Updated site look

Discussion in 'Site News, Questions and Feedback' started by Myke, Sep 5, 2004.

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  1. Myke

    Myke Administrator Staff Member Content Manager Kage

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    Updated the site look slightly. What do you think?

    Let me know if anything's broken.

    The vf3 section is still there, just not available in the sidebar menu. I'll get that fixed eventually.
     
    Myke, Sep 5, 2004
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  2. KiwE

    KiwE Well-Known Member

    Sorry to say I'm not a fan of it (thought old one looked better). The top forum picture is ok I guess; feels a little simplistic with just the sky though (like PS abuse), but the frontpage looks chunky and not like things go seamlessly into eachother. Maybe black as a backgroundcolor should be changed now if this "light" theme is to be on the frontpage? Any reason you decided to put the calendar like that btw (future plans)? Looks abit weird.

    Edit: Just realized the calendar is to click for upcoming events :p
    /KiwE
     
    KiwE, Sep 5, 2004
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  3. GodEater

    GodEater Well-Known Member

    Nice work, Myke! I didn't know what happened when I first loaded the site!

    GE
     
    GodEater, Sep 5, 2004
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  4. O_o

    O_o Active Member

    sweetness
     
    O_o, Sep 5, 2004
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  5. GLC

    GLC Well-Known Member

    WHAT THE FUCK

    Jesus, what the heck is this? VFDC got redesigned, this time by a color-blind, 10 year old kid! It looks horrid. HORRID. The old layout wasn't too hot, but this is REALLY bad.

    The choice of colors - crap! Gold + navy + red? Did someone vomit here? The main upper menu and character column on the index page look like shit - bad font choice, plus italics... bad... the character pics don't help shit. The site is now a bunch of loosely placed tables.

    The only part that looks OK is the forum, if overlook that fucked up 'home, versus city, media..." menu.

    Note: And some of the sub pages are broken in Opera - eg. tables are on different levels.
     
    GLC, Sep 5, 2004
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  6. Siyko

    Siyko Well-Known Member

    i like it! the character selecto-dealie on the left is cool, and the calendar on the right is also very fancy.

    The sky background on the main page is a little distracting, but could be fixed if you add the VF1 stage midi /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
     
    Siyko, Sep 5, 2004
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  7. PhoenixDth

    PhoenixDth Well-Known Member

    i can still see jeffrys glove :O
     
    PhoenixDth, Sep 5, 2004
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  8. FatalRose

    FatalRose Well-Known Member

    I think it's nice looking. I kinda got tired of seeing Dural.

    EDIT: I changed the theme to infopop2 and now the clouds at the top no longer show up.
     
    FatalRose, Sep 5, 2004
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  9. Vith_Dos

    Vith_Dos Well-Known Member

    Messa like da main page.

    I thought the dural pick was awesome, but not a fan of the sky deal. *shruggies* How bouts a collage of all the charactrers for the banner!
     
    Vith_Dos, Sep 5, 2004
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  10. ice-9

    ice-9 Well-Known Member

    Hey Myke, looks great! I'm in favor of a light-colored or white background. May be worth a try, though I don't know if it meshes well with the forum blue. Might be too much of a contrast.

    Anyway, broken linke on "My Home?" It keeps directing me to log-in.
     
    ice-9, Sep 6, 2004
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  11. sanjuroAKIRA

    sanjuroAKIRA Well-Known Member

    It's so purrty!
     
    sanjuroAKIRA, Sep 6, 2004
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  12. Myke

    Myke Administrator Staff Member Content Manager Kage

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    [ QUOTE ]
    ice-9 said:

    Hey Myke, looks great! I'm in favor of a light-colored or white background. May be worth a try, though I don't know if it meshes well with the forum blue. Might be too much of a contrast.

    [/ QUOTE ]

    I originally toyed with the idea of a lighter theme (white bg, etc) but it involved too much work /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif and a (subconscious) part of me doesn't relate VF with bright lights considering it's an activity that mainly takes place late in the evening /versus/images/graemlins/wink.gif

    Anyway, I'm away on business at the moment, but when I return I may look into it further.

    Here's another bg image I toyed with but opted against in the end:

    http://virtuafighter.com/index_city.php

    Again, it's going with the darker theme.

    [ QUOTE ]
    Anyway, broken linke on "My Home?" It keeps directing me to log-in.

    [/ QUOTE ]

    The link should still work the same. I suspect you're having either cookie or caching issues. Clear those out and try again if you already haven't.

    There's also a sticky post in the Question and Feedback board to do with browser problems which may help you as well.
     
    Myke, Sep 7, 2004
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  13. O_o

    O_o Active Member

    [ QUOTE ]
    Myke said:

    http://virtuafighter.com/index_city.php



    [/ QUOTE ]

    sweetness. it'd be cool if u could choose the background on front page, with the stages... keep up the good work myke /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
     
    O_o, Sep 7, 2004
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  14. GodEater

    GodEater Well-Known Member

    I think I like the darker theme better. It seems more consistent.

    GE
     
    GodEater, Sep 7, 2004
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  15. ice-9

    ice-9 Well-Known Member

    Yep, it was a cookie issue. Some damn spyware has infected my computer. !@$#!@%~
     
    ice-9, Sep 7, 2004
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  16. Shadowdean

    Shadowdean Well-Known Member

    I think that picture in the background is a bit distracting..also, the menues now seem to be floating by themselves, kinda disjointed...I have to say this is not a positive upgrade overall..
     
    Shadowdean, Sep 7, 2004
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  17. Myke

    Myke Administrator Staff Member Content Manager Kage

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    You know, if there are any budding artists or site designers out there that might want to pass on some constructive ideas, I'd love to see/read them.

    What's so distracting about the background? There's barely anything there. If anything, it should be less distracting than the closeup of dural's eyes we got used to seeing for 2 years. For my mind, the background is exactly that -- a background. As opposed to a foreground that's just shoved behind items of interest.

    The floating tables being disjointed.. well.. yeah.. that was the idea!? I was going for the float look. Ideally, I wanted the background colours of the floating tables to be semi-transparent, to reveal more of the background, but there's just too much trouble to get that working right for all browsers.

    I think the presentation of the News items on the home page looks more organised now. The red square anchors your eye to each story. I really hated the way the news was presented previously.

    By and large, the colour scheme of the site hasn't changed at all. On the home page there are additional touches of red, but that shouldn't freak anyone out since red highlights are used in the forum anyway, as well as being the colour of the logo. Besides that, I've gone with a red/blue background for headings of the floating tables. The red/blue, of course, coming from the traditional 1P and 2P colours /versus/images/graemlins/wink.gif Overall, I feel that the balance is there.

    I'm not afraid of any criticism, as long as it's constructive in some way?
     
    Myke, Sep 8, 2004
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  18. KiwE

    KiwE Well-Known Member

    I'd say two things first if going constructive; if you want the red square - make it more lightred (like upper left of the vfdc logo) and don't use italics on links ever (like the table with the names of the chars in vf).

    /KiwE
     
    KiwE, Sep 8, 2004
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  19. Myke

    Myke Administrator Staff Member Content Manager Kage

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    What's wrong with italics? I'll take a stab in the dark here and assume that it looks jaggy on your screen? If so, you should enable font smoothing in your OS (presuming you're using XP).

    Telling me not to use something ever again isn't really constructive if you don't tell me why.

    As for the lighter red, it might look too bright. I wanted it to match the darker red tone of the logo. But I'll play with it when I return to see what it actually looks like.
     
    Myke, Sep 8, 2004
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  20. Shadowdean

    Shadowdean Well-Known Member

    Constructive? Ok...well, I more or less liked the old way..either make the pictue now more seamless with the background...or just do away with it....it just sorta sits back there...and the colors are no where else on the page....as for floating windows....I guess you like them but not me...sorry if that is not costructive...but what do you want me to say...I love the windows, except how they are done now?
     
    Shadowdean, Sep 8, 2004
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