ISO people good at website layout, and PS

[JimmyBanks]

hey guys, check out www.blizzboards.com/home

eventually we want to try and make this into a full site to attract all blizzard fans, this will help grow the community and snipers.

you can see what i have so far on the home page.
I need feedback on what you think would make it better, what content you would like to see for a home page, and if somebody is good at photoshop to try and make a suitable title/ title image.

This is just a shell, and might be completely scrapped, or a different style of site template used for it.

Let me know what you think.

edit/ i am going to try and find a more gamer-style template.

/changed to blizzboards.com/test

[Arbiter]

maybe a different colour scheme... not so down with the brown, to be honest lol

[XpLoiTeD]

Nobodies down with the brown... lol just being honest..

[skiD]

Yeah brown is just too plain

[Arbiter]

I'm glad I'm not alone, lol

[StoNe]

I nominate GhosTy for his l33t skills in PS

[skiD]

Yeh but Ghosty's lazy

[Xerent]

Do you want me to help design a template? I was a former skin designer and coder for invisionfree/zeta boards. I'll show you a few designs. I'm no expert, but I say I'm decent?

http://x-fraser-x.deviantart.com/#/d2ldrl9
-That one was originally a template for a website that I changed into a forum index :P

http://x-fraser-x.deviantart.com/#/d2l04ta
-And that's just a forum theme/skin I designed and coded for Zeta Boards.

http://x-fraser-x.deviantart.com/#/d2ldq5b
-Just a design I wanted to play around with.


Just let me know if you want me to design something. I'll start something tomorrow morning for fun and see what I come up with. How advanced is your coding?

[Xerent]

Sorry to double post, I couldn't edit my post.
I came up with this http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8...boardstest.png

[JimmyBanks]

Hey Xerent, that would be perfect if you want to make a template

For my coding skills they arent that great tbh, i have done 2 programming classes for school, so i have been learning html and php as i go pretty much, so far it has worked decent i guess.

For the template it looks good so far, im not sure how much time you want to spend on it, but a couple ideas i have for it are:
-Have the template span the whole screen, using as much space as possible
-For the navbar, rather then having a pointer indicate which tab is currently selected, having it indented or highlighted
-Maybe a login bar on the top right, although to do that i would have to connect it with the forum members so i would probably have to do that.


anyways those are just ideas, but so far it looks good