i'm starting to feel UFOShip needs to be included in the list of shitty sites. i "allowed" the starry 1990s background to be added by a guy who "seemed" to know what he was doing.
I have to side with Phan. There is a difference between sucking and painting a room loudly because it ~is~ the party room.
I'm actually a fan of star backgrounds, but a problem occurs when I see the background on a New Age themed site. As EvB inferred, content can affect my judgement of code instantly.
I like loud. Witness how I enjoy posting signature graphics within my postings. It may be tacky, but I can think of nothing ~cooler~ than a luminous saucer gliding across a star filled background, leaving a temporary wake of transparent distortion or a slight vapor trail. Or a hovering translucent whitish mint green cigar-shaped UFO that appears to be pulsing with alien technology.
Wait... wait a second... what's that? That fucking pulsing whitish mint green cigar-shaped UFO has a "White Owl" paper cigar band wrapper on it. What kind of site is this?I once made a star background more scientific and less eye popping by using only white stars with plenty of space in between. It can change a cartoonish sky into a planetarium sky if you know what I mean. One or two constellations can be incorporated as well. But as Max said, dull and simple sometimes drives the point home. I like your navigational console, but personally I would tweak it by adding some retro biomechanoid aspects so that one feels like they are playing an old game of "Captain Blood." (That dates me. If you will step this way, for a nominal fee, you can be photographed standing next to my OMNI magazine collection. It weighs in at 2 metric tons.)
But biomechanoid ... that's just me. A walking contradiction. Digital organic. Tentacles in hexidecimal. In Space No One Hears You Scream... all that Hocus Pocus Forbidden Planet shiite. I want you to feel like you're walking into Stephen King's "The Mist" with a little Groucho Marx thrown in. Welcome to the Automat. Just push a white rubber button or pull the chrome lever, but when the glass windowed compartment opens, you're on your own. Abandon all hope ye who ordered here.
In lieu of a Flash saucer gliding by, you can never go wrong with a shot of Saturn, slightly fuzzy, about the size of a marble, in a monochrome yellow glow, in the top right hand corner. Retro science fiction. It screams "We are cool. We are not of Earth." Carlin might say "We're so cool, we have a cock ring around our planet. Beat
that, goddamn it."
My suggestion overall: play with the site a little at a time and tweak aspects of it to reflect your current tastes instead of worrying about a full blown conversion and above all, don't fix what isn't broken. Move the furniture around, and throw in a new coffee table and see what the neighbors say. That's my two cents for what it's worth. Well, eighty-five cents.
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