Web redesign

drew · Post by **drew** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:00 am

Definitely sold now - the big question is ..... when!?!?!?!

Agree with disembodied that we should be seeing the Cobra's top hull. To my recall of Elite, the top hull with interlocking triangles is much more iconic than the three piece lower hull.

Cheers,

Drew.

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:51 am

I like the Cobra as it is. I think the stark mono-ish colouring of it looks really nice too and fits the feel of the site.

seventh · Post by **seventh** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:51 pm

Well, there is upgrade. http://www.dogma7.com/oolite/index.html
I've done all what I'd designed. Except logo. I don't like my own variant, but it's the most modern one.

ovvldc wrote:
I also wonder how large the star map background pictures are. They are now GIF, but I wonder at possibilities to reduce colour depth.

After all, you want this to load really quickly and they actually use very few colours. Can we assume everyone looking for OOlite has a browser that deals with PNG?

But maybe you already optimised for this.

It is doesn't matter what kind of format you use, PNG or GIF if your image has only 16 colors or almost monochrome. In this case GIF has the same quality, but it's size in kilobytes is 50-75% less. If you wanna see more colorful pictures or images with transparency, sure, you have to use PNG24.

Anyway the images of space routs and background will be small even so they will be more colorful in PNG. ( 20-30KB gif, 30-50KB png)

All modern browsers can display PNG. There is viagra for f***ing IE6.

Post by **Kaks** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:13 am

Sorry to be a pain, but there is one thing I would do slightly differently: I think the positions for 01.about, 02.gallery, 03.download & 04.links should be made absolute, to stop those links from jiggling about when going from page to page...

Other than that it's looking very professional!

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:24 am

They are absolute on my monitor (well the background stars are) but the text moves. I assumed the text moved because the page you are on has a bigger title - which is a good idea/nice graphical touch.

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:45 pm

A really great redesign. I like it. The star map is a clever idea.

drew · Post by **drew** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:33 pm

So folks.... with the danger of sounding impatient. Are we planning to actually do this? Is there like... a plan?

Cheers,

Drew.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:54 pm

drew wrote:
So folks.... with the danger of sounding impatient. Are we planning to actually do this? Is there like... a plan?

Cheers,

Drew.

Is there ever a plan?

seventh · Post by **seventh** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:14 pm

Kaks wrote:
Sorry to be a pain, but there is one thing I would do slightly differently: I think the positions for 01.about, 02.gallery, 03.download & 04.links should be made absolute, to stop those links from jiggling about when going from page to page...

It's possible to freeze their.If project leaders accept my conception it will be able to fix or modify something.

Kaks wrote:
Other than that it's looking very professional!

Sometimes I moonlight as an art-director and sometimes it even turns out

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:38 pm

seventh wrote:
Kaks wrote:
Sorry to be a pain, but there is one thing I would do slightly differently: I think the positions for 01.about, 02.gallery, 03.download & 04.links should be made absolute, to stop those links from jiggling about when going from page to page...
It's possible to freeze their.If project leaders accept my conception it will be able to fix or modify something.

Kaks wrote:
Other than that it's looking very professional!
Sometimes I moonlight as an art-director and sometimes it even turns out

Art director, sweet! I would appreciate your view on the maps some time. http://www.crimsonforge.co.uk/cloister/OOmap_G1.pdf

seventh · Post by **seventh** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:39 pm

ClymAngus wrote:

Art director, sweet! I would appreciate your view on the maps some time. http://www.crimsonforge.co.uk/cloister/OOmap_G1.pdf

I always say, that your maps are almost ideal

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:21 pm

Well if you want to add them in then your more than welcome. I would say that unfortunately pdf does give that one degree of separation from a standard web page.

But generally Cool! If an art-director thinks it's sweet. then we must have done something right! Nice work by the way I'm thinking of perusing your code. If you don't mind of course.

seventh · Post by **seventh** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:47 pm

ClymAngus wrote:
Well if you want to add them in then your more than welcome. I would say that unfortunately pdf does give that one degree of separation from a standard web page.

But generally Cool! If an art-director thinks it's sweet. then we must have done something right! Nice work by the way I'm thinking of perusing your code. If you don't mind of course.

PDF is the "most human" format

The code is very simple. Multilayered html + jquery.
I have been waiting for someone's perusing

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:10 pm

One tiny point - is there a reason that the gallery pictures have the common preposition 'an' for the text under the pictures? Is this just a consequence of them being 'dummies' for the real thing or is there an error in the text generation?

Also on the links page you have 'lost' a letter in one of the links - Expansion Pack List at Elite Wiki

seventh · Post by **seventh** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:27 pm

Star Gazer wrote:
One tiny point - is there a reason that the gallery pictures have the common preposition 'an' for the text under the pictures? Is this just a consequence of them being 'dummies' for the real thing or is there an error in the text generation?

Also on the links page you have 'lost' a letter in one of the links - Expansion Pack List at Elite Wiki

"An Salvage Gang" is on oolite.org. I'm not guilty

All texts are still "lorem ipsum"