Website Design

[noel]

Well I was instructed by the king and willingly submitted myself to his will for a design for the present website.

Domain: www.uantir.com/

You can go there to see the design. Well I kind of wanted to "roll out" a new design for the website as soon as we finalized the emblems.

I have a mock up of what I imagine the website to look like. Here is my mock up, roughly and crudely made in Photoshop.



So my idea was we were faced with a simple and clean interface. The top news would be first. It would contain news like the recent trade agreement we had. Then, the King's Words or the Lion's Roar. Which ever updated most recently.

The menu bar up top would have a "home" option taking someone to the root of the site. And the Information tab of the menu would include things about our ranks, means of joining the nation ect.

Another thing is color. The main website has black as its main color for environment friendly purposes. I tried to maintain that in this design, as reflected in the main body dominated by pure black and the edges with an off black color.

However the flag colors (Red, Silver and Black) weren't so eye friendly. (Red on Black is painful as is Red on Black and Black on Red looks tacky.) If anyone has any hexadecimal numbers they would like me to try in I would gladly put them in.

If anyone has any suggestions don't hesitate to voice them. I am always looking for new voices.

I am looking for media we can add, things we can add to the website, ect.

I am in the process of learning CSS right now so I can't really guarantee perfection from the first one. However if anyone else knows a thing or two about the programming languages of the web(XML, HTML, CSS, Java, ect.) Please, by all means inform me. I am willing to learn.

[Rook]

I've always seen Bronze and Silver as the royal metals. I don't like the look of gold. In the beginning the colors I intended were black red and silver, but the metallic color wasn't supported everywhere so in the end I chose gray. My suggestion here would be to change the golden yellows to a bronze. Everything else is very dark, which is fine, the white neutral and the yellow is bright. It clashes in a way a deeper color would not. I have no idea how to hexadecimal a bronze color.

And you chose that picture? That's one way to make sure we do the photoshoot.

[Queen Rachel]

I like the black and white, but the gold? Eh, not so much. Also, of the thousands (literally thousands) of the photos available of His Majesty online, this is an odd choice.

[noel]

It was the only one that was literally two clicks away, I just chose that one from convenience. And that is a place holder for the design, meant to simulate the kind of images displayed. I plan on getting the Lion's Roar an image from my own taking when the website "goes live."

The King and I were discussing a more metalic bronze color with a lovely sample.

You speak of the white clashing and I agree. Maybe an option is to turn the white text is a cool(cool as in temperature not how awesome it is) grey color?

Something like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal_(color)#Charcoal

Or this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%27s_gray