New Crewture Look

Discussion in 'Columbus Supporters Clubs' started by crewfighter, Dec 21, 2008.

  1. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Tell me what you think. Some of us met today and discussed some other ideas, I'll post them up tomorrow.

    http://www.crewture.com
     
  2. junior21

    junior21 New Member

    Apr 16, 2006
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    looks good.
     
  3. PolishCrew

    PolishCrew New Member

    Jul 12, 2008
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    honestly, kind of liked the old style better. this one seems, i dont know, a little to cluttered maybe?
     
  4. mateo319

    mateo319 Member

    Jul 19, 2004
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It is *extremely* cluttered. Needs cleaned up and stripped down, hide some of the stuff.
     
  5. TheUltra

    TheUltra Member

    Mar 23, 2008
    2.4 Miles from home
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I agree that it needs a bit of a strip down, Also I'd recomend putting the Content collumn in the middle flanked by the links and videos.


    Also I'll email you a few images for the header and picture links
     
  6. Wearethecrew1

    Wearethecrew1 Member

    Jul 13, 2007
    Athens/Westerville
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Old one was better. This is disorienting and cluttered
     
  7. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Really? I kind of like it allows me to utilize more space. Oh well guess I stayed up until 5 am for nothing last night. :)

    Well, until I can come up with something better guess this is what it is. And, ultra, I kind of like the banner.

    I'm just going to see how this one goes for a while, I can always change it to something else. I thought 3 bars would be better then having to scroll down forever to see everything. Oh well. Bummer.
     
  8. TheUltra

    TheUltra Member

    Mar 23, 2008
    2.4 Miles from home
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you swap the content one to the center with links on the right and images on the left it would make the site look cleaner and keep people from having to scroll the whole page just to do it

    As for the header my only problem with it is the image distortion.
    Here's the free program i use to make my image
    http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm

    By using this to size the pictures it can prevent a lot of the distortion that you'd get with microsoft paint and help give the site an overal more professional look.

    By the way i like that you've got the domain name now
     
  9. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I put the story in the center. Makes it look better.

    I'll clean up the sides and check out the image you sent me. Thanks.
     
  10. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What about now?

    http://www.crewture.com

    Think this is the best I have so far. Better top logo, the widest story section I have had, and videos and pics in one section, writing in the other two.

    It's alot better in my opinion then what I had as the older version and what I had when I started updating.

    I will be working with the html and working on adding a link bar to maybe get it even less cluttered but I think this is pretty workable.
     
  11. eboe

    eboe Member+

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    May 23, 2006
    Columbus, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    IMHO I still think it is very cluttered. I think it should be all one color text on one color background. Or at most 2 or more colors of text on one color of background. And I really think the sidebar on the right of videos and images takes away from the content on the main page. I think you should just have links to some of the video content based on relevant stories, or links to general video content. Not this cluttered mishmash of videos and pictures all over the place. Get a nice collage of pictures for the header, and then have a link bar with a link to Nordecke / Crew images, Video footage, Archived stories, etc. That's what I would do. Clean it up. Make it look nicer in general. Don't try and cram everything down everybody's throat all in one page. Let them click around and discover content on their own.

    This is meant to be constructive Ryan, I'm only trying to help here so please don't take this as a slam, ok?
     
  12. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Black looks more sleek and is a more primary color of ours, while a black background with white text is harder to see. So, that is what I'm left with. That looks fine.
    Yeah trying to work on that, although I like what I have now. My site has always been cluttered. Haven't added anymore material. Think it looks better.

    Also, I can't just wave a magical wand over the website and do all of that.

    And, if I had 3 videos on another page, and the polls on another page, and like 2 images it would be some shoddy other pages. I would have people complaining that they have to click on all these other pages for nothing. Basically, if I take those off all I would have to do is link to youtube or Sam's photos. All I would have on my frontpage is the story and then it just looks like a regular blog format. I would be back to what I had in March.

    I'll probably take more of the vids off from the third column at the bottom. But, I don't get what the big deal is, same stuff I had on my old format.
    Start a blog then.
    It was cluttered before but geez is it really that hard to focus on one section. I change it into text sections and videos sections. I think it looks good. I mean compared to most blogs out there I think it's looking pretty damn good. I like what I have now after tonight. It's better then what I see out there in the soccer blog world. No matter how much work I do on it, someone won't like it, something I learned.

    And, I have a nice collage header right now. Jesus, if that isn't a good collage I don't know what is.

    Everything is split up well enough. I really don't have enough in the way of pictures, videos, etc. to have all my own seperate pages. Plus, most webpages like angelfire etc. put links all over the place and it wouldn't be connected very well. Also blogger format does not allow me to do what I want to do very well, but blogger format is essential because you can't do the same posting as well on a website without running out of space. So basically it's just me manipulating codes all night to try to make it work. I'll keep experimenting, but for a blog with no budget I think it looks pretty damn good (I wish I had some cash laying around to make it better but hey I don't.)

    I like it compared to my old style. It's hard fiddling with this stuff and takes more then minutes to do. I really don't think it looks bad. But, whatever. Another long night for nothing much I guess.

    Thanks for the input, just after about 16 hours, just would like someone who thinks it looks better. Oh well. :) Time for bed.
     
  13. TheUltra

    TheUltra Member

    Mar 23, 2008
    2.4 Miles from home
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think the content moved to the center is a big help and really cleans up the site quite a bit. And the new header does look better with the resizing, I still prefer a single image to the collage but thats just my taste. However I do think there is still a few changes to be made that would be relatively simple and again clear it up quite a bit.

    - add a second page for videos, images and external links.
    I think this would get rid of another big chunk of the clutter and since it would only be one secondary page I don't think people would mind clicking into it or get lost within the site.

    -redo the image labeled "location nordecke" and all others with proper sizing
    The pixelation is secondary culprit after the clutter that detracts from the content.
     
  14. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah I prefer a collage. Just individual tastes.

    I'll look into what you have said Ultra on making another page for videos. I think I could just make a new blog for that and link it from the crewture.com front page (solves a problem with angelfire or geocities). Maybe that's what I will do tonight and for any other new pages I will have. I'll probably make the links on the left.

    Your input last night along with everyone else's really helped as I think it's an improvement from what I had the other night.

    Please keep it coming everyone, it forces me to try to keep pushing myself to make better changes. I'll work on more changes tonight and on the idea of other pages. It could be something cool, if I can make some nice buttons on the left side(would like to figure out how to make one image and have links for different parts of an image. If anyone knows how to do that, lemme know.
     
  15. mateo319

    mateo319 Member

    Jul 19, 2004
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Then say that at the start. Me, I'm for being honest.

    Cut it down from 4 columns to three - that would help a lot.

    Make the background all one color.

    You need one link to radio (the latest + archives) one link to video (latest + archives)

    Those are good places to start. I have no idea where you're going to put your ads.
     
  16. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Lol, that's pretty well behaved from me at 5:30 in the morning.

    Ehh, I don't like an all white background. I'll work on the other ideas.

    I have no ads(so don't need much room for that) and don't seek stupid ads from google like MLS Rumors. Just if one or two companies want to take up a little space and contact me, If I can make some money I can donate some to stuff for the section(banners, etc.) and some to charity. If some company wants to take up some space and I can donate it to help someone that's cool.

    If that ever does happen I would keep it to 2 or 3 at the bottom below where you see that text.

    Also if I add other pages I could put 1 or 2 on those as well, although I doubt anyone will be knocking down my door to put ads on the site. Haven't had much of that and it doesn't bother me much either way.
     
  17. mateo319

    mateo319 Member

    Jul 19, 2004
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you want the bk black, make it black - just settle on one color.

    But reducing the columns would help out a lot.
     
  18. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think you're right. I got plenty of time over break and will work on it.
     
  19. puttputtfc

    puttputtfc Member+

    Sep 7, 1999
    Kozlowski. Is that Chinese?

    I would suggest going to three columns. Keep up the good work.
     
  20. eboe

    eboe Member+

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    May 23, 2006
    Columbus, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ryan, I'm ADHD. I crave simple clean sites, what can
    I say. Too much clutter slays me. :D
     
  21. TheUltra

    TheUltra Member

    Mar 23, 2008
    2.4 Miles from home
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Here's a collage style header if ya want to use it let me know and I'll email you the full size

    [​IMG]
     
  22. bigal614

    bigal614 Member

    Oct 19, 2008
    columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    i made one too
    [​IMG]
     
  23. bigal614

    bigal614 Member

    Oct 19, 2008
    columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    i think you should jut make three columns take the one to the far right and move it to the bottom of the one next to it
     
  24. TheUltra

    TheUltra Member

    Mar 23, 2008
    2.4 Miles from home
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I like yours a bit better. I'm not much for collages so i'm not gonna claim to be the better here.
     
  25. crewfighter

    crewfighter New Member

    Feb 15, 2006
    Claddagh's Roof
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Lol, dude guys I like my collage, there is nothing wrong with the collage. Lol, both of yours are the same thing as mine and I don't like the text in the first one. I like the collage I have.. I'm not changing that, it's fine.

    All I plan to do now is to make another video and massive radio page. I'm just trying to work out some different codes to have an attractive menu for that stuff and it will be three columns. That is good enough for now and will be completed on that after New Years.
     

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