I like it. The shades of gray make the toolbars looks sharp but they stand out less - on most pages, after all, it's not the toolbars that should stand out, but all the cool stuff on the rest of the page.
Perhaps part of the problem here is that the total design is being rolled out slowly. If we were to see the entire new layout at once, this piece of it might make more sense.
UI-wise I think it's tons better. It's nice to have more links and for them to be so neatly organized. Thanks a lot for that. Design-wise I do miss the day-night thing too and don't really like the gray. Glitch is whimsical and colorful. This is very blah.
Could we please have AM/PM on the time notification on the home page?
And I vote for day/night colorations to return, if anyone's counting votes. It was so lovely....
Eleanor-as of this post, (and including the comments from the other thread) there have been 8 comments preferring the gray coloring, 27 preferring the day/night background or suggesting some color be added other than gray. 17 comments were regarding other features or too general to suggest a preference. TS please take note.
I would like to add my voice for the return of the day / night colours, my world feels a lot grey atm coming here to see grey grey screen makes me feel meh. I also dislike the three rows of tabs,
I do like the additional options tho such as friends and the auctions Maybe we could have some Giant themed colors? Pehaps if this is just a start it will look better when finished but at the moment I vote against the greys
I would also like to ask y'all to bring back the day/night colors coz I can't tell day from night with it all just grey - would hate to be trying for the Numismatizer, Dragon Class badge (...so glad I already have it)
I love the rest of the set-up, tho - very nice!!
Thanks for all the feedback! We are definitely planning to continue to tweak it (we actually did a few small things already — e.g., it now blends better with profile pages than it did at first). There is a better design for the clock coming which should make it very clear how much time is left in the game day, and the plain-ness will be addressed (we're considering a design with has a thin-but-wide image of a randomly chosen location, similar to the profile pages, but smaller).
ETA: nevermind!! I just saw the little image of an envelope right now. No idea how I've missed seeing that until I finally decided to post something. sheesh.
My thoughts on the new top-o-the-screen 'stuff', after giving it a try and a test run.
I have just one thing that I'd like to share:
I never check my mailbox because there is no longer a thing at the top of my page alerting me that I have a message. Whoops, I just keep forgetting to check. I don't like checking unless I know something is there and I forget all the time to ask Pablo Honey if there is any mail.
I'm asking for a Not-in-the-Urld mailbox info button to be added to the top of my home/profile pages, please.
Thank you!
I love the new style much more now that the time of day colors change again. :)
ETA: Profile blends much nicer too. I do hope the home link comes back though. I'd rather have it in my personal bar than my profile. Home is where I do stuff. Profile is what everyone can see.
ETA2: Maybe keep the character name linking to the profile and exchange the profile link for home again? That'd get rid of the duplicate and be more natural I think.
YAY, thanks to TS for listening to our cry about the new header... it is now much much much more "likable" :3
I still think it's a bit all over the place, like too many links, plus in 2 sections, but, visually, it is much more nicer now, and make much more sens.
I do miss the "home" button even tho I know I can click on "Glitch", for some reason it doesn't feel like the obvious thing to do.
But even if it's not perfect, at least you listening to us, and made a move, which is what I appreciate because I had lost faith in TS lately and that restored it a bit!! :D HI5
Can I make a tiny suggestion about the bar? The credits bar (middle) seems like the font is very small compared to the others but maybe it is just my eyes. I wonder if the year and time should switch positions and be in the middle (blue bar) and the credits/sign out should move to the white bottom portion.