Tay Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Well, here you have it: the first, official sneak-peek into the Fuwanovel site redesign. You can see it live for yourself at http://beta.fuwanovel.net. The theme as you see it in the first image below ("Summer Sky") was designed by the brilliant Emi (and if you like the new look, be sure to let her know!). Nay worked hard to make it responsive, so be sure to try it out on all your devices. The redesign team is hard at work: we're very lucky to have the combined artistic superpowers of Emi and Beato, with Nayleen as our coder extraordinaire, and Rooke editing all the text assets I throw at him. These are extremely talented individuals, and I feel extremely fortunate to be working with them. There is still a lot to do, however, and until the new site is ready for launch, we will be keeping the classic Fuwa front site live at the fuwanovel.net domain. But wait! There's more! One of the coolest features of the new site is a theme changer. We've got three themes up, ready for you to check out live: Emi's Official/Summer Sky ThemeSekai Spirit Theme "Old School Cool" Theme (< Nay's gift to all of you who loved the site look) Summer Sky Sekai Spirit Old School Cool Darklord Rooke, LinovaA and Gibberish 3 Quote
LinovaA Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Oh wow. Loving the looks. Especially Sekai Spirit. Also love that the classic look will be available. Awesome work~ Quote
cloudy12 Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Loving the new designs for the site, especially Emi's! Good job design team! =D Quote
Darklord Rooke Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 I still love the wistful feeling I get from Emi's :3 Rose 1 Quote
Darklord Rooke Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 and Rooke editing all the text assets I throw at him. Quote
SoulJustIn Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Both are Awesome! But, I like "Sekai Spirit" more Quote
Nayleen Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Some people seem to have too much time on their hands. Quote
OriginalRen Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Well, here you have it: the first, official sneak-peek into the Fuwanovel site redesign. You can see it live for yourself at http://beta.fuwanovel.net. The theme as you see it in the first image below ("Summer Sky") was designed by the brilliant Emi (and if you like the new look, be sure to let her know!). Nay worked hard to make it responsive, so be sure to try it out on all your devices. The redesign team is hard at work: we're very lucky to have the combined artistic superpowers of Emi and Beato, with Nayleen as our coder extraordinaire, and Rooke editing all the text assets I throw at him. These are extremely talented individuals, and I feel extremely fortunate to be working with them. There is still a lot to do, however, and until the new site is ready for launch, we will be keeping the classic Fuwa front site live at the fuwanovel.net domain. But wait! There's more! One of the coolest features of the new site is a theme changer. We've got three themes up, ready for you to check out live: Emi's Official/Summer Sky Theme Sekai Spirit Theme "Old School Cool" Theme (< Nay's gift to all of you who loved the site look) Summer Sky Sekai Spirit Old School Cool This was an amazing post...and then I saw that you used a different font to announce it, and it reminded me of Rooke, and now I am disgusted in you. Can't wait Soon These casuals don't even understand! Darklord Rooke and Tay 2 Quote
Kosakyun Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Tfw the page doesn't fit in your monitor. I freaked out when the girl on Emi's theme was missing. Anyway, great designs. <3 I especially love Emi's. They're all good though~ Quote
Ezeefreak Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 I don't wanna be the spoilsport here but I think I should state my opinion At first I like th design itself of the new frontpage. I also like all th other designs. BUT I don't like the fact that every "subunit" of fuwa has a different design. When I look at that I see 4 different sides which have nothing in common besides the wordmark Fuwa on 2 of them (and please ignore the fact that I use the old forums design, it's the same with the new and I'm old school ). In my opinion there should be more similarities, something like a "corporate design". Is something like that planned? Did you decide on purpose for differences? Do I just overrate somethling like that and nobody else than me cares about that? It's only my opinion and I really like the designs itself, you all did an awesome job ... It just a bit surprising and a little bit bothering for me ... Thats all I wanted to say and I hope you can accept my honesty. Darklord Rooke, FinalChaos and ExtraMana 3 Quote
Guest Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 A few questions out of curiosity. Will the reviews be on fuwanovel.net or on the site they are at now ? Same question for the blog. Same question for the 'fuwazette'. I'm asking that because right now they all have different themes, and besides fuwanovel.net, the other ones are terrible (maybe it's being done so I can't comment on that) What is the academy ? Will the forums stay with the IPB forever and ever or will you try and make a whole thing ? Since you stated you wanted to make fuwa principally community based and whatnot, it would make sense trying to integrate it into the website itself. This is a lot of work, I know, but did you think about it ? The design is pleasant, good job. I suggest trying to play with the size of the social media tabs and try making them blend in a little better, for facebook mainly since its characteristic blue color is in contrast with the rest of the design and doesn't look as good. And are you going to keep that logo : ? Did you think about trying a tab design like B rather than A : Good luck. Quote
solidbatman Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 A few questions out of curiosity. Will the reviews be on fuwanovel.net or on the site they are at now ? Same question for the blog. Same question for the 'fuwazette'. I'm asking that because right now they all have different themes, and besides fuwanovel.net, the other ones are terrible (maybe it's being done so I can't comment on that) What is the academy ? Will the forums stay with the IPB forever and ever or will you try and make a whole thing ? Since you stated you wanted to make fuwa principally community based and whatnot, it would make sense trying to integrate it into the website itself. This is a lot of work, I know, but did you think about it ? The design is pleasant, good job. I suggest trying to play with the size of the social media tabs and try making them blend in a little better, for facebook mainly since its characteristic blue color is in contrast with the rest of the design and doesn't look as good. And are you going to keep that logo : ? Did you think about trying a tab design like B rather than A : Good luck. In regards to the social media appearance, I've talked to Emi a little bit about it because I agree that they, especially Facebook, don't blend in very well. The reviews will be on reviews.fuwanovel.net, I can say that much on it. Quote
ExtraMana Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 I don't wanna be the spoilsport here but I think I should state my opinion At first I like th design itself of the new frontpage. I also like all th other designs. BUT I don't like the fact that every "subunit" of fuwa has a different design. When I look at that I see 4 different sides which have nothing in common besides the wordmark Fuwa on 2 of them (and please ignore the fact that I use the old forums design, it's the same with the new and I'm old school ). In my opinion there should be more similarities, something like a "corporate design". Is something like that planned? Did you decide on purpose for differences? Do I just overrate somethling like that and nobody else than me cares about that? It's only my opinion and I really like the designs itself, you all did an awesome job ... It just a bit surprising and a little bit bothering for me ... Thats all I wanted to say and I hope you can accept my honesty. I'm inclined to agree. It's outright confusing especially to someone new to the sites. Synergy is needed. Quote
Snowtsuku Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 I'm not fond of fixed backgrounds and empty spaces. But that's just me. Quote
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