Delicious Library view enhancement & site backup schedule

[darko]

@darko I'll be updating those graphics soon to something a bit more vgcollect-like. I simply took a screen of iBooks and used their stuff ha.

iBooks....I thought so

[htimreimer]

@darko I'll be updating those graphics soon to something a bit more vgcollect-like. I simply took a screen of iBooks and used their stuff ha.

thats good because if you didn't we would have to rename the site to icollect

[matt]

okay so I made some adjustments. check out the new pages here:

http://vgcollect.com/shelf/matt

Let me know what you all think.

[darko]

Much better.

[scott]

Not sure I dig the wood grain, in grey. Plus the sides are a different brightness than the shelf. I'll see if I can come up with something that fits our look and strays away from the iLook.

[darko]

@scott If you're going to mess with it I would try something that looks more like plastic. Probably with a shadow effect to grey? Think IKEA! That's what I can imagine looking good with the site.




Might be too much white, I don't know.

They grey wood does look much better than the brown though!

[matt]

I'm open to any suggestions. Here are the files if anyone wants to mock something up:

http://vgcollect.com/images/shelf_test_1.jpg

This just repeats and has a thick, solid border on the left and right.

[kirbysuperstar]

A choice of wood colour/grain would be awesome. I'm partial to the type of veneer that the 2600 and anything made in the 80's had, personally.

[jcalder8]

I like the look of this more than the brown wood grain. I can see how it wouldn't be to everyone's taste but unless you provide multiple styles that will never happen

[scott]

@matt is there no second image? The sides of the one in the link are a solid gray without and grain to it. I realized now that that is what is throwing me off as far as the look of it.

[matt]

@scott Yeah just one image. The sides are just a 10px border created with css.

[scott]

Here's something I photoshopped in white.

[matt]

@scott not bad. I like the idea of flattening things down but this almost feels too bland.

(also uck...Firefox does not scale images nicely. That Bases Loaded box looks awful)

[scott]

Well this work PC is set to 800 x 600 or something ridiculous so that may be my issue. The site scales funny on this PC too thanks to the shitty resolution. I'll play with it some more tonight and see what I can come up with.

[darko]

@scott What if you made the outside of the shelves the exact same color as the page? It would give the illusion of the shelves being built into the background. Might be cool.