Age of Antiquity

[SmashinYoungMan]

Here is my newest forum I just got up and running.

http://www.ageofantiquity.com/forum/

You could say it is the polar opposite of my other site, Space Buffs, that some of you have seen. It really isn't done...I don't think anyway. I've been working on it for several hours a day the past week, and I'm sort of exhausted with it right now. I'll need to look at it some more tomorrow when I'm fresh. The frontpage definitely isn't done, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and get some feedback on the forum itself.

It's much more heavy on the graphics than normal for me, but I wanted the site to have a very natural feel to it, which meant adding texture pretty much everywhere. My only fear is that this will result in the site being somewhat difficult to read for folks who're color blind or have other vision problems. We'll see, though.

This is also my first site that I used a good deal of hand drawn graphics. I figured I'd better start getting my money's worth out of my Intuos3 tablet. lol

Feedback and criticism welcome!

[SmashinYoungMan]

*bump*

I'm really interested in hearing feedback on the site's legibility. Thankee.

[guile09]

Legibility is good...Nice theme.

[HellRazor]

Very Nice! I liked it! Clean, very readable, good use of color and graphics.

[SmashinYoungMan]

Good deal. Thanks you two! I've better optimized the graphics for quicker load times, and did some further minor tweaking.

[SmashinYoungMan]

I'd also appreciate it if you all looked over the whole site. I've experimented with some different design techniques that I haven't done before, and hope they worked out well. Hell, bonus appreciate-points if you take the time to sign up and look at the buttons 'n' stuff.

[SmashinYoungMan]

Additional graphic touch ups done.

[Shelley_c]

Yet another excellent style SmashinYoungMan. The only thing I can see wrong is that you are still using the default vbulletin threadmarkers. Change those and you have yet another flawless style.

Very nice work. :up:

[simsimt]

Originally Posted by SmashinYoungMan

I've experimented with some different design techniques that I haven't done before, and hope they worked out well. Hell, bonus appreciate-points if you take the time to sign up and look at the buttons 'n' stuff.

Very nice as usual. I [s]voted for[/s] seconded it at vB.com. I just want to ask what different design techniques you've used as I don't see a difference in the design approach than that of SpaceBuffs?

The imagery artwork, however, is really fabulous & outstanding, especially the left-aligned images next to forum titles.

[SmashinYoungMan]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

Yet another excellent style SmashinYoungMan. The only thing I can see wrong is that you are still using the default vbulletin threadmarkers. Change those and you have yet another flawless style.

Very nice work. :up:

Thanks as always, Shelley! I took your advice this time and made some custom thread markers straight away, instead of putting it off like I did with Spacebuffs.

Originally Posted by simsimt

Very nice as usual. I voted for it at vB.com. I just want to ask what different design techniques you've used as I don't see a difference in the design approach than that of SpaceBuffs?

The imagery artwork, however, is really fabulous & outstanding, especially the left-aligned images next to forum titles.

Many thanks, simsimt!

To answer your question, it was mostly small things I experimented with like the fieldset, legend, buttons and panels. The basic layout is similar to SpaceBuffs, quite true.