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[Sirosky]

Sorry, I was interrupted while typing so I lost my train of thought. Well, in that case, I will tell you what I liked about the old template so hopefully you can add in some of my ideas. I'm a big fan of sliders, they're awesome, especially when well used. On the older template, it fit in nicely with the background (which I really like as well). So it gives the website an "atmosphere" as a restaurant does. Though use of white space is important, I think that game publishing websites should have a unique look, like the old template with its nice background, color scheme, and image slider.

[Nocturne]

Yep, all of the above. The large images are a pain and I´d love you to change them, but I do really like the essence of the old design. It is distinct, and atmospheric, and not at all like Armor Games or Kongregate or any other large games host, which is a good thing and sets it apart! Oh and at the moemnt I´m on my laptop which is 1366*768, but my desktop is 1920*1080 and it still looked fine to me.

[Sirosky]

^ Yeah, Nocturne's talk on the atmosphere is what I was trying to get at.

[beatson]

So... The current design isn't original then? I took out the background (because it's huge) from the current design, but it didn't look right at all, and I could not for the life of me come up with a suitable background colour.

I tried the design (current one) on a 1920*1080 and after waiting the site to eventually load, it looked really really thin to me - that's sort of what sparked off my intention to change it (that and someone in the web-design business 'advised' I change it to suite larger resolutions).

Personally, I like the new design a lot more. I'm shocked from the responses its gotten from here, as I've had a lot of positive comments from elsewhere.

[Nocturne]

Give it time to get more responses... After all, we are only two of many!!!

[Sirosky]

Personally, I like the new design a lot more. I'm shocked from the responses its gotten from here, as I've had a lot of positive comments from elsewhere.

Yeah, I know that feeling. But like Nocturne said, it's just two people so far.

[Yal]

Just to unintentionally break up this discussion, I have to point out that CrySet really seems like a promising site what with the revenue formula and all that... I'll gotta keep an eye out for you for when I get more spare time and actually have time to share games again.


So right now you're having problems designing a logo? Hmm... the name "CrySet" makes me think about Cryostatics and stuff, that is, low temperatures near zero Kelvin. Perhaps you could use a design with cool 3D icicles, mist and and stuff on a black background? Just a suggestion. You could perhaps even have a frozen mammoth or something inside a big ice block to symbolize how great your site is, or a bunch of game dev and playing tools such as a gamepad, a keyboard, and some gold coins and goblins to symbolize the general gamingness of the site; perhaps both.

[Harrk]

I still think that the game names should be a link to that games page. It gets me every time when I try and click the game name thinking it's a link.

[beatson]

Aye, well I'm still working on it, so hopefully I'll get it to suite everyone most eventually.

Just to unintentionally break up this discussion, I have to point out that CrySet really seems like a promising site what with the revenue formula and all that... I'll gotta keep an eye out for you for when I get more spare time and actually have time to share games again.


So right now you're having problems designing a logo? Hmm... the name "CrySet" makes me think about Cryostatics and stuff, that is, low temperatures near zero Kelvin. Perhaps you could use a design with cool 3D icicles, mist and and stuff on a black background? Just a suggestion. You could perhaps even have a frozen mammoth or something inside a big ice block to symbolize how great your site is, or a bunch of game dev and playing tools such as a gamepad, a keyboard, and some gold coins and goblins to symbolize the general gamingness of the site; perhaps both.

Thanks

I actually never thought of the site like that. Those are some great idea's I might have a play around with. I was looking to just have a really basic logo though, something that can be easily re-created / adapted.

I still think that the game names should be a link to that games page. It gets me every time when I try and click the game name thinking it's a link.

The new design makes everything a link

[Sirosky]

Suggestions. I hope you will consider them. I included what I liked about your previous design and what you could improve on for you new design. Also, I enjoyed your previous color scheme with blue/black. Anyways, take a look at them. Ignore my spelling errors, did it in a hurry.

Edited by Sirosky, 07 March 2012 - 08:33 PM.

[beatson]

Suggestions. I hope you will consider them. I included what I liked about your previous design and what you could improve on for you new design. Also, I enjoyed your previous color scheme with blue/black. Anyways, take a look at them. Ignore my spelling errors, did it in a hurry.
-SNIP-

I consider every suggestion

I'll go through them in order:

~I need to put in a logo (needs designing) where the "CrySet" text is, it's just a placeholder
~Menu doesn't have all the items in place yet - plan on adding more (such as the "community" tab)
~Too little space: Hmm, doesn't look like that on mine, there's a larger gap on my monitor - I'll have to adjust that.
~More subtle? Kind of like the current arrows?
~I suppose I could, the idea was to regularly change those ones a lot more often, though.

Next image:
~The blending is a simple box-shadow, I'd have to remove the current inner shadow to put that there.
~I could add that text to the slider
~The little image circles could be difficult to implement, the current slider is a pre-made one (well, both are).

[Sirosky]

Yeah, that's pretty much my list of suggestions.

[beatson]

Just released "stage 1" of the new CrySet Dashboard... Opinions?

(you can login to the new site here, then just click the big blue button that says "dashboard")

[Sirosky]

Hmm, idk. The same atmosphere isn't there...

[Bcm27]

Hmm, idk. The same atmosphere isn't there...

Agreed, it just doesn't feel the same. No mater what, even with all the niceties I still like the old (current) website.

[beatson]

Not sure I know what you meal? The idea behind this style of dashboard is to fit everything into one (including managing games). Everything about you, your games, your bog, you comments... everything can be managed by clicking 'dashboard'.

[NegaChomp]

Wow, your site looks really nice and promising! I'll have to consider publishing a game or two there sometime! (of course, I'll have to get the full versions of all my game design tools first...) I think I'll be registering and adding the site to my favorites.

[Nocturne]

Actually, the newer dashboard is good. It´s clearer and easier to navigate.

[Dylan93]

Actually, the newer dashboard is good. It´s clearer and easier to navigate.

'Nuff said...

[Sirosky]

Not sure I know what you meal? The idea behind this style of dashboard is to fit everything into one (including managing games). Everything about you, your games, your bog, you comments... everything can be managed by clicking 'dashboard'.

It's what I mentioned last time. I think that it will be difficult to integrate the old atmosphere. But if you can, you will set yourself apart from Armor Games, Kongregate, Miniclip, etc. Going with the consensus is fine I suppose. But for games, you should innovate.