In article <al73849icueulh37jo14hd1jnso6t3r
...@4ax.com>,
johnduncanyo
...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:01:45 -0700 (PDT), Tom <drso
...@aol.com> wrote:
> >http://dccomics.com/dcu/
> >FYI...
> >Tom
> I hope it is still in the work in progress stage.
Probably not, though it does look like they wanted to launch this this
weekend.
It's completely non-functional with my old browser on my old computer
with an old OS, of course. No need to pander to those who cannot afford,
or choose not, to upgrade their systems every 6 months.
> It is a much more text based browsing experience. Lots of lists which are
> better broken up but it
> looks stark in comparison to the old site design. I'm more visual when it
> comes to soaking up this
> sort of information so thumbnail images would have helped several places.
> Too many things need to
> be opened to see what is in them.
It's done in outline form, which *can* work if everything's fast enough.
It isn't.
> I think the new book pages are much better. Click on comics and it takes
> right to the current weeks
> books. Much easier to navigate through the weeks and to see what is coming.
> They do show you the
> covers as you mouse over the book title.
For me & my browsing habits, there's little extra bang for that buck. I
tend to use ComicsList for the week's shipments, and look ahead to, say,
October for the latest word.
> The Fan service pages are weaker. They cut back on a bunch of it and if you
> want anything beyond
> the Trinity it is pretty stingy. You can still get to the old ones at
> <
http://www.dccomics.com/downloads/> as of this post to compare. I hope they
> are going to go back
> and add some of the better stuff to the new site. There is no link to
> Wildstorm, Vertigo or Mad on
> the site.
I suspect they've got their own domain names now, or else it's something
besides dccomics.com/dcu/ (maybe dccomics.com/wildstorm/).
Now that you mention it, no link to DC Direct, either.
> Lots of the wall paper downloads are gone. It used to have stuff all the way
> back to Infinite
> Crisis. It should be a deep selection since this is all just bits. They
> really need to put up some
> evergreen hero stuff here. A nice generic Batman, Superman etc designed to
> be a desktop image.
> There should be plenty of room for the second and third stringers here. I
> would love to a mob shot
> of the GLC, LSH and JLA here. The Real Power of the DC Universe poster needs
> to be here. I want a
> decent Captain Marvel wall paper.
I don't think there will be a decent Cap image from DC anymore. The
Trials images stink, the Johnny DC art looks like an egomaniac
characture, and the classic stuff has been swept under the rug for years
now.
As for the wallpapers in general, I suspect they're adding them
piece-meal alphabetically; I noticed quite a few of the less-than-recent
ones all begin with "A".
> They lost image that linked to the origin stories so you need to know the
> name of who you are
> looking for. That really cries out for thumbnails linked to the full page
> like it used to have.
At the risk of being cynical, maybe the site master(s) figure the
origins are so muddled right now anyhow that a search is worthless.
> You can now get a Didio buddy icon... I they lost a ton of these as well. No
> Zatanna icon.
A Didio buddy icon. The number of possible snarky comments there are
simply imponderable.
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