Come to the Darkside

[Sonic 296]

Well I've learnt something over the past couple of days. People like things dark, dismal and gloomy. I relaunched CNCNZ.com with a brighter than usual style on Friday only to discover people liked our more traditional darker look for the site. So I spent 2 more days (off and on) tweaking things and trying out new colours, turning the brightness down as far I wanted to go. The result, well look around, it's darker, it's what the masses wanted. Majority rules in this case. Another key change that I introduced and then changed back was a non-traditional left side bar, not for site navigation but for highlighting key features, again no one really liked the idea apart from C&C King and I. To use a quote from my friend, Chickendippers, "the sidebar on the right just feels natural on CNCNZ". And so with all that said.... I give you CNCNZ.com - The naturally, traditional, darker remix.

[Guest Rabbit]

So, in reality, you changed a whole bunch for nothing... :cry:

 

Sorry for making you work extra, Sonic.

[TheBlackOut 7]

Well I am glad chickendippers agrees with me on the sidebar thing. It just feels natural.

 

Hehe, sorry for the extra work, but we like dark, you gave us that, and now we like it! Yay!

[chickendippers 1]

People just don't like change, perhaps if you increase the brightness slightly every day people won't notice

 

It looks great; I like the news headline font and the way all the sections fit together nicely - that's something I've always liked about your layouts Sonic

 

 

BTW The First Decade page background isn't working.

[Guest Rabbit]

Yep, that's confirmed, same problem on my end.

[Sonic 296]

So, in reality, you changed a whole bunch for nothing... :cry:

 

Sorry for making you work extra, Sonic.

I wouldn't say for nothing. I was kind annoyed how no one really liked the light style. But the important thing was I "fixed" things up to make the site viewable again. Also, it wasn't really that much work, change a few files, upload them and the site is updated. Most of the work was going back to the drawing board to test new colour schemes.

 

Hypnotist, why did you link to my profile in your reply

 

BTW The First Decade page background isn't working.

Fixed it.

 

Remeber no site is ever complete. I'm always tickering and testing new things or looking for problems. Like just now I changed the font sizes a bit in the new updates for quoted text etc.....

[WhOIsInTeResTed InMyNaMe? 0]

The site is ok by now, but what is happening to the 2nd page?? , about two days that is offline :?: :?

http://www.cncnz.com/page2/

[Sonic 296]

Page2 is offline. I need to redo the entire layout of that page.

[Alphabear 11]

i thought the bright colours were alright. I have no real preference between the lighter or darker versions.

[GeneralZ 0]

the poll window squishes the webmaster blog, move it.. i dont like reading a squished up web blog.

[Sonic 296]

What screen resolution are using?

At 1024 x 768 it looks fine. And guess what, the Webmaster Blog is basically the same size as it was in the old layout.

 

It will be a bit squeezed in there if your screen resolution is small, like 800 x 600.

[Guest Rabbit]

Kind of going back to your main point about people liking dismal and gloomy, I actually think it's another thing.

 

 

When creating a webpage, you normally should have a dark background, and bright colours, or a bright background, and dark colours, or hell, do it the google way, and have a white background with the four basic colours...

 

 

What you seemed to do though at first, is make a bright background, with bright colours... so, Maybe, if you wanted, you could test a brighter scheme, because dark text doesn't make the whole page appear dark, but if you had dark text and a bright background, as you wanted, it would still look nice.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Maybe, but I've seen forums that are created under PhBB(or whatever the hell it is) and the webmasters stick with the generic white and black text look. Its kinda borring. What I like about CNCNZ is the blueness themes. They're different. The CNC10 and EAW themes look cool as well.

 

All we need is a dark green one and we'll be set :wink:

[Sonic 296]

Well I was thinking of creating a forum style based on C&C King's Field Commander site. Which features dark green and black.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Not exactly the green I had in mind, but that does look cool-ish.

[Luk3us 63]

A green tiberian feel skin would be cool...

 

Though you know what would be far superior? A nice dark red Nod skin instead. lol.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

He has a point. Or a red Soviet skin. But I think Nod would come through as darker.

 

I think it may have been evetgamers.net or something like that that had this really cool neanblue and black theme.