Handheld-Gamers.Com

Statocast3r · Post by **Statocast3r** » Fri 18. Mar 2005, 19:53

Hi
I've made a site with phpWCMS and it's still under construction but I think it's now ready enough for showing it. There isn't very much content right now but more will be coming.

Tell me what do you think

My first phpWCMS site: http://handheld-gamers.com

Rainer G · Post by **Rainer G** » Sun 20. Mar 2005, 02:08

I would redesign the nav_table_column. It's the standard design and not the look of the page.

The top-banner is not really good!

Statocast3r · Post by **Statocast3r** » Sun 20. Mar 2005, 09:51

Rainer G wrote:I would redesign the nav_table_column. It's the standard design and not the look of the page.

The top-banner is not really good!

Is the banner any better now? I'll do something for the menu too...

Rainer G · Post by **Rainer G** » Sun 20. Mar 2005, 10:15

A little bit better

i would make an gif with transparence from the gizmondo, or backgroundcolor to set of the backgroundcolor from the content.

Statocast3r · Post by **Statocast3r** » Sun 20. Mar 2005, 11:54

What do you think about the menu now? Does it look better?

Maybe I make the gismondo pic a gif later.

EDIT: how do I change the font colors in the menu I couldn't find them in conf.template_default.inc.php

Rainer G · Post by **Rainer G** » Sun 20. Mar 2005, 17:37

Statocast3r wrote:What do you think about the menu now? Does it look better?

Maybe I make the gismondo pic a gif later.

EDIT: how do I change the font colors in the menu I couldn't find them in conf.template_default.inc.php

It looks better. But the grey-texture is not looking good

For colors, fontsize, fonts,... etc. look at the frontend.css:

Code: Select all

.nav_table, .nav_table a, .nav_table a:link, .nav_table a:active, .nav_table a:visited, .nav_table a:hover {
 font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
 font-size: 10px;
 color: #4A5966;
 font-weight: normal;
 text-decoration: none;
}
.nav_table a:hover {
 text-decoration: underline;
}

.nav_table_active, .nav_table_active a, .nav_table_active a:link, .nav_table_active a:active, .nav_table_active a:visited, .nav_table_active a:hover {
 font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
 font-size: 10px;
 color: #4A5966;
 font-weight: bold;
 text-decoration: none;
}

trip · Post by **trip** » Tue 22. Mar 2005, 08:31

Hi
I would move the google ads to the bottom or the side...
looks like the site is an advertising site fromt the word go....???

apart from that, your menu needs sorting out...and I would change the orange links to fit the site look and feel...

TriP

Statocast3r · Post by **Statocast3r** » Wed 23. Mar 2005, 07:22

trip wrote:Hi
I would move the google ads to the bottom or the side...
looks like the site is an advertising site fromt the word go....???

apart from that, your menu needs sorting out...and I would change the orange links to fit the site look and feel...

TriP

With orange links you mean the red links of the articles? I changed them. And the menu background is now changed too.

What do you think now?

trip · Post by **trip** » Wed 23. Mar 2005, 07:37

Looks much better with the ads at the bottom, I would still move them further down the page, positioning them below the footer... it disturbs the page a little

orange links, meaning the title of the articles, these can be edited using your css file....

TriP

deanloh · Post by **deanloh** » Wed 23. Mar 2005, 08:07

I'm not really designer-trained. So I wont call these as "comments". But I'll speak as a user:

I see a very cramped-up site, where everything is like stick to each other.

It took me a while to figure out what is this site called (quite a bad choice of typeface for the branding).

Matrix-green doesn't work quite well with light blue. neither the background color. You might want to visit: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html to get some good ideas of how colors work together.

My two cents: use a bit of cellpadding here and there, then some spaces between content parts. Tweak the color a little, then you will have a very useful site.

Statocast3r · Post by **Statocast3r** » Wed 23. Mar 2005, 15:38

deanloh wrote:I'm not really designer-trained. So I wont call these as "comments". But I'll speak as a user:

I see a very cramped-up site, where everything is like stick to each other.

It took me a while to figure out what is this site called (quite a bad choice of typeface for the branding).

Matrix-green doesn't work quite well with light blue. neither the background color. You might want to visit: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html to get some good ideas of how colors work together.

My two cents: use a bit of cellpadding here and there, then some spaces between content parts. Tweak the color a little, then you will have a very useful site.

I used the site you gave me and now the colors have been changed.

Anybody know how to set some space between the articles and to sides of the main content area?

deanloh · Post by **deanloh** » Wed 23. Mar 2005, 16:05

Statocast3r

Good choice of color! To set spacing between content parts, go to edit mode, enter the space length in pixels. See screenshot below:

To set the spacing between the sides of content area, if I were to explain, I would have to set up another instance of phpwcms to see how the original template is like (I have modified mine completely), so that might take some time... anyone has simpler answers here?

People, I begin to like this guy, he really took every bit of our suggestions and improve his site accordingly. Very good learning attitude. Let help him up as much as we can!

Statocast3r · Post by **Statocast3r** » Mon 28. Mar 2005, 15:07

OK now I think it starts to be ready unless someone still has something to say about it.

Thanks for everyone that gave comments about the site and helped me to make it look better!