Preserved Topic: Need some advice about this interface.... (Page 1 of 1)

This interface is not yet ready but i want to to show it to you anyway. please send give me some comment. The links are not yet working. Not all the buttons are fully functional. my interface


See you soon on the darkside of the moon (when the Alchemists don't blow it up that is)

[This message has been edited by Rinswind 2th (edited 25-08-2000).]

Well, I hate to be harsh, but I do see a few things that could use a bit of improvement.
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*I think I speak for almost everyone here when I say 'Lose the Lens Flares.' They are generally looked down upon by the top designers, much like eye candy and other gaudy filters. A blurred white circle with the right settings and blending mode will look better.
*You've got some major problems with aliasing--around the top of the interface and the buttons.
*Alot of the text is completely illegible: across the bottom, the numbers on some of the buttons, and some of the mouseover images.
*The shading lacks verisimilitude. Try to make it more realistic looking. Choose a material, and try to imitate the way light would reflect off of that material.
*Is there a purpose for all the little dots in the middle of the interface? I don't think they really add anything, they just look like mistakes.

Sorry for the harsh comments, but I'm just trying to help.




[This message has been edited by mbridge (edited 25-08-2000).]

Hmmmm, hope you don't take my criticsim too harshly, because while this interface scores points for being unique I think almost every aspect of it needs work. Let's start with technical issues:

The buttons and your name both have pretty bad jaggies problem. This is easily remedied in Photoshop by making sure anti-aliasing is turned on for your oval selection and text tools.

The border around the display has some unevenness in height in the upper right and lower left corners that is particularly apparent when mousing over #2.

Design wise:

I think the navigation system should be re-thought. Numbers, while making for nice uniform rounded buttons, don't give anyone a feel for what your site has to offer at a glance. They may have to mouse over all the links several times just to pick where they want to go.

The rollover images should stick with a uniform font system to maintain the feel you want for your site. The different color rollovers are PROBABLY not necessary, although I would like to see the linked pages before saying you should stick with one color.

Finally, what is the colorful background supposed to be exactly? I feel like it would be better if it was more representative of something or at least wasn't so 'blob'-like.

-Liquid that was what i needed. It's my first and i want a good looking one.
i will work on it. I think you ment the little black dots in the buttons. That was a wrong blend color i think.
-Jiblet the colored background is meant to be a glowing blob of some kind of chemical mixture. The colors from the screen represent the different sections so the site is easy to navigate. Maybe i should do this on a different way.
Thanks guys. Sleep wel i go to my bed


See you soon on the darkside of the moon (when the Alchemists don't blow it up that is)

[This message has been edited by Rinswind 2th (edited 25-08-2000).]

well if you say its your first I dont think its too bad <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/redface.gif"> I actually like the concept and with practice, the finer details will get better... good work for job#1... ~Vp~

OOOHHHH!!! Looks like we have a Hitchhiker's Guide fan here. Great series of books, average TV series.




What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine to - First Rule of a Dictatorship

Well Skaarjj i am a fan from the book "a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" don't no nothing about a tv serie. And The interface was not inspired on this though.

More inspiration came from "The Discworld novels." I tried to make some magician-has failed-leftover.... Lol


See you soon on the darkside of the moon (when the Alchemists don't blow it up that is)

[This message has been edited by Rinswind 2th (edited 25-08-2000).]

I think he's talking about "vogonpoet" since, well... Vogon Poetry is some of the worst in the known universe. Next to Ms. Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, of course.


Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.

The second worst is that of the Azagoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve- book epic entitled My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.

The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth.


What a great series <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">




Never insult someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes... that way, if they don't like it, you're at least a mile away, and you have their shoes.

Yeah Im not a big fan of this at all. Sorry Rinswind. Pretty much I hafta agree with everything mbridge said above. Even what jiblet said. Besides that I just think its a bad design. It reminds me of a batman logo that went horribly wrong and then toxic ooze was dumped on it. Im not a big fan of the color scheme or the the shape of the object. Its cool to be unique but I think you should go in a different direction then this. Also did anyone comment on the black background of the interface and the baige(sp?) background of the page?

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Ooooops sorry about that hitchhikers stuff..
i did not look very well
:gives his excuses to vogonpoet:

-Rinswind-