WoWDB Design

I was the only active developper on db.mmo-champion.com and since I was no longer working at Curse, they decided to restart a database project, WoWDB.com, on the shiny Cobalt platform that powers SWOTR, Aion and Rift databases. Just like a person needs a home, each new website needs its own cozy space on a server to exist and be accessible to users. This space is usually provided by web hosts. If your wait time is anything over 3 seconds, people are going to do business with a competitor using more optimal hosting services. Luckily for you, such website hosting canada are out there, and plenty of them are inexpensive, too.

The release of Mist of Pandaria beta being close (less than 24 hours away) and the website without any CSS, I've been asked to come up with a design. 3 hours later, here's the result of the seo for medical websites.

As you can see, I borrowed a lot of design elements and CSS from the original MMO-Champion website. I really like the end result. Often database websites are on black backgrounds, making it with a light one gives a fresh look.

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Countdown

MMO-Champion uses countdown to make hype around certain events. I've had the pleasure to do two of them, one for each expansion.

Cataclysm

28Hours
56Minutes
43Seconds
23Hours
56Minutes
43Seconds

That's my first one. The hardest part was to find a good font that doesn't suck with a big font-size. (Note: the times here are placeholders!)

Mist of Pandarian


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As you can see, my Photoshop skills have improved a lot since the first one 🙂 I've been able to steal design elements from Blizzard website to make the artwork look better.

You can notice that each digit of numbers is absolutely positioned, therefore it doens't constantly move when the number changes.

I also use a Brawler, a custom Google Web Font and text-stroke to help with anti-aliasing.

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