KTeam 1 - Site Designs

[Kitiara]

This is mostly for the attention of the people in KTeam 1, who are working on the website. Other people are welcome to comment on what gets posted here however, so don't be shy.

Alright designers, when you've had a play around with some ideas for this site, please post them here so we can see them. They don't have to be complete, they don't have to be fantastic, just give us an idea of how you see the site.

To get the ball rolling, I've attached a design I made this afternoon. As someone in the team suggested, it's based around the current kirupa site.

[redViper]

i like that. :rambo:

[kode]

yep .. clean and simple. i like it too =)

[Marz]

Looks good kit...

About the design.. The top right corner is rather open... Just wodnering if you had any thoguhts on what you could put up in that splotch...

As for the Menu splotch.. I like the way it's presented.. Clean cut and smooth...

At the very bottom... Another nav bar or something like that?

[pom]

Very clean :)

[AnOraK]

nice 1....

I like it ....

very minimal, clean, and easy on the eye...

nice colourscheme as well...

should minimal just be spelt "m"?

::::: AnOraK :::::

[novatake]

kit thats *****in that wud be awesome for both html and flash it would work proper well in both. Maybe in the space thats a little open in the top we could maybe have a banner etc

ill get back with a design asap wont be special and prob wont be clean lol but shud be able to get the idea

-Tom

p.s good work

[Kitiara]

Wow, I never expected such a positive response for this... :)

To be honest I didn't spend too much time on it as I was supposed to be working, but I had the idea of the side panel bit with the grid holding some kind of outlines of people in line art - walking across or something in a Flash version, static in the HTML - to symbolise us... When you got to the About Us bit, then each person would have their own line art type person next to their info... If we could manipulate them in Flash that would be fantastic. :)

Marz, you're right about the top right corner... It's a bit blank. Any bright ideas on what (if anything) to put there? The bottom bar... I'm not sure what to do with it, but I know the page looks better with it there, if you see what I mean? Again, any clever thoughts welcomed.

Yeah, so if any of you like this one, take it away and make your own modifications and mock ups. Or rip it to shreds and come up with new stuff. :)

[novatake]

ive been workin on some designs but they just end up ****in awful dunno y they just aint working but im goin for a html one not flash im better in flash but i just cant be arsed with flash tonight lol

[Marz]

I'm thinking...

Top right corner with the kirupa.com banner type deal.. SOmehting to promote kirupa..

Bottom bar.. Some kind-a advanced nav bar for the kteam to work through.. Or somehtign snazzy if you aren't on the kteam..

As for the line art idea. I lvoe it.. And it'll give our artists somehting to do..

[ahmed]

Originally posted by Kitiara
Any bright ideas on what (if anything) to put there? The bottom bar... .. hm.. not sure if this is exactly bright, but shouldn't a kteam member log-on box should be on that space at the top..? =)

[Kitiara]

Good point, forgotton about a login thingy... I'll add some more stuff to this design today. Maybe get an outline figure drawn if I have the time... What am I saying? I'm at work, of course I'll have the time.

In the meantime, if anyone else has got stuff, please post it!

[novatake]

hey kit i just thought on ur design wheres the audio player gonna go im sure u got it figured but thought id ask

[Kitiara]

Ah.

Yes.

That.

Er.

Bugger.

<b>*Kitiara scurries back to Photoshop*</b>

[novatake]

yeh i know what u mean kit im havin trouble finsing sumwher to fit it specially when you dunno how big its gonna be or how its designed

[Kitiara]

From what I've gathered, it's going to be big, so will probably need a page to itself. I'm planning on putting a little graphic equaliser kind of thing on the front page as a link, so when you click on that you get the full player.

[SureShot]

Looks great kit - very simple and streamlined.

Excellent work!

[Kitiara]

Glad people like this. I am adding a few bits and pieces as we speak.

There's going to be people in the side bar, and more content in the blank space. I'll post the next version soon as it's done. :)

[Kitiara]

In fact, here's an update now... :)

The people at the side aren't supposed to be accurate representations / poses of the Team. They're just some of my photo tracings to give a rough idea. If it were Flash, these guys would be walking, moving... Animating.

[Kitiara]

OK, I'll fiddle around with the centre section... :)

[Kitiara]

OK, how about this...?

[Kitiara]

Alright, this is the last I'm doing to this one today. :)

I'm going to work on anotherone, kind of a vector art Kirupaville sort of idea... Not sure how well that'll work though.

[novatake]

yeh thats nice kit once uv finished with ur fiddling u gonna post the files on so we can all av a fiddle bout with em

[ahmed]

hm.. how about.. having the news thingie under current projects, since we'll end up with more projects in the portofolio than projects were working on...i guess :)

[ahmed]

lol :beam:

well what i meant was.. it should be placed below the current projects section on the homepage.. that is.. it should be moved to the left :).. oh.. and.. i'll PM you later about the article thing :P :trout:

[thediablo]

Nice done KIT!

i like it, thats what i meant, a non 100% flash site.

i like the layout.... the only thing that i dont like that much is the left chick, and the the kteam button, no point having that there, since it is in the main menu...

and the chick... looks good... but it gives the taste of a personal website... maybe some Action script movement on that left thing will work fine... (like the kirupa.com random balls at the top)

Also... the color is very well mixed... but... i think it needs some Black on the texts...

maybe the titles go black. and the borders of the lil pics...


What u think...

And!, finally something done, and we are working has a group now :D

[thediablo]

oh! and i forgot... the equalizer. is just to big...

i mean, its good to have one... but its not that important to have it that big... i hope u understand what im trying to say :P

[Kitiara]

Yeah, the 'chick' in the side is actually a tracing of some photos of me from a few years back. Just needed some person outlines to put there, as I couldn't be bothered to draw from scratch. The idea is that tracings of team members would movie across that section and interact. :)

Fair point on the equaliser too. And all the other stuff. Take a copy of the gif and twist it, change it. Please. :) I'd post the .psd but it's huge. Even zipped up.

[thediablo]

ok kit, and sorry for the delay on the reply :P, i got to much work yesterday.

[novatake]

im gonna start fiddling around with some flash designs any special sizes wanted?

-Tom

[Kitiara]

Hmmm. Make it fit on as many screen resolutions as possible. Basically, make for 800 x 600, but also so it looks good on bigger screens.

[Marz]

I personally like the way the equalizer is right now...

Large yes.. But we need somehting to fill in the void of existance down in the bottom left corner... But I have one request.. When the fnal version of that be created.. Make it a color changing bar.. Say the higher it gets the closer to a darker blue it would go.. Like a certain number of bars would get this much and so on and so forth.. That would make it a nice little touch to blend in with the different color schemes in the page.

As for the rest.. Lemme open it up again... Allright.. The figures in the bar are fantastic.. Blends perfectly in with the rest of the site.. Especcially in the menu right there.. Wonderful job on that kit :)

The kteam login presents to me a good challenge for the team... Instead of having the usual login name/pass we can have a login that is a little different...

cmd-login::playamarz-admin::28372

Then we can have multiple commands in that one area...

cmd-postnews::playamarz-admin::28372
cmd-editnews::playamarz-admin::28372

That way we can have some quick links to those areas of the site while still logging in correctly. The admin line will be a special set of numbers/letters that are given to certain people for admin access permissions through that part of the site.

What about a messaging area? Some kind of forum or advanced tag board... Not vbulletin by the way.. Gotta use our programmers somehow ;).. I can always help out in that area if need be.

An update on the website.. I haven't been able to send out the form yet.. Had to send my taxes in the mail and it was the last DAMN stamp... Grrrr.... So now I've gotta wait til he grabs some form the post office some miles away.. or if I can get there.. But we should have it by next week.. And I'll have my server admin pop it up.. I can probably only give out access to the ftp server to about 2-3 people though.. But we'll see how I can weasal something out ;)

[novatake]

hey kit wot font have u used out of curiousity or is it summet u made up urself

[Kitiara]

Oh God, it's one I downloaded from Dan... It's a pixel font of some kind. I can't remember the URL though I'm afraid, you'll probably have to ask him.

It's 8pt though, for the buttons. And all caps. Works better that way.

[Soul]

I love it Kit :beam: I really like that 'chick' part, adds a bit of style to it!

Is that Smilie program thing real? :beam:

- Soul :goatee:

[Kitiara]

Thanks. :)

The smilie thing isn't real (yet), although it was an idea that people have been playing around with... So you never know. :)

Obviously this is the way of getting people interested in Flash - stick pictures of chicks on the front page! :beam:

[Kitiara]

New one, new one... Bit more funky than the other one I guess. Nowhere near finished, just an outline.

[Marz]

On a very interesting note.. If we ever had a kid would it be a super genius?!

*lol*.. Just kidding btw.. But yeah.. I love that design. Very fluent and it gets the info out.. It would be a perfect template for a 100% all flash version of a site.

Hey.. I noticed the site before you put the chicks in it! :-p I just thought it looked spifier with them in it ;) hehehe:beam:

[Kitiara]

On a very interesting note.. If we ever had a kid would it be a super genius?! And fantastic looking too, hehe. :)

So this is kind of a very different look to it... I guess it depends on what people prefer. I'll finish it off a bit next week. Can't be bothered to do much more today, be it work or otherwise. Think we're all off down the pub in a minute anyway... :)

[Marz]

*lmao*...

btw... The website domain should be here sooner.. Is ent it out yesterday.. Went to the mall and found some stampies :beam:

Oh well.. Have fun at the pub :)

[Kitiara]

Oh I will, I will... :)

Later people. Speak to you all Monday.

[Marz]

;)

[novatake]

that template wud be awesome for dynamic loading i was fiddling around with a idea last nite which looked ok. It had kits buttons fromt he first test and had like columns alpha'd which wud be good for animating etc i like kits though better than anything i can make lol

-Tom

[bcogswell11]

Hey guys I have a question. Although the Kteam1 is making the site, will the Kteam2 be listed on the site as members and such just as Kteam1 is and be able to login?

Thanks!
-brad-:evil:

[Marz]

Definetly.. if not I wouldn't technically be listed on anything ;)

*lol*... yeha man.. This will grow to be the main site.. I just put all thsoe tag boards and things up to be ignored and disuused at later times... :*(

[novatake]

ill have to say yeh every1 will be in the site kit needs the bios from every1 including audio people. as kteam progresses every1 will be doing diff tasks on sites so we are all obviously valied members i spose

-Tom

[ahmed]

the new design is pretty good looking :) though, i prefer the first one.. the new one is more like a cartoon style site, the first one is more uh.... futuristic.... JMHO

[lava]

wow kit... you're freaking good at designs..
Raf

[Kitiara]

Why thank you very much. :blush:

Basically, Team 1 is designeing and building the main website while Team 2 build the MP3 player. But everyone involved on either team gets put on the website. :)

For each project, we'll probably put up who worked on it, but on the Bio section, everyone gets their name and info down.

Anyone got any more designs they'd like to post? Please? I'm hogging this thread with my own stuff here...

[novatake]

if this bloody thing wud let me upload fla's 2day i wud post one up its stupidly simple but i wasnt really workin to hard on it

[novatake]

if any1 downloads it just rip it apart and see wot u cum up with

[andr.in]

cool! I like that but maybe we should add some interactivity... or aznimation or sth to it! :-\ :) =)

[lava]

did you guys ever figure out how to make the mp3 player? is it just a matter of the mp3 file? or do you have to have it streaming in the timeline, etc...

[novatake]

yeh syko im gonna work on sum animations here and there i just threw it together so didnt av time to animate also i thought i would leave it for people to have a crack with animating how they like to we can get sum different looks

lavaboy i aint sure wot ur on about where the web site team not the audio play team

[Marz]

The audio team has come up with a workable spectrum anylyzer.. We just need to work around it so that we can load mp3's dynamically then.. Which I'm not quite sure how we are going to do that.. Placing swiftmp3 in a file along with the mp3 player and linking via cgi. perhaps.. :)

Who knows.. But I do know that my bum itches. Could someone scratch it?

Pweeeaaassseee:sigh:

[Kitiara]

Use a trout like eveyone else round here seems to... :)

[novatake]

here it is with some animation on it add to it though
-Tom

[Marz]

I'm trying to stay away from that unnaturally fishie smell though.. hehe

[Kitiara]

And yet you keep coming back to these trout infested forums... Admit it boy, you <i>love</i> it. :beam:

[novatake]

well kit looks liek its just me and u lol

anyway here's another 1 its not my own work but i thought maybe we cud create something like this just to throw anotehr idea into the world lol
-Tom

[mdipi]

ok i dont have time to read all of this, if someone can summerize that wold be great@

[Kitiara]

Well, if no-one else has come up with anythign besides me and Novatake, then I guess we'll just pool our ideas and come up with something. I'm busy this weekend, so starting Monday I'll try and put together something that incorporates all the stuff we've worked on and that people have liked. Then we can start to build!

We can get the programmers involved here too, so they can work on the login scripts and all this kind of thing.

I was also wondering, would people like one of those Shoutboxes that I see on a lot of sites now? I've got some PHP that I think can do that... :)

[Soul]

A shutbox would be cool :) A big-ish one, like a chat thingy...

- Soul :goatee:

[Marz]

BLAH... :P

[ahmed]

well let me know what i can do.. we need to be assigned positions so we can go on.. :)

[Kitiara]

Ahmed, I assign you the login system. :)

I assign me the Shoutbox. Crap, that means we'll need PHP on the web server...

[ahmed]

marz's server does support php as fas as i know.. and... i'll work on the login system soon too.. :)

[Kitiara]

I'll try and get a basic HTML page created for middle of next week then. If we can get a plain text version up and going then we can work on the Flash one afterwards. Would be nice to get something up and going quickly though. :)

[Marz]

Yea yea yea... Fine.. take all the fun stuff.. *lmao*..

:)

[Kitiara]

You want to do it? I'm more than willing to share... :)

Besides, my PHP is a bit scrappy, I'll probably need someone to double check the code...

[Marz]

I'll jsut watch over everything and lend advice and help on the way.. Don't wanna take any fun from the members.. hehe

[Kitiara]

Pleeeeeaaaase? <b>*Flutters eyelashes*</b> I'm not really that good at PHP... :)

[Marz]

I guess I'll help you out... Geeez...

:)

[Kitiara]

Yay! :blush:

[Marz]

Yea yea yea... What can I say...

I'm a sucker for good looking ladies and flutterring eyelashes.

:love: :sure: :trout:

[Kitiara]

:beam:

And thanks to a lot of pestering, I've got a photograph to post up on Monday. Once I get to my scanner at home, that is. :)

[Soul]

Yay :beam:

- Soul :goatee: