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Philip Mansfield   (May 15, 2006 at 08:41 GMT)

Wow, 1MB for an image. You do know you can use JPGs on the web?

Stefan Lundmark   (May 15, 2006 at 09:33 GMT)

lol a 1 megabyte .bmp on the web :) never seen that before

I do like the text in that logo too, but other than that it looks a little bit low-res and jaggy.

Konstantin Teterin   (May 15, 2006 at 12:36 GMT)

1and1 guys sucks :( We had an EXTREME amount of problems with them, and a huge delay (about 1 months). I am HIGHLY not recommended to work with them, unless you are US citizent. In other words, they are great deal for US citizents, but a crap for the rest of the world.

Mark   (May 15, 2006 at 13:41 GMT)

hahaha, when I save as JPG even in full quality, the colors get strange. It's also for press releases.

Steven Peterson   (May 15, 2006 at 15:10 GMT)

If you don't have photoshop, either get it or try GIMP in the mean time. win-Gimp works great. For press releases you want to make the *.bmp available on your webpage and try saving your logo as a *.gif.

Quck Image Lesson
*.bmp = lossless format - for pixle-perfect reproduction - NOT everyday use
*.jpg = photos / screenshots
*.gif = text / fine or detailed lines / cartoons / hand-drawn image
*.png = "The FREE gif" (even though gif is free now also). Similar to GIF but also acceptable for *.jpg that needs transparency

the bottom 3 will compress the image. The different ways that they do that is what makes different formats good for different applications.

try making the Creature Magic banner on you page with a *.gif and *png and see which of those two looks best. It will be a bigger file but I think the logo will look better.

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For the webpage: I would separate each section: news, info, purchase, media, forums, screenshots into a different page. The current navigation bar will suffice, but try adding a basic hover effect, and maybe make it a little bigger (font size) or BOLD to draw attention to it. The navigation and banners should will remain on each page as a header. You need some kind of "footer" at the bottom, even just a bold line to visually say "this is the end of the page".

The TimesNewRoman is ok for headers ("Recent News") but for main text use arial or helvetica ( though it helps to spell them right ;-).. ( Serif fonts are for print; sans-serif fonts for the computer-screen). Don't be afraid to go a pt-size bigger with your main-text, I wouldn't go smaller. I also like to "justify" paragraphs but it's optional.

I really like the narrow text boxes - I would make the pink borders around them only 1 or 2px wide, but thats me.

Try those ideas out. For the least amount of time - your page will look A LOT sharper. Hope that helps - got to run! :-)

ps. when do we get to see the first trailer??? I'm looking forward to it.

Mark   (May 15, 2006 at 16:12 GMT)

Thanks for your suggestions Steven! I will definately have to take them into consideration, as I was notified about some points you have made elsewhere as well.

As for the trailer, gosh I'd love to know the answer to that.
Edited on May 15, 2006 16:14 GMT

Steven Peterson   (May 15, 2006 at 17:46 GMT)

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as I was notified about some points you have made elsewhere as well.

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heh. not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing. :-P My web-design experience was rather hard-earned though - so I try to save other people some of the time I spent learning.

Good Luck with the project. :-)

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