Cubed3 Relaunch. Now with more Mushrooms!

By Jorge Ba-oh 31.01.2008 112

A big welcome to the new C3 with a brand-new look! Months in the running, we've finally taken the shackles off the beast and released it into the wild world of the Mushroom Kingdom... or something along those lines! Alongside our slightly darker skin, the site has undertaken an overhaul in various areas: in particular with how you guys can interact with the website and likeminded members.

The main focus behind the design is to try and simplify the experience, and bring out features that were perhaps hidden away in Bowser's castle. Console pages, which previously acted as a directory search, have been glossed over with recent forum discussions, top games, content and genre searches to try and bring much more meat to your Nintendo-exploring. Much of the site's backend has been rewritten to solve existing problems, and improve the site's efficiency and stability in the long run. C3's main sections can be explored through the top-level navigation, with featured and recent content permanently housed on the right-hand side of the page. However, as people visit for different reasons you can now select what menu items are shown on your navigation by clicking on the ickle title-bars on each.

The forum experience has seen revisions, with no-refresh posting, star-giving and editing aiming to speed up discussion and make posting more comfortable and easier to use. Be sure to look through the various parts of the site for more enhancements/revisions!

In terms of content, the launch of the latest C3 brings back some older features with the podcast set to ignite your listening buds in the near future, gaming factory turning the cogs of creative "if-only" gaming design and the possibility for the much loved Hound to reawaken from his slumber. In the coming months we'll be bringing you much more features and personal content through staff blogs and more industry ramblings/analysis.

A thanks to: JQuery for providing the core Javascript effects/functions, FamFamFam for the brilliant icon-set and LastRSS for feed parsing. Thanks to the Cubed3 staff for putting up with the numerous delays for the launch and for whipping up some launch goodies for the upcoming week and beyond.

With any new version there's likely to be multiple bugs and overlooked problems Apologies in advance! Please mail jb[at]cubed3.com with any issues you've encountered so we can whip out the old Fudd for a clean up!

Many thanks for supporting Cubed3 over the years, we hope that we're up there somewhere in your bookmarks ready for Nintendo news, analysis and most importantly: fun!

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Is anyone else getting these weird symbol/letters in posts?

Also, the borders around sigs are kinda annoying, as mines meant to be transparent.

( Edited 09.02.2008 12:06 by Marzy )

Dritttoolegit said:
i cant log on with my phone which sucks

I've fixed the login and problems by reverting to the old-style login system, hopefully that should work.

Is anyone else getting these weird symbol/letters in posts?

Not sure why that's happening.

To remove the sig borders use the html img tag instead of the bbcode Smilie I'll stick an eample up in the profile editor.

Cubed3 Admin/Founder & Designer

jb said:

To remove the sig borders use the html img tag instead of the bbcode Smilie I'll stick an eample up in the profile editor.

When I use html code for my sig I just get a broken image...am I doing something wrong? I'm no good with html. :/ I'm just copying the html code photobucket gives you...

It looks fine when I preview the sig. Just not when it's actually below my posts. :p

( Edited 10.02.2008 22:19 by Ikana )

Wow. I go away to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for 10 days and when I come back everything has changed!!! I remember you mentioning that a site design change was in the works, I just didn't expect to see it my first time back in.

Initial impression is that the site looks 'sharper'.

The only problem I have had is a white "we'll be right back" page when I tried to click on a post link to see what I got my 'star' for.

Otherwise, I guess most if not all of the issues have been resolved in the last 10 days (were you waiting for me to leave the country to make your site changes? Smilie )

Look unto me in every thought. Doubt not. Fear not.

I love it, it looks very stylish!

Nice job JB & Staff! Smilie


YO jb... im writing a story on a thread and i pressed submit post so i could go to the bathroom without worrying about my work being errased while i was gone (nukes hiting it... people shuting done the computer, ect)
and when i went to continue i noticed the full edit button no longer is in existence... i dont suppose you could bring it back becauselooking into the small box is ok for small edits, but not when your are typing in a whole chapter at a time.. also the Message me button isn't working..
Edit: nvrmind the message button works now..

( Edited 16.02.2008 02:21 by The Wandering Sword )




The only problem I have had is a white "we'll be right back" page when I tried to click on a post link to see what I got my 'star' for.

Ah right - ya, shall fix that

and when i went to continue i noticed the full edit button no longer is in existence...

Can sort that out, sure

Cubed3 Admin/Founder & Designer

Love the new site. Well different to when I joined! Is this like a problems thread or something?

'*~_Mikomi_~*'

Mikomi said:
Love the new site. Well different to when I joined! Is this like a problems thread or something?

Lol, seems to be Smilie I will probably make a proper thread for more recent problems that need to be fixed Smilie

Cubed3 Admin/Founder & Designer

Here's a minor thing, on the blogs bar at the side, spaces come up as %20.

Also on blog posts, mods' "level bars" are not C3 Mod, but go by their post count as usual.

(And the GB and NES games still don't work for me Smilie)

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(And the GB and NES games still don't work for me Smilie)

GB works on mine, so I dunno what it could possibly be Smilie

Cubed3 Admin/Founder & Designer

Well, for me, GameBoy games work fine, but Game Boy Color games don't. That's what's weird.

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