CF 4.0 New Design
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3 Jan 2012, 07:27
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Good morning Crossfire !
I couldnt sleep and i promised Krosan to make a new CF 4.0 Design. In my Opinion most of the new features were really nice, but the design was just shit. I prefer the old one, but after so many years it became somehow boring. So i tried to keep the layout somehow and added some colors and new stuff.
I just gave it a try so dont be too rude with your criticism. The whole community is changning right now and everyone tries to help making a step in the right direction. If we want to change the design (maybe some people even like the 4.0 one), then this shall be the first step. With your help, we can improve this website!
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I couldnt sleep and i promised Krosan to make a new CF 4.0 Design. In my Opinion most of the new features were really nice, but the design was just shit. I prefer the old one, but after so many years it became somehow boring. So i tried to keep the layout somehow and added some colors and new stuff.
- Ofc the size of the journals, comments etc will or lets say could be bigger. This is just an example and i didnt want to make a 10m example.
- Crossfire-logo is missing, but i didnt had one with good quality
- Banner can be changed np. Just made a quick one
- There can be ofc more advertisment
- etc.
I just gave it a try so dont be too rude with your criticism. The whole community is changning right now and everyone tries to help making a step in the right direction. If we want to change the design (maybe some people even like the 4.0 one), then this shall be the first step. With your help, we can improve this website!
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blue version:
in my opinion the new design isn't that bad, it just misses a banner cause right now the menu is at the very top and in my opinion it is... tiring for the eyes to go all the way up if u search for a certain point in the menu.
try to make a good banner with a new/better logo and the new site is gonna be fine imo.
The backgrounds are ugly (e.g the newsbox backgrounds and especially that thick black outline in the top and bottom left corners of ~everything).
The color scheme is boring: it's really bright in some parts, but the matt black is not a good contrast. If you changed everything that was black to light hues, it'd look much better.
The font looks unprofessional. In fact, everything is pretty unprofessional from the rainbow coloured navigation to the funky raster metal background image on the news boxes.
The news box background combined with the silly font makes text annoying to read.
Did I mention the font is ugly and also too big?
The banner (which I assume to be a placeholder) is too complex.
All in all, it doesn't look very professional or.. serious? at all. It looks like the "free game downloads" sites I used to code when I was twelve.
E: Anyway, at least it doesn't look like a fucking blog like the official design does. Cut down the colours to a more monotone and unified palette and make it lighter (unless you can think of a badass cool dark colour scheme, like for instance Northpole's one).
cba reading a website where the colors are flashy as fuck and the 4.0 one looks so badly structured compared to what we are used to
I mean i know how to photoshop, but i just had no better ideas. If you give me some ideas and examples, then we can work this out.
Also, while the font is cool and funky, it doesn't really look very professional at all. Settle for a more boring one (like the current design has).
And the black backgrounds don't go well with the bright colours, so you sort of have to choose between the two. I think if you changed the navigation font and recoloured the background to white, the bright colours would look much better. Still I think the complex backgrounds in the news boxes have to go.
I take this project as a motivation to learn more about this stuff. Many people here are flaming me and i will fucking show them my skill. ;/
and dont take this as an offence, or flame, im really far from being one, I promise!
I just want to justify myself and if you are putting so much effort in something and the response is so negative, then you get dissapointed very fast ;( It is hard to do such a project on a communitywebsite like crossfire, where many people just want to troll around and dont take you really serious, i know.
anyway im going to sleep now, got shit load to do tomorrow, see you
not sure if you know about this website, but you might want to take a look at it, great to find colour schemes and/or patterns.
manipulation, websitedesign, flyerdesign, logodesign, retouching etc..
Nice start to a flame free journal...
You can see how hard it is to put ideas out there :)
but I (and i think we all) can't thank you enough for all the effort you're putting in this!
Big up boss! :)
the 3.0cf layout is peaceful and has a nice overview
simplicity > everything.
edit: actually lol'd when i saw "fishing underwear by Thomm :D does really sound something that Thomm would post!
People will get used to the new site anyway.
Maybe its just me but i prefer something clean and lightweight then 12 different colors and "styles" on boxes.
I'm no designer, but your design looks so amateur. This is 2012, why is everything so huge? And colourful? And childish?
It looks like a free geocities site from 2004.
You see all the effort and you still say that all the creditability is gone? Just because i couldnt make a good design?
If not even an admin appreciates my work, who will do it then? It is not about making good designs or not. It is about doing something at all. There was an discussion about the attitude of most of the crossfireusers back then. Everyone said that we have to change our attitude and be friendlier to new users. The admincrew asked the community for help. They wanted to built up Crossfire 4.0. They had the goal to improve crossfire, to make it userfriendlier, to make tutorials and other things. They asked US to help them, because it is also OUR community.
Now i try to help. Now i try to make the next step together with some other guys here. Now i put so much effort in something, where im not even very good at and then someone like you who i really respect on crossfire tells me that my effort isnt worth anything ?
im dissapointed srsly.
:p
but its true i know
1. learn english
2. do it better and prove that you have better photoshopskills
3. at least i try to do something unlike you
But If I see this pictures it looks like teenagehyveskids design community.
Whats wrong with this current design?
I think all we need is some new colors of for cf4.0 design. at the moment we got stylesheets and I'm using 'dark', it's calm and not flashy at all but maybe a even darker background would work out.
correct me if I'm wrong but I heard krosan saying that the front end is easy to costumize so that would work out great. I put my money on a dark stylesheet and cf4.0 design.
anyway nice effort Razzah.
I'm working as a freelancer and to be honest, no offense intended to you Razzah, I don't like what you did. It doesn't look professional at all.
They did great on the programming, they just need to correct some bugs and bring some slight changes to the layout.
i can deal with it !
current cf4 is too white, but that one is too dark imo.
cf3 with some colors in it (those black bars with some dark blue fade?) would just be fine for me.
I think the blue version has some perspective when it comes to colors, but something should be done with the logo imo. I don't like the one with all the colors really..
The fonts look pretty much disgusting if I may be so free to say so :p
I think you have a decent idea going, but the way you brought it is not all that. Good job for the effort though :)
i would do better if any1 would ask me loel.
i like it
at least most guys try to be gentle when telling me that my design sucks hard ;) i rly appreciate this!
i will continue designing and i will try to use some of this feedback. i will keep you updated in the next days.
cheers guys
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