The Cerbera Register - The final vote!

[GCerbera]

It was a crushing 93% victory for the new design.

J S G ( James ) has come up with these four colour
options for the design, now all we need is your votes!

Take a look and vote here:
www.aauk.biz/Cerbera/layout.htm

I'll leave this open for a week and then we will get
the new site running in January.

If you have any comments, suggestions, etc as ever
please post them here.

As ever, thanks for your support - over to you!

Go create some weather...
It's a road legal Concorde!
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register

www.TVR-Cerbera.com

[tonyhetherington]

oh oh oh...I was the first to vote!!

Really like those designs - my vote was for the grey one (more subtle, more classy perhaps).

Good job !

PS: Been looking around your site all morning. Though I've seen it before, I've never really had an opportunity to look in so much detail. Damn fine job old chap....big thumbs up !!!

[SGirl]

Looks great, Graham!

I voted for black - but why not have a nice purple Cerb? Then you've got the best of both worlds.

[j_s_g]

SGirl said:

I voted for black - but why not have a nice purple Cerb? Then you've got the best of both worlds.

Don't worry too much about the colour of the cerb/rest of the artwork on these mock-ups, that's all liable to change in a finished version... those were the only pictures I had to hand when cobbling the designs together. The last (purple & white) design especially had the main image done in a rush (if you couldn't guess!). I'll no doubt be posting a dozen "Anyone got a picture of..." threads up here in the New Year.

[olly]

Black looks good to me !

[trooper1212]

olly said:

Black looks good to me !

ugh, white text on black will make your eyes bleed :P

blue for me.

[IanFirmstone]

its gotta be the black one... by far the best!

[GCerbera]

Thanks for the feedback so far, great work as ever by James.

The members section on the old site has been updated.
71 registered now - anyone want to add a photo to their profile?
Please send it over!

Thanks!

Go create some weather...
It's a road legal Concorde!
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register

www.TVR-Cerbera.com

[Edt]

no. 1 works best for me

Ed

[satman]

Top marks ...they all look good, but fav has to be No1.(black)

[kojak69]

Black. Middle two aren't bad though. Not bothered about the last one.

[suffolkfox]

I'm afraid I have to agree with trooper1212. Although the black looks the coolest scheme, it doesn't work well if you have to read large amounts of text as it can give you a serious skull ache. I think the votes could be split between style versus practicality. This therefore means that as we are all TVR nuts, that the black will almost certainly win .

[j_s_g]

suffolkfox said:

I'm afraid I have to agree with trooper1212. Although the black looks the coolest scheme, it doesn't work well if you have to read large amounts of text as it can give you a serious skull ache. I think the votes could be split between style versus practicality. This therefore means that as we are all TVR nuts, that the black will almost certainly win .

Pure white on black isn't too good on the eye unless it's in limited amounts. It's currently light grey, though, and I'd maybe lower the contrast even further on a finished site - I've got a sample "content" page that I've done and it looks fine so far. It also wouldn't be too bad as long as there was lots of white space (or black space in this case!). Half of my degree was on user interface design... no need to fret!

Having said that, the grey or blue designs are always still going to be easier on the eye (but you then have more issues matting images properly ).

>> Edited by j_s_g on Tuesday 16th December 21:56

[chris.g.wood]

I would go for the first. Looks efficient as it should.

Also the white on black statements are wrong, the worst colour on a computer screen is actually blue (more harmful to the human eye than any other colour believe it or not, don't ask me why, that was from a scientific study). White on black is as easy to read as black on white it's just than the conditioned eye is more used to seeing that on paper.

CGW

>> Edited by chris.g.wood on Wednesday 17th December 00:49

[j_s_g]

chris.g.wood said:

I would go for the first. Looks efficient as it should. Also the white on black statements are wrong, the worst colour on a computer screen is actually blue (more harmful to the human eye than any other colour believe it or not, don't ask me why, that was from a scientific study). White on black is as easy to read as black on white it's just than the conditioned eye is more used to seeing that on paper. CGW >> Edited by chris.g.wood on Wednesday 17th December 00:49

Blue's not so much "harmful" as straining on the eye...

[geek-mode=on] Only about 2% of the photosensitive cone cells that our eye uses for high-resolution vision (as opposed to the rods used for periphery vision) are blue-sensitive, with the others being about 65% red & 33% green.

In principle you're dead right about it being down to conditioning. However, white on black is a bit more difficult to read in general circumstances due to the amount of ambient light around the screen that our eyes are trying to adjust to, whereas the pupils probably need to be slightly more dilated than normal for white-on-black. It actually depends quite a lot on the font used, too... A sans-serif font such as Arial/Tahoma makes things easier to read as it's less "fussy", whereas fonts such as Times will cause more problems due to bleed around the edges (the same's true of black-on-white, of course, but not to quite the same extent because of the ambient light stuff already mentioned).

Just don't get me started on red/green colour combinations!

[Edit:] Someone remind me to get out more to kill off the brain-cells that remember all that stuff

>> Edited by j_s_g on Wednesday 17th December 09:42

[carl_w]

Can we try the purple the other way round (purple background, white boxes)?

[deanpluthero]

defo blue, easy to read, not a strain on the eye!

Deano
www.theratpac.com

[j_s_g]

carl_w said:

Can we try the purple the other way round (purple background, white boxes)?

If a couple more people think it's worth it, I'll happily do a proper purple/white scheme - the first one was just a sampler to match TVR colours... Didn't really think it was appropriate for the site, so it was a bit of an afterthought.

[GCerbera]

Bump

J - Are you getting your hotmail??

>> Edited by GCerbera on Saturday 20th December 21:36

[j_s_g]

GCerbera said:

Bump J - Are you getting your hotmail??

Sorry mate - been dealing with resigning from work stuff this last couple of days... On hols now & will reply this evening.