Topic: New website design. (Page 1 of 1)

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It'll be a resource site for the forum software, MyTopix.

sorry, dont have much time right now. but my first thought: i'm missing a colour here

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Looks nice. Just add a few touches of color ( say on the links, and toss up the brightness and saturation of the bottom border on the navigation ) and you're good to go!

I might be wrong but the [>] bullets in the right gutter don't seem to be vertically centered.

It would be nice if the layout was fluid, or fit in ~800px wide windows.




(Edited by poi on 02-03-2007 18:46)

I debated making it fluid but in the end I didn't really like it. The bullets are vertically centered but the font is lower-case so it's throwing your eyes off. I thought the same thing. I added some color and actually changed the color of the bottom border on the navigation.

I think I'd also use a catchy color on the links, and change the color of the bullets accordingly on hover.

You should use a 'Faux column' to avoid the gap under the 'Featured, ...' blurbs.

Regarding the 800px or fluid layout, I most likely am in minority but the current size of my browser window is 822x652. My laptop is in 1024x768, with a 2 rows taskbar and I've put the tabs toolbar on the right in Opera, and a row of bookmarks on the left hand side.

Well I handled the header. It changes on hover.

I don't like to double post but here is a live preview: http://dsan.boss-gamers.com/

It's possible to your posts during up to 4 hours

Thanks Poi. So whatcha think of the live preview?

Well, I don't wander these halls much anymore and I'm long out of practice... but I'm still opinionated.

First off... congratulations on coming up with a smooth, clean design. Often forgotten in the hustle and bustle of being "creative", sensibility is tossed in the shitter.
Beyond that however, it's obvious in my opinion that you've lulled yourself into a false sense of depth and balance.
This is bland. More bland than bland sites should be. My comment about "a false sense" is a reference to the same problem that people who paint in photoshop often run into.
You can stare at a canvas for hours on end plucking, stroking, chipping, and blending edges and transitions for hours on end... and you can step back and say... YES... depth.
Then something as simple and ridiculous as running a "sharpen" stock filter over your work makes you realize just how flat it has all become.
Immersion tends to do that.

Mas hit the nail on the head right off the bat... and poi has been on it as well.
Your colour selection lacks. While your new "live" version holds much more promise than your original ideas -- you're not "there" yet.
Gold/Yellow goes well with the sort of greys you've chosen here. (something to consider)

I think the banner is a touch tall. You've got two feels happening at the same time...
1. You mashed that icon in there with no breathing room.
2. You spread out the text from that squiggly, useless line to fill the white space... which is presumably the purpose of the squiggly stuff in the first place.
I've always been a fan of an image/icon doing a crafty little overlap on the edge of sites... but it's tricky to pull off, and in all honesty only works well in fairly rare cases.
Anywho - I've no idea why the entire banner highlights when I mouse over it, but it's annoying.

Your menu buttons are also seemingly too tall.
You've got the whole "pseudo-3d" thing happening with the whole page... dark 1px lines next to light ones -- you should do that with the border between buttons as well, it doesn't match the rest of the page.

When I step back and look at your page, I see 7 subjects that stand to be the same in visual priority... which simply doesn't sit well. The right side is smaller... everything on the right needs to scale. I assume because it's not fleshed out all that much, that the white space over there will actually be occupied. If it's not going to be -- change it.
The inner border highlight along the left side of o the main window doesn't intersect with the border to the bottom third of the page. (I browse in Firefox, btw)
I'd also darken the dark or lighten the light subject line underlines... as well as snug them to the topic line by a few pixels.

I'm also of the opinion that the bottom third should have a darker background than it currently does.
Unfortunate coincidence or not, the fact that the "Jaia Bulletins" sub-lines end at the same point (vertically) as where the "Featured" section begins is a bad thing. (the featured section has arrows that are screaming for some colour love)
With the "Webmaster Help" having more lines than the other two sub-subjects, it makes it look like it's out of place... even more so because you crammed the validation line under there.

So yea...
Just passing through and I'd thought I'd drop my extremely quick, "off the top of my head" type comments.
Keep plugging away and keep these folks updated with your changes, eh.
Good luck.



(Edited by Michael on 02-07-2007 08:56)

This site is based on a very commom WordPress template..I use it myself.



http://themes.wordpress.net/testrun/?wptheme=1178

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shame shame....code is pretty similar too.

Later,

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shame shame....code is pretty similar too. Later,C:\

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yeah, pretty sad

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