Layouts - Your thoughts?

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:16 pm

For a while i've been messing around with designs for a new personal site named [i]Take.Twenty.Three[/i] or [i]3xT[/i] (3 times T).

Made these last week but wasn't particularly keen on them. Will probably keep trying and messing around with a few more designs until i'm happy. I don't want an overly graphic layout which people are probably used to seeing from me. Just something clean and simple, which'll get people coming back.

Your thoughts on the attached please?

[i](Note to dialup users: The files are at least 360kb)[/i]

Post by **Marko** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:27 am

they are both good but i prefer the attachment on the right.

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:55 am

Hmm, thanks Hoax. I preferred the one on the right too but wasn't ecstatic about it.

Edit: Uploaded image instead of linking to it, also added splash page:

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:28 am

I'm not to crazy about the first two, but the last one rocks my hello kitty boots

It has a nice simple feel to it and looks pretty professional. Well done (Y)

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:53 am

Thanks Josh

I'm liking the last one a lot, am thinking i'll use it. Just waiting to see if any comments point out any suggestions/changes (except "it's white").

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:20 am

Now that I'm looking at it, the navigation links just don't fit in with the whole thing.. They're to small with a lot of white space to the right of them.. Any way you can liven it up a little bit in there?

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:23 am

Hmm, I was thinking of adding a 'Clicks' thing, like:

LINK CLICKS
- Home ( 37 )

But apart from that i've got nothing, unless I put more space to left and just left align them a bit closer to the middle. Any ideas?

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:37 am

I would only use link clicks for like affiliates, or some kind of 'popular link contest' thing lol... Ummm.. Maybe you could increase the letter spacing just a little bit?

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:12 am

Yeh that was the downside to my idea, lol. I could increase the spacing, it's a thought. But the words are quite short so i'm not sure how much of an impact that'll have.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:36 am

I'm stumped.. Sorry

lol

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:15 pm

Nearly 70 views and I know they're not all from Josh and I. Anyone else looking at this, ideas?

Post by **Marko** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:26 pm

second one looks, clean and profesional, i have no crits

RuffRyders · Post by **RuffRyders** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:46 pm

I like the second two, more so then the first one.

I'll reply with some suggestions soon, a little busy atm.

mobil1_oils · Post by **mobil1_oils** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:53 pm

[b][i][color="gray"][font="tahoma"]I do like the second one more so than the first two, but i really don't like white sites all that much, so to me it's "good" but not "Great"... thats just a personal thing, the site looks great from a visual perspective. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:31 pm

Ok thanks guys. Interested to see what Ruff's got to say?

I've noticed quite a few of you nocturnal staff members don't like white sites.. weirdo's!

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:25 am

The third one (with splash) looks very clean and very original. I love it. I don't like the font that you've used as for headings, and I'm not sure if that's fixed-width or not, but if it is I think it would look good if the header stretched the whole way across the screen. Great job mate

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:48 am

The header and footer will be tiled across the screen. The image is only 800x800 so I can understand why you may think it'd be fixed width. As for the font, any suggestions? If you're talking about the section header font, that's Times, the body text is Tahoma.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 5:49 am

[quote name='Sp3culuM' date='Dec 26 2004, 01:31 AM']Ok thanks guys. Interested to see what Ruff's got to say?

I've noticed quite a few of you nocturnal staff members don't like white sites.. weirdo's!
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lol, yea I noticed that too... I don't mind white sites at all

Just as long as there's some type of color somewhere, if it's all just black and a middle tone grey then I wouldn't like it.

I have to agree on the font, I think you should use a different font but I have no idea's for a font. I need to download more fonts right now because the ones I do have are not the ones I really like. (sad)

*sigh*

RuffRyders · Post by **RuffRyders** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:41 pm

Perhaps if you replaced the hyphens before the text in the menu with something else?

Just a thought

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It definitely looks professional (Y)

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Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:05 am

I have done Ruff, I've coded most of the layout

and thanks (Y)

Vercz · Post by **Vercz** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:18 am

[color="green"]now im not one for white..but that does look rather impressive

top notch spec [/color]

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:09 am

lol, thanks (Y)

Post by **Jim** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:09 am

Being a late night person myself...I would usually pick the black one but the white one looks swell (Y)

keep it

radar · Post by **radar** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:25 pm

I like the white one. It looks cleaner and smoother than the black.

Sp3culuM · Post by **Sp3culuM** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:05 am

Yeh thanks guys. For anyone outside the KN staff, I've coded the white one and am about 5-10% through the PHP. Fun stuff.