calculatedChaos Gaming

I have been thinking about redesigning the forum and have been playing around with a few design ideas. I worked on fleshing one out today and would like to show you guys what I have come up with. I havn't chosen a font yet and I am not sure exactly what I want to do with the actual forum part but the image should give you an idea of what I am thinking about. http://gaming.calculatedchaos.com/demo/

The top left is for the logo.
The top right is for a map ratings module that shows some stats about maps we have rated.
The buttons on the top are for the donate button and a widget to show the current map list.
The bar on the top is for the text menu of the forum.

Below that, the left module is for announcements which would include an image represented by the grey box.
The right module is for the shoutbox.

The design is meant to be a fixed width at 980px wide (the white box). This isn't set in stone and could change during implimentation.

That's all I got.

-Captain

Is looking very nice capt.

I'm liking it

Meh, i don't like it so much Captain. I like coming to the forums to read threads, not to look at TF2.

But other then that, nice design.

The forum part of the forum isn't on that mockup.

The TF2 picture will be barely visible in the background unless you have a wide-screen monitor, in which case it will fill your whole screen.

The maroon looks a little too pink. Make it a little less rich and more subdued, like faded Communist propaganda that seems to be all the rage these days.

It's hard to judge the color since it looks extra pink compared to the red on the site now. If I go with this design, when I actually start making it I will make sure the colors work.

the tf2 content boxes look pretty sweet.

While I like this one I think everyone who knows how should submit something and we vote.

Alright then, I LOVE IT.

I made a more actual website demo so people can get a better understanding of what the site would actually look like.

You can find it here: http://gaming.calculatedchaos.com/demo/

ouch. white text on white background

Boo. I wasn't going to bother fixing it because I figured it was obvious that it wouldn't be there when the site was built. I'll remove it now.

I like this design and everything captain but I think it needs more Calculated Chaos in it.

Not saying you have to use this or anything, I just quickly made it so I could get my idea across. The background should have those sweet CC logo's or something.

Needs a bit of touching up, but it looks good hanzo.

Hanzo_blade wrote:I like this design and everything captain but I think it needs more Calculated Chaos in it.

Not saying you have to use this or anything, I just quickly made it so I could get my idea across. The background should have those sweet CC logo's or something.

The background will be random. I was thinking of starting with all the backgrounds they have in game.

The problem is that image needs to be pretty big. My monitor at home is 1680 x 1050. The image I am using now is 1280px wide which scales pretty well. It just looks better if the image is getting scaled down. The white overlay hides it a bit.

Anyway, in all honesty the new design probably won't happen for a long time. I haven't even designed what I want the forum part of the forum to look like.

Hanzo_blade wrote:I like this design and everything captain but I think it needs more Calculated Chaos in it.

Not saying you have to use this or anything, I just quickly made it so I could get my idea across. The background should have those sweet CC logo's or something.

bup bup bup bup i'm lovin it

I came up with a new design idea and wanted to try it out. A lot of things aren't worked on on this version but, since I am using valve colors, I should be able to make a red and blue version to give people options without too much color picking on my part.

I like the Blue better.