Works a lot less stressful for me since I started not giving a shit about it and working at my own pace. But still, its kinda annoying. But today was the first time in WEEKS where it didnt rain once all day. Fucking miracle.
So with my new poll on the side I've noticed a few of you arent happy with either the 'current' layout, which isnt completely final, or possibly the change to the site over all. This is good as I really would like to hear some solid feedback and suggestions. I changed the font today, looks a bit better then before. Made the background to the text a little darker. I will be changing part of the background later as well as the blogs name to an art piece, but thats a little later. For now I want the middle stuff to get nice. I did make a test blog that I've been screwing around with to see what works and what doesnt, and how to change something without breaking everything else. Althuogh its a bit of FAIL because the settings seem to be a little different. Fuck knows why.
Anyway, if anyone wants to give me their ideas about what they dont like, what can actually be changed to maybe look better, or even show me an example with a test blog you created, that would be cool. Jed and myself will take on the ideas and maybe merge them with some of our own, see how what looks with whatever. You can either shove your ideas up here, or if you're a little shy of your ideas, although you shouldnt be since everyone can then comment on each others ideas, just send me a pm over on my youtube page.
Down the track we'll be asking for your ideas on some things we're doing. You could call it being a part of how things evolve here. I mean whats the point of a blog if people dont like it? The more things people like on here the better. And once we shove our comic up that we've both been working on, which you'll see in the next couple days, we'll even take situational ideas for it from you. And ofcourse if you find the comic entertaining enough to draw your own art from the characters or your own strips, that will be pretty epic too and we'll even post some up. Wait a few strips so you can get the feel of the characters and setting though before you start creating things. Although if you want to put the characters we've created into the future with lightsabers, then super duper too. However, I'd like a simple rule followed... if you draw the two characters kissing I will send Austin to your house to scream in your ear while you sleep.
- Con "I could be your father"
I cannot stand the colour... sorry
ReplyDeleteWhich colour. Theres a few of them. You mean the middle grey type thing?
ReplyDeleteI think the grey-brownish color in the middle looks better now. But today I was wondering why you didn't make it more colorfull. Since you love cakes, Con, you could put pictures of lots of colorfull ones in the background. Then again, this is now Jed's Blog, too, and if you want to post more "serious" stuff like your comic, the current layout would fit better than pictures of cake...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I believe in both of you that this blog will look fantastically in no time!
(Since I think I might be posting more often, I should create an account, but I'm just too lazy..)
I personally like all of the colours, but after looking for awhile they don't quite fit together...parchment with like a mauve colour...
ReplyDeleteBut that could just be because I've seen staring at it for a good 6 minutes.
I still stand by my earlier comment though...I like the changes, it's really much easier to read than it was before, and it's overall a good look I think.
Hey, can you make something that we can see who wrote a post? Its not always clear right away if Jed or you wrote it. Maybe you can use a different color (if that is possible) or you can just write "by Con" or I dont know^^ Just something. But for now the Blog looks quite good. Not too serious, that is also good because you guys dont write really serious, its always funny :)
ReplyDeleteBoth. Its hard to concentrate on the writing without getting annoyed by the colours.
ReplyDeleteSomething that allows us to know who's posting what is the only suggestion I can see, other than some aesthetic stuff.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you tell people Austin will visit their house for whatever reason people will probably draw the characters kissing on purpose. :P
Then its their fault when he rocks up to their place.
ReplyDeleteLuci, what colours would you suggest. I went for something that wasnt blinding like a white background with black text but I couldnt go with a black background because white text will hurt after a while. I thought my first original layout here was kinda painful but it was just a temporary thing. I'm up for experimenting on here still.
I think colours like a mixture of blues or reds... or greens. Some shades might look good too
ReplyDeleteI think your layout should revolve mostly on what sort of 'feel' you want the place to be. You want it to be 'ACTION RAAWWWWRRR >8U' or "Suave gentlemanly with just a hint of danger' theme'd? You also have to put in consideration the color clashes and such.
ReplyDeleteThere are also lots of free custom made templates online made for Blogger layouts like BTemplates and http://www.bloggertemplatesblog.com/ that you can browse through and use as a base setup and modify to something personal, though you'll need to work around with the codes a bit.
Well, I'm not really a creative type, when it comes to blogs, but I can at least pitch in some ideas. The side colour thing isn't really a problem to me, although it does look kind of 'picture-of-a-wall' bland, but I guess it's ok. Text not a problem, and everything like that, totally not a problem at all. But yeah, the background colour does look 'picture-of-a-wall' like in a way, sort of bland but this is my idea........ I know I'm lame with suggestions but like I said, I'm not creative with blog stuff. And I should shut up before I give you an essay of a comment to read.
ReplyDeleteWhen you mean background you mean the brown part or the grey part?
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ReplyDeleteI went through all the choices again. There wasnt really anything I thought was decent enough. Its either too colourful, too dark, or too noisy. This one was simple enough and not too boring, but its easier to read text with it then the others. This layout isnt final, but it could be so much worse that it would destroy your eyes.
ReplyDeletehey the background is different
ReplyDeleteI'm altering it every now and then. Like I said this isnt the final layout. I'm waiting on a couple things from jed so I can create a few photoshop stuff. But the actual colour and design I'm screwing a little with every now and then. Trying to figure out what fits what without breaking the site or making it too ugly.
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