New Spring site design, I need your feedback.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 24 Sep 2007, 08:36

How long is the delay time before a news item posts from the community news to the frontage? Can it be removed please?

Satirik · Post by **Satirik** » 16 Nov 2007, 13:39

so the new site is dead ?

AF · Post by AF » 16 Nov 2007, 18:04

Tim said somewhere else he was unable to work on this due to his job and was taking a break from the site.

He also promised he would finish the site himself when his work dies down in january.

AF · Post by AF » 02 Dec 2007, 03:54

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 02 Dec 2007, 03:59

Looks nice.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 02 Dec 2007, 04:56

looks cool.

rcdraco · Post by **rcdraco** » 02 Dec 2007, 04:59

I like it, few suggestions:

Borders on the 2 picture boxes.

A vibrant red-orange with a horizontal gradient on the top would really improve it, either to black, or grey, on the buttons side.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 02 Dec 2007, 05:13

Short, sweet, to the point... I think I like it... I'd like to see some concepts of what it would look like "inside"... also

I really like 1, your header... not sure on the color thinking something more camo-or khaki

I don't like 2, the "web 2.0" roundiness here... I think a drop shaddow for the stuff "on the top"

3 should be "shiny rounded" like you have 2 instead.

I would lik to see "drop shaddows" at 2 and 4 instead of just matte... it might be going too far though...

AF · Post by AF » 02 Dec 2007, 05:21

I would have added drop shadows on the rounded boxes but I didn't know how in paint .net. Remember this isn't html+css it's mouse+paintbrush. I just wanted to show sort of what I had in mind, so don't treat it as a photographic representation.

So yah, the boxes need something on the edges like a shadow and a better detail on header and the menu bar/buttons need actual detail etc. That would be in the html version. But for now this is just concept art not work in progress.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 02 Dec 2007, 05:23

yeah... what you said was exactly what I was talking about...

AF · Post by AF » 02 Dec 2007, 05:28

But still, just to be clear.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 02 Dec 2007, 14:25

too big text

AF · Post by AF » 02 Dec 2007, 16:10

That's sort of the point, it's a front page not a news column, so you want big eye catching text, and not much of it.

For example:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Something more like that would work much better for our front page than walls of text aligned in boxes with the odd thumbnail and emoticon.

The top banner I put as red because it matches the new logo artwork I did for the installer and the icons, and it serves as the highlight colour to the 2 shades of complimentary blues.

CarRepairer · Post by **CarRepairer** » 04 Dec 2007, 23:59

I love it.

And good call not putting in the screenshot an LRPC made from bricks and mortar (complete with construction crew and a guy holding a clipboard)

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 05 Dec 2007, 00:06

Almost looks like a blog, no don't like that. Needs to be more individual.

clericvash · Post by **clericvash** » 05 Dec 2007, 15:10

AF wrote:

Love it.

BaNa · Post by **BaNa** » 10 Dec 2007, 23:48

I made a more metallic-looking spring logo, instead of the big plain text. How U like?

http://www.unknown-files.net/spring/3854/Spring_Logo/

I like the design concept, but I'd rather put the three main choices in big buttons that are next to each other under the spring logo, and when I say big I mean BIG.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 11 Dec 2007, 00:06

AF wrote:That's sort of the point, it's a front page not a news column, so you want big eye catching text, and not much of it.

Actually i dont read too big texts, because they are usually just useless ads on web.

Which is why i dont like it...

Complicated · Post by **Complicated** » 11 Dec 2007, 00:23

Do a flash based website, include the second trailer. ;]

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 11 Dec 2007, 00:27

Pretty nice. Could use some improvement, reminds of the old gunbound.net interface. Except not 100% flash so it takes forever to load...

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