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Seelund Trading Co Guild Website

Crys — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:44:57 +0000

This is the website for my World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic guild, Seelund Trading Co. The base site is built on phpbb3 with the index and information pages maintained in the cms MX-Publisher (whose website seems to have vanished as of this posting. Guess it’s a good thing I can update and change the programming as I need to myself). I have made substantial programming changes to my copy of MX, including changing the way news posts (posts in the forums that are designated as “Announcements”) are sorted so that the one that expires soonest rises to the top of the front page.

The biggest amount of work I’ve done on the site though is the custom theme. The current design is the second — the first included only World of Warcraft imagery back when we were a WoW-only guild. I used the default phpbb theme as a foundation and then rewrote the better part of it so that it would properly reflow on a smaller screen or with non-default font sizes. The images are all manipulated/cutout screenshots I took from the two games.

As part of both designs for the site, I created logos for the guild, which are used in promotional items such as videos and recruitment posts:

December 2011

February 2010

Future improvements planned for the theme include a mobile-specific version and having the characters at the top randomly chosen from a pool of images of the current members of the guild on load. Current programming projects in progress on the site include a section for user-controlled character profiles and an event calendar that users can post to as their characters (watch the blog for project updates).

TheVentureCo.org logo

Crys — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:11:56 +0000

Blue “ice” logo for theventureco.org

Single Color Version

I created this logo for use by the roleplaying community forums for The Venture Co (US) server from World of Warcraft. The quirky shapes and the way the letters run together is a perfect reflection of the the community itself.

Doodles

Crys — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:27:52 +0000

No new doodles for a few days. Working on a hand-drawn logo so all my drawing time is used up by that. I will however be posting a “concept to finished product” group of articles about said logo when I’m … Continue reading → Related posts:

Early concept for this site

Crys — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:01:04 +0000

This was one of my initial brainstorming ideas for this site. Ultimately, I decided to go for a more streamlined design, but I liked this one and I’ll probably implement this as an alternate style sometime in the future. The logo, however, is the direct ancestor of the one I did end up going with.

Keepers of Stromgarde

Crys — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:11:18 +0000

the Keepers of Stromgarde‘s site has gone through several iterations, on multiple versions of phpbb and the CMS MX-Publisher. I was responsible for two of them, from initial concept through custom theme. I also created the guild’s logo.

Summer 2008

July 2009

Logo

Keyclothes.com by Workhorse Outfitters

Crys — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:29:19 +0000

Keyclothes.com by Workhorse Outfitters — Outerwear for Work or Sport

Unlike most of the sites I’ve posted here, I did not do the final code implementation on this site, nor the banner ads associated with it. Parts of the current implementation are different from my original design, particularly in the navigation treatment. However, they retained 99% of the design elements I created and I’m happy with how the design turned out overall. The screenshot above is from my initial mockup rather than the final site.

In addition to the basic site design, I created the two main logos visible in the screenshot above (at the top and bottom of the site).

Twilight Games

Crys — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:26:21 +0000

This site is no longer available, but here’s a screenshot and one of the animated banners I did for the site.

Twilight Games Logo

Crys — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:32:09 +0000

Icon and Words often shown interposed. Lettering first used in August 2001.

Out & About cover

Crys — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:57:56 +0000

Summer-only monthly tourism paper for Sheboygan County. I did layout for several Out & Abouts, not just covers, including this one.

Out & About logo

Crys — Wed, 16 May 2001 02:43:16 +0000

Out & About is a Sheboygan County Wisconsin travel and features supplemental published by Wisconsin Newspress