http://alpha-techs.co.uk/TAN/ Done more to what was there last night.
Changes:
- Toned down the rounded borders. 1px was stupidly unnoticable so I went with 2px. Like proof said it breaks that up a bit.
- Lightened up the background image, ZaGGeh mentioned that it was ahrd to see the "his int ews" bit of the logo. Looks clearer now.
- Added polls, videos and forum posts to the site and also cleaned up the formatting a little. Comments and posted by is now together at the bottom. Tags also look neater now.
- Text of a description now wraps around the image for the link/article/whateveritis
- Proof complained about the font for the "featured [___]" bit but someone else said they liked the courier font. I used courier because it wasn't too clear which font was in use on proofs design brief and aidorocks might be working away on something right now and he did mention that the font he'd used on one of the designs was courier. Change it to sans-serif or arial? Another?
Want to do:
- Figure out the best way of getting the TIN/TAN on the featured side bar. I tried to make them smaller but started failing and realised I was getting stuck on that instead of getting something looking like I've got now. My idea was to have miniture versions of them now somewhere, probably above the tags?
- Figure out the best kind of menu to use for the "All | Links | Pictures...." part as that was something someone mentioned about
I'm quite happy with how the polls worked out. Spent a bit of time getting that right and checking for stuff that breaks it. Might still break, not sure, but works ok for now (obviously it's not live stuff that works like voting but yeah).
Please post suggestions and constructive criticism!
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If you wanted to know, the font was Verdana Bold with character spacing set to -150 in photoshop, didn't bother figuring out the exact measurement in em for css, but you can easily play with that till it works out nicely.
You should put the circular gradient back behind the tan logo that was there, it was a double gradient with white on either side and dark-off-gray of the background in the middle, everything will contrast much nicer, no one will be able to see the diagonal line pattern at higher resolution, or on mobile phones it could really distort the top of the site
Also I suggest adding a few more pixels to spacing in the right feature blocks on the tan/tin button margins, and also between the title and the content, it won't look so cramped up, probably 2 or 3 px would do a world of difference.
If you wanted to know, the font was Verdana Bold with character spacing set to -150 in photoshop, didn't bother figuring out the exact measurement in em for css, but you can easily play with that till it works out nicely.
You should put the circular gradient back behind the tan logo that was there, it was a double gradient with white on either side and dark-off-gray of the background in the middle, everything will contrast much nicer, no one will be able to see the diagonal line pattern at higher resolution, or on mobile phones it could really distort the top of the site
Also I suggest adding a few more pixels to spacing in the right feature blocks on the tan/tin button margins, and also between the title and the content, it won't look so cramped up, probably 2 or 3 px would do a world of difference.
p.s. i do like the colour better for forums n that, but polls and videos looks the same to me, kinda like forum and video do now. it's difficult eh. but i do like that background fade on the menu. i likes it a lot.
p.s. i do like the colour better for forums n that, but polls and videos looks the same to me, kinda like forum and video do now. it's difficult eh. but i do like that background fade on the menu. i likes it a lot.
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You stupid retards are forgetting the whole concept of a redesign. All you are doing is changing the colours and putting rounded corners. kill yourself please.
You stupid retards are forgetting the whole concept of a redesign. All you are doing is changing the colours and putting rounded corners. kill yourself please.
p.s. i do like the colour better for forums n that, but polls and videos looks the same to me, kinda like forum and video do now. it's difficult eh. but i do like that background fade on the menu. i likes it a lot.
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Cheers. I did some more last night that's not uploaded but I'll have a jimmy around with the colours and see what's what. The Videos' colour is a little hard to see on the latest comments on my monitor too so that probs needs tog o.
In proof's credit he put up a design like I asked and I went off and did some shit based on that... I just didn't expect the amount of butthurt that came afterwards.
[quote user=Ras] [quote user=Enter_Ninja]This is so fucking retarded all you are doing is changing colours. Slap yourself please![/quote]
You stupid retards are forgetting the whole concept of a redesign. All you are doing is changing the colours and putting rounded corners. kill yourself please.
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I'll strap a bomb to my chest if you do?
p.s. i do like the colour better for forums n that, but polls and videos looks the same to me, kinda like forum and video do now. it's difficult eh. but i do like that background fade on the menu. i likes it a lot.
Cheers. I did some more last night that's not uploaded but I'll have a jimmy around with the colours and see what's what. The Videos' colour is a little hard to see on the latest comments on my monitor too so that probs needs tog o.
In proof's credit he put up a design like I asked and I went off and did some shit based on that... I just didn't expect the amount of butthurt that came afterwards.
You stupid retards are forgetting the whole concept of a redesign. All you are doing is changing the colours and putting rounded corners. kill yourself please.
I'll strap a bomb to my chest if you do?