New Rave On Air
Today I got a message from Danille Leben from Rave On Air askin me if I had received the email about the new branding. I hadn’t but I had. It was in my spam folder. Anyway the new ‘branded’ site is online but I’m not convinced by it. There were a few ‘must-have’ things they said needed to be put on the website… which made it harder to cut up their template. The theme had to rotate every time someone went to the site, so there was a different colour each time, easy to do – bit of javascript and several css files.
The problem was the headings HAD to be in Century Gothic font, meaning they had to be images, meaning I had to cut each heading out and create a div just for it so I could have it as the background of the div and rotate it with the stylesheet. This was made infinitely more complex as the templates I had been sent were all different sizes and alignments but obviously meant to be the same thing.
Anyway… after many hours of slaving away over Illustrator and photoshop the site is now re-branded. It does rotate the themes randomly when you hit refresh but doesn’t always work if you try to do it too often. I just grabbed the first javascript file I found.
Have a look here
Have a look at the current site www.raveonair.com
Yet again I’m dissapointed by the branding :(
Abit dull really. And i don’t understand why they wanted the colour scheme of the site to change. If you enter your details, you would only do it once. Why would you want to visit the site again, in a different hue?
When i first clicked the link, the green style came up and initially thought “oh dear…” but the more i looked at it (and reading your description of changing colours by refresh) the more i like it. In all fairness the only thing i would change is having the title and the subtitles arranged to the left. Anything centred like that is gash. In my opinion :P
Oh god, more people using the term “gash”. I can’t escape it :p
gash is an awesome word :3
It is green now? It was pink and purple yesterday haha!
Looks mucho better in green!
It changes between green, blue and pink… all of which suck, all of which are the colour scheme for Rave On Air 2008… Rubbish!
@Fraser: Good point.
‘must-have’ … every year!