The last day or so I've been working on a one-off site, pretty privately. The site has a lot of potential to it, and regulars on another forum will probably know what the domain name for it is too. But I'm not prepared to share that here, not yet.
The technical design is one-off, utilising a modified forum backend as the admin area (and only the admin area) while not showing anything of the forum on the regular user side, at least not directly. (The site blog will be using SSI to pull from the forum, the login system will use the forum login core, making use of the API to handle authentication and registration, with comments going back to the forum too)
What I will say is that it will be powered by nginx, PHP, and Wedge (though, really, there's no reason why I can't do it in SMF, I'm not using the forum core, but it will mean I have to fix the API) and make heavy use of the GD or Imagick libraries (might be a good time to learn that really)
But I'm stuck primarily on the site's look and feel (generally; I already have some of the very specific elements on the site planned out and even drawn in some cases).
What I guess I'm wondering is whether anyone has any resources or places they go for general inspiration for design. I don't even have a colour scheme at this point in time; time is the theme of the site, and I did contemplate doing some kind of steampunk clock motif around the border (since the majority of the main content is its own thing), but not sure about that at this time.
Sorry I can't give any details out, trying to keep this one sort of a surprise until I'm closer to being ready with it.
The technical design is one-off, utilising a modified forum backend as the admin area (and only the admin area) while not showing anything of the forum on the regular user side, at least not directly. (The site blog will be using SSI to pull from the forum, the login system will use the forum login core, making use of the API to handle authentication and registration, with comments going back to the forum too)
What I will say is that it will be powered by nginx, PHP, and Wedge (though, really, there's no reason why I can't do it in SMF, I'm not using the forum core, but it will mean I have to fix the API) and make heavy use of the GD or Imagick libraries (might be a good time to learn that really)
But I'm stuck primarily on the site's look and feel (generally; I already have some of the very specific elements on the site planned out and even drawn in some cases).
What I guess I'm wondering is whether anyone has any resources or places they go for general inspiration for design. I don't even have a colour scheme at this point in time; time is the theme of the site, and I did contemplate doing some kind of steampunk clock motif around the border (since the majority of the main content is its own thing), but not sure about that at this time.
Sorry I can't give any details out, trying to keep this one sort of a surprise until I'm closer to being ready with it.