Difficult Design Decision

It's become apparent that games on PC are also released on other formats.

Therefore, the sub sections of console and phone, under the reviews section, seem to be left in limbo.

I am now seriously considering dropping the sub sections under the reviews tab. Or use them to index and direct to specific multi format review of  a title.

Being so few reviews at the moment, indexing might seem a little tacky. I'll try it for a week or two and see how it goes.

In the meantime, another review will be added later today.

Steadily, VGMad is populating with content. This isn't bad considering i'm working on other projects.

A first video is also in the works. This probably won't be complete until sometime in February though, due to video editing being very time consuming.

More Menu Problems

UPDATE: menus displaying properly now.

I have noticed on some devices, the menu's are not fitting on the screen, making some options inaccessable.

This will be fixed as soon as possible.

VGMad Relaunched!

It took a while. Pleased to have it relaunched at long last. In fact, the actual relaunch was 3 days ago now, I just never got around to spreading the word at the time due to putting my feet up after such a time consuming effort.

What I feel must really be pointed out, is that during coding and optimisation, I found that there was a bug in some old android releases.

This bug seriously affected the whole sites navigation, so I began looking at workarounds to have the menu work on those affected devices.

Unfortunately, every single workaround I tried, required the use of code that seriously slowed down the speed at which VGMad web pages loaded, for everyone.

This meant I had to decide on a menu that was 100 percent compatible, on every device in existence, or keep the speed of the site as fast as possible.

In the end I opted for speed. I hope this doesn't deter any visitors that have a buggy device. Have no fear, I did still provide a way for buggy devices to navigate the site.

If you have a buggy browser, and I know the Galaxy S3 and Tab 3 are affected and still are popular, you will find a navigation that works for you at the bottom of every page.

I strongly recommend you use a non-buggy browser, such as google chrome, so to avoid this problem on VGMad, or any other website that doesn't cater to your navigation needs.

That is all. Enjoy.
PS, feedback on the site, navigation, ease of use etc, is most welcome.

Man Flu

Little has been done the last few days, due to being blessed with the fabulous man flu.

Surely there's a game to be made, ridiculing this painful bout of illness.

Twitter Account and Other updates

Today I set up a twitter account for VGMad, this account will mostly be used to inform Followers of latest content updates.

The Twitter account will NOT spam followers.

twitter.com/VGMad

One page of content has been completed. 13 to go before site relaunch.

More would have been done, if it hadn't been for the football team I support, kicking off in 20mins. Beer time!

What is Perfection?

For the few couple of months, I got to redesigning the main website, spending the majority of that time tweaking code and layout.

The whole reason for me not actually creating content on any of my projects, is perfection.

I absolutely hate slow loading webpages, and I felt my own designs were too slow. I went on a trimming spree, removing unnecessary page bottlenecks.

Following that success, I kept thinking that I could do better on the layout, across various devices (responsive web layout).
Weeks, and I really mean weeks, have been spent on minor cosmetic tweaks.

Trying to get that perfect look and feel, is annoying as hell, because nothing is perfect.

Thankfully, I am somewhat satisfied with the look and feel now, so I can get cracking on content.

Unfortunately for you, none of the changes will be noticed until at least 14 pages of content has been produced. Below is a sneak peak of the desktop view.

VGM or VGMad?

I could never decide, so I will likely refer to Video Game Mad, as both VGM and VGMad until I settle with one.

As it happens, the url vgmad will be its main name on blogger and the main website (vgmad.hatredfun.com)