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Hi, CCP Alice here with the latest and greatest from web.
Last year we began a strategic journey of improving our web presence by launching a brand new Account Management website and new Forums. I’m here with the first dev blog in a series to come throughout 2012 that will detail important changes and updates to our websites over the course of this year.
Currently, the EVE website is a mixed bag. It's split between trying to offer an explanation of the game without really doing so, and trying to cater for our community's needs. Further, important information is distributed across many other websites, from EVE Gate to EVElopedia. We can do better.
Changes on large scale require a large amount of in-depth planning and development effort, so rather than taking on the whole web at once, we are going to do this in stages.
The first part of these changes is taking the aspects of the current website that explain what the game is and creating a better front facing website for EVE Online. This means we will have a website that has information about the various elements of the universe, the rich gameplay, visuals and how passionate our players are. A website we will be proud to share with our friends, fellow gamers and potential customers.
Some of the cool features that will be on the site include:
Here are sneak peeks of a screenshots page, starmap showing ship kills, an Absolution and the pirate gameplay style below:
This is ready and should go live next week.
Having moved the information valuable for potential customers and for all of us to show off the game to its own home, we can now focus on information needed by our current players and how we can improve your experience on our websites. We will be making changes that will bring together all the community related pages and functionality on the other sites under the umbrella of one EVE Community website. The long term goal here is for you as a current player to be able to go to the community website and from there access all the content, information and functionality relevant and useful to you.
We are going to make changes to the now obsolete eveonline.com to re-brand it as the EVE Community website, allowing us to have a foundation to build on. This coincides with the launch of the new eveonline.com discussed above. It will live at community.eveonline.com, with the following tweaks:
The site will be structured around these categories to start with:
Communication | Player/Community | EVE Information | Support | Archive |
News channels, Patch Notes, Dev Blogs, Newsletters, RSS Feeds, |
Fansites & toolkits, CSM, Volunteers, Alliance Tournament |
Past Expansions, Awards |
Client downloads, Patches, Policies |
Old screenshots, backstory, videos, music, forum archive, Fanfest history, etc. |
Still tweaking these, so what you see above is subject to change before release.
We are finishing up these tweaks to be ready for next week as well.
More will be revealed in further dev blogs as we are working on the next stages.
We are really excited about these updates and looking forward to getting them live, teams Bitmap, Charlie Sheen and GForce have done a fantastic job over the past months (go team!). We will keep you posted with exact release dates and where you can give feedback as soon as we can.
Fly safe!
CCP Alice / Anne Walsh
Web Architect
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