The general lay-out looks very good, props on that.
Thanks. I try to make my sites fairly simple. I personally hate sites that take me forever to navigate or figure out whats going on.
The database: because your site is meant for, as you say, new people; it might be a good idea to give a brief explanation why these are the "archetypes", because this is actually some complicated stuff for people just getting in the format: other formats don't have such a thing as far as I know.
Actually thats going to go right below the card pictures on the main database page. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Just a nitpick on the database layout: I recommend having some room between every card (just 1 pixel-line) and the name of the archetype under every card, with both the card and the name linking to it. That you have to click on the cards now may not be 100% clear right away. But that's just a minor lay-out nitpick.
I can try 1 pixel line. They are like that right now because I originally had some space between them, but I couldn't get it all to fit on a 17" monitor. I run a 19" (well actually 2 stretched, but that doesnt matter as I test it on a single one) and it all fit on my screen, but when I tested it on a computer at work, you had to sidescroll to see the Lotus. I HATE sidescrolling on a webpage. I guess this is a trial and error thing.
Another one: I think the letters centrated (sp?) reads harder than just reading from, regular, left to right. It's an informative piece of text, which you want to read a few times; centrated makes that harder.
Will do. What about centering the cards in the R&B list? is that too distracting?
How are people supposed to see the colors in every deck? For example with Replenish, WUBrown are the necessary colors and black and red are optional splash colors? Some explanation might be a good idea.
That will be going in the help section. I am thinking of renaming it FAQ. The colors listed first are the main colors for the deck. The ones listed separately are either sideboard cards or cards in the deck that arent/rarely castible. For example (going from memory) there is a gifts list, colossus i believe, that runs oaths in the sideboard. There is no green in the deck, but there is a trop isl in it, hence the green dot off to the side. As for replenish, it has a form of the dragon, a red spell that requires 3 red to cast. The only way you would be able to cast it is with the lotus, and that is highly unlikely to get 2 1-ofs in the deck together. 99.9% of the time you will be replenishing it back in. Same with dragon. You have red and green in the version on there, and you could theoretically cast the caller and/or squee or the master, but most of the time the card color is irrelevant.
You currently have contact going down when you click on a certain section, I recommend the name of section going down so it's more clear which section you're in. Note that this is not the matter with the help section, so it might be an unplanned event that contact goes to the next line. Point remains that it is important to give a direction on which section is currently looked at.
I am not totally understanding what you are saying. By contact, do you mean the green box? It's not supposed to do that. Is it going on to the second line? It doesn't do that on any computer I've tried it on. Anyone else having this issue? On what pages is it dropping it down so I can check out the code for it?
I could put a name on the page, but I have set it up so the bar at the top of your webbrowser tells you exactly where you are. Try going back and looking at it while you navigate the site. Is this not good enough? Should I put a title right under the nav bar, like I have for the decklists (eventually primers)?
I like your initiative and looks like it will have the function morphling.de and starcitygames previously had with their decks to beat section, shame they discontinued that.
That is exactly why I am doing this. There was also a site on geocities that had alot of content and fell into disrepair and eventually dissappeared. I like the history of magic, and the chronicalling of what goes on. I'm the last person to usually come up with new tech, and when I do it's either total jank or it just downright sucks, but if you come to me and say "whats in this deck?", I may not know the exact card count, but I can give an almost perfect account of the card names, right up to that month's version. I like watching the decks grow and evolve.
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