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Your new site design is live!
Thanks very much, the site looks great IMHO.
Just one little thing: while the favicons looked great on the feedback post...
... at their actual size they just look like a sand/grey box with a smaller,...
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Chess site design and logo — Draft
It looks great, thanks a lot! I just have my doubts about the vertical alignment of CHESS Meta - it looks like Meta has been misplaced by one pixel.
GlorfindelMod
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Your new site design is live!
Thank you for the effort invested in engaging the community and implementing the new site design.
All the little details really come together very well.
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Custom Chess SE design and logo - Information gathering
Great news, I'm excited to hear this and can't wait to see the first drafts!
In addition to black and white, are there any colors you feel are tied to chess?
Many chess boards and pieces are dark ...
GlorfindelMod
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Chess site design and logo — Draft
Do you plan to style the badge symbols as well? For instance music.SE has little quavers and notes.
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Changing the Chess Stack Exchange logo
Many small sites are awaiting design (not just Chess), and when the site gets a design, it will get a snazzy icon (like Worldbuilding) among other design features.
For the time being, the site uses ...
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New badge format for Chess.SE?
This is currently only done for sites which have a custom design. For sites with the plain Beta design, only the site logo can be changed.
Coincidence or not, new custom designs are currently being ...
GlorfindelMod
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Custom Chess SE design and logo - Information gathering
What symbols or images are important to the subject of this site?
Obviously there are chess pieces ♙♘♗♖♕♔♚♛♜♝♞♟ there's also some chess notation which might also be usable:
Symbol
Meaning
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a very ...
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Badges that I earned on other sites show up in Chess.SE style in the trophy dialog
This is a bit confusing indeed, but it's more or less status-bydesign. Performance-wise, it's not a good idea to load many stylesheet documents which would be necessary to give those icons the right ...
GlorfindelMod
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Your new site design is live!
Thank you all so very much. To many years more of chess galore! We shall see how everyone likes it. Strange for a sudden change, in a way, after so many years of silent blue.
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Why is there a big gap between the moves and play buttons in the replayer?
This is a consequence of the responsive design. For me, at full browser width (1440px) it shows normally:
and the problem only appears when I make the window a bit smaller:
It could be fixed by ...
GlorfindelMod
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Is there a page formatting change at 2000 reputation?
It seems you've accidentally tripped the mobile version of the site. That setting is stored per-site in a cookie, so that's why you still see the full version of the Meta site.
To go back to the full ...
GlorfindelMod
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Why is there a big gap between the moves and play buttons in the replayer?
This has been fixed. Glorfindel was correct - it was happening because the chess player is not really built optimally for responsive design. Now below a certain width breakpoint, the move will show up ...
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Chess site design and logo — Draft
I'd like a darker background but would not like a brighter one.
I am visually impaired, so, to enable text to be clear against background, I use Windows with a dark mode theme. What suits my eyes is ...
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