New Theme Feedback

[tyler569]

Been working with a friend with regard to the possible redesign of the ORE main page i previously mentioned, and he's given me the green light to post his initial concept for feedback.

My friend is making an account right now so he can respond to feedbacks, his forum name is A.J.

As promised: the concept.

[A.J.]

Specifically, any thoughts on the content area(where the two paragraphs of text are located, and the sidebar/quicklinks(server URLs area)). General thoughts are also welcome, though whether or not it fits the theme/I think is a good idea is up to me/tyler me thinks.

Also, whoever did the banner for the YouTube account: Kudos whoever you are. I literally took the idea from that banner and turned it into this draft.

[Nickster258]

I think it looked rather sleek. Great and simple design.

[greatgamer34]

Im diggin it!

[Legofreak]

It's ok. I feel like its missing something. It needs something to make it pop. Maybe we need a logo.

[PabloDons]

can you actually post the html/css file so I can play around with it? anyway I think it looks really cool, but the buttons kinda need to be more button like. They are kinda blending in in my opinion. also with the content below the server list is also kinda blending in a little bit, that is technical information and needs to be separated from the rest of the content. other than that really looks cool with the color scheme and graphics

[Magic :^)]

I was thinking about the logo thing too... It's a minor issue and can honestly be sorted out at any time though :3

[PabloDons]

I made a go at the logo myself since it looked a little too spread out, I kept the colors but I couldn't find the same font you where using so I chose myself. either way it might just be me but I find compact logos to be the best, you could even add in a little bit more graphic after the "Open" part, maybe the classic lamp+piston

[A.J.]

Thanks for the complements!

can you actually post the html/css file so I can play around with it? anyway I think it looks really cool, but the buttons kinda need to be more button like. They are kinda blending in in my opinion. also with the content below the server list is also kinda blending in a little bit, that is technical information and needs to be separated from the rest of the content. other than that really looks cool with the color scheme and graphics

It's an image created in Photoshop displayed in an html file, no real markup/style sheeting has been done as of yet. Have to get the design finalized before that starts.

The navigation links will have some css selector parameters to make it not so plain.

I was confused what you were specifically talking about in the last two sentences, until I realized it was targeted at my use at white space. Yeah, it could definetly use something to distinguish between the main content area and the sidebar. I'm still thinking about how to improve it. I think the main reasons it's like that is due to me getting hungry when I got to the page content and lost my creative energy.

Edit: Got ninja'd while posting on my tablet.

I made a go at the logo myself since it looked a little too spread out, I kept the colors but I couldn't find the same font you where using so I chose myself.

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Josefin+Sans
I'll certainly play with some ideas surrounding that.

either way it might just be me but I find compact logos to be the best, you could even add in a little bit more graphic after the "Open" part, maybe the classic lamp+piston

I thought about doing the same thing, the problem is not making it look corny. I've been playing around the idea of making a simplistic piston attached to a glowstone block redstone lamp...Just need to sit down and hammer one out and see how it turns out.

[Nickster258]

My only suggestion is to make the area where the IPs are listed to be more defined. Because there is no clear transition between the IPs and the descriptive paragraphs, I feel like it doesn't flow as easily.

[Legofreak]

This is me being bored... Is freeform RS dust blasphemy?

[A.J.]

New draft. Took the content void and put some real organization into it. Discussed about possibly using a Minecraft server info plugin with Tyler, just in case you're wondering where the stats come from. This is how it might look.

Will think over a logo in the coming days. Also will try to insert a Minecraft redstone element of some kind. Hopefully. If its not done right it'll look corny as hell, especially with my hunger for minimalism.

Draft 4


Edit: For those interested in the evolution:
Draft 1
Draft 2
Draft 3
Draft 4

[Nickster258]

I love the way you made the IPs!

[PabloDons]

I love the way you made the IPs!

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agreed! would still definitely add a divider though:


maybe not exactly this, but I Would still recommend some kind of divider there

EDIT: also about the ping thing, there's really no point as ping just measures the time it takes for data to reach the server and back meaning it varies from place to place

[LordDecapo]

I love the minimalist design of this
I agree on the posts I see about a logo tho. Im good with those sorta things. I'll make one and post here for ppm to look at later.

P.s. those divider lines, are schmexi

P.s.s The server stats are a nice touch in the more recent drafts

[A.J.]

I love the way you made the IPs!

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agreed! would still definitely add a divider though:
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maybe not exactly this, but I Would still recommend some kind of divider there

EDIT: also about the ping thing, there's really no point as ping just measures the time it takes for data to reach the server and back meaning it varies from place to place

I feel anything I have tried to add between the main content and the side bar would just add visual clutter, just using the title blocks as a sort of pseudo separator is just the right amount imo.

[PabloDons]

alright I feel ya. in that case all that I see missing a little bit more work is the buttons. It still looks really blended in. I'll go ahead and work on an idea I had and post it later

EDIT: here are my two designs:


and then this one:


feel free to use my ideas as you wish

[Nuuppanaani]

Would this be of interest to us?

Edit: Noticed the wobsite looks different on chrome than on firefox: pics.

[tokumei]

alright I feel ya. in that case all that I see missing a little bit more work is the buttons. It still looks really blended in. I'll go ahead and work on an idea I had and post it later

EDIT: here are my two designs:
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and then this one:
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feel free to use my ideas as you wish

1. No, too cluttered at the top.
2. Yes, perfect.

[PabloDons]

-snip-
here are my two designs:
-snip of -snip-s-

1. No, too cluttered at the top.
2. Yes, perfect.

in which case, do you think the logo should be the only thing up there? it is not centered after all. and just this thing floating a little to the left feels weird

[A.J.]

Edit: Noticed the wobsite looks different on chrome than on firefox: pics.

Edit: I didn't see the 2nd imgur image. Previous comments retracted.

[PabloDons]

Also why wasn't I sent this? AHHHHHHHHHHHH

well because nobody knew the html/css code was actually made at all...

[VoltzLive]

I'd Change the white background to a slightly darker gray(#C0C0C0), Move the "Forums", "Chat" (etc) buttons put to the right side of the video, and maybe throw in some chat or a recent project feed.

[greatgamer34]

We should have a live server map.

[Nickster258]

We should have a live server map.

After some testing I have decided to drop PlotMe for PlotSquared due to the incredible amount of features, schematic system, dynmap support, and worldedit for each plot.

We will have dynmap on the 1.8 server.

[PabloDons]

what happened to this again?

[tyler569]

Me having school and not having an immediate plan for what to do about the forum happened.

This is still all sitting on my replacement server that I still intend to use, but my time and state of setup leave me unable to complete the work at this time.

[A.J.]

Me having school

This. Also finally made some adjustments to the css and it the site should less like Frankenstein's monster. If it still does look like Frankenstein's monster, please post here or PM me.

[PabloDons]

There's pretty bad problems with mobile thou just sayan. Attatchements...

[A.J.]

There's pretty bad problems with mobile thou just sayan. Attatchements...

One line fix.

[PabloDons]

nice, btw can I have the source code to mess around with?

[tyler569]

I think I'm at the stage when I'd like crowd feedback, so, if I may ask any interested parties to go to http://lucifugus.vms.pw/ and poke around a little.

Look at the wordpress, register for the forum, make sure it all works.

The forum will be cleared before it really goes live regardless of what we end up doing with it, but please don't take that as license to be too stupid until then.

Note that as it stands the forum is how it will look when it goes live (except the logo). I had been looking in to updating the current theme for it, but enough things have changed since 1.6 to make me think it's not worth it at least for me to put the effort in. We'll leave the forums default for now and if in future someone comes to me with a better design I won't hesitate to consider it.


Thanks for your crowd-debugging,
T

[PabloDons]

if ur gonna put the teamspeak password on the fornt page, then what's the point? It would be much more useful if people would need to ask online so that it is rather members than others that use ts

[LordDecapo]

Hey tyler, I don't see a main navigation bar to easily get to furs and such..
actually it's there, but I'm on mobile, and it loaded those links somewhere behind the YouTube video. Not sure why,

[tyler569]

if ur gonna put the teamspeak password on the fornt page, then what's the point? It would be much more useful if people would need to ask online so that it is rather members than others that use ts

The fact that the password exists solely and only to prevent random people (often who don't speak english) from happening upon the TS randomly and deciding to set up shop there.

This used to happen rather often, and has not once since the password was instituted. I count this a win.

[Nickster258]

mmmmmhmmmmmm

[Xray_Doc]

White and blue? I approve