) is the guide link (or something similar in Joel's case) on the top of the page - this was something that really bothered me about the old page, so I'm glad it might become different. 
Um... It is blue. I just double checked in Photoshop. It's pure. And yellow and blue usually go together well.Ida wrote:Violet and yellow together are a big no-no in my book - how about making the glow white and replacing the violet-ish background colors with truly blue
Actually, I pretty much expect I'll have to remove them. They're far from critical, though.STrRedWolf wrote:I can see putting GenChan in a Div layer that floats over things. We can use GIF for the transparent GenChan and PNG's for the shadows.
I think Gen-chan adds a lot but the way I've done it may be too complex given what Kisai wants the webpage to be able to do. Mercury Hat's current one looks almost as good, doesn't look like it's try hard to be cool and stylish and is much, much simpler. I might try a version like that. Bigger window and Gen-chan off to the side.The Neko wrote:Since Gen-chan seems to make the design a little complicated, perhaps it shouldn't be a part of the design. Then again, I'm not too keen on the gen-chan idea, so I'm probably speaking for myself here.
They don't have to. You can set up a GIF to look good on whatever background you like - it's just you can't change the background without changing the GIF as well.The Neko wrote:The problem with gifs is that they look like shit on dark backgrounds, png-24 works best but...
Mostly tweaks...Mercury Hat wrote:Other than that, comments or suggestions?
The text isn't glowing. It just has a slight inside stroke which implies glowing without actual glow.The Neko wrote:I don't mind the glowing logo, but I think that's all that should be glowing.
I think a rotating Gen-chan would be most fun but we have an option on comic characters like Spot does as well, or just the one picture, or anything else anyone can think of.Are we going to have a rotating gen-chan or is that the official one?
Ah-ha. There's an advantage of Mercury's design. You can fit nearly any picture in there. Mine's a bit more restrictive on that front.STrRedWolf wrote:Looks like we have an entry for a rotating GenChan: http://www.livejournal.com/users/digitalwar/14552.html
Nooo, I meant the file-folder things below it. They shouldn't have that fuzzy glow.Joel Fagin wrote:The text isn't glowing. It just has a slight inside stroke which implies glowing without actual glow.The Neko wrote:I don't mind the glowing logo, but I think that's all that should be glowing.
I tried it plain white. The atom logo overshadowed it. If others agree, though, I can pitch it as an option.
It'd be awesome to take submissions of "Gen" pictures with the option of those pictures being a character from the given artist's comic dressed as her. Perhaps that would be too limiting, if we are comparing it to KeenSpot's site, where the restriction seems to be the character is shouting "KeenSpot". However, since there are going to be "pogs", I don't see why it can't be a little restrictive for the avatar.Joel Fagin wrote:I think a rotating Gen-chan would be most fun but we have an option on comic characters like Spot does as well, or just the one picture, or anything else anyone can think of.Are we going to have a rotating gen-chan or is that the official one?
Much better! The colors in this version are very nice, and the violet thing that annoyed me is gone.Joel Fagin wrote:Version 4
Tweaked the layout. Bigger logo (important for higher resolutions), bigger main window with more room (enough for six pogs in two rows in 800x600 mode, which is what this was designed in), and a simpler Gen-chan position which is still overlapping elements so still retains the original feel.
- Joel Fagin
I like the design, but I think that the generes should go before the mission statement. Either that or have a very short brief mission statement on the top (Welcome to Comic Genesis, Free Webcomic Hosting Service and Community etc) and the long one at the bottom.Mercury Hat wrote:I'm still working on it.
I think I've got the mission statement/intro/whatever it is down, my only problem is there's something wrong with the table for the newsbox and genre map. In IE, it retracts both the iframe and Keenspot blurb up onto the same line... only it essentially disappears. I sure as hell can't find the problem, but if someone could look it over and maybe spot an obvious error I've overlooked. I'll still tweak around with it, see if I can figure it out.
Other than that, comments or suggestions?
That's why we have Pogs. We just don't know what they'll look like yet so we can't add them.TeenIdol wrote:But what is the purpose of the main page? To show that there are categories of comics or to try to pry a new reader into the fold?
Well, all my old ones are still online, and it's basically in case people want, say, the latest colour scheme but the first layout.wp wrote:I agree. Both designs are starting to get really bloated looking.Risky wrote:Iit seems both the designs are starting to get a bit overworked.
