others have suggested.

By: mawrina

mawrina — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:50:49 +0000

i like it very much ;) i’m glad that new hunters can have new knowledge without any difficulty =) nice job

By: Yanweh

Yanweh — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:59:48 +0000

I’m with the minority here, and I dislike the appearance of it. The color definitely needs a lot of changing. The utility is nice, I just don’t like how it looks any-longer. It’s… *sigh*… unprofessional looking?

By: Crinis

Crinis — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:25:42 +0000

Also, Allakhazam is old and not very great imo, i like wowhead.com and wowwiki.com wowwiki for lore info, and wowhead for spells, items, prof skills, and everything other then lofe! :D

plus the quickjumps i don’t like, just because i’m sadly lazy to go *click click click click click tap tap*