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The Evervamp

another work in progress

Posted October 6, 2015 by Xhin

I got a little sidetracked with the light theme.. I forgot GTX0 was dark--d'oh!





What I'm trying to get to here isn't a "hey let's make Jedi Sith look good" but some kind of standardized design that I can then make a general template out of.

In the near future, Forum Headers will function much like the MyCard feature.. a few well-designed templates that you can add images and text to to personalize them.

This one has a few cool gadgets:

  • Stacked forum images leading to a kind of 3-d effect. You should be able to rifle through these in an animated way.

  • The title and descriptive text are generally a single color -- however here I recognize JS's dual nature. The new forum header system will also recognize dual-natured forums this way (ex --- science and math)

  • In an arch above the top are "widgets". This template maxes out at 6 widgets (currently rocking 5 in the preview above). These can be links to documents, the moderated-by, special forum features and other cool things like that.

    Incidentally, here's another template entirely:



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    you are wasting resources on two dead forums

    October 6, 2015
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    Furtive

    The purpose isn't to make Jedi Sith or RPG Chat look good, it's to come up with a few general designs that can be applied across the board.

    Sorry for tagging your post.

    October 6, 2015
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    Xhin
    Sky's the limit

    I know. I was just fucking with you haha

    October 6, 2015
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    Big Guy 4U

    I should really have thicker skin than that -- I forget how to do things when I'm out of practice.

    October 6, 2015
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    Xhin
    Sky's the limit

    I for one am very excited. Just now I was trying to customize RPC, and I still need to fix the Creative Outlet too. But it's rather difficult the way it currently works.

    October 6, 2015
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    KM8

    This will probably happen after the OP/new reply revamp, which itself will happen after the adventure update.

    October 6, 2015
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    Xhin
    Sky's the limit

    Neat! I greatly appreciate all the work you are doing around the site. :) It's looking good.

    October 6, 2015
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    KM8

    The whole site is pretty dead. If it weren't for the occasional game of Mafia, I'd be gone by now. There just isn't anything of interest here anymore. When Feral starts losing interest in GT after over 15 years, you know you are in trouble...

    I look forward to seeing you revive this place, Xhin. If anybody can do it, you can.

    October 6, 2015
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    Feral Wolf
    The Rogue Wolf

    Thanks Feral! Yeah, it will take some work to really bring this place back but the timeline for that isn't as far away as I thought. My plan is something like this:

  • Make sure this site stays alive in some capacity -- Currently revamping Adventure so we can have that again. Patching things, doing things for Halloween. Also, I'm trying to be more active here.

  • Continue revamping the site -- This is a long-haul thing but things seem to get easier and easier over time (probably my crazy job is helping with that). I estimate there's about 80-100 hours left of the revamp, including planning and design sessions. Finding the time is another thing though.

  • Revive and expand -- This is all about getting the lurkers back, jumpstarting some of the forums and having a really solid strategy for bringing people in. I have three four strategies for pulling people in even prior to any of the larger updates, although granted they're still liquid ideas.

    After that I can really focus on the bigger updates, which have their own advertising strategies.

    That first point is probably the most important. I do have a couple ideas for generating activity in a low-maintenance way, as well as all the little updates that seem to make this site sparkle. Long-term though we absolutely need new people and I'd like to focus the existing ideas we have about that into something stronger.

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    Xhin
    Sky's the limit

    I've got to be honest. I really don't like the look of those first two images.

    Like maybe they'd look better when you have the rest of the site around them but on their own, no I dislike them.

    I like some of the ideas you're going for though, just visually yuck IMO (and I'm ignoring the colour scheme as best I can in that judgement).

    October 6, 2015
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    Moonray

    Can you be more specific?

    I do agree it's off still.. it's hard to find a balance with the widgets and the general forum header (I've tried like 5 different combinations) and there's way too much whitespace.

    I'll probably just scrap it entirely -- although I do think the widget idea turned out great.

    October 6, 2015
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    Xhin
    Sky's the limit

    Oh nevermind, I know why it went so horribly. My good designs are:

    1. Get the content organized and solid but let the design be mostly trash

    2. Fix up the design but keep the same organization and flow.

    For some reason I always try to do the design first and then fit the content around it.. which goes pretty badly usually. I guess I'm just out of practice really.

    October 6, 2015
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    Xhin
    Sky's the limit

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