Gfxtrap.com New Spalsh Page

[Saint_Michael 3]

 

I had a vision and here it is.

[Plenoptic 0]

Not bad. I like it a lot. Can't wait to see it up on the site. What happens to it when version 3 comes out though are you gonna change it again to match the site?

[Avalon 1]

While the image itself is very good, I think the content is not really appropriate. A person looking at that splash page would think the site is all about Tekken, (I think that's where those characters are from) when of course it's about a lot more than that. I think it needs something more generically related to graphics, perhaps partial screen shots of various graphics programs, not just Photoshop. If characters are to be used, make them from a wide range of games. Perhaps cover things like SOTW, Tournaments, Battles, Tutorials, Resources and Requests. To me, these are the things GFXTrap is about.By the way, with SOTW #27 being about splash pages, is GFXTrap considered as a Xisto corporation site? If so, I might make that my subject for the SOTW, seeing as I am thinking about it already.

Edited February 26, 2006 by Avalon (see edit history)

[truefusion 3]

While the image itself is very good, I think the content is not really appropriate. A person looking at that splash page would think the site is all about Tekken, (I think that's where those characters are from) when of course it's about a lot more than that. I think it needs something more generically related to graphics, perhaps partial screen shots of various graphics programs, not just Photoshop. If characters are to be used, make them from a wide range of games. Perhaps cover things like SOTW, Tournaments, Battles, Tutorials, Resources and Requests. To me, these are the things GFXTrap is about.

I agree with Avalon in this. For, there is a rule in web design, which is commonly broken, that deals with splash pages. Avalon talks about this rule. Although, it really is a nice image, just a bit deceiving.