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Design Thread
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This thread about the existing and upcoming design.

What is good and what not? Is the navigation easy to understand? Is the given information as good as we think? Is the banner to big? Are there to many graphics on the page? Questions over questions.

Just ask us, give sugguestions or comment on things posted here. Feel free to participate and help us making this page even better as it is now.
2005, 09, 05 00:40
i think the site is fine, except for ...

the side module seem kinda cheesy with the gradient :s
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and the 20 map limit on each page should be larger :P

but other than that great job :D!
2005, 09, 05 03:25
I'm playing around with the newsscript and some smal pictures atm. So it's possible to place a picture in the topic line as long i's small enough. It looks "ok" but i'm just playing around.

As well i though about small info-jpgs in the news, like these:



Just a test. I'd like it more if that only would be sybols representing the main-background of the news. Like a tournament tree symbol for the league or a globe for news out of the WWW regarding scbw.

What do you think about that?
2005, 09, 09 18:34
btw, all pics are about 2 to 3 kbs, so no problem with loading time imo. I also managed to get better quality, even on 800x600 the pics look good. In "emergency case" i could replace the *.jpg files with *.gif files, which still are very small and provide better quality.
2005, 09, 09 18:36
Ah, before i mess that up, atm, the topic line only has a certain amount of possible characters, so DON'T put ANY pictures in that line. You CAN`T change the topic/newspost if the link was to long afterwards. Then the actual and the last newspost are melting together to one and the actual post is lost. Just as an explanation ;o)
2005, 09, 09 18:47
I've to say that on a resolution of 1280x1024 the news are very wide, almost too wide to be good and easy readable. Maybe we should think about giving the page a maximum width to provide better readablity.

(Some of these ideas are also notes to myself if i have the chance to change something myself sometime)
2005, 09, 09 18:51


After i was playing around a bit more, i thought about having an icon on theleft hand side beside the topic line. Can you edit the newsscript somehow, so that there is a small space for a topic-info-picture.

Would be graet if we would have a pulldown menu with the icons to choose from which then are displayed on the left side beside the topic as said. Good? Bad? impossible?
2005, 09, 09 19:34
I'd sugguest to change the link color in the navi bars left and right to CCFFFF

As you can see, it`s more eye friendly as well as it doesn`t look like rainweather.
2005, 09, 09 20:14
or maybe 99FFFF, but that might be to bright
2005, 09, 09 20:14
The icon you made (the one with the mouse coursor in it) looks very nice.

I think I could implement this in the next update, make all banners if possible ;) (Do you have possibility to upload them? Just do it in the admin area with the upload tool there (the one without database of course))
2005, 09, 09 23:50
Thx, the picture is already on your FTP. I'll change it a bit, after the blue light in the background is a bit to much on the right side and is cut of thorugh that. it's in a new folder. jhust rightclick the picture -> properties and follow the link :o)

I was almost the whole day around your page yesterday and looked at every css and php and stuff carefully to learn and be able to make some changes by myself someday or give better sugguestions ;)

And yes, i will make some more pictures then amd add it to your ftp. i just create everything i can think of. Should be done easily.

btw, what backgroundcolor? light or dark blue? well, i get to work, the background is done very quick (can't make it transparent because of the blue light)
2005, 09, 10 12:42
Umm...the blue like you used in the thread. I didn't even notice it wasn't transparent, so it's good.

btw do you already have access to the ftp? I don't remember -_-
2005, 09, 10 15:18
Yip ;) you gave me the info in the end of july. k, then i'll make it with dark background.
2005, 09, 10 16:21
ok, i uploaded 17 newsicon files into mappage/pics/icons/newsicon-1on1.jpg i.e.
2005, 09, 10 17:21
just wanted to ask how,when and if you are going to implement the icons i made?
2005, 09, 18 17:47
remake the other graphics with better esolution too
2005, 09, 19 09:43
i will do that when i bought my new pc. This crap i'm on is only making trouble atm. Now my useraccount is somehow "broken" so i'm only known as a guest on my pc... anyway, i'm goin got buy myself a new pc soon, then i`ll update everything that`s necessary.
2005, 09, 19 22:01
nice :)
2005, 09, 20 10:09
Ok, just wanted to post this picture to get a reply:



Is it too much, or does it look good? Shall i create the same background for the other MOTW banner as well i.e.?

next thing is, i'd sugguest this page to be centered, max-width that it fits exactly into the browserwindow on 1024x768. As "some newer" pages have these layout (i.e. b.net).

I think it looks cleaner and it's easier to read. And we wouldn't have to adjust everything when every page has the same scale.

btw, change linkcolor to: CCFFFF or 99FFFF
fits better imo, this grey is a bit depressing ;)
2005, 10, 11 00:26
the banner looks very nice;)

Linkcolor is in the style.css (in the main directory AND in the newsscript directory), I think you can change it yourself;)

The page looks very good with 1024 786 imo, are you saying it is too wide with bigger resolutions?
2005, 10, 11 01:11
Personally i think the site looks fine. I prefer simplicity. If you want to attract more visitors to the site though you wil lwant some flashy design and pictures of random starcraft shit everywhere. Like for example look at sclegacy.
2005, 10, 11 01:14
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