Comments on: Portfolio: Hidden Ninja Games

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:03:43 +0000

Jayc did an AMAZING job. Before all of this, when I was contemplating getting a new design, I wasn’t so sure if it would be worth it. But trust me, now looking at it I have no doubt in my mind that it was the right thing to do. I’m so happy with the way it turned out.
Thanks Jayc!

PS: Porter, hello my fellow rival, looks like I have the upper hand now!

By: Chris Jeff

Chris Jeff — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:52:23 +0000

You know Jay. All I can really say is WOW. I’d bore you with a wall of text, but I’ll spare you. Amazing job, well done!

By: Addicting Games

Addicting Games — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:21:31 +0000

I thought this site theme is really nice, and I liked your worked man. really awesome man good work

By: Jayc Santos

Jayc Santos — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:50:38 +0000

Thanks Porter! Now Smith will know and might realize you as his rival too. Also style might be similar to AGAF due to that they both asked for the same color style (light text over dark background) & quite similar color scheme (orangey(?) & black). Although AGAF runs with a different CMS, HNG uses Arcadem + JCustom Mod.

As for me building the site around arcadem, it’s basically just my mod (JCustom Mod). All basic features of arcadem are still there but is quite no longer used (by the new theme) since the mod already has better alternative solutions (esp w/ the plugins). See here for the brief intro into it.
I still have to make more formal documentations for it, so watch out.

By: Porter

Porter — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:50:11 +0000

Amazing work Jayc, really awesome job. I’ve made Smith’s site my “rival” site since the first time I saw this (he still doesn’t know that yet, he might now hehe). I’ve always just found it fun competing with Alexa ranks and trying to compare myself to that site, I was new and he wasn’t that much further along than I, it seemed like the thing to do. One day I head over to his site to check out something pertaining to the article system built into Arcadem, and I see that he has a new design, very new. I instantly thought it was you, it looked great and reminded me of allgamesallfree (in style, not at all a copy in design). Amyway, I was definitely feeling like Smith got a boost over me once again, so I have to step up my game in SEO work and other areas. Overall, excellent design.

I’m really interested in knowing how you built upon arcadem, I may eventually have you fix up my site (who knows when, I’m broke at the moment). How much does a redesign like this cost? Can we still log into an admin panel of sorts and upload games, edit files and so on? Are we still able to upgrade Arcadem when new versions come out without compromising the new design? Feel free to respond here, or email me at contact@princeporter.com, I’m very interested in knowing how you went about this. Great job, keep it up.