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New Look for Warcraft Mounts

Fri April 30th, 2010 at 4:57am

As you may have noticed, Warcraft Mounts recently gained a whole new look.  The changes, however, are more than skin deep:

  • Most places that used to use a text link for a mount now show a small image of the mount instead. For example: Mania’s Collection
  • The functionality of the old Browse page moved into a menu so you can navigate around the site more easily.
  • Account and mount collection management pages have been streamlined.
  • Images across the site have been tweaked for better performance, especially on repeat visits.

Of course, nothing is ever completely finished on the web. ;) There are several features that are temporarily disabled or not yet available, including:

  • Mount Search: I had to turn off searching the database for a mount until I can update the code for that page. When Search returns, however, it will have more advanced features.
  • Browse Collections / Community Ranking: The old listing of collections ordered by number of mounts was a real problem for me to maintain. I’m considering replacing it with two separate features:
    • Searching mount collections by name, realm, class, and race. The collections you find this way may not be verified for accuracy.
    • Ranking the top 10 (or so) collections. You can opt in for ranking, but if you do you’ll need to provide information to verify the accuracy of your collection.
  • % Ownership: Seeing what percentage of collections here include a particular mount is turned off while I investigate some performance issues.
  • Guides & Resources: These will be returning as soon as I have a chance to go through my links and make sure nothing is out of date.

Have comments or suggestions? E-mail me at mania@warcraftmounts.com, or stop by the temporary Warcraft Mounts forum over on the WoW Petopia Community.

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