Topic: Design help needed.

I'm working on a digg style voting site that allows you to vote more along the lines of a "hot or not" and I'm having a hard time designing the display.

Right now I have this:
http://www.bitdamaged.com/test.html

Which is boring me. Anyone have some ideas for spicing it up?



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

IMHO the hover areas are too small.

The whole thing could use a hard shadow ( i.e. black fill with 1-2px feather offseted by 1px downward ) to stand out.

The text at the bottom might no be needed.

The 'slider' could be replaced by a thumb down & thumb up that shrink/grows depending on which 'hover' area you hover. Or maybe there should be only one hand in the center, pointing up/down and changing size of vertical position based on the user's pick.

I just made a mockup animation in PS and IR:



Also the markup is insanely dense. It must be possible to optimize that and use a single event handler for all the active parts.

HTH



(Edited by poi on 04-06-2007 02:35)

True about the markup.


I'm cheating a bit here and using some of the built in methods with the Rails framework.

All right I like yours better. can I steal some ideas from it?

And do you happen to have those thumb icons? I've been looking for somethign like that.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Sure you can steal some ideas from it. Why do you think I posted that image ? To tease you ?

I made the thumbs myself after having a quick look at Digg. It's a very simple "pixel art" stuff. Grab them from the animated gif. After a second look at Digg's thumbs, mine are a bit shorter. I tend to prefer mines

Thumbs up to that design poi, looks great.


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Thanks.

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(Edited by poi on 04-06-2007 13:28)

EGO sententia sic .

::tao:::: ::cell::

All 1337 aside, that's a great translation site there Tao!

L=>Eng and v/versa has always been a chore; thx

[sense] Organisation is anathema to organisations [/sense]

JSYK, I used 1337 as a metasyntactic variable, actually I wonder why on earth I sticked to CCT instead of using FOO

Heh, yes Ian I found a saved favourites .htm file from last year that I thought I'd lost. It's rather huge so I've been going through it booking again tremendous sites like that.
I think metasyntactic variable is a great name poi, could well describe my mind as being a "place where content can vary".