New Community Project #3

Posted by Kaz on Oct. 23, 2009, 3:58 p.m.

So I'm getting over bronchitis pretty easily. Yay antibiotics! I also got paid today for working on websites. YAY $150 FOR DOING NOTHING DIFFERENT!

Anyway, onto the real subject matter.

If you notice that it looks somewhat different from the last design. The reason is because I was bored and coded the entire site last night. That's right, that is all HTML and working 100% in every browser. I didn't do anything else besides the HTML so that's why the navbar arrow isn't shown, that needs JS.

Problems:

-Needs a name

-Needs a logo

-Main nav needs to be smaller, any suggestions for better categorizing?

Please post any suggestions to anything in here. After that I will start coding the other parts.

Comments

eagly 14 years, 6 months ago

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.

Kaz 14 years, 6 months ago

That blue is giving me trouble >_>

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

Josea 14 years, 6 months ago

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 :)

sirxemic 14 years, 6 months ago

I have a suggestion. How about this structure:

– Developers:

- Games

- Apps

- Tutorials/Examples

– Artists:

- Art

- Tutorials

– Musicians:

- Music

- Sound

- Tutorials

Kaz 14 years, 6 months ago

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.

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after all, games are technically applications.
True. And I'm not sure that many apps would be posted. That category just may be removed in the future.

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I feel a like awkward telling all this to someone who actually works making websites :P
Haha don't worry about it. Everyone sees things that others don't.

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I have a suggestion. How about this structure:

– Developers:

- Games

- Apps

- Tutorials/Examples

– Artists:

- Art

- Tutorials

– Musicians:

- Music

- Sound

- Tutorials
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.

sirxemic 14 years, 6 months ago

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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.
  • Kaz 14 years, 6 months ago

    Quote:
    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
    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.

    eagly 14 years, 6 months ago

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

    Kaz 14 years, 6 months ago

    I have the HTML and CSS all done.

    eagly 14 years, 6 months ago

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