Project_Werewolf

[ShawnV]

Hi Legion,

It's YOU!

Yup it’s me. Awesome review by the way, I am going to go down the list. (Grin)


I'm gonna make a thread on my site about this. You have possibly the sickest forum I've seen in awhile...well except for a few things. It's as if reviews are only to tell you what you are doing wrong, I know.

I was hopping someone would give it a thrashing, after looking at the dam thing for so long I’m sure to miss something from one revision to another.

But I've used your site as a reference before due to the level of sickness that it displays.

Sickness is good; however I was going for plague type status.

I really enjoyed the opening you added to it. I love your banner. I like your offline/online images, and the new posts icon is wicked.

Thanks, we got Julie Berry to do the narration from England and the rest feel into place, though it has a little too much of a Lord of the Rings feel to it I think.


Very gothic oriented which works well with what you wanted.

Yeah, I'm a fan of hand drawn, gritty, unperfect graphics.

However I think there are some drawbacks to consider.

I knew this was coming, fire away. :P

First of all, I'm guessing the Hand icon appears during the opening if I want to skip it. The negative is having to hit that every time. Unless I could go directly to the forum and skip the pizazz.

Yes you can skip to the portal page anytime during the intro movie by clicking on it, however if you look close at the splash screen, there is a “TAB” to skip “intro” before you enter, there is also one to update your flash plug in and some basic minimum requirements to view the site.

Sound On/Off

With limited registering, you're really restricting your member base and unfortunately cannot attract new members that are curious about the game before playing.

I know this one is almost impossible for forum enthusiasts to believe, but the site wasn’t built to get more members, in fact registration is moderated and membership for KOWW is difficult at best.


Design doesn't always mean members, we all know that.

That is true, thank whoever” that wasn’t a concern: P


I'm not liking how you went all transparent on me. I just don't enjoy the way it looks now indifferent to before. The borders are near useless even as white, I can't distinguish columns now which makes it hard visually.

Dam I was going to keep this under wraps, but since you asked now I have to tell you, the full transparently is needed for the next upgrade, now that the base images are in and all the new graphics are about finished, animated blood will dribble out from the headers over the base blood and flow down an animated background to splatter on the footer.

If the blood is red on the top and the bottom, then it should have been red on the background, that makes no sense man.

The thing most people who look at the site don’t see, because if it’s done right you don’t notice it is Lighting and Light Source. We tried to take those into account on every image. The background is further back in perspective; check the overhang of the header, then follow the blood down to see it darken to the background color blood.


Overall I love this forum, would I join? no, i don't play the game, lol. Have heard of it though but I try to stay away from MMORPG. I like some things you are trying to do here but I would have almost made the opening video an option, like watch our site intro video and put it in the navbar, that way if people want to see it they can. I'm sure you wanted to make a good impression, but if I have to deal with it every time, it gets annoying.

See above post and the skip tab thingy.

Love the sound, and I found the sound button pretty easily.

Great, sound is a big part of atmosphere, I was hoping it would be but you never know, hence the recent post about it.

No one can deny the level of professionalism shown here, but I think there are some things that could be tweaked. Heck I'd even recommend a semi transparent set of tables, so you can kind of show the bg through the tables, like we did on my own site.

Funny you should mention that, I have been playing with semi transparent tables for a week now, nothing yet has stuck me, but I will keep toiling.

I want to know your coder, unless it's you, then I know who you are.

Transverse Styles helped me with the coding of all our graphics back in version 3.5 when I moved the site from phpBB, since then I figured out vBulletin and have recoded and updated it since.

I don't have the same reaction as Boofo, load times were very fast for me. No problem at all actually.

Yes it loads ok, once the flash has been cashed. And like all things on the internet, sometimes the server or a router is clogged and it has pause.

I think most of all I'm impressed with not just the effort but really trying to do something new. Flash is mostly seen as a good additive and shouldn't be over done. But why couldn't the whole forum be flash is what i'm wondering. N' with computers getting better all the time, won't we be able to handle all the flash that is going on?

Thank you very much; I have tried hard to build something different. It could, and most likely will be at some point, however at this point in time, pound for pound you just can’t beat a vBulletin based forum.


Regardless, I don't think you've went too far yet. BG is the worst or transparency being 100%, I don't like that.

Darn, not even a little bit too far? I will have to do something about that then.

Great work overall.

Thanks again for your help, very much appreciated.

_V