New Design on the Horizon

In celebration of GameVortex's 10th Anniversary, we've been making changes here and there. The thing we're currently working on is a redesign.

We're focusing on making the site more functional, not just different looking. That mean that we're going to be really addressing the way you navigate the site quite a bit. There are some things that are a bit clunky, currently, and we're going to be making the navigation of the website(s) a bit more straight-forward. Also, we are going to make some of the little known sections of our sites, such as our predefined search pages (such as this Tomb Raider page), our Features Index and our Company Index easier to locate.

The vast majority of our readers seem to find us via Google and then only stay for the specific review they were looking for. We don't mind, but we would love for those same readers to check out other content that we have that might interest them. To this end, we will be working on making new links to related content, as well as making it more obvious that the old links are actually there. Hopefully, readers will take the time to check out some of the other content we have that appeals to them.

Also, if you noticed above that I keep saying "sites," instead of "site," that's because GameVortex, while our flagship website, is not the only website we have. We also run PSillustrated (PlayStation Illustrated), which is actually in its 11th year, as that was our first website. Additionally, we are currently trying to come up with good names for a DVD/Blu-ray website, so our readers can still get that information, without the movie reviews taking up as much space on the game sites. All of our websites share a common reviewer pool and common management, so, in order to help stress this relationship, our new site designs will share a good bit of commonality between them - similar navigation, yes, but also elements that give them a unified look.

If you have any suggestions for the design, please leave them as comments to this entry, or email me at Robert [at] GameVortex [dot] com.