My attempt at the SDN redesign

[alphaDesign]

 Visit the live page: http://tilenk.byethost7.com/index.php.html

 

Preview image:

 

 

 

If anyone is heavily interested for the psd, I might share it, depends on what are you going to use it for.

Edited May 2, 2014 by alphaDesign

[YinZ]

The live page is just an image. Not really live...

[Kenneh]

It's extremely bland and doesn't fit in the current forum theme.

[alphaDesign]

The live page is just an image. Not really live...

 

Indeed, the page is there only for the sake of original quality. 

It's extremely bland and doesn't fit in the current forum theme.

 

Thanks. I used vast majority of the grey due to the forum theme (Of course, excluding the header). As for the blandness, I always idealize such pages as simple and elegant and that would be the reason for it. 

Edited May 2, 2014 by alphaDesign

[Booch]

Try to make something that matches all possible background themes(The forum has multiple themes down at the bottom). The concept is great and better than what we have, just need to adjust it a bit

[YinZ]

Indeed, the page is there only for the sake of original quality. 

 

Thanks. I used vast majority of the grey due to the forum theme (Of course, excluding the header). As for the blandness, I always idealize such pages as simple and elegant and that would be the reason for it. 

 

always idealize such pages as simple and elegant.

This is not elegant. It's bland

[alphaDesign]

always idealize such pages as simple and elegant.

This is not elegant. It's bland

 

May I ask you what would you do to make it less bland? And how is that going to benefit the whole layout?

[Abuse]

Not to offend you, but it does look pretty bad. The scripts background (and especially the black border) look terrible
It needs: gradients, glows and bevels
Too much grey.

Edited May 2, 2014 by Abuse

[alphaDesign]

Not to offend you, but it does look pretty bad. The scripts background (and especially the black border) look terrible

It needs: gradients, glows and bevels

Too much grey.

 

Glows? Almost every single element has a shadow, glow would not fit, I assure you. As for the bevels, I do not use them, they simply do not look good, in my opinion. And for the gradients, I've used them where ever I could, you have to keep in mind that it's far easier to do this in the Photoshop than exporting it into CSS and html and could not really overdo the gradients, simply due to that. 

Edited May 2, 2014 by alphaDesign

[Abuse]

I don't want to argue, but inner glows at 1-2 px width are used across the whole website. The glows you used on the buttons are way overdone

Bevels? well, every button on this site has one, and the gradients:

 

Yes, it is easy to have a gradient in css, you just make a 1px wide x px high image that gradients and repeat it horizontally.

 

Regards

Edited May 2, 2014 by Abuse

[alphaDesign]

I don't want to argue, but inner glows at 1-2 px width are used across the whole website. The glows you used on the buttons are way overdone

Bevels? well, every button on this site has one and about the gradients:

 

Yes, it is easy to have a gradient in css, you just make a 1px wide x px high image that gradients and repeat it horizontally.

 

Regards

 

Alright, thanks. Even though I have no idea where is the inner glow used, supposedly across the whole website. 

[Designer]

very plain, like Abuse said it lacks gradients and bevels. the actual Script ícon rectangles are... well, just rectangles. On "Add" & "remove" etc buttons the glow is ruining the text. also the fon´t is not that good.  

 

I´d restart the concept from pure placements and work on from there, as functionally and visually it´s not the best out there.

[alphaDesign]

very plain, like Abuse said it lacks gradients and bevels. the actual Script ícon rectangles are... well, just rectangles. On "Add" & "remove" etc buttons the glow is ruining the text. also the fon´t is not that good.  

 

I´d restart the concept from pure placements and work on from there, as functionally and visually it´s not the best out there.

 

Would you like the psd?

[Designer]

Would you like the psd?

 

No thanks mate.

 

I do not have interest nor time to work web designing pro bono.

[gift]

I actually like it looks smooth and clean