site design comment

Junior WebHelper Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Posts: 6

no offense, but it sux, all it is is a bg that uses a gradient and a few tables, but then again, all i saw was the main and credits page since the others didnt work, either not there or forbidden atm... well, my 2 cents

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Ever heard of KISS? (Keep it simple stupid!)

A good design doesn't have to be fancy! A clean design can sometimes be even more effective.

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2002 9:03 am (22 years, 2 months ago)

Daniel, Have you got any plans to put any 'interactive' feaures on the pages such as ' Good Mornming, Richy ' ?.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Richy wrote:

Daniel, Have you got any plans to put any 'interactive' feaures on the pages such as ' Good Mornming, Richy ' ?.

Sorry, I didn't realize I was logged out !

The best way to do that would be to integrate it with the forums, but the problem is that they're seperate domains, so you can't access the files from forums.4webhelp.net from 4webhelp.net (as far as I know).

We might do that in the future, if it's possible, but it's not very high on our "Todo List" right now!

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

grrrrrr, best thing about sites using CPANEL is the subdomains can be set to double your folder name , eg http://forums.itfconline.net is the same as http://www.itfconline.net/forums . Smile

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

pyro wrote:

no offense, but it sux, all it is is a bg that uses a gradient and a few tables,

I'll think you'll find everyone uses tables now and professional sites like this one, it's took over from frames

Junior WebHelper Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Posts: 6

justin, yes, i know that, so do i, but i was refering to the fact that it doesnt seem to look right on this site, and as for keeping it simple, u can keep it simple, but not too simple, if its too simple, its for gonna keep visitors, but luckily, most people prefer the forums... Andrew, the other thread seemed to refer to the coding of the site, not really aimed for the design... As for the interaction idea, it might work if its possible to read from the cookie for the users who save their info on their comp usin the cookie, but that also depends if the username gets encoded, which is doubtful but u never know

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

The problem with the cookie, is that it's written to by forums.4webhelp.net, not 4webhelp.net.

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 1:24 pm (22 years, 2 months ago)

How about a design for the whole page, which looks like the design of the forum? Someone just needs to create fancy buttons for "forum", "scripts", "howtos", etc. that are like

What do you think?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

We don't really want to design our site on the model of phpBB2, and we can't reproduce those buttons exactly, since the font is not available.

Guest

I think the old website design was far better!!!

Junior WebHelper Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 20

For me,
the logo is too simple
just 3 word
not interactive at all
even a 5 years old kid and do it

make it some thing like 3D image
even the old "user " logo is far nicer

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

Frames suck. Tables is the new standard. Frames are confusing, un-pro and look dumb. Congrats to 4WebHelp for good site design!

WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Israel

tyjtyj wrote:

make it some thing like 3D image
even the old "user " logo is far nicer

3D logo??? This is sooo 1997. Clean, flat and classic is what goes now.