15. Now we start throwing in the text. The font matters a lot. Depending on your website, you can use default system fonts, cursive script fonts, or premium designer fonts that will lighten your pockets a bit. I suggest using DaFont for some awesome free fonts.
Here I have used “Myriad Pro” for the menu items. These should be bold, clear and easy to read. Very important.
Used font “Orater Std” for the title. It is a bundled font. You probably have it already.
Added a description in the same font. Give special attention to placement,colors and alignment of such text which doesnt have a special container of its own.
16. Use the “Rectangular Marquee Tool” with “Fixed Size” set to 125×125 px for placing ads on your website. Make the colors match with your theme.
17. Throw in some text and some subscription buttons (Get these here), and VOILA!!! You are done.
Final Design:
This template has been designed specifically keeping in mind the valid XHTML and CSS coding. The semitrasparent figure forms the #outer-wrapper, the two white rectangles inside form the #main-wrapper and #sidebar-wrapper. Similarly, the #header-wrapper and #footer-wrapper take care of the rest of the containers. I will start coding on this template now that this tutorial is complete.
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Hello,
My name is chidozie. I am based in nigeria. I wish to develop an online chess community. Below are the features.
Simple interface pick a tower,pick a room, sit at a table play on a 2D or 3D board.
Full disconnect and reconnect capability
Tracking of wins and losses
Player to player chat
Watch any game in progress
Room that feature prize money which can be accessed after logging in credit card details
Artificial engines to play with
Free download application for desktop, Mac,iphone, Blackberry,andriod.
Drag and drop play with top quality graphics
Search for member
Automated ELO rating system
Professional custom programming
Able to play multiple matches at once
In your experience i will like to know which coding will be better and will decrease latency in throughput. If you cant do it i will appreciate if you could refer me to any one.
Regards
Chidozie
Hi chidozie,
I think it would be more apt to carry out this conversation in an email. You can contact me at abhinav(dot)rastogi(at)designcranium(dot)com
But as a quick response, I would suggest PHP and MySQL if the no chess playing algorithms are required to be implemented. Otherwise ASP.NET with C# would be better suited.
Applications for desktop would require Visual Basic/C#. Objective-C (iOS) for Mac and iPhone and Java for Android.
The game-play can be either with Flash or with HTML5/CSS3.
Contact me at my email for a more detailed consult.
Abhinav Rastogi