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Welcome to a Brand New Spriter's Resource!

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Posted by Petie - July 5, 2014 - 9:21 PM

Hello everyone! As I'm sure you were immediately able to tell, we have launched the new version of our site! With this new layout comes the long-awaited counterpart to our new game icons - the sheet icons!

Many of the sheets in this update are already taking advantage of this new format and can be seen below. We aren't quite finished with the conversion from our old style icons yet though so you'll still see those around the site as well. We've done our best to make them fit in as much as possible but just know that they're temporary and in the process of being replaced. If you'd like get involved in this process, check out this thread for more info.

So, enjoy the new site, the new icons, and keep an eye on the forum tomorrow for more details about our new submission process and more information on getting involved in the renovation! We know the drastic layout change will take a bit of getting used to so, as always, leave us your feedback and bug reports below or over at the forum (you'll need to join if you're not a member but now is the perfect time to do it since the forum reset just took place!).

-Petie & Dazz

Sheets in this update: 105 (Show Sheets)

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	JigglyPuffGirl Jul 8, 2014, 10:19 PM
	It takes a little while to get used to the new layout, but i love the new icons and the "recently submitted sheets" system. Awesome update so far! :D

	Caveras Jul 8, 2014, 3:55 AM
	While I like the new style, I understand and somewhat share Dunkelschwamm's biggest concern about the main content width of the new design. But if you want to "fix" something about that, you could just add some media queries to your new CSS layout that stretch the content area if the monitor is wide enough. Shouldn't be too hard to include and it would probably please some of the louder voices complaining here =)

	Dunkelschwamm Jul 7, 2014, 10:33 AM
	I've given this a couple days to mull over and give a chance. I'm proud of you guys for putting in so much work to keep the site fresh and modern, but this new layout is killin' me Smalls. I have to agree with the concerns that the narrow space in the middle being used to accommodate these large icons is really unituitive. Where I could once survey many icons at once to find what I'm looking for, I now have to pull icons onscreen from above and below to search around . I miss what I'm searching for much, much more often as it goes flying past while I'm trying to scroll through the content more quickly. This is much more work extensive and frankly isn't easy on the eyes. My monitor is pretty massive and it doesn't make much sense to me that only four icons can fit in a row. Scrolling through larger games like Maplestory or Marvel: Avengers Alliance is a nightmare. I think I get that you think that this is where the market is headed, but this is a huge misinterpretation of the values that go into these kinds of designs. I never had many problems with the stretching layout on varying screen sizes in a way that legitimizes this new layout design. It actually probably could have been easily fixed with a hard limit attached to the strech to keep it from going beneith a pleasing level. None of this has made the site easier to look at, easier to navigate, or streamlined in a better direction. I think that this redesign either needs some massive reworking or needs to be cut loose. Not to be repetitive, but this update is frankly off-putting to me as somebody who has frequented this site for years. On a lighter note, I haven't been suffering any glitches. So good on you for making something so stable on release. Also, very cool to see some new Arcanum and X-Com sheets coming in.

	Dazz Jul 6, 2014, 8:21 AM
	Refresh the page and it'll be fixed - it's because somebody has replaced it and your browser has cached the old icon.

	Gunslinger Jul 6, 2014, 7:54 AM
	So, not to be rude or anything, but why are there icons in icons for icons (i.e. X-Force Wolverine from Avengers Alliance)? It looks quite odd.

	Dazz Jul 6, 2014, 6:39 AM
	You may need to hit ctrl+f5 in order to clear your cached CSS file.

	medusa86 Jul 6, 2014, 6:22 AM
	I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but the new layout is completely broken on Firefox 30.0. It's working fine in Chrome though....

	Petie Jul 6, 2014, 4:24 AM
	I'd just like to add to the path issue a bit. While it's not as direct as everything being in a single line, all of the information that was previously there is still all at the top of the page. Console, letter, game, section, and sheet name are all immediately visible on page load, as seen below. It will just take a tiny bit of getting used to until you can spot them without thinking about it.

	Dazz Jul 6, 2014, 2:42 AM
	Moving the box below would just leave an empty space, and doesn't consider the length of some items on the site. For example, the game Adventure Time: Explore The Dungeon Because I Don't Know would break the boundary box it would be put in. Our solution is to cut off the letters that currently don't fit, giving a summary of the title. When all these items are in a single line, it would likely just cut off the entire sheet name. I understand your concerns for scrolling, but these days it's easier to scroll content with a mouse, trackpad, or touch screen than it is to search around a large space for the icon you're interested in. When all content is visible within your immediate peripheral, and you simply scroll the content in front of your eyes, you're less likely to miss what you're looking for.

	Kroki Jul 6, 2014, 2:34 AM
	I see, I don't really understand how this improves readability though. Having a max 4 icons per line makes the pages all the longer to scroll, which is not very handy. As for the sheets pages, couldn't is be solved by simply moving the big infobox all the way below the sheet? When I open a sheet on my screen I see 20% sheet and 80% something else, due to this big box mainly, so I have to scroll anyway. Putting the path on top and the box below would save a lot of searching/scrolling I think. Good work on all these modifications though :), I'm looking forward to all the new icons.

	sutinoer Jul 7, 2014, 4:33 AM
	Big thanks to Maxim for X-Com

	Dazz Jul 6, 2014, 12:30 AM
	I'll address your issues: 1) We actually increased the space available for content. Before, where we were unaware of the width of the user's monitor, we had to accommodate to a small resolution and blindly guess how content might appear. As such we couldn't make things like sheets a larger width, as they wouldn't display properly for a lot of people with the right column being there. Removing that column gave us extra space we can utilize. The change to a fixed width is not only to improve readability on larger monitors (Try viewing the flexible width on a huge monitor, and you'll see that everything in a massive line is a real pain to read) but also to follow the trend in the market, and make the site more comfortable for new viewers who are used to a fixed width layout. 2) I can understand your issue here, but we simply couldn't see any decent way of including this information without knocking the sheet out of view from the first page load. We believe that with the information presented on the left, and in the information box, it is only a matter of getting used to the new design. As I said, I appreciate your issues with the layout, but simply give it a chance. We've been running it in the background for some time, and while it was a little odd at first, we've grown to find that it is much more intuitive, and gives a greater deal of ease when navigating.

	Kroki Jul 5, 2014, 11:27 PM
	I have two huge problems with this new design: 1) the site is now very small, there is a lot of wasted space on the sides, this is a problem since there is a large number of (now big) icons to display, and many sheets are larger than the site. 2) The path to a sheet is not so clear anymore, it is very handy to see at the top of the page the path: Console / Letter / Game / Sheet, now you have to search these information on various sides of the page. I hope you will take this in consideration, it really affects the browsing comfort. :)

	Superjustinbros Jul 5, 2014, 8:29 PM
	Loving this update guys! It was great to take part in it. :)