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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: Kees on March 13, 2002, 11:25:51 PM

Title: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Kees on March 13, 2002, 11:25:51 PM
Check out the new www.amiga-anywhere (http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/) site.

de.amiga.com (http://de.amiga.com) has become a mirror of this new site.

Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Kees on March 13, 2002, 11:29:17 PM
Maybe it my puter .. but its abit buggy ...
Looks hot and proffesional though
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: System on March 13, 2002, 11:37:01 PM
The boys at AMIGA will fix it soon., but other then the bugs, its a very good website.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Chathurawind on March 13, 2002, 11:42:01 PM
wow... Looks lke the boys at Amiga have been quite busy indeed...
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: gnarly on March 14, 2002, 12:12:34 AM
I can say that I really dont like that site. In my opinion, its too big, looks cluttered, takes forever and a day to download, and has an amateurish look to it. It also doesnt work properly on my browser (Opera6) :-(
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: System on March 14, 2002, 12:17:33 AM
It seems as if they have been working on this site for quite some time now...
...as this can be seen on the "News"-section:

>Posted on Dec 4, 2001 - 06:51 AM
 ;-)
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Kees on March 14, 2002, 12:27:50 AM
Nothing runs properly on opera
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: System on March 14, 2002, 12:35:43 AM
"this webiste requires netscape or internet explorer"

dang. no dice in ibrowse or aweb, meaning i can barely see jack squat.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Elektro on March 14, 2002, 12:35:55 AM
Ir probably uses Windows JAVA LOLLMAO!

 :-P  :-P  :-P
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: System on March 14, 2002, 12:45:33 AM
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Nothing runs properly on opera


Strange...om my computer the only browser it works ok with is Mozilla... Neither IExplorer 6 nor Opera 6.1 seems to handle it...
Is it the browsers fault or the site's webmaster's?
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Bobsonsirjonny on March 14, 2002, 01:07:59 AM
I think it looks ok......  but it just doesnt feel right.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: spiffydinosaur on March 14, 2002, 01:24:13 AM
I like the concept but it seems really dark. The voice saying Amiga anywhere sounds like a guy with a mouth full of marbles under watter in a half full 30 gal. drum. Other than that I like it. The motion is good, anything to show the power of Amiga!

Am I glad this flu is almost over  :-x
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Maddestman on March 14, 2002, 01:27:52 AM
It worked ok for me, when viewed in *shudders violently* Internet Exploiter 5.5 (Don't flame or shoot me, I'd prefer something else, but this isn't my Windoze box), asides from a few things, such as occasionally an image not loading or links sending me back to the start.  But I've gotta say, I'm impressed, good work IMO!
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Crispy_Beef on March 14, 2002, 01:37:03 AM
I have to say that I don't like it much at all.  They should take a leaf out of some other companies books.  Check out nokia.com, dell.com, gamespot.com, all these sites have a clean and fairly intuitive design.

The new site seems too cluttered, and there isn't much order to things.  I think they are trying to convey the multimedia/new media image, but it just don't cut it.

IMHO, they should look at designing to the standards set out by the W3C, so the site works in as many different places as possible, what will people think when they come to this site and it doesn't work, 'bunch of amatuers' is what they'll say.

I'm sorry if this sounds to scathing, but they need something clean cut and professional.  Anyway that's my rant over with.

Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Crispy_Beef on March 14, 2002, 01:42:48 AM
Actually, I have just revisted the site, as I thought I was a tad harsh before, and I can now say I hate it.  It's embarrasing.

Amiga is pushing itself as the company that can create and have content running on multiple platforms, which is just amazing, but hopefully all the content won't look like this.

Not impressed.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Chathurawind on March 14, 2002, 02:51:59 AM
Tip: turn of your speakers before you visit the site, the sound is awful!

Also I hate the purple and blue colour scheme.


At the time I visited the site started to take an age to load, now I dont get anything from it.  Wonder if its all the eagre visitors overloading the server.

pt.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: pteppic on March 14, 2002, 02:53:56 AM
Sorry, thought I was logged in there.
pt.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Chathurawind on March 14, 2002, 05:39:48 AM
My Opera 5, and Opera 6 did not work either.
The color is too dark. Perhaps the webmaster should create 2 versions of the page (like TAO).

One is a simple, bright version and the other is for MS IE!

I doubt that Espial Java browser will work with the page either. Espial owner is Invisible Hand, the same company that support AMIGA Inc.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Seehund on March 14, 2002, 08:25:27 AM
Sweet Jesus, this is an abomination! de.amiga.com used to look almost OK. They really are serious about this new 14-year-old-girl's-weblog-on-Geocities image. It's far worse than some of the Awful Links Of the Day I've seen on somethingawful.com! Hey, why not go all the way, you need even more colours, anim-GIFs, clipart and  jerky Flash animations with embarrassing slogans shouted inside an empty oil barrel.

And that f*cking horrendous "Amiga Anywhere" logo everywhere! Why oh why do they want to stray from the simple, beautiful and elegant Amiga logo? Who at Amiga went insane and decided that their logo ought to be associated with the poster of some 1980's sci-fi extreme low budget C-movie?

I hope it's not too late to adopt a consistent professional corporate image, because anyone who sees this graphical vomit might be scared off and don't come back.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Bifford on March 14, 2002, 09:17:26 AM
(Posted this on another thread but as it pertains directly to this I'll post it here too.....)

Firstly can I say 'm not a huge fan of the name "Amiga anywhere"! sounds far to generic for my liking ;/

Now about that website - you DO know that it's an extremely bad idea to put black text on a very dark blue picture background, don't you??

Does someone actually LOOK at the site once its coded Before its put on the net for general consumption???

The whole site is just too dark and depressing imo. So I harken back to what someone else said on here - get a graphic designer to do you a standardised setup!!

(thats when viewing it on an Amiga with Voyager and IBrowse btw)

TTFN
Bifford the Youngest.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Seehund on March 14, 2002, 09:34:35 AM
The text is black because no current Amiga browser supports even the most basic CSS.
Actually, the background is about the only thing I find remotely attractive on the site. That's with a browser that supports post-1996 W3C standards, BTW... This is a major reason to why my Amiga is used less and less often.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Bezzen on March 14, 2002, 10:32:27 AM
I think they should get the site working before they launch it to the public. :/
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Chathurawind on March 14, 2002, 11:51:54 AM
That's one ugly web site :(

Is it really that hard for Amiga Inc. to make something on the web that works on Amiga and doesn't look like it's from the eighties?

Amiga will be the laughing object of everyone with a web browser if the sites keep coming like this.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: System on March 14, 2002, 12:35:16 PM
Hey Microsoft got slated by the press because of some of their sites only working with IE. This fails to display any content at all In Opera 6.1. (my prefered browser) on the home page.

Chris
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: whabang on March 14, 2002, 12:37:57 PM
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I hope it's not too late to adopt a consistent professional corporate image, because anyone who sees this graphical vomit might be scared off and don't come back.


Oh, yeah...
That page is really low-budget.
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Chathurawind on March 14, 2002, 12:57:05 PM
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Nothing runs properly on opera.
It does when you write valid code to W3C standards :-)
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: Chathurawind on March 15, 2002, 02:49:07 PM
"look, ma! I'm on the web!!"

this site breaks every rule in the design book...

when will people learn; less is more!!!


-phloe
Title: Re: Amiga Anywhere site
Post by: System on March 23, 2002, 09:20:48 AM

HAHAHAH!!!!!

An Amiga.com website, but you can't view it from an Amiga broweser...

ROTFLAMO!!!!!

Sorry, but you guys really don't know how funny this is.