Want $200 and Neverending Glory? Redesign eyesonff.com!

[Spatvark]

OK, I made some changes, minor ones at that and got it working mostly (it's HERE if you're too lazy to just scroll upwards) though you may need to Ctrl+F5 to see it properly. The only hitch in it I can see is the 2 pixel tall gap beneath the chocobo, which only appears in IE, and it's been driving me crazy for hours on end, literally. I think I just fried my brain on all the other coding that I can't see the simple solution, so I figure someone else can fix that up.

A quick run though on a few things:

• The pic in the top-left corner I figure should change depending upon the section the viewer is in; i.e. one for each game and one for the main site, though always retaining the link back to the main page.
• The sidebar also should change for each section, since I figure that's important.
• I've tried to use as few attention grabbing images as possible, seeing I figure you'll still want to customize it a bit before throwing it up, if you do decide upon this design =P
• The entire content area, including the poll/feature/email bit are contained within it's own table, which should make removing the poll/feature/email bit for the game sections fairly easy.
• The site in general is designed to be converted into SHTML, since when i was coding stuff over here, I decided I really liked how it worked =P I'd have it up on my site as SHTML, except a, it doesn't work on my host, b, stuff like the poll/feature/email bit would probably end up being very different from what I'd have made it, and c, you can see exactly how it's working here, rather than having hidden pages n' stuff.
• The CSS is currently internal, but it wouldn't take more than a few seconds to externalise it, so you sods can do it =P

It's roughly 4:30am here, so I'm heading off to bed. I'll probably have a crack at the gap underneath the chocobo tomorrow, but if someone else figures out how to solve, please do tell =P

[Citizen Bleys]

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I like the way EoFF looks now. Can't we just not change anything and pretend like we did instead of trading in our present, awesome design for something that will probably look like it came out of a pit bull's rectum?

Edit: No offense to any of the aspiring designers, but frankly, our current design would be harder than a 15-year-old watching the porn channel to top. It just loooks that good

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

I agree with that guy. Whoever that guy is.

[Mo-Nercy]

Email man's and Spatty's look promising. Although I'm a bit sick of blue now. A different colour would make it all the more unique and "out there."

[Resha]

Yes, if I'm not mistaken, EOFF's had this current layout for almost for...ever!?!? Nah; just as far as I know. More than 2 years, anyway. Or is my sense of time really bad?

[Loony BoB]

Email man's and Spatty's look promising. Although I'm a bit sick of blue now. A different colour would make it all the more unique and "out there."

While you say "out there", I think "just like every other new FF site on the internet." There are dozens of nice looking sites on the 'net, and a lot of them have nicely designed sites. The fact that we haven't changed much, if at all, over the past four or so years means we have something that new sites don't. A lot of companies etc. in the world only make big changes if their existing setup isn't working for them. This one is working for us, so I personally don't think it should be changed that much - more so it needs to be improved. That's my opinion, anyway. The site design Baloki and I are working on is based on the existing layout but with a lot of improvements for both the user and the staff to work with.

I do admit that there are a lot of blue sites and whatnot around, but we are the blue FF site. If we changed, we'd give that title to someone else. To be the best of the mainstream is good, because mainstream is just that - mainstream - for a reason. People can change colours for a nice refreshment, but in the long run blue has worked for us and I'd be shocked if we changed too much, personally... although you never know, we might end up with multiple site options for all I know. I suppose anything is possible. =o

*gets back to working on the news template*

[Citizen Bleys]

If we get rid of the blue theme, I'm going on a killing spree.

[Cz]

You big baby.

[Cid]

Email guy revised it a bit: http://www.eyesonff.com/redesign/fin...sed/Index.html

[Leeza]

That link gives a 404 error in both IE and Mozilla, but so far, those are the colours that I like best.

[Cid]

Whopsie, fixed

[Shoeberto]

Email guy revised it a bit: http://www.eyesonff.com/redesign/fin...sed/Index.html

Now THAT is awesome. The complaint I have is that the news is a little too far down - maybe the nav bars should be on each side of the news rather than all on top of it.

edit: Something else...there are images at the top for each of the FF games, so why not use those as links to the respective section rather than having them be static images and having the normal links to the sections in text?

The links outside of the games could just be in text as always, though.

[Leeza]

It's not bad. I like the black but it would be nice to have more EoFF blue in it somewhere else other than just the boxes...like maybe for the links because that blue seems a bit on the bright side. I don't like the games listed all across the top though. That is one of the things that really would make it look like every other FF site out there because that's what they all seem to have. I like the background.

[Cid]

Another email entry: http://www.ffward.net/eoffprev.jpg

[escobert]

I kinda like hat one like the colors