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RoyalBlood Guild Website version 4.0
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:14 pm
by [SD]MARKsman7328
Ah yes, time for RoyalBlood's new website to suit RoyalBlood's new game: WoW...
Some of you veterans may remember my post about RB website 3.0, or even 1.0!! (wow how much did 1.0 suck?)
Anyway, sorry to piss anybody off b/c its WoW this time around, but this is Artist's Corner, and WoW doesn't have one of those
Feel free to comment- I made the header graphic myself, and heavily modified a template to create the rest of the site.
EDIT: oops i forgot to post a link to the site
http://royalbloodguild.awardspace.com
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:10 am
by Rizla
usability/coding-wise I would say it's an 6.8/10. (Positioning)
aesthetics is 4/10. (read on)
why an enter page if you're not preloading any flash content? It's redundant and pointless, people already know they're going to your page and you already have your name across your header.
Papyrus is a commonly used font, it's dead, people killed it, use something else. kill the outer glow layer style on the guild name. kill the goldish stroke aroud the blood drop. I realize it's your guild thing or whatever, but it looks very tacky.
Why are you trying so hard to push a color scheme with red in it when gold goes so much better with blue and its already in your server icon thing (firetree)
isnt red the horde thing? blue the alliance thing? find a fitting color scheme.
there is a mess of other things I could tack, but I covered the main things.
As far as functionality goes the site is o.k. - you have a few positioning issues, esp with the movie clip area.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:41 am
by rek
Papyrus = bad text, esp. with the outerglow
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:33 pm
by [SD]MARKsman7328
Rizla wrote:usability/coding-wise I would say it's an 6.8/10. (Positioning)
aesthetics is 4/10. (read on)
why an enter page if you're not preloading any flash content? It's redundant and pointless, people already know they're going to your page and you already have your name across your header.
Papyrus is a commonly used font, it's dead, people killed it, use something else. kill the outer glow layer style on the guild name. kill the goldish stroke aroud the blood drop. I realize it's your guild thing or whatever, but it looks very tacky.
Why are you trying so hard to push a color scheme with red in it when gold goes so much better with blue and its already in your server icon thing (firetree)
isnt red the horde thing? blue the alliance thing? find a fitting color scheme.
there is a mess of other things I could tack, but I covered the main things.
As far as functionality goes the site is o.k. - you have a few positioning issues, esp with the movie clip area.
Thanks for the response! Anyway, I plan to eventually makea guild video and turn it into a nice widescreen flash video for the enter screen so that explains that I hope. As for papyrus, it has always been our guild font. That text with the styling and everything has always been RoyalBlood.
Red and gold are colors of royalty and blood, hence our guild colors. Our server thing is is actually just the alliance crest with the text Firetree which I created. (there are no server-specific logos). I guess red is actually a horde color and blue alliance so you have a point. However, I wasn't about to change our guild colors especially because they actually have meaning.
The gold outline around the blood drop was kindof bothering me too. The original had a purpleish line (royalty), but I didn't like it, so I changed it to gold. I have never thought of just deleting it (silly me). I will have to experiment with it some more. Thanks for the tip!
O and also, say I was going to change the font. I am not an expert in the ways of fonts. What looks would you reccommend?
Thank you for taking time to look at and critique my site! It is people like you that have brought it to where it is today. (If you ever saw 1.0 you know what I mean.)
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:42 pm
by Snudge
http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=Royal
http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=Blood
2 quick searches on dafont. I think your best choice is to go with a -clear- calligraphic sort of type. I think... sorta...
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:44 pm
by [SD]MARKsman7328
Thanks! *bookmarks dafont*