[Tohopekaliga]

Here we go again!

I was at a convention yesterday, so kind of forgot to say anything. Woops! Oh well.

Been pretty busy with non-Trisphee things this week, and that cut into my time for things, but here goes:

The front page is pretty much ready to go, only thing holding it back at the moment is a few presentation images, and an enhancement I'm working on for the shops. Namely, the shops are going to say 'log in to buy' when you're not logged in, and links to specific items in the shop will be possible. Should be done by my next report.


Also this week, I replaced the super basic "Welcome to Trisphee!" email new users get upon registering with a more detailed one that looks pretty and actually gives direction of where to go and what to do. That was super long overdue, but it's so very easy to forget about things like that.


Feel free to comment on what I'm working on, or what you think I should be working on!

[Tiva]

Ohhhh What convention where you at? (Totally cool about the Trisphee things though)

Can we please try to be active on the FB page? Twitter? Something? Like putting WIP images on the items (after they are released), or linking when Galla is doing pixeling work?

[Tohopekaliga]

I was at Megacon in Orlando. :) Was dressed as a Summoner from FFXIV.

I personally run the Twitter account (poorly), and some other staffies post on Facebook sometimes.

That said, yes, we certainly should put more effort into those. It can be hard sometimes. I'll do my best to post on Twitter about things. What, though, I'm not sure. New item releases is a given... WIP images could work, I suppose.

[Tiva]

Something besides just the announcements; progress pictures and art will get more interest and maybe more people.

[Tohopekaliga]

This is true. Announcement only twitter accounts are super boring.

[Coda]

Maybe we should tweet about the art streams?

[Tohopekaliga]

A good idea.

[Glitch]

I could fb join.me links too. I always get nervous when I want to post things on there XD

SOmetimes I want to be like "hey guys! how's it going?" but then I think that's stupid and I don't do it.

[Gallagher]

I'm not very comfortable with that unless we discuss a few things about it first.

[Coda]

Fair enough, not something we should do without prior planning and consideration of all relevant factors.

[Illusion]

Or just tweet with screens of items that are being made, item concept art, snapshots of new games, pictures of that new front page, and so on.

Hype up that shit and tease like crazy.

Or after the items release show off the concept art and talk about what changed and why.

Make posts with arts and crafts about all things.

Just don't post things asking people to post, just post cool things to show off.

And share videos relating to the site in someway. (Share a video on some game everyone on Trisphee is hyped about that was shown off at this upcoming E3.)

Social media for sites and companies is pretty easy when given the freedom and open end to do fun things. Just look at the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter or Arby's Facebook page for amazing ideals.

[Tohopekaliga]

I admit, the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter is probably the best official company twitter feed I have ever seen.

[Tiva]

Add in Denny's Tumblr… that page makes me hungry.

[Illusion]

http://beta.trisphee.com/

I've been checking out the new front page, ready to give some small critiques before it goes live.


1. Avatar Boxes and text from the News Feed is too close to each other.

2. Text box for news runs off once it passes the avatar's box. The text needs to be even and on top of each other in a brick when it moves beyond that box.

3. Banners are super cool and a good way to motivate people to start using the home page more would be to put clickable rewards on the front page. Reward 500 aurum for seeing a specially made banner that appears rarely on occasion.

4. Recent posts last time posted needs to be moved. It's not good seeing on the front page that a recent post was 2 hours ago.

I think I mention this before, but changing the time to words like Recently, moments ago, or a while ago to determine time between posts to create the illusion the site is more active is the way to go. But otherwise it's a nice inclusion.

5. Featured item is pretty much random avatar no? How about instead of everytime you go on the front page there is a new item advertised, it's every few minutes and you get a 10% aurum discount for clicking on the link and choosing to purchase the item? And if you remain idle on the page the items swap out in real time as well.

6. Changed Latest News to "The Trisphee Times" for consistency with forums. If your not interested change the name of the Trisphee Times form to Latest News.

7. Add a "see previous announcements" button at the end of the announcements page that redirects to the Trisphee Times.

8. The front page needs more color. The front page runs over the background and front page logo. The only thing that breaks up the top of the page with the rest is the big purple moon. Or the orange text in the news feed. Experiment with some additional color. But in hindsight it might be time to move on from the green/white gradient. Or maybe add character art onto the main page? Ton of room to play around with things here. Change the green to a spacey like banner or something.

COLOR. JUST. COLOR.


9. Needs cupholders yo.

[Tohopekaliga]

Well, cat's out of the bag, I suppose. :P Let's see here...

1. The spacing on both sides of the boxes is all even, but since there's nothing else around, I can see how it seems closer in the middle. I'll tweak it a bit to see how it can be improved.
   
   
2. You're right, I should force a column on the avatar side.
   
   
3. Not a bad idea. I'll investigate.
   
   
   
4. "A while ago" is easy enough to do. It won't actually pull posts later than an hour ago, but it's still a good suggestion.
   
   
   
5. As it happens, I plan on having most of the stuff on the page live update, but not on the first pass. That'll include replacing the featured items avatars every so often. Giving a discount to the featured item is an interesting idea.
   
   
   
6. I'm not sure it's strictly necessary to change the names, but I'll consider it.
   
   
   
7. Good idea. The "Recent News" header goes to Trisphee times, but an explicit link would be a good plan as well.
   
   
   
8. I'm bad at graphics design. But I'll try. :)
   
   
   
9. Always needs cupholders.

[Glitch]

I don't agree with the discount. Wouldn't people abuse it?

Then again, what do I know, I know nothing.

Please ignore my post >3>