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Now available to use! Go over to [link] for the code.
Not yet coded. I do however need a coder for this one since my skills of HTML on DA Journals aren't that great. Give me a message if you have the guts to code it, I will be greatly thankful for your hard work. Once the design and coding are complete, I plan on having it released to the world where everyone (that is subscribers and above In the mean time, critique my design so I can make it better. Update: Minor aspects have been changed in the design including less space in the title, less of a shadow on headers and some other tiny works. Beyond that includes the addition of a footer. And of course, a preview of the design without the sidebar with a different showcase. Daily DeviationGiven 2009-07-21DA Alternative Journal by =easydisplayname is a really slick dA-themed journal design. It's clean, simple, practical and stylish. Great design! (Featured by ^DCZed) Comments
Thanks for the comment. I have updated much of the design. The sidebar is thinner, but I could never make the journal title look better at the very top, so I minimized the current top and enlarged the Journal title text. It should flow better now.
And no one has offered to code it yet. Waiting to make it even better. -- "I Have become comfortably numb" This is very cool!
The only thing I think you might want to think about is the very big area for the devious title and date. It's a bit overwhelming imo -- Beware - DANGER: Crazy people: =eileenirma & =brgtt! DO NOT: engage in any kind of activites like: projects, colabs or even comments - YOU WILL BE INFECTED! It's big so that the title can be easily seen. Being a title, it should be the first thing seen in the journal being the most important element. It shouldn't be as overwhelming when seen on a larger journal entry or if you were scrolling down multiple journal entries.
-- "I Have become comfortably numb" I see your point - but I didn't mean to make it tiny, I just thought of taking a bit off the height. like 10-20px. But it looks great as it is anyway
-- Beware - DANGER: Crazy people: =eileenirma & =brgtt! DO NOT: engage in any kind of activites like: projects, colabs or even comments - YOU WILL BE INFECTED! I think this looks great. It's a clean design that is practical and well-laid out as well. Nice work
-- . As long as he loves me, nothing else matters. . dA Related Gallery Moderator dczed@volunteers.deviantart.com Brilliant CSS, shouldn't be hard at all to code.
-- Web Designer, ˘creative, deviantART i so much hope that this will be available at any time soon.
i definitely want this for my journal. great job!!! -- ADMIN AND PROUD MEMBER OF THE CDARTDISPLAY.COM FORUM. MEET ME THERE IF YOU LIKE. ---------> LINK <--------- |
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Critiques
The no sidebar version is my favorite. My only advice would be to add more icons other than just the folder and gallery icon. The quote design you have is really superb, and something I hadn't thought about adding to my journal until I saw it in your design.
Not sure what to say about the sidebar version. Normally I enjoy more options, but the no sidebar version is just so sleek and well-designed, the sidebar just seems unnecessary. The design is good though. What probably turns me off from the sidebar version is the space is already cramped and the sidebar just makes it worse. I suppose if the sidebar version maintained the full width a journal allows it would be a lot better.
I'll start form top to bottom, looking to a common header in a deviantpage, and comparing it to yours, you can see that the user name and his picture doesn't need to be displayed again on the journal template, 'cause its already there, near, some pixels ahead. It looks great here, and would if this template could go on others sites that don’t show your user name or your pic. Those three buttons (follow, hover and note) goes very well and aligned with de context body, looks perfect!
The space for the Title, its, some kind over, I don't know, looks like you tried to match the size with the right column to look more symmetric, and will be hard to size down it I guess, but if you could, it would be great, cause it have so much blank space to another text, and our eyes get busy with another things until we began to read the text, distracting us from the point. So there below goes the main text of the journal, nice placed everything good here. The Sub Header goes very well too.
The visual concept of deviantart here applied, you done it very well I must say.
Just last few words, with the stamp place and the random people, I guess its personal, but, my point here, its that you could switch place of them, you see there's one stamp "per paragraph" and three friends on a line, people used to place (in most cases) more stamps than friends icon, and on this example, you show 'featured users', and it's would be better showing peoples icons than stamps at the right of the text, stamps could distract them from the featured deviants, and showing friends, you will promote them too, will look featured too. Remember, our eyes read from left to right top to bottom, so when some one finish from read a line of your featured deviants, they quickly look to your right column before start to read the next line or next picture.
Just finishing, I hope it get coded soon, I can't wait to use it!
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