AC-Board

[MathiasB]

Some weeks ago, I had the idea of making a Wordpress theme with an Assault Cube layout. At that moment i hadn't the time to make it (exams at school) so some days ago i started coding / styling...

Today i feel proud that i could upload the 'first beta' of AC-Board !
You can check the theme here: http://denbeke.be/ac-board/

But nobody 's perfect and me certainly not, so...
Plz give feedback about it and tell me what could be better.


Copyright: For the moment you can't use it... But when i release a 'good' version, i'll make it open to everyone. (as long as i get my name under it :D)

grz,
|FmC|MathiasB

----> http://denbeke.be/ac-board/ <----

[SplatZ]

it's awesome! love the background picture.

[MathiasB]

Thx SplatZ, any other comments are welcome...
Feel free to say bad things (to help me making the theme)

[pwnage{TyD}]

Nice screenshot. Maybe remove the standard "Hello World" so it doesn't look just like any 'blog'?

[Andrez]

Awesome.

[yata]

english please..

[kaz]

very good :)

[Orynge]

Good job, but I agree with yata.
If you're going to advertise it in English, there better be some English posts.
And get rid of 'Hello world'.

Apart from that, great job. :)

[MathiasB]

Thx, it's just some auto-generated content to see how the design 's going :D

[Carnifex]

English FTW.
Looks good.

[Matasar]

I miss a chatbox...

[MathiasB]

Just a plugin for Wordpress that you can easily install...

[MathiasB]

Does anyone here knows how to make the dropdown submenus in Wordpress?

[LeeZH]

Hm ... the red colours should be brighter for increased legibility. Also, consider darkening the box backgrounds to increase contrast. One property of white text on black background is that in many cases, it is better to have a slightly larger line height. I'd say 120%~150% should be good.

Furthermore, there is a lot of wasted spaces in the header that could be streamlined. Start by reducing the ul padding in the header to be somewhere around 10px. You could probably cut off margin completely. Same thing for the h1 element.

The comments block has that default extra padding to the left that is also wasted space. Define the padding-left as 0.

The default margin above and below h2 headers are also a real space waster so define it as something low, like 0 0 1em 0.

One thing that many web designers fail to see is that the most important aspect of a website is its content. The design is just to spice up the appearance. Therefore, the biggest priority is legibility, followed by space for the content.

Another tip is to reduce the contrast of less important stuff (such as side bars and post info) so that the main content really stands out.

Compare your site with mine and you can tell the difference:
http://www.leezh.net/

Anti-double-post Edit: Dropdown submenus could be achieved by some CSS tricks. I got that page bookmarked somewhere, but I'll dig it up later when I have time. Here you go: http://pixelspread.com/blog/289/css-drop-down-menu The exact design has to be fine tuned, but this is the basis.

Second Edit: Here is something for those who are not great in colour theory. It really helps when you have the base elements of a site following a certain scheme. For example, mine is a mono-chrome multi-tone cyan colour scheme. http://kuler.adobe.com/

Cheers

[MathiasB]

Thx for comments...
Some work for tomorrow :D

[Orynge]

Good, a shoutbox.

[MathiasB]

Anti-double-post Edit: Dropdown submenus could be achieved by some CSS tricks. I got that page bookmarked somewhere, but I'll dig it up later when I have time. Here you go: http://pixelspread.com/blog/289/css-drop-down-menu The exact design has to be fine tuned, but this is the basis.

How to implement it in Wordpress?

[Ronald_Reagan]

What exactly would this site be used for?

[MathiasB]

It's a theme / template for Wordpress...
So everyone with a Wordpress powered site can easily use it.

[LeeZH]

Actually, you know what? I could download the page, tweak the CSS file and PM it back to you. How about that?

[MathiasB]

ok, i'll upload the latest version of the style :D

[MathiasB]

I'm giving AC-Board is your hands...
http://denbeke.be/ac-board/

Everyone may download and customize it to his/her needs!