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Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/4 20:27
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Following an idea by dasi, I restructed the menu and added the new "Development" item, where developers can now find everything they need easily. Additionally, the "Utilities" section has been renamed to "Tools".

I also changed the name of the "Features" item to "Information", but am not very happy with the term. Since I can't think of any better term for the menu, I am asking for any proposals from the community.
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Re: Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/4 21:10
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I think "Information" is an apt term, but if it helps - here's some other terms that might help (at least get someone thinking of a better ones)

Appearances

Representations

References (or Virtual Boy References)

Details


I'm not sure that any of these really work, but like I said - one of these might trigger a better term to surface.
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Re: Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/4 21:53
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It looks like most of the stuff in there is advertising, trade show appearances, and interviews... How about "Press"? Or you could just shorten it to "Info". I think the problem with "Information" is that it's too generic; everything on the site is information.
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Re: Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/4 22:11
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How about "Media"?

Otherwise, I agree with shortening it to "Info" although it is a bit generic sounding...

Also, maybe "Extra" could be called "Site".
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Re: Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/4 23:55
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I second "Press". And on a somewhat related matter, I always thought it is strange that there are different tabs for "Multimedia" and "Images" in the games section... Why not put images under multimedia too?
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Re: Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/5 1:46
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Quote:

DanB wrote:
Why not put images under multimedia too?


This.
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Re: Term needed
Posted on: 2010/11/10 15:14
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Thanks for your ideas! I chose "References", as it seemed to be the most appropriate term.

About the seperation "Multimedia" (Which might get renamed to just "Media") and "Images": It's right that screenshots are images too, and technically, videos are just moving images. But if I chose to have screenshots under the images tab, I'd need extra tabs for videos and audio.

So I decided for the current solution, which could be seen as a separation between "media" taken directly from the game (screenshots, videos, audio) and the "image" tab, which holds all kinds of related scans (Boxes, Carts, Flyers, etc).

I agree that it's not a totally clean separation, but the best I can think of. On one hand, I want to group related content in a way that makes sense to not have too many tabs, on the other hand, having "Media" and "Images" under one tab would be too much stuff on one site IMHO.
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