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19-09-2006 23:44:53
It's that web-development time again
Usually I've very secretive about these things, and just spring these insane features onto you, I call it Ninja programming and in some cases Ninja Webdesign.
The current situation
Well this time it's Ninja webdesign, and Ninja-logo. So far NxOgre has 3 real-designs, the first was around the 0.3 era where it was just a simple Arial font, 0.5 era with the purple background and yellow cubes. From there the NxOgre.org website has sort of merged itself into a sort of purplely-orangey with a violent logo.
It's also powered by a hacked up version of media wiki.
What I propose
- Redesign the NxOgre logo, unifiy so you can instantly see what it is. The yellow cube of NxOgre has become an unoffical mascot, I propose that will be the basis of it all. Use a different type face.
- Redesign the NxOgre website. Remove media wiki and replace it with a custom solution and integerate the development of NxOgre more perhaps by a tracker system or a blog to keep tabs on development, as well as keeping tabs on bug reports and fixes and new code by users. This is the main reason why I'm doing this all as I keep forgetting what I've changed and what I need to change.
What I've done
- I've redone the logo, it uses the font "EuroStile" a sort of 70's modern looking font. I really like it. The O in Ogre almost looks like a bevelled cube, and basically I really like it. The primary colour of it is white but it can be changed to any style and it can be overlaid over a background.
- I've wrote a custom wiki solution called "Plastic", 2 years in the making it already has been tried out by a few "volunteers" it works very well it's really really fast and secure. It uses a trust system to edit pages so to create an account you'd have to ask me to create one for you. It uses the Markdown formatting system (in blogs and such) instead of MediaWiki code, it's just as fast and since the pages auto-cache there is no slowdown AT all.
- I've been working on the design of the website.
A few notes:
- The middle will be more of an orange than a gold.
- The middle will probably include a white area for normal text, white on orange don't really go in large bodies of text.
- The top bar things are actually links, taking to you to the main sections of the wiki.
- The top black bar would only be present on the main page.
- It's not really powered by the wrath of a 1000 suns.
The really cool cube background
As a present, I've actually made a wallpaper for you all based on the new logo and cube design. It's in 1280x1024 but you can scale it down.
Conclusion
Anyway. Comments, suggestions. Please
Usually I've very secretive about these things, and just spring these insane features onto you, I call it Ninja programming and in some cases Ninja Webdesign.
The current situation
Well this time it's Ninja webdesign, and Ninja-logo. So far NxOgre has 3 real-designs, the first was around the 0.3 era where it was just a simple Arial font, 0.5 era with the purple background and yellow cubes. From there the NxOgre.org website has sort of merged itself into a sort of purplely-orangey with a violent logo.
It's also powered by a hacked up version of media wiki.
What I propose
- Redesign the NxOgre logo, unifiy so you can instantly see what it is. The yellow cube of NxOgre has become an unoffical mascot, I propose that will be the basis of it all. Use a different type face.
- Redesign the NxOgre website. Remove media wiki and replace it with a custom solution and integerate the development of NxOgre more perhaps by a tracker system or a blog to keep tabs on development, as well as keeping tabs on bug reports and fixes and new code by users. This is the main reason why I'm doing this all as I keep forgetting what I've changed and what I need to change.
What I've done
- I've redone the logo, it uses the font "EuroStile" a sort of 70's modern looking font. I really like it. The O in Ogre almost looks like a bevelled cube, and basically I really like it. The primary colour of it is white but it can be changed to any style and it can be overlaid over a background.
- I've wrote a custom wiki solution called "Plastic", 2 years in the making it already has been tried out by a few "volunteers" it works very well it's really really fast and secure. It uses a trust system to edit pages so to create an account you'd have to ask me to create one for you. It uses the Markdown formatting system (in blogs and such) instead of MediaWiki code, it's just as fast and since the pages auto-cache there is no slowdown AT all.
- I've been working on the design of the website.
A few notes:
- The middle will be more of an orange than a gold.
- The middle will probably include a white area for normal text, white on orange don't really go in large bodies of text.
- The top bar things are actually links, taking to you to the main sections of the wiki.
- The top black bar would only be present on the main page.
- It's not really powered by the wrath of a 1000 suns.
The really cool cube background
As a present, I've actually made a wallpaper for you all based on the new logo and cube design. It's in 1280x1024 but you can scale it down.
Conclusion
Anyway. Comments, suggestions. Please
