New The Hot Web

[thehotweb]

Hi,
I finally finished the design and import script for the hot web. You can view the new board at:
http://forums.thehotweb.net
Please let me know what you think.
Thank You,
Paul

[BillaBongUSA]

Looks really nice. :) I like the navigation buttons at the top.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by thehotweb
Hi,
I finally finished the design and import script for the hot web. You can view the new board at:
http://forums.thehotweb.net
Please let me know what you think.
Thank You,
Paul Vaguely "yaxayish" but then hey they stole their logo from the Musicmatch Jukebox logo and icon so why not.

[AWS]

Originally posted by Wayne Luke
Vaguely "yaxayish" but then hey they stole their logo from the Musicmatch Jukebox logo and icon so why not. Another slow loading graphics intense site. The kind I just pass by when I am looking for new communities to join.

[d2alio]

Originally posted by AWS
Another slow loading graphics intense site. The kind I just pass by when I am looking for new communities to join. yea it's a yaxay v2 inspired design...pretty neat though.

[DirectPixel]

Originally posted by thehotweb
Hi,
I finally finished the design and import script for the hot web. You can view the new board at:
http://forums.thehotweb.net
Please let me know what you think.
Thank You,
Paul Well, all I can say is that it's evolved quite a lot since your previous versions.;)

It doesn't look all that yaXay'ish to me... personally, I think The Hot Web's category headers are done a lot better and cleaner than yaXay's, and apart from the table thingy in the footer, it is looking quite original.

[Odil]

Originally posted by thehotweb
Hi,
I finally finished the design and import script for the hot web. You can view the new board at:
http://forums.thehotweb.net
Please let me know what you think.
Thank You,
Paul

Some of the graphics are actually stolen from yaxay, on the postbit I saw at least 2 buttons plus some graphics near the botton. The new thread/post reply buttons are stolen.

Odil

[DirectPixel]

Originally posted by Odil
Some of the graphics are actually stolen from yaxay, on the postbit I saw at least 2 buttons plus some graphics near the botton. The new thread/post reply buttons are stolen.

Odil hmm... doesn't look like the yaXay buttons to me... :-/

Do you have URL's to them?

[Odil]

Originally posted by DirectPixel
hmm... doesn't look like the yaXay buttons to me... :-/

Do you have URL's to them?

OK I just looked at them againm they are almost so close to being the same that I thought they were.

Odil

[thehotweb]

Originally posted by Odil
OK I just looked at them againm they are almost so close to being the same that I thought they were.

Odil
Thanks all for your comments, I am sick of hearing it's "yaxayish" but hey you are entitled to your own opinion. Odil, I have no clue what you are talking about, can you please post the buttons you think look exactly like yaxay's?
Thanks,
Paul

[DirectPixel]

Originally posted by Odil
OK I just looked at them againm they are almost so close to being the same that I thought they were.

Odil I don't think so -- the yaXay buttons have more of a 3D look to them, and the colors are different as well. IMO, that looks different enough, but to each his/her own.:)

[XiXora]

i think the forums look pretty nice.
and anyway yaxay and exactly the most original concept ... :)

[d2alio]

wrong forum ;)

[Wayne Luke]

When I said Yaxayish, I meant similar to not a direct copy. It is like you can tell a Ravio design from a mile away. They don't even need the "Designed by Ravio" logo on the bottom because there isn't much differentiation between them.

When I saw this site for the first time, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Hmmmm... Looks sorta like Yaxay". It wasn't "Hmmmm... They stole Yaxay's graphics and copied their design.". And yes there is a difference betweem the two statements.

[d2alio]

Originally posted by Wayne Luke
When I said Yaxayish, I meant similar to not a direct copy. It is like you can tell a Ravio design from a mile away. They don't even need the "Designed by Ravio" logo on the bottom because there isn't much differentiation between them.

When I saw this site for the first time, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Hmmmm... Looks sorta like Yaxay". It wasn't "Hmmmm... They stole Yaxay's graphics and copied their design.". And yes there is a difference betweem the two statements. I agree with Wayne... it's far from being a clone. The fact that you recreated several things but in differnet manners gives it that "yaxay look"... it's not stolen or anything (OBVIOUSLY)...

and when you are inspired from a certain design so much you should expect these sort of comments.

[Vile]

Originally posted by thehotweb
Hi,
I finally finished the design and import script for the hot web. You can view the new board at:
http://forums.thehotweb.net
Please let me know what you think.
Thank You,
Paul

Takes a while to load (Cable modem) but it looks very nice.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Azaloth
Looks good, and I too am endlessly sick of people saying any graphical vB skin looks like Yaxay. Corey from Ravio is obviously an immensely talented designer and a major pioneer in the vB skinning community but anything with bevels, hard lines, and sharp angles isn't a "YAXAY RIP DOOD".

Corey wasn't the first person to use those elements and he certainly won't be the last, yes I see many designs that are inspired, yes some losers have directly ripped him and other good designers, and yes some inspiration is a bit "too" inspired and looks like a lame copy, but in my opinion Paul's skin is original and quite nice.

People (especially non-designers) don't seem to understand that just because one design shares the same elements (such as line weight, angles, even colors) as another it doesn't mean that it is at all ripped or even inspired by the original. The web is a very limited medium, we are limited to the RGB pallette and the unit of the "pixel".

Ok, I'm done ranting. Nice skin, Paul, keep it up.

Regards,
-Andrei Zimiles
Subtilize Media And some of us should read the entire thread before ranting. I never said it was a rip, I said my first impression was it was similar to Yaxay.

So go ahead and rant and be inspired. I personally don't wish to see the web homogenized like this and will try and do different things on my sites.

[Wayne Luke]

Yours looks nice. It has what I call the "Neo-Anime Tech" look to it since it has the kind of graphics Anime sites tend to have.

[Azaloth]

Originally posted by Wayne Luke
Yours looks nice. It has what I call the "Neo-Anime Tech" look to it since it has the kind of graphics Anime sites tend to have.

Thanks. That's an interesting way to describe it...

[Vile]

Originally posted by Azaloth
www.techskins.com/forums (http://www.techskins.com/forums)

Regards,
-Andrei Zimiles
Subtilize Media

Now that is one nice looking board :)

[Joe Gronlund]

nice, but slow :(

[thehotweb]

Thank you all for the comments. I am taking care of the problem with speed, I will propably move it to a new server. Also, where does VB of the month take place? I heard a lot about it but can't find it anywhere as I am new here.
Thanks,
Paul

[thehotweb]

Lol I found it, nevere mind :D

[Joe]

I really like the layout of The Hot Web forums, when it comes down to it, it is a very clean, easy to use and navigate design.