samedi 14 décembre 2024

The new filter shop

 So the filter shop will not be, and an artisans' shop will replace it: the main idea is to keep the main concept of the filter shop but to simplify it: as the goal was to promote honest small studio that failed there marketing, we will do a shop only for them!

One other idea is to actually review each of these games ourselves, so they get a rating in all case (so not like Steam where you get promoted more once you already achieved some visibility...).

The main work now is to simplify and finish the CMS, most is already there, I need to finish the search and add a buying module. Next will be adding the review system, which shouldn't be too difficult. Then we will need to see the legal aspect of that, as we need to be registered as a shop.

But another part is finding a cool name. I am thing of something like "The Place of Forgotten Games, TPFG", or "The Library at the Train Station, TLTS", but ideally something clear and short would be cool. So any suggestion is welcome!

jeudi 25 janvier 2024

The filter shop - working on the CSS

So I jump from project to project, but I am finally back to the filter shop. And would like to find my way with the styling. I am a veteran Software Developer and as such like light application, i.e. everything opposed to many modern web dev, mostly front-end frameworks. And I am really not happy with a 1mb HTML page, 150 trackers, 600kb CSS file (minimised) and 10 Javascripts files.
Yep, I like to have a non-tracking HTML with the minimum needed, no tracker (but to be honest you do sometime need one or two professionally, as you might need to know the traffic), and the minimum needed for CSS and Javascript, so maybe around 100Kb all together.

So I will probably grind my way through CSS, starting with my fantastic gfx assets, in preview below. If you read that and know you can do better, please don't hesitate to contact me ;)
 
The filters:
The title: