EVE General Discussion

Why the layout couldn't be something like this? link to animated picture

This is obviously just a dirty copy paste from current content and the colors, items, logos, links on bars, pictures and graphics should be totally ignored. I made this just to provide simple visual presentation of easy to access layout which is easy to get used to and easy to maintain. It works as a 1 site and front page can be what ever you want to put there. It supports single login for all pages feature and header bar can contain all the java bling you might want to add. Header link bar has room for all the items now in "websites"-dropdown and for more. Left column has direct links to pretty much everything what may be needed and it is always there.

After this you could add visual preferences to entire site to faction backgrounds and other stuff. Only 1 preference page would be needed to tune everything making users life even easier than he could think of.

But obviously this is bit late now, because the train went past the station with the plans months ago...

I quite like that layout. It would make navigating through the morass a bit easier and would tie everything together so you don't have to log in for multiple sites, etc.

If this were april I'd say the new website was an april fools joke. Sadly, I think they are serious.

Best guess I have is that they paid someone to make a new site, never looked at it while it was being made and now are just using it because they don't want to waste that money. >_>

I'm just gonna get the URLs I need and save em on my navigation bar (account management, APIs, and forums) and avoid going to the site anymore if possible.

moar CCP :excellence: at work!!!

That could be pretty much arranged by expanding the sub link category related to current page to start of the index, but I really know if that is important.

Those drop down menus on target page (like on account management page) would work perfectly for browsing to the final target. The link list on left should contain direct route to root of all major categories and their sub categories, but not further than that. For example there should be main link to support section frontpage and sub link to petitions, but there shouldn't be links to "add petition, your petitions, petition history" or similar. Those belong to the actual petition page which most likely should give some list view about ongoing stuff right on entering that. Any way final links like that could be added to top of the links list if that is something what seems to be helpful.

Key is that when you're finished with the page you're browsing you can easily hop right to next major category or sub category with one mouse click. You can also open new stuff to new tab very easily, usually clicking links with middle mouse button or similar (dunno how common key bindings this is on peoples browsers).

Also the top link bar on the footer should have very simple links to all the major categories to give even easier access to the people who don't use the site daily and find the link index on the left bit too extensive. This way the user can pretty much choose whether he/she wants to take shortcuts or not and everyone can browse as they feel most convenient.

Google's new bar use a dropdown for their different websites.

To be exact actually google has "static" horizontal link bar on top of the page with direct links to most of their used sites and more button for their less used sites. The link bar contains also the login functionality and user settings. The buttons open the sites to new window/tab as they are totally different sites.

The concept is clear and works very well. It also has very little to do with eve online as it is google and doesn't have spaceships.

Which one of the multiple eve online websites is "fine"??? Individually they're all OK, but navigation between them all is complicated rubbish. And for a company whose business is entirely internet based, that's really bad.

The OP's point is you need navigation between the sites to be seamless

...... So going to one tab and clicking is more complicated for you than having to click more than once in order to get anywhere to do something important like check your accounts?

I think the only thing that needs fixing is letting us only have to log in once to get to the account management section, if you lose your account it's your own fault.

Have you seen the new one ? It is implemented slowly, had it a few days, but it went away, and it is a drop down.