Website and Store gets a makeover
Published on October 9, 2008 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News







Have you been to Impulsedriven.com in awhile? Well if you have, you'll notice that we've done some redecorating to not only the website but the store itself.

We've made the website much more informational with the homepage now adding a featured title section highlighting a major software or game, a latest news section showing off recent releases, and a recent articles section authored by people from the Impulse community. You'll also find the navigation to be a lot more friendly with the left hand-side search bar and menu.

When you're ready to search through our library of games and software, you'll notice a whole new look to the Impulse store. First, check out the featured tab that lists all the latest and popular additions with our new "lightening bolt" popularity ranking. Sorting through all your favorite games is now as easy as simply clicking on the Category name you want to sort by i.e. product name, popularity, release date, or price. If you choose to see a bigger list, you can click on the +/- button to expand your list and see all that there is to offer.

Need some help? We've also added a support tab where you can easily find answers to some of our most frequently asked questions, or if you don't see what you're looking for, you can contact support directly through our email system.

If you haven't checked out Impulse yet, visit www.impulsedriven.com to get your exclusive free download of Stardock's new digital distribution platform.


Comments (Page 1)
2 Pages1 2 
on Oct 09, 2008
Very impressive but I have not found the location on the site where I can download the free Stardock's new digital distribution platform Again a very nice site
on Oct 09, 2008
It's on the upper right hand of the page.

http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulse_setup.exe
on Oct 09, 2008
Thank you Island Dog
on Oct 09, 2008
Thank you Island Dog
on Oct 09, 2008
  thanks for scaring the c**p out of me. I think it would be best if the video didn't automatically play irrespective of what tab you are on in Impulse
on Oct 09, 2008

Okay, I'm confused.  When I open Impulse to view the new Impulse I'm not seeing any Home page.  The first button available to me on the left is the Store button.  If I use FF3 or IE7 to go to impulsedriven.com then I see what ID has posted, this is nice.  Is that how looking at impulsedriven.com is supposed to look within Impulse?  If so it's not nice.

Last week and until sometime very recently there was a Demos tab.  It had lot's of free demos.  There is now a Free tab with just 2 items listed (yawn).

In the Store tab when viewing, I can only see 5 items listed at a time.  The screen within Impulse has plenty of room.  I can't find anyway to configure Impulse to display more items per page.  There used to be a Full View button.  It's gone.  I would now have to scroll through 26 pages with 5 items per page to see all the listings in the games tab.

Edit:  Found this there's now a +/- button as a column header that does the expand function.

on Oct 09, 2008

Okay, I'm confused. When I open Impulse to view the new Impulse I'm not seeing any Home page.
Try teh website: Impulsedriven.com

on Oct 09, 2008

Well right Zubaz that's what I was comparing.  Looking at "Impulse" through FF3 or IE7 gives the Home Page.  However, this can't be done with "Impulse" the program.

I also indicated I was seeing some differences in "Impulse" the program from how it used to work.  No longer any Demos tab with lot's of free demos.  I bought a new game not so long ago because I was able to download the demo.  I can't find the demos anymore. 

There's no longer an expanded view button (ah, found this there's a +/- column header to expand the listings).

I can click on an item and see details and visit the publishers web site but, no way to use Impulse directly for Demos anymore.

I think those 2 items not having access to the impulsedriven.com Home page from within Impulse and, I'm assuming this is temporary, not having access to all the demos are causing me to have a flat ho-hum Impulse experience when using Impulse.

 

on Oct 09, 2008
In Impulse, it's now an optional setting that adds the demos to the other pages instead of a seperate tab.
on Oct 10, 2008
Ok....Impulse is telling me I need MacroMedia Flash Player v9.28 or greater to update images and I have the latest release of it directly from the site. If you guys have a link to a better version I'd love to know where it is.
on Oct 10, 2008

Ok....Impulse is telling me I need MacroMedia Flash Player v9.28 or greater to update images and I have the latest release of it directly from the site. If you guys have a link to a better version I'd love to know where it is.

I've seen others post regarding this strange glitch WebG.  Not sure what the solution is though.  Impulse just updated all my images the other day and I'm sure I have the same version of Flash you have.  Maybe Seabass or somebody knows how to solve this.

on Oct 10, 2008

In Impulse, it's now an optional setting that adds the demos to the other pages instead of a seperate tab

I know of no such setting.  I've checked in preferences there's no Demo setting in there.  There's a Free tab on the left with 2 items in it as of yesterday.

on Oct 10, 2008

In Impulse, it's now an optional setting that adds the demos to the other pages instead of a seperate tab

 

on Oct 10, 2008

Thanks Zubaz.  I guess I just didn't see that little white triangle that's sometimes visible and sometimes not visible depending on what tab you're on.  In any case, that gave me 3 game Demos counting Sins which I've already purchased.  Two weeks ago I could easily find numerous game demos available to me through Impulse.  I still can not find them.

I also find this confusing.  Why not just make all the demos available to me on the Free tab like has been done for all the other purchase tabs?

on Oct 10, 2008

Growing pains?

"Free" does not equal "demo" So that I get.

And having setting all over the place can be confusing.  I wish they were all at least in one place (under the orb if we have to) in addition to wherever else (if they hav to be somewhere esle at all).

I also agree that showign demos for apps I have is silly.  Maybe in a later build.

 

2 Pages1 2