Homepage Revamp

Was thinking how much this current test site still looks so much similar to the active site... and did this on photoshop.
This is far from complete, and if we can brainstorm how to improve this... that would be awesome. A couple of things I can think to be improved from this off the top of my head are
- logo
- the player effect I was asking from Dobbo (forgot the instructions on how to put that)
- top bar / nav bar color
- the fonts/text in sign up box
- more info can be put after youtube/twitter section
- a footer!?



once we have made a final design, i can then slice it up into html and will put on the html test page.

Nice, i'm liking the look of this mate. Looks a hell of a lot better.

Wow, that looks amazing!

one thing I forgot to mention.. The headline which says Weekly giveaways and the Player ( Park in this case ).. will be a slideshow of 4 players/ 4 healdlines.. dunno if the 4 fullstops underneath were a hint . So anyone who wants the PSD to make improvements (Dobbo ) I will be happy to send it / upload it somwhere online.

Yeah

to quote eminem

"Wowzers i just made a mess in my trousers!" Looks awesome!!!

heres the download link for the psd
http://speedy.sh/vNk2B/Simply-Fifa-Hompage.psd

downloaded

- the 3 boxes under the player... I think they can be designed better. They look cheap/tacky at the moment
- not sure about the green coloured bar.. maybe another color?

Otacon thats sick mate looks similar to the EA sports home page but who care

I think it would look really cool if the rest of the forum was also designed like this. Is that what everyone else was thinking of doing anyway?

I'll have a bit of free time today, so is there anything I can do? Anything needing done on photoshop, anything for the homepage I could do?

yeah would be awesome.. if we can work on improving that mock up.. before slicing up into html. I have already listed some stuff that can be improved so far.. will relist em here again. Juss dont wanna start on the html till we have a fully agreeable design .. thats liked by everyone

- logo
- the player effect I was asking from Dobbo (forgot the instructions on how to put that)
- top bar / nav bar color
- the fonts/text in sign up box
- more info can be put after youtube/twitter section
- a footer!?
- the 3 boxes under the player... I think they can be designed better. They look cheap/tacky at the moment
- not sure about the green coloured bar.. maybe another color?

I was also thinking for the site stats like how many users registered, total messages posted, users in chat box etc.. we could do it like how the premierleague site have like so

That would be cool, yeah.

An idea from another site, maybe player of the week or something? (from ultimate team) In saying that, I don't know where that would fit.

redone a few things on the site, MAINLY the effect round the player but the text scroller thing at the top and one of the boxes



http://speedy.sh/gbYdE/Simply-Fifa-Hompage.psd

I managed to remove that blue background on the headerbar, but now we have those corners showing again. Last time they were removed by doing this:

.headerbar .corners-bottom{
display: none !important;
}

.headerbar .corners-top{
display: none !important;
}


but when I do that the headerbar goes white.

if the header bar goes white.. specify the gray color for it?

Otacon_Alonsus wrote:if the header bar goes white.. specify the gray color for it?

Yeah, I've done that already.

Changed the blue table's background image to a black/grey with red trims image, just to get that annoying blue thing away for now.

Also....I wish I hadn't taken away the new topic button as it would sort of match the design and I can't find it now! I found it on the support forums so I'll have another look.

edit: found them.

One thing I would maybe add is a clear way of entering the forum page? Not sure where that would go.

the text in nav bar, can be changed when I move it over to the new top area. I was planning to have

Homepage - Forum - FAQ ( Do we need this? ) - Search ETC when I make the new menu..

I sort of meant something like a button on the page somewhere with 'enter the forums' or something. Possibly attached to the little 'come this way to...' box.

The blue button that says sign in can be changed to that?

Ah yeah, I suppose that would work.

where can I get graphics like this (or similar) .. MINUS the players/text