Filterable Directory of Marketplace Offerings

Hi folks, It came to my attention that I now have 50 sets of artwork available on the marketplace. Which I think is pretty awesome, but it does come with the downside that with so many sets it can sometimes be difficult for all of them to be easily browsed by GMs window shopping on the marketplace. Especially since my offerings cover a pretty huge spectrum, doing everything from tokens to maps and fantasy through sci-fi. So I decided that perhaps I might try building a directory of sorts that would make it easier for GMs to browse my offerings. It wouldn't be a replacement for the marketplace, but would basically be a glorified wall of links that could be easily filtered so that GMs looking for a specific combination of asset and genre could easily see what I've created, and then click through to the appropriate set on the Roll20 marketplace. And could at any time search for other artist's art assets using the top right search field to bring them back to the Roll20 Marketplace Search feature. This is the result: <a href="http://www.projectsdonewright.com/roll20/" rel="nofollow">http://www.projectsdonewright.com/roll20/</a> I'm not sure if folks will like it, but I figure anytime I post on social media about a new set being available, I'll link to the marketplace, and provide another link the directory. [EDIT: Please note, the site hasn't been fully tested. I've only tested it in Google Chrome, and I haven't checked to confirm that all the links go to the correct pages yet (though they should be)]

Your work is a pleasure to browse through, so anything that makes that easier is a good idea. Congratulations on the big 50! :)

I really like that Phillip. Maybe roll20 could implement something similar in the marketplace when you click on an artist's name ( Phillip Wright , Paul Ooshun aka Alan H.)?

Vince said: I really like that Phillip. Maybe roll20 could implement something similar in the marketplace when you click on an artist's name ( Phillip Wright , Paul Ooshun aka Alan H.)? That would be really cool, although I'm not entirely sure how much of a major project it would be for the Roll20 team to incorporate such a feature in to the pre-existing site. It has occurred to me though to invite other artists to join my directory.

Site looks great. I would like to see several of your user-interface-developments adopted into the official Marketplace layout: The simplicity, the way the page is completely packed with art so you can see a lot of sets & titles at a glance, without extreme pagination, and the filters at the top for showing different configurations. There is one major exception, something that doesn't look right to me. I'm not a fan of the "Sepia tones" shading all the button images until you mouse-over to see the full color. How could that coloration help your art look better? On the contrary, sorry to say, it makes your art look predominately sepia and washed-out, which isn't the truth. The site is forcing the user to mouse-over 50 things just to see the true colors that you took all that time to artfully make the original colors, just to spin around and hide the colors. Most people won't take the time to mouseover 50 things, and I would guess your number of 50 is only going to grow. It's actually kind of a jarring optical illusion to the eye when you mouseover and makes the colors look weird, since the item is surrounded by a sea of pale sepia, and flips quickly from full color to sepia as you move the mouse. It makes your colors look, well, not as good as the color should look. Personally I'd prefer to see the actual art (the true colors of it) on first glance of your catalog page, rather than needing to mouse-over 50 different buttons. Please take this as constructive criticism. Congratulations on your new website launch and extensive catalog of Marketplace offerings.

Gold said: There is one major exception, something that doesn't look right to me. I'm not a fan of the "Sepia tones" shading all the button images until you mouse-over to see the full color. How could that coloration help your art look better? On the contrary, sorry to say, it makes your art look predominately sepia and washed-out, which isn't the truth. You are forcing the user to mouse-over 50 things just to see the true colors that you took all that time to artfully make the original colors. Personally I'd prefer to see the actual art (the true colors of it) on first glance of your catalog page, rather than needing to mouse-over 50 different buttons. Yeah, I may very well drop the Sepia. The original intent was to cut down on the harshness of the riot of color that's presented when a person sees that many different title images all at once. A 75% sepia tone was meant to help cut down how "busy" the whole thing looked, and make the sets being hovered over / expanded stand out more. But you're right, the trade off is that it's more difficult to browse all of the sets' true appearances unless one specifically hovers over all of them. I'll remove the Sepia tones, and open it up here for folks to give feedback on whether it's more preferable to go without the Sepia or bring it back.

Good point though. I will take a look at the "riot of color" if you restore full color buttons. You may be right, that could be jarring too. Point taken. I do think the dark background serves your display well.

I've removed the sepia tones. <a href="http://www.projectsdonewright.com/roll20/" rel="nofollow">http://www.projectsdonewright.com/roll20/</a> However folks can still check them out here for the sake of comparison: <a href="http://www.projectsdonewright.com/roll20/sepia.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.projectsdonewright.com/roll20/sepia.htm</a>... As I look at the site without the sepia, perhaps I was overreacting. I'll probably keep it without the sepia for the near future, unless there's a significant cry of support for the sepia version.

That was fast. I took a look. You won't be surprised. I vote for the Full Color way. To me it looks much better & faster to peruse the offerings. Considering every icon is square, they are in a perfect grid, and the consistent way you've done each icon's Titles and By-line with consistently white fonts with dropshadows or black outline ---- to my eye, it's very easy and natural to see the borders between the items. In other words the "riot of color" does not disturb me at all, here. Each icon/button is plenty distinct. They don't blend together in a confusing way like a horrible riot of color might.

+1 for Full color. The sepia wasn't bad, but when compared to the actual colors of your artwork...

Really like the organization you did with the site, Phillip! As well as the intermediate clicking for description and follow through to the Roll20 Marketplace! +1 for the full color set up as well. Congratulations on 50 sets! Phenomenal!

I agree with the full color. I was looking and thinking the sets looked kind of bland until I realized the color changed, then I went through clicking a bunch to see what they looked like. :)

Full colour looks great. The colours are soft enough to not be an eyesore all together and you can really appreciate your 'sweet as' graphics when you can see them in all their glory now! Nice work.

Congrats on the 50! That is a lot of great work. Brilliant idea on the site.