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New Website Layout - You Choose!

  • October 19, 2013 4:34 PM EDT

    As some may already know we are redesigning the website.

    At first this was a private project among admins and hosts, but we have decided to make it public for more feedback and possibly involve other Photoshop enthusiasts!

    The project begins tomorrow and there's many things you can apply to make - group logos, the banner, the background, and so on. But before anything, we are deciding on the overall theme.

    Vote which you like the most, or suggest your own. Here's a few ideas to start out:

    Parchement theme: the website body would be a scroll, background would be plain black or wood texture, orange tones.

    Castle wall theme: stone brick background, themed out of Solitude's style

    Town/Tavern theme: Wood website body with medieval, iron logos just like for the shops in Skyrim's towns

    You don't have to chose either of those three, you can go with anything else, those are just ideas.

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:39 PM EDT

    Here is one quick version for the banner

    • 557 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:42 PM EDT

    I definitely think we should stick with Skyirm font.

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:42 PM EDT

    Really? But your troll face pic is so cool...

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:43 PM EDT

    That's what I was talking about. How did you get image behind the menu?

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:43 PM EDT

    Got the skyrim font here if anyone wants it...

    ...making it look all metalic and beaten up in PS is the tricky bit.

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:45 PM EDT

     Can try to put it as well  Is the font Trajan Pro?

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:48 PM EDT

    It's Trajanus Bricks (no caps, double spaced) for 'skyrim'...at least that's what I use.

    The rest is the classic Magic Cards for 'the elder scrolls'...

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    October 20, 2013 3:49 PM EDT

    AFAIK the typeface for "SKYRIM" on the official game cover is not published. Trajan Pro is about as close as you can get, and it's a damn nice looking font in its own right. The only way to use the official typeface would be to snip it from an official image (which, I assume, is what Paul/whoever designed the banner originally did).

    BTW, Mason, that mockup looks really good. Much better than how I was picturing any of the original suggestions. I'd love to see something like that as the new theme.

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:50 PM EDT

    ...switched the menu bar to 'lighten' in layer options, cuts out the black.

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:52 PM EDT

    Troll banner

    • 48 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:53 PM EDT

    I've got both of them as well if anyone needs them.  "The Elder Scrolls" is in a Magic The Gathering font, and "SKYRIM" is basically Typo 3.

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:54 PM EDT

    Can you attach them here?

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:54 PM EDT

    Can you attach it here?

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:55 PM EDT

    It isn't published because it's actually a piece of artwork in its own right, loads of cool detail has been added to the original font...

    If you type 'S' in Trajan you can free transform it to fit the original Skyrim logo, pretty sure they started with that font and then the artists went to town on it big time...

    Yep, I sliced it from the gamebox for the original banner.

    Thanks man, didn't do much. Just stole some things as usual...

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:56 PM EDT

    Yeah, should be able to, hang on.

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 3:58 PM EDT

    Here she is.

    • 739 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:01 PM EDT

    Magic Cards if you need it, that really is an awesome font.

    • 48 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:04 PM EDT

    Sure.  Here are the ones I use.  I normally use "Magic: The Gathering", because "Magic Cards" doesn't work properly in GIMP for some reason.

    Typo3 is what I use for the SKYRIM part.

    • 365 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:04 PM EDT

    That's actually brilliant Mason.

    • 365 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:05 PM EDT

    This one's the best one I think....

    • 291 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:05 PM EDT

    Nice.  I like that.

    • 48 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:09 PM EDT

    I don't think Trajan is right.  If you look at the R, the shape isn't quite right compared to the game box.  I think Typo3 is a much closer fit.

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    October 20, 2013 4:11 PM EDT

    Stone troll

    Stone map

    • 1483 posts
    October 20, 2013 4:15 PM EDT

    Stone Typo troll

    Stone Typo map