[Ace]

Since websites have been submitted here as art before, here's a site (as well as its graphics) that I'm making for a fantasy setting. The idea is to have a bit of a steampunk printing press feel, while still looking more archaic then that. (without resorting to ye olde engrish)

The final site will be designed so that the people doing news posts, etc. who have zero HTML experience can update their site easily via news updating forms, etc.

[Tiara]

Ikonboard!?

[Setekh]

I really like that, it sure does stand out. Bonus marks for using Lorem ipsum to test the text rendering.

Here's a personal suggestion: because the colour theme of the site (for the text, particularly) is quite uniform, would it be worth separating the hyperlinks with a different type of font facing or style - perhaps bold small caps? That would help them to stand out and I think may look nicer. Worth trying, at least.

[Corsair]

Latin??

[Setekh]

Yep, Latin. Find the explanation here.

http://www.lipsum.com/

[mikhael]

That's certainly striking. It doesn't look like a website to me, and yet, it retains a good structure and easy to scan layout. Functional AND artistic.

High marks, sir!

[kasperl]

i'd like to see the source of that......

i've been trying to get this: http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/fscz/ to work on something else then IE. i failed horribly. the underlying system is one tiling background page with an iFrame on it, for the window, and in that iFrame, a page with the interface image, and 3 more iFrames, each linking to a page with a tiling background and CSS font system.

somehow, Mozilla hates the iFrames, and refuses to read the CSS properly. and when i include the CSS in the HTML, i fork the page for both IE and mo.



anyway, nice page, i always like stuff with simple colour schemes. it might be nicer if you switched the black into white and viceversa, though.

[mikhael]

Nah, if he did that, it would lose a lot of the flair. Right now it doesn't look like a website. It looks like parchment with text printed on it. If you reverse the colors, it'll look like every white-on-black website on the planet (my old one included)

[Ashrak]

definately original..but i would recommend a world map on the behind of the content box too

[Ace]

Thanks for the comments.

I'm thinking of ways to tweak it more to look like an old newspaper and of course ways of denoting links and such better.

Probably this would involve tweaking the top image(s) a bit, the borders, etc. I do like Steak's idea of capitalizing the links, though that might be confusing with the way the titles are done. I'll play around to see what works.

Also, the final forum won't be Ikonboard, it currently is one but we're using a new, better, forum to go along with the site.

On the using the world map as a background- I thought about it, but a tiling world map (or non-moving one) doesn't quite go with the newspaper look.

If anyone had images of very early (pre-photography) news papers that'd be great, as those could give some good inspiration on tweaking the design more.

[Xelion]

Nice Design

[Xelion]

kasperl have you tried just using css for the complete site instead of frames, then it should work for any browser v4 and above

[kasperl]

well, it just became mozilla compatible thanks to Arc, but there was something wrong with putting it all in one file, on or two things just wouldn't work, IIRC.

[JarC]

Kasperl, here's a site where you might find some tips and a template

http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/

[Sandwich]

Ace, that site layout can be replicated pretty much perfectly with CSS - I can run up a quick skeleton mock-up for you if you'd like.

Oh, and for display of numbers and other side sections, I'd highly recommend use of the Georgia font - it's cool and archaic-looking. Look:

June 15th, 2004 12:55 PM

[Ace]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Ace, that site layout can be replicated pretty much perfectly with CSS - I can run up a quick skeleton mock-up for you if you'd like.

Oh, and for display of numbers and other side sections, I'd highly recommend use of the Georgia font - it's cool and archaic-looking. Look:

June 15th, 2004 12:55 PM

I need to see if the server this will be on supports CSS, if it does I'll send a PM over if you have the time to do a mock-up.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Ace


I need to see if the server this will be on supports CSS, if it does I'll send a PM over if you have the time to do a mock-up.

CSS isn't server-side - there's no such thing as "server support" for CSS. It's all in the client.

[Ace]

Ahh well stupid me

If you have the time then, that'd be great.

[Sandwich]

Disclaimer: I've only been able to test this in IE6 and Mozilla 1.4. If you could get me the image you used for a background, as well as the source files for the header stuff, I'd be able to optimize the site more.

http://www.brainzipper.com/fs2/choranthil/index.html

[kasperl]

Sandwich, you might want to try to have the side "cells" run the same length as the center, like in the screenie at the top of this thread.