As some of you are aware, Rampage is running a competition for the best web site design.

The winning entrant will receive one of these cases with the pre-moded' (Purspex) case window and some uber l33t http://www.gamedude.com.au/images/tri.jpgfans to top it off.
Also in the case when the winner gets it will be a copy of Soldier of Fortune II : Double Helix

Hints;
We are going for a professional / community feeling.

The color scheme is completely up to the individual.

It has to be simple enough for me to add and remove links later on down the track. (I have html /
paint shop / Photoshop experience)

HTML and image sources must be submitted to myself before or on Saturday at 4:00pm for final
judging.

Our name is 'Rampage'
Some other text you could include is 'Internet and Gaming' (Legal trading name)

Entries close on the 27th at 4:00pm.
The winner will be announced at 6:30pm the same night.
The winning entrants design will be placed on our server the same night and we will then ship the prize (or give it to the winner if you're there on the night)

Good luck!

[edit: these cases are super-uber. they come stock with an 80mm fan planted right infront of your HDD bays, front and rear USB, as well as front audio, mic and speakers etc. It also has a 350 watt powersupply]

picture up close, here (ignore my under-developed camera skills)

One more thing, everyone who submits an entry and doesn't win, will get a few hours free at rampage for their hard work.

Hmm I may have to have a crack at this :)

/me waits for school to finish so he can start making the page.

redone the page a bit, changed background after ppls comments and i agree, looks much better imo :) Ignore the right hand side lil collumn, havent touched that yet

http://members.optushome.com.au/bensoncj/rampagePurp.jpg

I am so gonna own ur page rubba :)

oh and do u have a html page of that ?

Yes, that's what I mentioned before, you have to be able to replicate it in HTML format.

So you're generally better off doing it in HTML to start with and sending screen shots periodically instead of doing the whole thing just in mspaint.exe *g*

Hey Rubba Chicken, if I turn your design into html, wanna share the prize? :P

Rubba Chikin that design is ausome :D

Update: just got off the phone with our supplier, they have hooked us up with another copy of SOF II, so a copy of SOF II will be located in the case for the winner of the competition.

Also I'm hearing a lot of people are requesting more time, if 10 or more people (from here) ask for more time,
I'll extend it until Saturday the 1st of August, any takers? (That's an extra week guys)

Yes, I can edit flash too (Thanks for pointing that out mote)

[edit: try and keep the filesizes down though]

Sif' ppl should give you the HTML first. Its not like its copyrighted and you'll run off with it!

j/k :)

Yes, and extension will be good thanks.

I wanna have a crack at it

extension = good...

I have done the design now i just need to do the html... by the way would u like polls and members login or will u do all that with ur php skills?

I can manage that.

Oh dear god, its a flash sig... KILL IT QUICKLY, BURN IT NOW!!

erm, I would have a bash but my last effort, ... took long enough to do cause I could never concentrate on it... I doubt this would be any different.

I could take my site, take it offline, change the banner and content and youd have a site but then... I dont think youd want that :D

no wonder the it industry is f***ed. leet 15year olds making web pages in their spare time for prizes :S

More Time

I see what you mean about that unco Rampage site at the moment. Ahhhrrrggg... that badly needs a new design.

lol, yeh cheetah but its only temp until eye kandeh wins the prize :P

hehe :(

yeah my page can be put into HTML,
and i can do it myself :D

Can we use scripting languages?

Sif' ppl should give you the HTML first. Its not like its copyrighted and you'll run off with it!

Acctuually Australian Copyright laws says it is, you right something be it a book code etc. it's copyrighted.

hehe, sif scuzzy wouldnt win if he enters... he should almost be banned ;)

go my design... :P
I will show u maybe if u go on the rampage irc

[Q] hmm i will take my flash sig off if u really want

Acctuually Australian Copyright laws says it is, you right something be it a book code etc. it's copyrighted.

Don't you have to PAY for something to be copyrighted officially?

No not here.

non flash sig

hmm

nope that was the wrong one

no wonder the it industry is f***ed. leet 15year olds making web pages in their spare time for prizes :S

werd.

its kinda good though as it empowers those who otherwise wouldnt get a chance. Do we want watering down of IT tech skills, but an increase in the overall level of competence across the majority of applications.

In order for technology to advance to the point of it being a recognisable equivalent to our current depiction of the 'future' (e.g sci-fi/ futuristic thrillers / books [1984]) we must reach a point in our society where we accept technology as a facet of every day life - something that now only Generation neXter's are experiencing completely.

The youth are being empowered by this software, so in the future, assumed knowledge/competency can be utilised, leaving the remaining tasks to not primarily be training and supporting current (l)users, but R&D

future here we come.

way off topic.

halfway to HTML :) its still getting there but this is what it looks like so far

http://members.optushome.com.au/bensoncj/Rampage/Rampage.html

javascript rox j00 :)

oi rubba you been using the phong pipe/wiring tut for photoshop thought I saw that it somewhere

yeh looks purdy :)

rubba make it fit on 800x600 won't fit on these gay school comps :( Also maybe make the buttons and s*** a bit smaller ?

rofl 800 x 600 whats that? you may use the horizontal scrollbar :D

i spose u could make buttons smaller but ud have a hard time fitting words onto them, or do u mean the bevels a bit lower?

/me switches to 800 x 600, oh god everything is so big arrrrrgh this res is arse!!! thats why the buttons looks so big to you :) they are like half the size the next res up.

yeah rubbas site just looks like a whole bunch of phong tutorials wacked together

theres a lot of tutorials at phong, most of the stuff on my page i already knew how to do, there are other tutorial sites for photoshop you know.

You have to learn how to use photoshop somehow, you arent born knowing.
Phong is a tutorial site whats wrong with using cool effects in a design.

nothings wrong with it but when your whole site looks like its made from tutorials it doesn't really make it seem like your work does it now...

ur gay rezo...

and yeah everything is heaps too big and 800x600 is what most sites should be made to fit anyways, when I get some freakin time I'll whack something together... (not using phong tutorials)

You have to learn how to use photoshop somehow, you arent born knowing.

there isnt many other ways to lean, i dont know of any photoshop courses around... so if you could point me in the nearest direction, but it would still be the same thing, someone showing you how to do someting.

also graphical links are dongs...

oh and rubba there are plenty of uni courses that teach you :P I plan to do so next year

theres plenty around that teach you graphic design, like something in... *gasp* multimedia and graphic design!?!?!?

and the difference to watching someone show you how to do it, and an online tutorial is?

oh and apparently one of the secrets to being good at graphics sort of stuff is making it as hard as possible for people to tell what you did or how you did it.

mmm you needed to make urs a little more unique rubba methinks... if I had more time I could probably make something over the weekend *shrugs*

exactly what I plan to do reso..

the only tutorials from phong i used was the wire thing, and a reflection tutorial...

i havent seen the wire anywhere else anywhere, so i didnt see a problem.

the difference is anyone can do a tutorial, to actually learn what the tools, effects and filters do is a totally different story.

by actually doing a course you're learning a lot more than just 'how to do tutorials' like you think.

I wanna be doing my course now :( stupid school ...

Who gives a s*** how he made it - it looks shmick.

Out of 10,000 visitors who cares if 10 out of 10,000 people know how he did it.
The rest will be going 'phwoar'.

looks good but I reckon there is too much tute eye-candy.
Simplicity = win (imho)

it's not that great ... rubba is still gaining experience ...

not a bad attempt though prolly better than I'd be able to do but I am better with layouts n s*** and contructive criticism so meh

yeah I saw get rid of the side bar altogether and make the images like half the size

What is the site for the Phong place people are talking about?

have a guess u wanger













www.phong.com

you have to learn how to make me not cry at those wires.....

also thats not metal.... its grey

metal would actually LOOK mettallic?

I have a suggestion on how to ebb the flow of tears - make something better, post it, THEN you may hack up someone elses attempt.

ok brb

hehe b8ted.

rubba it should be in 800*600 un less the guy wants it in 1024*balblabla

i waqs at a we design thing for school and all the pages are set to default and these guys are f***ing leet at this s***. the customer wanted perl and all sorts of s***

yeah any way just telling you. and the page looks leet but teh bittons could be little smaller like 75%

www.dictionary.com

i DISLIKE the whole thing
nuff said

but as soon as someone doesnt suck rubbas cock u get flamed
*shrugs*

let rip!

also i cbf remaking that tut, so here is a diff one

http://images.deviantart.com/large/fonts/fmisc/mad_s.jpg

desaturate that and THEN that is chrome a better kind of metal than a grey gradient

http://jared.ausgamers.com/ephlix/
RUSTY METAL MMMMNNNNNN (i dont think i can see any dirty gradient)

note to rubba
Keep up the good work, you need to stream line it a bit. Its all well and good to make a site look pretty but remmeber that not all users are going to be on cable.

I really shouldn't have pointed out the phong tut's bit applogies for that, but the work that you are producing is avg. But it seems to be getting better. You have some good design ideas and seem to produce em with some level of efficancy.

ephlix also great metal effects I think thumbs up for the design!

Yeah for those who are asking / have asked, it has been extended until the 1st of august.

heres a resized version to please the 800x600 ppls :)

http://members.optushome.com.au/bensoncj/Rampage/800x600/Rampage800.html

Uhmmm... rezo is a f***in tosser.

Who gives a s*** how he is learning, do I just give s*** to you because your learnt to ride a bike with f***ing training wheels or your daddy holding onto the seat rather than taking a uni course? f***in retard.

Just because you might be doing/want to do a tafe/uni course in photoshop, does not mean that is necessarily the best way to learn, people learn differently and more effiently in different methods to others...
Not to mention you hve to start somewhere, so I dont see what your problem is.

make it fit 800x600.... if u look @ any good site... it caters 4 800x600+ (expect of couse QGL which is ALMOST 800x600 if they moved the "hosted by ausgamers" button)..

800x600 is the minimun these days...

& they said they wanted a professional site aswell as a community bassed 1.... 800x600 is proffessional.

erm have a look 3 posts back that is 800x600 sized

I reckon some script that looks at the res setting on your computer and then auto loading the applicable webpage res would be quite cool.

Who gives a s*** how he is learning, do I just give s*** to you because your learnt to ride a bike with f***ing training wheels or your daddy holding onto the seat rather than taking a uni course? f***in retard.

ok then .. sure let ppl use a device to practise .. whether it be training wheels or phong .. BUT

how many ppl do u STILL see using the training wheels after they have learnt to ride? NONE

so ... u do a tutorial .. learn the techniques and then u apply them TO YOUR OWN DESIGNS! u dont just blatantly rip stuff

and redo the phong tuts cause ur metal wires dont even look like theirs

i hate to be harsh to put u down but if everyone keeps holding u by the dick when ur doing things just average .. then ull never get better

I reckon some script that looks at the res setting on your computer and then auto loading the applicable webpage res would be quite cool.

I thought you were a leet notepad coding master?!

you don't have to goto all that trouble when you could simply change whatever your design is so it is easily streched or actually ENDS at one point. then with MAGIC TABLES you can make it repeat for ever.

need to do the html now

mine will be made to work full screen in 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600

what are those cases Brett?

Just a concept design:
http://members.optushome.com.au/mmrobertson/concept.jpg

If you dont like it you f***ing suck and should be put up against a wall and a volvo rammed into you at 50 mp/h, But everyone likes it 8-)

We have a weener!

woot :: make me a webpage too

i like morgans

where can i get those fans from ???
i saw a review but i cant remember where :(

gamdude.com.au

no anything but gamedude :P

can't they bring get 120mm or 92mm ones?!!? as if you'd have 80mm fans in the side of your case :D

umart sell uber 120mm fans great for the side of your case and are stll lasting today

so did rubba chikin win? im designing a real simple


can anyone who tries gets a copy of moh:aa plz :D

no one has won yet, competition doesn't close until the 1st of august due to reuqests for more time from a fair few people

k, another entry here :D

gamedude has the longest lineups for a computer store
we took a damn picture!!!
they are a good store but THEY reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllly need to reorganise how they serve customers, lucky im patient and waiting in a line for 2 hours doesnt rate very high for most people.

but i want those fans hehe

i am gonna win :D\
do u only get a case with a fan in it

something i whipped up just now
unf

Hello, i was going to do a design for you guys, but im not sure if you would want my design as i work for the bunker and do all the web design.

If you dont have any grips, im sure i could get sometime rather l337 happening, but you'd have to give a little time to whip something up.

Email me as i wont read this thread again :D

petergilchrist@thebunker.com.au

Yours, Blackout

Here is mine

Works in most resolutions, still need to put up a few things like POTW, get the poll working, and make the images where details are change to a different theme each time (currently diablo).

, and fix the typos in the menu.

http://www.members.optushome.com.au/bensoncj/Rampage/Combo/Rampage.htm

thats a simplified version of mine, not quite done, but the design is clear enough for them tell if they like it or not, got uni work now to finish off thats more important :)

http://qgl.ausforums.com/?agn=thread&id=811111