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DBZ-GOKU-
Feb 25, 2003, 11:04 PM
Hey, I have just been surfing the Astraware website for a while. I found some thigns that I think need to be fixed. First of all, I think you should make the product finder appear on all pages, not just the main one. This way you do not always have to go back to the main page to fins another game.

The next thing has to do with the PPC product finder. When you click on a game that is for both platforms, it brings up the Palm OS tab of the game. I think it should bring up the same page, but be in teh PPC tab (instead of the Palm OS one).

The next thing that I also notcied was that most of your games do not have that \"updated\" download section at the top of the screen (the old is at the bottom, which is how most of the games are). The games that need this to be updated are (for Palm) Astro Defense, Bang Bang, Big Money, Biplane Ace, Bounce Out, Collapse, e.Guide, Eye of Horus, Galaxy Ranger, Gamehouse Games Pack 2, Gem Drop, Glinx, Its a Blast! Shooting Pack, Mad Gab, Mars Needs Cows, Nisqually, Noah\'s Arc, Games Pack 2001, Police Range, Seven Seas, T-Blaster, Tactic, Text Twist, Timetable Lite, and Timetable ProPlus. I think that upgrading these so that they have the new download icons (and at the top), it will have a less chance of confusing people.

For the PPC and Palm, the links of Elixir and Abysma do not work while at this page. (http://astraware.com/games/gameplate/) The Diamons Mine game is the only game for the PPC that needs to have the upgraded download section.

Oh, one more thing. When you go to the Text Twist using the Palm OS product finder, it brings up the old page. But when you use the PPC product finder, it brings up the new page (of both versions).

These are just a bunch of things that I found that I think should be fixed to make the overall site flow together more and just to make it better. :)

BigGoodBig
Feb 25, 2003, 11:41 PM
Just to add a another thing, MummyMaze new page hase no link to the High Score board. You have to click on PopCap on top of the page and then MummyMaze to go to the old MummyMaze page to get to the high score table.

BigGoodBig
Feb 25, 2003, 11:43 PM
Just relized same problem by SevenSeas.

Howard
Feb 26, 2003, 11:06 AM
Thanks DB, that must have taken some time looking through, and thanks for your suggestions. In particular about the PPC and tabs!

I\'ll have some of the team go through and act on some of the suggestions!

Howard.

David
Feb 26, 2003, 12:11 PM
Hi DBZ,
Just wanted to reply with a status on all these things (gosh!)...

Product Finder: yep, good idea! I just need to make sure it doesn\'t slow our site down. At the moment I suspect that on each page you went to it\'d download that product list again. Yuk! This can be fixed fairly easily so I\'ll work on it...

PPC Product Finder: just need to update the entries for the products so that the default correctly. We\'ll get on that.

Updated \'info bar\': Rosie actually has a long list on her desk and she\'s been working through all the products and getting them update. You should see the output of this in the next week or so (I think) :)

Links from the GamePlate page and the TextTwist product finder: uh, thanks for spotting those, we\'ll get them fixed! :P

Thanks again!

DBZ-GOKU-
Feb 26, 2003, 01:37 PM
Thanks for the rosette Had. I was just looking for updates (like the hi-res Alchemy), and I noticed all of these things, so I just went to eahc page and checked all of the links and things like that. :)

BigGoodBig
Feb 26, 2003, 04:25 PM
What happened to the name of the month by “Top for Palm” and “Top for PPC”?

(Congrads DBZ-:))

Gatewood
Feb 26, 2003, 05:21 PM
Congratulations, DBZ. That\'s a wonderful bunch of stuff! Implementing those changes will make a real difference!

:)

DBZ-GOKU-
Mar 3, 2003, 11:30 PM
I have one more thing to add to the list. If you look at the \"community\" word on the list to the left while in the boards, it is blue (to show that it is not a link, right?). Well, when you leave the boards or are on a different part of the website, it is white (every page except the boards). So, it is just another thing that I think you should fix, just to make it look you know what you are doing and have it make more sense. :)