Site redesign - sneak peek - part 1

[Neko20196]

awesome work! it looks like a nice change for the web!

[Arachnied]

Please, remove the confirmation when you add a game to your favorites. such pop ups are so out of date...

[oneils]

Will the navigation bar work on tablets? Many sites that have these bars don't seem to work well on my tablet. Anyway, looks good. Its a much needed redesign.

[jimmiles]

Looks wonderful (the current one looks great already, though). With increased reach to multiple platforms, it will be a smart move. Looking forward to a long future with Nexusmods.

[Arachnied]

In response to post #42140920.

jimmiles wrote: Looks wonderful (the current one looks great already, though). With increased reach to multiple platforms, it will be a smart move. Looking forward to a long future with Nexusmods.

"the current one looks great already, though" What the f*#@

[IKobi]

Shame I can't see the preview in the place of the video I only see this code,

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[TrafalgarWhiteLaw]

Perfection. Add it!

[theracerdude]

looks good so far!!!!

[Papajack55]

In response to post #41268610. #41268860, #41289960, #41290075, #41297445 are all replies on the same post.

BlindJudge wrote:

It’s been a little while coming, but today I’m pleased to give you all a little glimpse into the labour of love that is the newly redesigned Nexusmods.com.

Please take a watch of the video below and let us know your feedback.

Like I mention in the video this is a very early version and certain things are not fully functional as yet, we are looking at changing certain aspects of our framework to make continued development easier, but this means that our time-frame has slipped a little.

Breaking down the video I’ll run through certain parts of the site, firstly the look. We tried many designs, some more ‘radical’ than others, and ran them past the staff and focus group to determine which would serve you all the best in being both aesthetically pleasing while also retaining the high level of functionality that you are used to. The design also had to work with the numerous break points that we wanted to implement and we are really pleased with this end result.

The navigation needed to be easier than what we currently have and be well laid out, responsive to the mouse, able to be used on touchscreen devices and intuitive. I think we have truly nailed all of these. The site functions just as easily on a tablet as it does a desktop and this makes browsing the site while out and about or laying in bed a pleasure.

At the top of the homepage we have the games. This is keeping inline with what we have on the existing site and should make people feel more at home. We have dropped the portrait boxart images and have replaced these with landscape images that can show more iconic and recognisable images from the games we host. To enable users to reach the games that they are most interested in quickly and easily we have also included the ability to add games to a personalised favourites menu. You can have up to 8 favourites at a time and these can be quickly and easily managed from within the menu.

Underneath games, we have gone with the news and articles. This may be a little controversial, but we have discovered through extensive research and heat-mapping that this part of the site is often skipped over and our users jump straight into the game of their choice. We’re hoping that having the news and articles close to the top of the site will interest enough people to take a look. In the same vein, we would like to offer more compelling content in this section, , creating our own as well as having guest contributors get involved. If you have any ideas, then please feel free to drop me a PM or email me at [email protected].

Next, we come to the mods section of the page. This is the front page so you will see mods from each and every game on the site. This will be a great place to see what has just been added to the site and also check out the new ‘random’ tab which will provide you with a totally random selection of mods from our repository. This will also be a feature on a per game basis, allowing users to get their fix of ‘hidden gems’.

At the bottom we have the footer, this is as exciting as a footer gets. It sits there with lots of links on, each of which will host a redesigned page. Feel free to to take a click through when it’s released.

I’d like to mention that what I don’t show is how responsive the site is for different screen resolutions. It doesn’t matter if you have a 4k screen, a 1080p screen or a smartphone, the site will look and function fantastic on all of them.

Profile and collections are going to be introduced at a later date and I’ll be sure to get a post out in the near future covering these in depth.

So what do you think? Please let us know in the comments. We welcome constructive criticism!

----------------------- UPDATE -----------------------
Hey everyone,

Told you we listen :D, following on from all the comments and feedback we are receiving the:

[+] Download Mod

is being removed, users will now be required to go to the mod page (as before) to download any of the files. Keep the comments and constructive critisicm coming, we love our community and really want to do right by you.

Kind regards

Paul
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disi30 wrote: Sooo, only the front page changes and we can still switch to a "Skyrim" or "Fallout4" only page? Looking for the Top 200 or the recently added files/new/videos/images?
/ranton
Or are we forced to view all sorts of game's mods now and scroll out mouse-wheels off because of the large pictures so people can use their fingers to surf the web?
/rantoff
Flag mods we want to monitor the activity for?

p.s. since I have no influence whatsoever, this is meant funny but also as feedback ;)

pps. so I just read you answered to another comment, we will get a mix of mods now and cannot switch to a specific game. This is very bad imho.

I mean how many games should I mod and support or even play at the same time to even be interested in the mix?

azzendix wrote: I need option to show only specfic game that i'm modding.

electrophil wrote: It looks great! But then, this is one of my favorite sites. It's always looks great.

For us simple guys that mod and play one game only, will we still be able to go straight to that game?

BlindJudge wrote: Hey there,

Disi30 - Like the current site EACH game will have it's own 'home' and you can see the mods for only that game there.

This is just the front page for the site :)

I have a question. If we think a mod is efficient and good enough to make excellent reports on to the nexus community besides the maker(s) of the mod, will we be able to do so? Edited September 7, 2016 by Papajack55

[RopeSander]

The site design is already well functional. I would suggest not 'Re-inventing the Wheel'. Perhaps a majority of this development should only be applied to mobile devices, from what I've seen, that seems to be the motivation (based on the layout I saw) the 'change' is based on.

 

There is FAR too much, "Time to adjust to what's now!" attitude in our online experiences, many of us long for 'visionary' people in the online community who can appreciate a good thing for what it is and uphold it.

 

Honestly, I don't want to overthrow some 'Nexus Executive' from their coveted vision quest of a new site layout, but the users already have so much to gain from the current LEARNED system, why change it?