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Dom H
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25th Apr 07 at 13:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It'll be a portfolio for a graphic design student, who's also very underground art/graffiti orientated.

There will be an entrance page then this main site will be in a pop up window. Pop up windows are gay, I know, but it's what he wants. The bit where the text is now will be where the content is loaded/changed using a divvv..



Opinions please? It's not finished yet, and I'm waiting for him to send me a better, more detailed design of his character.

[Edited on 25-04-2007 by Dom H]

[Edited on 26-04-2007 by Dom H]
Dom H
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25th Apr 07 at 13:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The text and the character will be alot more crisp when it's finished also.

I wish I knew flash..
Aaron
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25th Apr 07 at 13:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Geek Day
K17STY
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25th Apr 07 at 13:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
too plain and boring. looks like most of the underground scene artist websites.
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25th Apr 07 at 13:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
font needs changing, mabey a dark grey
AndyKent
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25th Apr 07 at 13:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Make the 'welcome to....' bit bigger - gets lost with the rest of the text.

Make him get rid of the pop-up - nothing is a bigger pain and makes me cross out again.
Cosmo
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25th Apr 07 at 13:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
try and push him away from the pop-up, nothing I hate more, especially when Ive got multiple sites up in different tabs and one wants to be in its own window

Design generally looks good, once there is proper content in it will look 1000x better too.
Dom H
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25th Apr 07 at 13:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Might be able to sway him from the pop up, but then this design will be useless..

Think I've finished now.
liamC
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25th Apr 07 at 14:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Dom H
It'll be a portfolio for a graphic design student, who's also very underground art/graffiti orientated.

There will be an entrance page then this main site will be in a pop up window. Pop up windows are gay, I know, but it's what he wants. The bit where the text is now will be where the content is loaded/changed using a divvv..

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f149/vxdom/Design-2.jpg[/IMG]

Opinions please? It's not finished yet, and I'm waiting for him to send me a better, more detailed design of his character.

[Edited on 25-04-2007 by Dom H]


Is this going to be Flash?

If is it NOT going to be flash, I have one point; The font you have that chosen will only display correctly for the people who have that font on their machine. If they don't, then the site is going to look dodgy.

The only other way you could do it using that font is have the font as an image, but not only does that mean bigger loading times, but also search engines can't catch the text in the site.

Something to bare in mind...

Where are the links going BTW?
Rus
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25th Apr 07 at 14:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
use a nice designer font like ariel or helvetica neue
Rus
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25th Apr 07 at 14:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
no more than 12 point. Unless its condensed
Dom H
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25th Apr 07 at 14:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yepp, I know about the fonts.

I'll be using Helvetica and Ariel or Lucida Sans Unicode.
Rus
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25th Apr 07 at 14:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cool. all i can say is keep it consisant and well balanced
Dom H
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25th Apr 07 at 14:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Will certainly try, however the website will be updated by the guy it's made for and not me so I'm gonna have to do everything I can with the style sheet to make sure he can't do.. anything.
AdZ9
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25th Apr 07 at 14:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
phew, was gonna say that font is shit, such effort to read!

I always sway to Verdana, don't know why, the design looks ok, but like someone said most grungy/underground sites look the same so could do with something that will make it stand out more.
Dom H
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25th Apr 07 at 14:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Was thinking the same.. thought about spicing it up with some bright colours here and there but I really don't think it'd fit in well.. Any ideas?
AdZ9
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25th Apr 07 at 15:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i reckon it could, go for a graffitti underground style, can use some bright colours then and it wont look so grungey. It gets boring seeing the same colours/style used
Dom H
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26th Apr 07 at 14:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah, shame its so dull. He's happy with it though, so all's good.

I've almost finished it now.. I just have one thing to overcome, the scrollbars in the middle of the design. I'm trying to find a method that allows me to have the scrollers in the usual place and still have the text in the box, but I can't find anything.

http://www.skatebasingstoke.com/clients/dirty30/starter.htm

Opinions? I personally would like to redesign the site more to the theme of the entrance page, but I'm not spending any more time on it..
AndyKent
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26th Apr 07 at 16:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
In IE 7 it looks wierd on that starter page - I was confused what to do?

You should instantly know what to press to go further on into the site....
Cosmo
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26th Apr 07 at 16:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
change the colour of the splash page to match the main site then
Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by aPk
In IE 7 it looks wierd on that starter page - I was confused what to do?

You should instantly know what to press to go further on into the site....


same here!

Maybe a big 'spray paint' stlye enter pointing down to the image or something like that.
Dom H
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26th Apr 07 at 18:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah.. I'll sort that out, but right now I'm trying to get it to work in IE6. So frustrating, it works perfectly in Firefox, Safari, Camino.. but not the most popular browser because IE6 doesn't support position:fixed.

I've been doing this ALL day, and might aswell bin it and start again.

http://skatebasingstoke.com/clients/dirty30/bug.html

Does anyone use IE6 anymore?
Dom H
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26th Apr 07 at 23:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
FINISHED.

( but I'll be changing the splash page before it goes live ).
Cosmo
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26th Apr 07 at 23:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
when you click on the link (in the text part of the site) is it meant to open into a new window the same small size as the main site?
Dom H
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26th Apr 07 at 23:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No. What browser are you using? It just loads in a normal sized window on FF2 for Mac and Safari. Shouldn't be the same size as the small pop up site..

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