Help me make a new Charas design

[Osmose]

I've been staring at Fireworks for about a day now trying to make up a nifty new design to test out on the new server for Charas and I'm still stumped.

Any of you kids want to take a stab at it?

[Ben]

what do you mean 'design'?

ill help if i can

[Osmose]

Just a design, like how it looks, layout, etc. A website design.

I mean a whole site design in general, not just "For the main page" or "For the forums". In theory the forums should look similar to the main website.

I'm hoping for something a little more than just replacing the blue box headers with a little gradient image, though. (So Lucas, a little more than that).

Like how GameFAQs has the same "style" in every area of it's site.

[Grandy]

Masterpiece!

[Linkforce]

Grandy has the best design IMO.  xD

[Moosetroop11]

...SS has been down for months! Is that an old screen or has White actually bothered fixing it???


Anyway, erm, designs. Well. Nothing orange, please. And nothing grey. But you were planning to have optional colours anyway, right?

[Ben]

i will try my hand at a mspaint mockup, as my fireworks are on another computer

[Grandy]

That's a recent screenshot, just the upper part of the forum.

[Dragoon de Sol]

Teh 1337, Grandy!

[Ben]

I made a quick unit

Its ghetto. I dont have my tablet or cool stuffs at my disposal right now.

I tired to use the same colours, byut throw in some white to make it less dark. And some Bigger buttons and a simblified navigation unit.

I could also do a mock up of how it would look in various pages like CR and stuff. it was just thrown together. It could be made with gradients and polished off to look sweet.

generally all of the navigation would be done through those big blobs of blue button up top. Table headers could have graphic Banners or buttons to keep with the whole theme.

again, it looks assy right now, but i just wanted to show an idea of what i saw in my brainz.

[Rowan]

I could try devising one..
I haven't opened photoshop in awhile though so it could take awhile.

[lilsniffs3]

Not much but

[lilsniffs3]

And the change skin does:

[Osmose]

Originally posted by gemini
I made a quick unit

Its ghetto. I dont have my tablet or cool stuffs at my disposal right now.

I tired to use the same colours, byut throw in some white to make it less dark. And some Bigger buttons and a simblified navigation unit.

I could also do a mock up of how it would look in various pages like CR and stuff. it was just thrown together. It could be made with gradients and polished off to look sweet.

generally all of the navigation would be done through those big blobs of blue button up top. Table headers could have graphic Banners or buttons to keep with the whole theme.

again, it looks assy right now, but i just wanted to show an idea of what i saw in my brainz.

I kind've like your approach of integrating the forums with the main site a bit more, but overall your design is more confusing than anything else.

The main idea behind web design is to make the most important information obvious and easily recognizable. The large amount of buttons on your design serves to confused rather than to direct. A good website points the user to where they want to go.

Take, for example, the new header on the new server. One of the biggest changes besides the new graphics themselves is that the generators are now a primary feature - we are a site based on the generators, they should be prominently displayed on at least the front page.

I like that people are putting forth ideas though, and I am finding some good ones in the ideas given so far. KEEP THEM COMING PLZ

[aboutasoandthis]

I think that the overall design and color scheme should be the same, but that it should include more gradients, blurs, and metallic effects.

I really like the look of this site. I'm using it as a reference for my CMS. I might be able to make a site design tomorrow.
http://www.ff-xiii.net/index.php?page=article&article=172

To integrate the forums more, how about having two separate "Last Topics Posted" sections? One would be for games alone and have maybe 5. The other would be for everything else and have 10 as usual.