Why is it I get my best design ideas when I have insomnia?

[dolari]

::sigh::

I layed in bed a few hours...and I'm not tired in the least. The alarm is gonna go off in five hours...prolly four by the time I get to some kind of fitful sleep. So if I'm a little bleary tonight...well...blame my body, not me.

However, I've been productive. Any suggestions?



The standard webpage as it stands. Very "long" which isnt' a problem, but rather cluttered with the "control panel" look (That I still really like)



A newer tighter and more compact page, all the links from the control panel are here on the left. I REALLY like this one. It's a lot cleaner, but now is a bit wider, and may be harder onlower monitor resolutions.



The third is reminiscent of the very first design I did for AWFW (Remember this, Jenni?), updated to the neon look. I kinda dig the AWFW Icon on top of the rank counter.



I really really really like the neon look to my pages, but I'm not married to it. HOWEVER - if I'm going to change it, I'm going back to the "marble" look I had for 2002. What do you say? Use the above designs with marble?





Feedback is incredibly encouraged (although HTML nitpicks are verboten - these are just test pages). So is sleep ::looks at watch:: I'm so gonna be a zombie tonight.

Comments

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

I like the second one.

[gwenners.livejournal.com]

The second is cleaner, the neon looks better than the marble. :-)

Cheers,
Gwen Smith

[erinlefey.livejournal.com]

I personally like the second one better...but I think the "gotta scroll side to side" is a killer for the webcomic form. Some variation with the controls at top or bottom would be better.

[directorsg.livejournal.com]

My vote also goes to number two. I like the menu on the left side. I think if you can make it a bit slimmer horizontally it would work perfectly.

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to follow this mob because you should probably go along with whatever works on the majority of the systems used by viewers and not cater specifically to the lowest 5% who are using systems so outdated that they actively support assisted suicide.

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

Took me a while to figure out what everyone's evaluating (the page, not the comic, duh!) but finally I got with it. I vote for the second one, in neon: very nice.

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

I like the first and second ones the best. The first because its hiptop-friendly, and the second because the episode buttons are in a reachable spot...

[emilydm.livejournal.com]

I'm also partial to version number two. There's a tiny bit of side-scrolling action happening, but that's because it's a picture within a window and not a window unto itself. If it were, it would display fine - on an eight-year-old computer no less.

[lisalees.livejournal.com]

Oh, the neon for sure! But I'd go for three over two, because it fits in my browser window. Then again, maybe I should change my default browser window size, because yours wouldn't be the only web comic that doesn't fit. However, from a typographic standpoint, I don't want lines of text that long on pages that don't do something reasonable with wider windows. Hmmm. Life is complicated, isn't it?

[max-volume.livejournal.com]

Number 2 fits very nicely on this odd-sized widescreen monitor (1440 x 900). I like it. I'm also partial to the neon design versus the marble - not that the marble is all that bad.

[amw.livejournal.com]

Yep i go number two simply because the side menu lets you navigate quicker. I always browse with small windows (<800px wide) but if the HTML code is right you can navigate on the left easy and then maximize when you want to see the whole picture - i don't think that's a problem.

[http://users.livejournal.com/strangelv__/]

What I like the most about #2 is the stretching for the width of the page.

Possibly a short header stretching across and a combined footer that also stretches across as an additional permutation if you want to do more dabbling.

I also agree that the neon beats the marble.


SL