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Some freelance work.
All the buttons are rollover images. The glassy buttons down the left-hand side glow onmouseover. So needles to say, visit the actual site for the full effect. They are animated gifs, though ended up much larger file sizes than I hoped for, thus loading time suffered. In retrospect I can see I should have used Flash for something like that. But I wasn't going to redo them. So nevermind :)
I did the logo also. Well modified an existing san-serif font (Decker) by removing the ascenders and descenders and rounding everything off.
Below was another early idea, but I later decided against it - too small etc. The buttons also glowed and displayed the page the button hyperlinked to onmouseover.
To see the site live:
http://www.xeophex.com/g-mod/
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http://www.g-mod.co.uk/
Looks great, especially that mini version which didnt make it. With clever layout magic you could have still made it work. How about using percentages for the sizes? That way the iframes and the layout box can still fit according to the screen.
But as always, its all about what the client wants. If they chose the existing layout, then thats what they get :)
Yeah, well I did like the smaller site design. I'm very keen on the whole interaction and discovery (with ya cursor) in web design (yes, I should be a Flash/actionscript wh0re). I loved it that you have to roll over the orb buttons to see a semi-transparent CSS box displaying the page the button hyperlinks to.
But, as I expected, the client didn't like it at all that it didn't say the names on the buttons. Could have put it on I guess, but then again, the new design I went with was much easier to code. Everyone is happy.
Another reason why designers and creativity in a working environemnt dont go hand in hand ;)
I know what you mean though...