Vista style interface.

[sourfacedcyclop]

Well I wanted to try to make a vista style web design and think I at least partially succeeded. There are some kinks I still need to straighten out and things I want to add but the main design is complete. What do you think? Good, okay, completely hopeless and terrible?

http://sourfacedcyclop.x10hosting.com/

 

[leafypiggy]

That looks really good actually. Reminds me of the WP Vista Theme. (you can see it at http://jagf.net/blog )

It is a little choppy, but it looks great!

 

[mogey5101]

Its over all nice design. A bit choppy as leafypiggy said. I really like how you have the little browser there. The virtual desktop look reminds me of a wordpress theme i use.

 

[tzabaot]

Very nice theme.

Do you programming all? or Only install it.

Greetings

 

[leafypiggy]

Tzaobot:

I'm pretty sure he designed and coded it. Is English your first language? Cause your grammar isn't very good.

 

[sourfacedcyclop]

Very nice theme.

Do you programming all? or Only install it.

Greetings

I made the images and coded it myself. I'm not a fan of installing themes or templates unless its in something I don't have confidence doing (wordpress, forums etc...) As for the choppiness, I have noticed it, but I not sure if there is anything I can do about it (that wouldn't require a drastic overhaul anyway..)

 

[Jordan C]

Wow. Thats really nice, I like it! Maybe you should try making it into a bit of a webOS, with a little more scripting, you could move around the windows, as if it were a real OS.

Keep up the good work!

 

[sourfacedcyclop]

Wow. Thats really nice, I like it! Maybe you should try making it into a bit of a webOS, with a little more scripting, you could move around the windows, as if it were a real OS.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks!, The idea sounds really cool, but I don't even know where to start to do something like that.

 

[leafypiggy]

Haha.

They are called DBX. (no clue what they stand for. :x)

Its used on the sidebar of the wordpress theme I use for my blog.

http://neilhanlon.co.cc

You can move those boxes around.

I'm sure google can help.

 

[xPlozion]

it looks very nice and unique, but i have a few gripes.

1) try to find the navigation images as pngs, or do a print screen and cut them out, because they look like they were originally jpegs, which have artifacts
2) try to make the url bar in the window dynamic for a more unique experience

 

[dbojan]

Very nice. I was thinking about something like this earlier for my joomla site and have found this theme.

 

[sourfacedcyclop]

it looks very nice and unique, but i have a few gripes.

1) try to find the navigation images as pngs, or do a print screen and cut them out, because they look like they were originally jpegs, which have artifacts
2) try to make the url bar in the window dynamic for a more unique experience

Fixed (I think). I had originally saved the top nav buttons as a jpg and then transfered them to a png . I think the url bar is dynamic now, if what I think you meant is correct.

 

[xPlozion]

the url bar wasn't what i was talking about. possibly make it so the user can change it, even if it doesn't do anything or even have a drop-down menu like ie or ff has for the pages that you've been to and have links to other popular or important parts of your site, for a quick menu for instance

the search icon in the start menu is a bit stretched/distorted, and use js to make the current time in the clock area to be in the user's native time (that's what js does).

 

[sourfacedcyclop]

Ahh, thats what you meant. I'll try, but I have little (nearly zero) knowledge of scripting, be it javascript of php, so it should be an interesting endeavor

 

[xPlozion]

ok, well the clock they have all over the net.

for the url box, maybe look into floating a div using relative position, make it have display:none when it loads, then use javascript to change it to display:block

 

[ctadmin]

Great job. You should add a way to hide the taskbar though.

 

[sourfacedcyclop]

Thanks,
I was going to add a couple more things, but I found my javascript skills to be woefully insufficient to do it . I'll probably try to add them later on, but for now it will have to do. Thanks for your reviews everyone, its always nice to know what others think of your work.

 

[JuniorD]

I can tell you one thing, the nav bar does not look like that lol. Same with the tool bar. Try fixing up the background while your at it.

 

[sourfacedcyclop]

I can tell you one thing, the nav bar does not look like that lol. Same with the tool bar. Try fixing up the background while your at it.

Its not suppose to be an exact match. I'm not the greatest with graphic making, and I didn't want to just copy and paste vista images.

 

[stpvoice]

Its quite good. I once designed a vista interface using sothink dhtml menu builder. It was very good. Perhaps illaborate a bit more on images etc. It looks very plain and boring.