I'm not keen on the colour of the main bar.
The blue looks a bit too... sickly, for want of a better word for describing it.

That blue is giving me trouble >_>

I changed it to something else, not much of an improvement though so I'm not gonna upload.

I think you should merge Music and graphics into 'Art'. Imo examples doesn't deserve a whole category, it could be a subcategory of each main group. Web Dev, hmm, I'm not so sure of what would someone submit there?
This way you could reduce the main categories into 'Art', 'Games', 'Apps' and 'Web Dev'. However, I still can't make up my mind of whether to merge Games and Apps together, after all, games are technically applications.
Thne it would be easy to subcategorize each, anyways, imo the nav bar doesn't need to be too specific. For example, instead of showing 'Action', show 'Genres', and so on. If you try to be too specific with the nav bar, it will always look overloaded thanks to the large scope of the website.
I don't like that blue either. Make the darker blue a little darker and change the font color there to something lighter. Make the light blue background a little lighter and make the text darker. If you can't make it right, just take a look at other websites that use blue as their main theme (Facebook, Many IPB boards, etc)
I feel a like awkward telling all this to someone who actually works making websites :P

Finally, let me say I like your idea for a new community :)

I have a suggestion. How about this structure:
-- Developers:
- Games
- Apps
- Tutorials/Examples
-- Artists:
- Art
- Tutorials
-- Musicians:
- Music
- Sound
- Tutorials

I was thinking that examples would just be examples of each category. Although it could go the other way and get rid of the Examples main nav and put it under the sub nav of each topic.

What would people put into web dev? Maybe templates they've made, javascript stuff, etc.


True. And I'm not sure that many apps would be posted. That category just may be removed in the future.


Haha don't worry about it. Everyone sees things that others don't.


I like that, but I'd like to show sub categories for each other the developer categories. With games I'd like to show different genres so people can find what they like, things like that.

So...
Developers:

Games (genres: action, adventure, rpg, arcade...)

Apps (genres: none, or perhaps graphical, network, or w/e)

Tutorials/Examples
-- Artists:

Art (categories: digital art, traditional art, but not too deep like deviantart does)

Tutorials
-- Musicians:

Music (genres: rock, pop, electronic, reggae, etc...)

Sound (categories: ambient, machinery, electronic etc...)

Tutorials

Maybe a bit too much nesting?

Also, are you doing this alone or not, because it seems hell of a lot work.

Something like that could work, yeah.

What I've done until now is all my own work. There are people who are willing to help me and I will use them at the next step.

Is it a photoshop mock up or do you have the html and css files?

I have the HTML and CSS all done.

Can you upload it or something so I can play around with it and maybe try and find a better colour. :)

It's not the colour, it's the layout that looks 'not right'.

I made a mockup today. http://64digits.com/users/sir%20Xemic/website.png
It's a bit small, but that can be fixed.

Yeah i think blue is good , just a different shade. Also i think examples should be in games and amps and web dev and maybe even music/art.

and i think the arts could be merged to 'music/art'. that would prolly reduce clutter on the main nav.

You can do a navbar arrow without JS. Web Dev and Apps could be combined into Code or Apps.

Maybe this: Home, Games, Apps, Graphics, Music, Forums
with the sub-nav sometimes containing Examples.

New and Top-Rated could possibly be sorting options rather than nav options to keep things consistent (genres + examples would go in the games sub-nav for example).

Each section should have a front page somewhat like the mockup you have there, with the newest and top-rated stuff showcased. The main site frontpage could have blogs, top-rated stuff from several categories, news, alerts (PM's and followed threads, etc.).

The link problem has been fixed.


They are here, aren't they? Besides, the point of the site is to learn and discover new things, hiding the things that would do that is counter-intuitive.

That's what my site is doing...the games are on the font page.


This site is supposed to appeal to the developer, along with any random person who wants to play a game, which is exactly what 64D does.

Yeh, but the developer doesn't need to be appealed to... you don't write the blurb for someone who's already read the book. Damn, I can't think of any more analogies to explain what I mean.

Look at yoyogames or newgrounds. Both have massive developing communities, who use the websites in lots of ways to learn, help, receive feedback and get an audience. But the front page is there to look nice to the majority of visitors who don't care about the development process, exactly why they don't present WIPs or examples on the front page. Yes, it should be linked on the front page for ease of use, I just find it's given too much priority in a potentially multi-talented community. 64d appeals only to game makers, and even it has more emphasis on finished games over examples. And let's face it, it's not particularly popular anymore, so relying on that formula probably isn't the way to go.

Sorry for going on about it so much. I guess it's whatever everyone else thinks.

Maybe I'm not getting my point across.

I had an idea for a site for developers, for developers to find new techniques and learn new things. Kind of like w3schools, MSDN, tut networks. I didn't want to create a site like newgrounds where the majority of the site's users aren't developers, but people who just go there to play games. I want developers to see what other developers are doing and thinking and learn from each other.

Yeh, I figured you did. I'd just prefer a site that could do both without compromising either.

It would be nice, I agree. Maybe when the site actually gets going, it could be kind of split. Are you a developer? Go here, it has lots of examples to teach you. Not a developer? Go here, here's a bunch of things that the developers have made that may be fun/useful.

The idea behind this type of site is this: there isn't a place(as far as I know) where developers can make examples or games and have fun with the community; this site used be like that. Newgrounds is oriented towards gamers(to me it seems), while tutorial sites(like the ones I mentioned above) are oriented towards learning, but not having fun. My goal is to combine them.

I like this idea though because I am a developer and a lot of times I have questions about things I don't know. This new community will be more centered on developers so that people can help other people out. And while MOST sites are just plain forums or sites with posted questions, this site would allow you to submit content and look at content from other people. (and also free)

And in turn, you can get help/examples from others and maybe advertise you stuff as well.

Here, it is still centered on game maker(even with the added extentions), and blogs.

I like 64 digits, but it would be nice to have a site with more general focus on development. ;)