Hi guys, I've just designed a new layout for my site, not implemented yet, just need some feedbacks from you guys to make it even better before I implement it.
This is officially my 4th improvement on the same theme (not including versions with minor changes), hope it's a bigger improvement this time. I personally got fascinated with it lol. The rainbow vector is used with permission from flyboy given 2 or 3 months ago.


I'm uploading my previous versions as well, so you get to see the improvements over time.



http://www.sapphiro.net/upload/v1.0.jpg
http://www.sapphiro.net/upload/v1.1.jpg
http://www.sapphiro.net/upload/v1.2.jpg (current layout)
http://www.sapphiro.net/upload/v1.4.jpg (pre-version of v1.5)
http://www.sapphiro.net/upload/v1.5.jpg (LATEST!) <- Please comment on this version only. =D

A clearer version: http://www.sapphiro.net/comingsoon.jpg

Maybe I'll be finding someoen to design me a mascot (maybe a bird) in vector to fill up the right side of the top banner so it wont look plain.
As for the forum, it's not integrated as part of the design yet, in the screenshot I just did a print screen and a cut and paste work to show how it's gonna be like

Hey,

I personaly like version 1.0 the most - It looks the most professional and honestly looks the coolest to me (if the word Beta had a different font).

The newest one you've provided us with.. Well, the vector art just ruins it. You have a rainbow, with blue clouds over a green background - it just doesnt look right. If you changed ALL of your green in your layout to a light-er blue color I think it would look really good, but with the green it makes it look horrible and makes me like v 1.0 the most. Good job either way, way better than anything I can do :\

Hope that helps.

Also: On your CURRENT layout you have the "bookmark our site" link at the top. I think it's a good idea - It doesn't stick out too much, but it made me click on it

BUT... It tries to CHANGE the home page, not bookmark the site. So it would have changed my Google home page to Sapphiro.net which would be not my choice of home page, no offense. So you should fix that

heh, thanks for the review. I'll see how I can reuse elements of my layout v1.0 for my future work, but as for now, the latest design is already made live on my site.
Actually I took out the idea of having a bookmark link, but after seeing how much you like it, I think I'll implement it back again. Thanks!

live site: http://www.sapphiro.net

Wow that looks really nice. Keep up the awesome work.

I really like the vector.

the bottom part for 1.5 should curl the other way.. so it looks like its catching the content...

Noted. I'll see what I can do, because basically for that bar, I'm just reusing it again from the navigation, might look weird if I just flip it vertical.


haha yeh, the vector is nice, but thats the only part thats not my creation, got permission from flyboy for that. It's nice.


Latest update: I managed to reskin my forum template to make it look alike my site.