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No POPUP Windows will be used for the new [H] site. This was a joke.
Hi, I am being commissioned by Kyle to redesign [H]ard|OCP.com. Hopefully the mods don't mind this topic being in this forum. I just wanted to try and find the highest visibility forum for this discussion. Please move it to another forum if you feel it's appropriate.
Typically I don't show my portfolio to anonymous people on the internet because of an incident that happened on UseNet a few years ago that caused me problems with a client. However, it's pretty well known (among even tens of people!!) that I did www.Shacknews.com and some other work for Kyle that he was pleased with, so you can use that as a reference for some of my work.
Kyle and I have discussed a lot of ideas back and forth and are both pretty psyched to do this project. For me it's a really good challenge because you have one of the largest, most vocal and loyal tech condensed tech communities on the net and everyone here is into ideas like modifying, tweaking, improving, pushing further etc. If I can create something that people here will like, then I consider that a successful design. The purpose of this thread is to discuss things you would like to see, things you wouldn't like to see, things that "would be better if you just did this..." and bash on Shacknews and tell me how shitty it is. This is totally open to bombard me with ideas, suggestions, and feedback about the current [H] that I can take into consideration as I start sketching out the [H] of 2k4.
The last place I like to go to talk about a project is the audience. It has never once proved to be helpful in the actual production. However, Kyle has a lot of pride and faith in this community and suggested I come here to discuss it, and since my goal is to make something that he and the rest of [H] loves, well it can't hurt. With Shacknews if I were to do this, it would have been a disaster, so I am hoping that we can all discuss a lot of good ideas and that I can start this knowing what the general hive mind of [H] is going to dig. That said, I just wanted to lay down a few points to note when replying:
I greatly look forward to this potential disaster of a conversation! Kyle: <3 <3
-haiku
Hi, I am being commissioned by Kyle to redesign [H]ard|OCP.com. Hopefully the mods don't mind this topic being in this forum. I just wanted to try and find the highest visibility forum for this discussion. Please move it to another forum if you feel it's appropriate.
Typically I don't show my portfolio to anonymous people on the internet because of an incident that happened on UseNet a few years ago that caused me problems with a client. However, it's pretty well known (among even tens of people!!) that I did www.Shacknews.com and some other work for Kyle that he was pleased with, so you can use that as a reference for some of my work.
Kyle and I have discussed a lot of ideas back and forth and are both pretty psyched to do this project. For me it's a really good challenge because you have one of the largest, most vocal and loyal tech condensed tech communities on the net and everyone here is into ideas like modifying, tweaking, improving, pushing further etc. If I can create something that people here will like, then I consider that a successful design. The purpose of this thread is to discuss things you would like to see, things you wouldn't like to see, things that "would be better if you just did this..." and bash on Shacknews and tell me how shitty it is. This is totally open to bombard me with ideas, suggestions, and feedback about the current [H] that I can take into consideration as I start sketching out the [H] of 2k4.
The last place I like to go to talk about a project is the audience. It has never once proved to be helpful in the actual production. However, Kyle has a lot of pride and faith in this community and suggested I come here to discuss it, and since my goal is to make something that he and the rest of [H] loves, well it can't hurt. With Shacknews if I were to do this, it would have been a disaster, so I am hoping that we can all discuss a lot of good ideas and that I can start this knowing what the general hive mind of [H] is going to dig. That said, I just wanted to lay down a few points to note when replying:
- Don't be offended if you suggest something awesome and it doesn't happen. Even if I think it's awesome and I don't do it, there is most likely a very good reason for it.
- Don't be offended if you suggest something awesome and it doesn't happen. Even if I think it's awesome and I don't do it, there is most likely a very good reason for it.
- If you are suggesting something that boils down to programming functionality, that isn't really my department, but it's still good to hear those ideas since a site redesign is as good a time as any to think about that stuff.
- Not using flash anywhere (ads don't count, not my gig!). Fuck flash.
- Not making the site look like a case mod. Yes it would be awesome for two days then everyone would get annoyed at the toggle switch navigation and the rotating fan in the upper corner.
- Feel free to point out any sites that have a nice aesthetic vernacular that you dig, but remember that [H] has it's own specific brand and identity by which the new site will be based on.
- I'm probably not going to go into detail discussing my ideas and plans. I want your thoughts without any interference from concepts that you form from my ideas.
- The homepage is actually going to be a series of pop-up windows. The navigation in one pop-up, the articles in another, the ads all in one giant pop-up... you get the idea. The concept is that you can move the windows around your desktop in any configuration you want so that really [H] is always custom for YOU. <-- This was a joke!!!
I greatly look forward to this potential disaster of a conversation! Kyle: <3 <3
-haiku
If it is, good luck with redoing the site, it could use a good face lift.
