War.MMOUI.com Now Open!

[Cairenn]

With Mythic Entertainment’s Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning™ going to open beta today and the NDA being lifted, Dolby and I are pleased to announce the opening of our interface customization community for it, War.MMOUI.com.*

With all the same great features you are used to seeing from our other sites, from organized safe downloads to favourites lists, from author portals and svn’s to well moderated forums, we welcome you to join us and discuss your plans, wishes, etc for this new game. Please be sure to introduce yourself and to read our Site Rules.


* Yes, we are launching under a new name. Our sites are all moving to [Game].MMOUI.com eventually. Warhammer Online is the first one we are launching under the new name. But no fear, it is still the same people you have come to know and trust over the last seven years.

[Ravendwyr]

Originally Posted by Cairenn With Mythic Entertainment’s Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning™ going to open beta today and the NDA being lifted, Dolby and I are pleased to announce the opening of our interface customization community for it, War.MMOUI.com.*

Awesome!
Another gathering spot for authors, consumers and geeks alike

Originally Posted by Cairenn * Yes, we are launching under a new name. Our sites are all moving to [Game].MMOUI.com eventually. Warhammer Online is the first one we are launching under the new name. But no fear, it is still the same people you have come to know and trust over the last seven years.

So for example...

• EQ Interface --> eq.MMOUI.com
• EQ2 Interface --> eq2.MMOUI.com
• LotRO Interface --> lotro.MMOUI.com
• WoW Interface --> wow.MMOUI.com
• Vanguard Interface --> vg.MMOUI.com
• WoW Head --> omgphatlootz.MMOUI.com

Is that right?

[Cairenn]

Originally Posted by Dark Imakuni So for example... EQInterface --> eq.MMOUI.com EQ2Interface --> eq2.MMOUI.com LotROInterface --> lotro.MMOUI.com WoWInterface --> wow.MMOUI.com VGInterface --> vg.MMOUI.com

Yes, that is exactly correct.

Originally Posted by Dark Imakuni WoW Head --> omgphatlootz.MMOUI.com

ROFL

[Duugu]

Uhh ... white text and a light grey background. :/
Hard to read.

[Cairenn]

Really? The grey doesn't seem all that light to me, I can read it fine. Anyone else having a problem with it? Can you take a screenshot and attach it to your post to show us Duugu, please?

[Ravendwyr]

Originally Posted by Duugu Uhh ... white text and a light grey background. :/ Hard to read.

Looks fine for me!
Try turning the brightness and contrast settings down, if they're too high then yes it will seem unreadable.

[Mera]

Thanks again Cairenn for the great sites Im sure war.mmoui.com will be my favorite war forum =) keep it up

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by Ethan Centaurai Looks fine for me! Try turning the brightness and contrast settings down, if they're too high then yes it will seem unreadable.

Uhm ... no? I will not change my settings just to read a single website?
imho this is a perfect sample for poor web design practices (this is not meant as an offense ... it's just my feedback).

Really? The grey doesn't seem all that light to me, I can read it fine. Anyone else having a problem with it? Can you take a screenshot and attach it to your post to show us Duugu, please?

I could. But it will be the same as Ethan's screenshot. It's about my settings. I'm using a resolution of 1680x1050 on a 20" widescreen. Indeed my brightness setting is very high. And the font is very small.

I also can read the text. But it's just very hard.
Why don't you use the grey that is used on this site? It's a lot easier to read.

[edit]
btw ... another worse "feature" I always hate is the fixed small font size. I would like to set my preferred font size via the brower options.

[Cairenn]

Originally Posted by Duugu imho this is a perfect sample for poor web design practices

Again, can we please see a screenshot of how it appears for you? *We* haven't suggested that you change anything. Also, what browser are you using? We need to have more details so we can see where the problem lies and decide what to do about it.

[Duugu]

Ok. No problem. Here it is.
I using IE7.

[Cralor]

Doesn't look bad to me. (Even in your shot!)

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by Cralor Doesn't look bad to me. (Even in your shot!)

doh

Of course not. As I wrote before it's about my display settings - which are not covered by a simple screenshot.

[Cralor]

Wow. I was completely clueless

That stinks, though. Hopefully you can get it fixed.

[Duugu]

Uhm ... you mistake this. I am able to read the text. There's nothing broken.
It's just bad to read for me. It's not impossible ... not even nearly ... but it could be so much better with other colors. That's all.

With a view to readability white on light grey just is a suboptimal color combination. Light on dark is not the best choice at all. It has a good contrast for some time. But after a little while it's straining the eyes. (this is not only my personal opinion ... there are studies about that stuff)

Again: This is just my personal feedback to you. Read it, ignore it, or whatever ... it doesn't greatly matter.

[edit]
There's another question that just comes to my mind: Would someone who is color blind be able to read the website?

[Seerah]

Thanks for the feedback, Duugu. You're not the only one who would have difficulty reading it, and my eyes would be strained after a long period also. I'm sure that Dolby will darken the background or make an alternate color scheme when he has the time to do so.

[Elloria]

Yea when i first went to the website it was kinda hard to get used to. Im so use d to this nice clean dark grey color.

[Dolby]

For those of you that like the dark grey style it has now been added to the war.MMOUI site. Visit this link http://war.mmoui.com/index.php?styleid=3 to enable it or you can use the style selector at the bottom of the page to the left.

[Duugu]

This is very helpful. Thx a lot.