offtopic Gallery Thread

[Snowy]

Hm, I'm playing with adding some more, well, taking away some of the plainness by adding stripes:

I'm not sure if I like it. Maybe I'll try making the stripes more subtle... or I'll just trash the whole thing. I'm setting it up so you can choose different skins for it, after all.

Edit: No, I just looked at it and decided that it sucks. But I'll keep experimenting- in fact, I might just give some people property names to fill in with background colors and images, and let people make their own custom color scheme for the site.

The lack of color not only makes it look dull, but very, very, flat.

[rossmum]

I just found out how to make custom DoW badges, so:



POLAND

[Snowy]

How do you do those paint splashes?

Oh, I probably should've mentioned that I didn't make the whole template. Well, the template itself was made by me, but the background was made by and old friend. I would assume he used custom brushes, but I'll have to get back to you on that.

[Stormwing]

Reaper, I LOVE the title banner. The background could be a little more interesting...but I love how the title font is kinda like the font on DSLR screen, and I especially love the focus ring. <3 <3 <3

Nice site too, snowy! the splatters are a very nice touch. The rest of the sides do seem a little empty though, in comparison to that lil bit of very complex paint splashes...iduno, looks cool anyway.

[Rob Oplawar]

See, that's why I'm a Web Developer, rather than a Web Designer. Web Designers make really cool nice layouts like Snowy. Web Developers make the forums and databases work.
I've got the backend all worked out, all I need is someone with some actual talent to make the site look good. Lol.

[Timo]

The sun wasn't too hot last night:
[wshot]http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs21/f/2007/244/5/e/Moon_rise_by_Timo12.jpg[/wshot]
Well, even though it was the moon, it was surprisingly orange :x

[jahrain]

[DaneO'Roo]

Oh gtfo Jahrain, you work with that? I used to be a long time member in that community until I got banned from one of the forums. Also when Djipi lost all his work and had to start over >.<

Is the new version out yet????

[Rob Oplawar]

Aha! I think I've got it.

Read the top news post in the screenshot.

If you wanna know what I mean by pure distilled eyebleed, just go to http://www.spacebrick.net

Edit: oh btw, you know the best part about it? I love code for some reason, and the code- the php, css, and html- for the site is sooo much prettier than any other site I've written before. The html and css are absolutely, completely 100&#37; valid, and for php generated code, well formatted to boot. Course, IE still completely fails to display it correctly. So it's blocked from viewing the site at all. =D

Edit edit: replying to Archon's post below: The reason the moon appears orange (and the sun, for that matter) when it is close to the horizon is because its light is passing through much more atmosphere than it does when it's directly overhead. The air diffuses the light and so the red end of the spectrum comes through stronger than the rest.

Edit edit edit: but that's an awesome pic, Timo. nice!

[Reaper Man]

Reaper, I LOVE the title banner. The background could be a little more interesting...but I love how the title font is kinda like the font on DSLR screen, and I especially love the focus ring. <3 <3 <3

Nice site too, snowy! the splatters are a very nice touch. The rest of the sides do seem a little empty though, in comparison to that lil bit of very complex paint splashes...iduno, looks cool anyway.

Thanks . I'll see what I can do about the background, for now the grey will probably be temporary. I'm gunna be putting it all up online today. :awesome:

Any ideas for a background? I don't want anything distracting, and it would need to compliment the minimalist design of the rest of the template. Diagonal grey/lighter grey stripes mb? I dunno. Needless to say, in the first few weeks once I get my site up, I'll probably be constantly tweaking the banners. The photography one is the only one I'm entirely satisfied with.