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PlayYourTurn – Easy on the Eyes
By Joe | July 2, 2010
As mentioned several times, I’m a programmer and not a designer. This site is basically what I hacked together from a free Wordpress theme, and fumbling through CSS files.
Rob Isakson, however, is a designer. He’s got a much better eye than me for things like this. He’s created a UserScript which removes all of the images, widens the tables, and generally makes things easier to read. You can download it here.
For those in the know, UserScripts are small bits of JavaScript code that run in your web browser for pages you specify. After the page is downloaded, and before it’s presented to you, the script runs, and can modify the page however you want. I’ve used this in the past to do things like add links to pages for BugIDs that appear on JIRA pages at work, but I’ve never used them to change around the design of a site.
If you’re one of the few people that do not like the look of the site, or want something more “work safe”, that doesn’t involve Gandhi shaking his finger at you, give the script a shot.
If you’re running Chrome, you can just install the script, and it will become an extension. If you’re on Firefox, you’ll need to install the GreaseMonkey addon, which manages UserScripts.
I am currently working on a rewrite and redesign of the site for this fall, in hopes that there will still be a use for it when Civilization V is released, and I’m taking all feedback that anyone has on the design or functionality of the site. Let me know what works, what doesn’t, and how horrible of a designer I really am. As with everything so far, I’ll try my best to accommodate anyone.
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July 7th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
I wouldn’t say I’ve got an eye for design, I am just a programmer who likes fixing things about sites that bother me