Oyuncan.com ReDesign by THB
This post actually explains why I haven’t been able to post lately. I was hired to rescript & redesign one of Turkey’s highest traffic websites. Oyuncan.com receives about 80,000 unique visitors per day making about 3,000,000 page views monthly, which is more than enough to be a Google Adsense premium publisher.
The previous design was pretty basic and looked like it was done in 10 minutes using Frontpage. I wanted to implement a web 2.0 look, but since the burden on the servers were high due to the amount of visitors, I had to make it minimalistic. Every image had to be optimized pixel by pixel to avoid extra colors that cause higher file sizes.
The rounded corners, amount of white space and a nice color palette easily achieved what we were after. But among all, interactions between users have greatly improved with the availability of messaging, game commenting, friend lists, rating system and ability to upload games for users.
We have further plans to integrate Hot-things.net ’s BLaB! 3 webchat php script to increase the interaction among users even more! On the previous design, it was done with a small javascript on the sidebar without anyway of moderation. After the overall testing period, I will be slowly applying search engine optimization to boost rankings on search engines.
