Navigation panel

The navigation panel or contents is a navigational area which has been on almost all of Nitrome's websites. It contains tabs linking to different pages around Nitrome's website. In the Nitrome 2.0 site, some of the tabs were moved from the navigation panel to a navigational bar at the top of the site, while others were moved to a smaller bar at the bottom.

Appearance

Nitrome 1.2

Version 1.2

The Nitrome 1.2 navigation panel consisted of a tall, rectangular box with the list of links going downwards. The first link was the games tab. It had a picture of a hand-held gaming device with eyes, next to the word "games". Below the games was the licensing.

It showed a picture of a piece of paper with a seal on it next to the word "licensing" next to it. Underneath licensing was the services tab, which showed a picture of a wrench next to the word "services". Next came the shop tab, which had a small shopping cart next to the word "shop".

After shop was the contact tab, featuring an envelope next to the word "contact". Under contact was was the jobs tab. The jobs tab had a picture of a coffee mug with the word "jobs" next to it. Lastly, there was the links tab, which had an airplane to the left of the word "links".

Nitrome 1.5

Version 1.5

In the later months of 2007, Nitrome updated their site to 1.5. With the update came a new navagation panel. The new panel no longer said "contents" on the top, but was replaced with an image of the word "Nitrome" in grass with, bushes, flowers, and cartoon wildlife. The newer panel was shorter, due to it having less links.

Similarly to the original navagation, the first link underneath the heading image was "games." The word games appeared next to a picture of a console game controller, and clicking on it would take the player the games Games page.

Underneath the games tab was the tab labeled "shop," which would link the player to an older version of Nitrome's shop. Next to the word shop was a picture of a gold coin (the coin seen was a style of gold coin commonly found in video games). Below the shop tab was the tab for the Nitrome blog. Next to the word "blog" was an image of a white, shadowed speech buble with a blue exclamation mark (!) in it. Clicking on the blog button would take the Nitromian to the site's blog.

Directly beneath "blog" was "skins," which would take players to the skins page. The image for the skins tab was an artist pallet with diferent colored dots of paint (blue, purple, yellow, red, and green). Finally, the last tab on the panel was the tab labeled "links." The links tab would direct players to Nitrome's page of links. The image associated with the links tab were blue chain links linked together

On four occasions, Nitrome changed the heading picture to match certain released skins. These included the Retro skin, Snowman skin, Factory skin and the Steampunk skin.

1.5 with the Classic skin

1.5 with the Snowman skin

1.5 with the Factory skin

Nitrome 2.0

In this update, the navigation panel received a massive overhaul. The panel was made horizontal instead of vertical, and new buttons were added. The existing buttons were given new icons, as well. The new buttons included "iPhone", which linked to Nitrome's iOS games, "Touchy", which linked to the Nitrome Touchy website, and "Steam", which linked to Nitrome's first Steam Greenlight game, Flightless.

All the versions of the Nitrome 2.0 contents with the 100th Game skin

Nitrome 2.5

In this update, only one new button was added, the "Profile" button, which linked to a viewer's Nitrome account if he/she had one. If not, then it linked to the registration page for a Nitrome account.

On March 5th 2014 the iPhone button was replaced with the "Mobile" button.

The Nitrome 2.5 navigation panel with the Avalanche skin

Nitrome 2.6

In this update, two buttons were added, two were removed and three were updated.

The two new buttons are the "HTML5" button; which takes to a page similar to the old "Games" page where all Flash games that were ported to HTML5 can be played, and the "Console" tab (written as "Gonsole"); that takes to a page similar to the "Mobile" site where all Nitrome games released to videogame consoles like the Nintendo Switch or the PlayStation 4 can be found.

The two removed buttons were the "Shop" button; which was removed for unknown reasons, most likely because the shop was very outdated, and the "Profile" button, due to the removal of the accounts.

The three updated buttons are the "Games" button; which is now called "Flash" to represent that the games found in there need Flash to be played, but otherwise is the same as before, the "Steam" button; that aside from being updated visually, instead of taking the player to the Flightless Demo, it now links to a new page similar to the "Mobile" site where all Steam games can be found, and the "Mobile" button, which only received a visual update and included the most recent Nitrome mobile titles.

The Nitrome 2.6 navigation panel with The Bricks skin

Gallery

Skin button

Touchy button

Profile button

Trivia

• Up until Nitrome 2.0, all the links in the navigation panel were uncapitalized words. However, after the update, all the links were words that were in all capital letters.
• Nitrome 1.2 had the longest navigation panel (having seven links) until the fourth update of the Nitrome 2.0, when it tied it.
• Some of the links in the navigation panel of Nitrome 1.2 and 1.5 were moved to the bottom of the website, along with a row of other links, in Nitrome 2.0, such as licensing, contact, jobs, and links.
• Despite the removal of the "Shop" button in Nitrome.com 2.6, the Shop can still be accesed through the direct link: http://www.nitrome.com/shop