Planet Seva Web Site Design
~:> Main <:~
The background should be a large space image, probably of several galaxies, designed to look sort of spherical. The goal is to make it so that at the top and bottom the stars and their associates are in the background, while around the middle the inhabited portions of Esrevni are in focus. In order for this to work, the text above the inhabited portion can only take up a certain amount of space.
There should probably be a control/navigation bar as well that is made to resemble a control panel or something like that. Perhaps, if possible, it could contain a few frames; the one with the background taking up most of the space and being in the center, one for the navigation, and one for other things… It appears before me with the navigation frame on the left side, rather narrow at that, and then along the bottom might be an updates frame in the manner of the digital readouts (Black background with green lettering). The Seva Banner should appear at the top as well. Therefore, the background must be designed specifically to work with this layout. It is possible that the entire background can be made to reflect these frames instead of actually putting them in, and things can be positioned appropriately. That’d take lots of work though, and I don’t know that I am capable of it (But heck, I could sure try…)
What should appear on the page:
1: The Banner.
2: The opening paragraph(S) that welcomes visitors and tells them where they are and a little info. It shouldn’t be too long, but should get the point across. It should have instructions near the end concerning the galaxy map and reading further.
3: The galaxy map:
3a: A picture of a ship (Preferably heading to the left) that links to other Jeqo information, such as the Jeqo web site and offiliates.
3B: The planet Yrekcom (See Yrekcom), which should be near the lower center portion of the map.
3C: The planet Seva, which should be in the upper left of the lower right corner (Not centralized… think of it as being composed of twelve squares [4:3]. Seva should be in the upper left corner of the lower right square.). (See Seva)
3D: The planet Doporhtra, which should be in the intersection of the top right and second right boxes following our previous grid system, overlapping those to the left only slightly but noticeably. (See Doporhtra)
3E: A Space station slightly off center (Closer to the three planets) (see galactic capital)
3F: No grid lines should be visible!
3G: Each of these graphics will have tool tips that not only tell their names, but a very brief summary. (E.G. Ship=”Head to the milky way to learn more of Jeqo and to find other interesting web sites!”)
4: Directly beneath the map should be an explanation that covers what is not covered above it, describing what might be found on each page. It will also show A Red Panel and explain that they are there for help and a list of options.
4a: All red panels should have tooltips describing the location in which they are found.
4B: There should be a link to a table of contents (Which should probably appear above the map as well).
5: The next paragraph(S) should tell more about features of the site, starting out with those most relevant to Planet Seva and turning toward what can be done at the site. Links should appear where useful.
6: There should be links to various items (That will probably appear on planets as well) such as the forums, multimedia, and the picture gallery.
7: Copyright information and the like.
8: A news area that should display site updates. I have no idea where it would be best to put this, since updates need to appear on the main page and be clearly visible.
8: Navigation/control bar:
8A: Home
8B: Communication (Should be for message board. Any corny little spaceship console button should do.)
8C: Contact Commander (E-mail me or to the comments page)
8D: Map (Site map)
8E: News
8F: These should look like console buttons. Perhaps they have tool tips (quick to appear, I should have mentioned) which briefly elaborate on their functions. These could be hover buttons! Maybe with sound effects if I can get any of the supported formats for hover buttons.
… I need to learn Java…
~:> Seva <:~
This background will not require as much 3D work. It’s primarily a blue-violet sky and a green ground (A simple one, nothing too realistic. Maybe some landscapes off around the edges that could serve as links. If I can find my Hiss sound that I recorded, we could find a use for it here.)
This page should have a drawing of the star port (The drawings here can be crude, just recognizable), which should take visitors into it where a bit of neat stuff may wait. On the left side of the star port, where the landing platform is, there should be a ship in wait that can activate a link to something… probably the main page. A red panel should appear somewhere on the star port.
To the right and below should be Reniatretni, which can also activate a link to the reniatretni page (Where I hope to come up with lots of fun stuff, or at least… something.)
There should be other things here as well, but at the moment I can’t think of how to implement them. L For now, we’re just worrying with the level1 pages.
This page should contain:
1: A title line, “SEVA” in the manner of the “SEGA” logo (The one used on non-sonic games)
2: Writing in the sky that explains the page, basically “Welcome to Seva!” (Not Planet Seva, because that could be misleading). It should say other things… meh. Whatever its purpose ends up being needed for. “Look around”, “Home to…”, things like that.
3: We come to the horizon and should implement the pictures that are in the star port area.
4: Anything else, though most should be far to the right… perhaps, we’ll have a pic of the river that takes us to another portion of the planet (To the right). Perhaps the cane fields and forest are visible beneath the lake and can take us to different places. There is much to explore on Seva that could be used to link relevant information.
~:> Yrekcom <:~
The sky here is green. The background beneath it should seem industrial and architecturally and technologically inclined, more mighty than smart. Confidence, glory, grandure. Here, most of our links should be buildings. The writing should be in the sky once again (And something tells me that reading black on a green background will hurt eyes… meh). We’ll basically design a little… ahem… well, big bustling skyscraper cityscape with various things. These should at least include a link to the pictures area and other multimedia. Any RP stuff that ends up connected to the site (Probably with Reniatretni) should have a linked image as well. Perhaps a library type building for info pages. Maybe we could have an animation sequence in the streets below with vehicles and all, but it needs to be small (File size) and not the type that will cause the page to reload just as you find what you’re looking for.
(Another thing I was thinking of was giving characters their own pages, not necessarily as profile pages or anything, but… meh. I’m not sure what I’d do with them, maybe hand them off to mods or something, but I was thinking of this and each should appear appropriately linked in their appropriate locations.)
This is also a big commercial place; there should be links to offiliat sections, and maybe even images made for specific web sites that link with the site. These images, remember, must not have a border, but all of them are that way so nyah. Maybe they’re in the background and are hotspots.
(I think with autoshapes, they can be saved as .gif or .jpg images without adding that annoying white backdrop.)
~:> Doporhtra <:~
Doporhtra’s sky, I think, is green as well, but a different shade of it. These are the technomaniacs, so… yeah. There should be a cityscape and all, but it should be less on grandure and more on efficiency. (An animation here would be of numerous people shoving their way through the “street”).
We should have site stuff, technological links, including any useful offiliats, plans and the such, technical crud… archives of data (These should be accessible on the other planets, perhaps? You know, information that is actually relevant to the theme). On the top left part of the cityscape, I’d like an observatory, which will link to the observatory page where there will be various items (I’ll worry with that later…)
We might also want a link to Dinhcara’s fortress (Far right). I’m not sure what we’d do there, but meh. It’d just be neat. ^_^.
… I mean… the whole point is to make it fun and interesting!
(And attractive)
~:> Galactic Capital <:~
This will be… the inside of a space station, and a big one at that. It’ll be like a big commune area, a lobby, if you will. It should contain links to the links section (Marketing, advertising, whatever), info not only on the general thing, but maybe some government-themed stuff (Even though I’m not exactly going to have too much of that information available), A link to the EIA (Which will probably have a main page, a few links that go to places that may be other places already, and a log in thingy for classified stuff [which probably won’t be much]).
Note: Every page must have at least one red panel somewhere appropriate. On the walls or something.)
For the most part, these are my gettint-there pages. They are required before anything else can be applied, so there.