Requiem

[forsaken]

Hey guys. How's it been?

 

It's been at least a year since I've been on this forum, and probably even longer since I've posted any artwork. It probably has to be said that anything I posted back in the day was crap, and I'm glad that they've been lost in the annals of inter-web time. :P It's a long story for why I haven't been active. But that's not why you're here. Nor do you care. ;) Below is a blog design I created. It was a heap of fun to make. It's missing a scroll bar and other miscellaneous things because I didn't actually want to write blogs - just make the layout for fun. :) The parchment was hell to do, but also the most enjoyable! For more information about it visit the link. It has info on stock used for instance. Enjoy. :)

 

 

Requiem . Blog Design

 

[dsavi]

Is this HTML+CSS, or just a mockup? If it's real- i.e. could be loaded into a web browser, right now- Then I think it's pretty impressive.

 

I'm not a fan of posting mockups. It's like posting work after coming up with the idea, like saying "I'm going to go over to this forest near my house early tomorrow morning and take a picture of the sun shining through the mist- C/C?". Sure, the idea is cool, but can you actually do it?

[Sam]

That's pretty damn impressive, that'd be awesome coded. If you did, I'd suggest submitting it for sale on http://themeforest.net

[Soa]

That's pretty damn impressive, that'd be awesome coded. If you did, I'd suggest submitting it for sale on http://themeforest.net

I went to that site and had no clue on what the purpose was. It didn't explain very well what it's for, especially to a newbie on coding and templates. If you know anything about it can you PM me or just say it here?

[Solartide]

That's pretty damn impressive, that'd be awesome coded. If you did, I'd suggest submitting it for sale on http://themeforest.net

 

Wait, people buy stuff like this?

 

Hello money!

[forsaken]

Is this HTML+CSS, or just a mockup? If it's real- i.e. could be loaded into a web browser, right now- Then I think it's pretty impressive.I'm not a fan of posting mockups. It's like posting work after coming up with the idea, like saying "I'm going to go over to this forest near my house early tomorrow morning and take a picture of the sun shining through the mist- C/C?". Sure, the idea is cool, but can you actually do it?

 

I respect your opinion, but I do have issue with what you say. Firstly, I'm not quite sure where you're going with the comment that 'it's like posting work after coming up with the idea'. What do you do? Post work before you've come up with an idea? Your analogy isn't helpful either. You seem to place heavy weighting on the coding element, but seem to belittle the graphical aspect. I agree that both are integral towards an operational blog. However, in my description of the design (I note here however that you may have rightfully not visited the link, and that's not your fault or concern) I mentioned that I was focussed on the graphical aspect. The idea was to create, graphically, what the blog would look like. The challenge was graphical design, not operational design. Further, there is nothing inherently difficult in 'coding' that blog. If I were to make it operational, I wouldn't be doing anything fancy with the codes because it would be for personal use.

 

I respect that coding is an integral element, and am continually amazed at the ability of coders to bring to life the vision of designers. This I do not dispute.

 

That's pretty damn impressive, that'd be awesome coded. If you did, I'd suggest submitting it for sale on http://themeforest.net

 

Thanks. :) Although as you probably already know having read the above, it is sadly uncoded!

[rik]

personally i don't really like the design... it just looks like everything was cut out and placed on top of each other :unsure: for example: on the bottom half there is some sort of shade on the wood, created by the paper. But when you look at the top of the paper, there is no shade or lighting (flames are a light source! ) on the wood. Also the tekst in the flames is quite anoying with the contrast compared to the background, it looks like you just took the text tool and gave it an red outer glow. Try to experiment a bit more with it, different layer settings, gradients, opacity, or whatever you can imagine ;) it just looks to cheap at the moment in my opinion ;)

however the font of the content is nicely chosen and fits quite well, it is sometimes hard to read. I don't know if it's just because the image isn't 100% quality, or if it will also be like this when it's coded :unsure:

 

Please realize it's meant as c/c even if it might sound harsh ;) hope to see you work on new designs and improve :)

 

 

 

also for the people who don't know how themeforrest works:

It is a marketplace for website designers/coders. For relatively low prices you can buy a (coded) website design, code snippets, wordpress coded designs and some more. You can create an account and send in some designs and stuff. The chance that it will actually ever make it to the market however, is like 1%. This is mainly because it undergoes a whole process before it is even considered. For example: A coded webdesign most of the times need the original .psd, it needs to work with ie 7+, all modern browsers and its a big + if it works with ie6. Also you will need to comment pretty much everything in the whole package, all code lines, all psd parts, and what the terms of usage are.

All with all it sounds nice and such, but it's more helpfull for most people to buy something, then actually earn money from it. Mostly since they only accept a few designs every day/week and most of the accepted are from professionals ;)

just that you guys don't get any false hope in making fast money that way :blink:

[dsavi]

I respect your opinion, but I do have issue with what you say.

First of all I should say that my post was pretty harsh, sorry about that.

Firstly, I'm not quite sure where you're going with the comment that 'it's like posting work after coming up with the idea'. What do you do? Post work before you've come up with an idea?

No, I'm talking about posting it way before you're started the actual work. Mockups and pre-coding designs are a dreamworld where anything is possible.

Your analogy isn't helpful either. You seem to place heavy weighting on the coding element, but seem to belittle the graphical aspect. I agree that both are integral towards an operational blog. However, in my description of the design (I note here however that you may have rightfully not visited the link, and that's not your fault or concern) I mentioned that I was focused on the graphical aspect. The idea was to create, graphically, what the blog would look like. The challenge was graphical design, not operational design. Further, there is nothing inherently difficult in 'coding' that blog. If I were to make it operational, I wouldn't be doing anything fancy with the codes because it would be for personal use.

You're right in the way that such a design would not need any difficult or obscure, but I find that you should always be realistic with your design by starting to code it before showing it to anyone outside of any other people working with you, because the reality of turning pixels into code nearly always trims off the things you would like to have.

 

I don't know, maybe I'm presenting my opinion as fact.

[Nadril]

It looks nice (Though the flame effect is all too cheesy) but I just don't see how it'd do well as a functional blog. There is no real place you can put a lot of the functionality that you need for a blog.