Revamping Play Online - Want Some Opinions

**Drewbacca** · 13 Apr 2008, 12:21 AM

I actually liked the vibrant red bg and white text because it really caught your attention and made for a good headline. However I do think it was too prominent. The colour helps draw your eye in enough that you could probably vastly reduce the size. This would show more of the great FF7 art and achieve the same goal without it being too overwhelming.

The other combinations are fine too, just kind of more bland.

**mollipen** · 04 Jun 2008, 02:02 PM

So, not that I'm at all committing to this, but what do you guys this of the below link? I'm trying to decide if it's an idea that I want to actually flesh out or not. (Oh, and absolutely no IE testing yet, so if that's what you use, I've no clue what you'll see.)

http://207.178.241.249/

**Dunlap** · 04 Jun 2008, 03:44 PM

Only the front page works for me through that, but I like it a lot more than what Play has up. Damn that is ad-heavy. There are 4 ads for the same thing up there!

If you want the text on top of the artwork, how about a tinted box like you've done at your forum?

**YellerDog** · 04 Jun 2008, 04:28 PM

Needs more internets!

**mollipen** · 04 Jun 2008, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Dunlap

Only the front page works for me through that, but I like it a lot more than what Play has up. Damn that is ad-heavy. There are 4 ads for the same thing up there!

Yes, only the front page is working with the new layout, because I'm not going to skin the whole damn thing until I figure out if I like it or not.

If you want the text on top of the artwork, how about a tinted box like you've done at your forum?

I used to do that, but I'm trying to get away from having a permanent translucent box over artwork. I could just make a transparent .png, but then I have to worry about stupid IE6 people.

**Dunlap** · 05 Jun 2008, 03:18 PM

How about a transparent gif? Don't they still work?

**mollipen** · 05 Jun 2008, 03:46 PM

Transparent .gifs only allow for pixels in the image to be on or off. What you're talking about is transparency, as in letting the background show through the image depending on the image's opacity. Only .pngs can do that.

Also, I'm currently building the content pages, so if anybody wants to check out what I've got done on that so far, hit the homepage and click on one of the four main features. Be warned, though, the homepage seems kind of wonky right now, and I haven't checked what exactly it is that I broke yet.