Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Lalo Martins
Also spracht Reed Hedges (Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:11:26 -0500): > I did want the background to look very CGI, could even turn it into flat > unsmothed polygons or put a wireframe on it. I'll agree a starfield is the "lazy" way to get the effect that we were both going for ;-) maybe a different scene

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
Reed Hedges wrote: > Here are two ideas I had for a new website design. Both are rough sketches. > \ > 2. http://interreality.org/~reed/tmp/iro/index2.html I made a few small changes to this one, trying a different background image (the branches one is just to show the concept, it's a terrible

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
Lalo Martins wrote: > I like #1. When I did a mockup a long long time ago, I went with a > similar idea, and I think it's still valid; the metaphor being that > you're looking at a few "flat" widgets floating in a 3d space. The main thing I don't like is it's too dark and black, which might sc

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
Karsten Otto wrote: > Hi Reed, > > Nice work! Regarding the boxes in #1, is there any way to make the > round corners anti-aliased? It looks a bit weird in contrast to to > the smooth backgroudn image and the anti-aliased VOS logo. Yeah. The round corners are a hack using little tiny colored

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread S Mattison
index2.html Definitely. >From the standpoint of a webdesigner (You know, I don't get paid 700$ a week for nothing), I like the accessibility of the site. The menu options are always onscreen, the design is nice, and the scrolling (think; mouse scroll wheel) is still FAST, on Firefox, on a 1.5Ghz,

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Karsten Otto
Hi Reed, Nice work! Regarding the boxes in #1, is there any way to make the round corners anti-aliased? It looks a bit weird in contrast to to the smooth backgroudn image and the anti-aliased VOS logo. Regarding #2, I think mouseover-popups are not a good idea for large things such as scree

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Amstutz
Wow. Very impressed. Reminds me how much web design is really not my thing. I would say I like the color/styling/background of #1 but the more column-oriented layout of #2. On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:06:50PM -0500, Reed Hedges wrote: > > Here are two ideas I had for a new website design. Bo

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-18 Thread Reed Hedges
I made the divs a bit transparent in #1. I think they're too boring though, maybe need a bit more bubbliness? (Or is that too "Web 2.0"? :) Or more of a border? I just threw together the background images in blender, but I do like having them look more polygonated and emphasising that they are 3

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-17 Thread Lalo Martins
I like #1. When I did a mockup a long long time ago, I went with a similar idea, and I think it's still valid; the metaphor being that you're looking at a few "flat" widgets floating in a 3d space. I have a nice background image I generated from Celestia :-) Also, in my own mockup, I used part

[vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-17 Thread Reed Hedges
Here are two ideas I had for a new website design. Both are rough sketches. 1. http://interreality.org/~reed/tmp/iro/index.html 2. http://interreality.org/~reed/tmp/iro/index2.html Thoughts, ideas? Reed ___ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.