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That's Sei's secret project. :D

I introduced a display problem when I fixed the hover things. Fixed that.

Also made buy buttons buttonier, and had the "quantity" box cause the price display to update as it's entered. Quantity also does not go over 25. That was already the case before (if you asked for more than 25 items, the server gave you 25), but now the shop UI makes that apparent.

Made another change that I'd like people's opinions on:

The shop header has been fancified. There is no variation between the shops at the moment, they all have the same fancification.


As a reminder to all: I am not a graphics designer. I'm not very good at this. Just kind of messing with it until I arrive at things that I, as a programmer, think look nice. Hopefully it works, but it doesn't always.

I think it looks nice, Toho! *nods*

Lookin' good.

Very nice and smooth!

Great. :D

Now I have another mission for the willing:

Find something that looks out of place, wrong, or incomplete. If there are none, I'm removing the link to the old shops from the header, and taking the word "Beta" out of descriptions of these shops. :O

I highly dislike the green background and jewel being used. It took away from the clean look of the shops/menu tab area.

I just sent you a file with the logos more horizontal/banner like in the same size of the shop banners. They aren't exactly the same as the logos in the buttons and have a few differences.

That green background is just bugging me (and a little bit of that font for the text as well.)

*shivers*

*Do note the files were made in a rush. >.>

*And I just noticed I messed up the reflective part for a couple of the smaller buttons.*

edit: No actually forget my text logo banners, most of them look terrible and not done right. Just get rid of that green background in the banner and the jewels. Then make the front something like the edit/quote/pm/trade buttons or the main menu fonts.

*Is confused at Illusion's Green - does not see green there.*

When you're in the shop and the banner that says the store name. (Not the menu with all the logos/buttons to the shops) It's green, and it doesn't look as good as the clean/no green/transparent/just words/name on top.

i like it a lot actually, it matches the site

Well, Toho already mentioned he wasn't a graphics artist. I think it looks fine for something slapped together. I'm pretty sure it's temporary. I'm not a fan of the jewels being used for the banner but it works as a temporary setup. Hopefully the shop banners will be more stylized like the menu buttons.

Another idea would be creating an NPC for each shop. It's quite obvious that Sebastian is the shopkeeper of Archaic Antiquities. Now to set an NPC up for the rest of the shops as well. And maybe instead of just "Salon", base it off an NPC.
[NPC Name]'s Salon
Then the NPC could be holding a pair of scissors or a blow-dryer or comb/brush, or anything you can think of that fits a hairstylists' profession.
And of course do the same for the others.
That way, when it comes time to release shop updates of new items, you can have those NPCs post like Sabastian does when his shop gets a new order of DI's (or whatever you guys call it here >-> I keep forgetting).

That way it gets more into the RP style this place is supposed to be.

i think most of the shops actually do have shopkeepers already XD there was an event for it and everything

It's true. In fact, the salon owner is the redhead in the header image. The others are the owner of the yearly shop (to the right), threads (left), and event shop (more left).

I didn't know. >->
I had always wondered who those guys were. X]
If they'd be brought out more, that would be awesome. I've always loved how you guys did Sebastian and doing so with the rest of the shops would be awesome. ^-^

when i used to play here it was a thing XD they did talk some and i dunno but i /think/ they even have avatars(they do have outfit sets)

The idea behind me pointing out that I'm not a graphics artist isn't to excuse sub-par choices...it's so you guys point it out to me, so I can fix it. :)

I'll see what I can do with those headers you sent me, Illusion.



As for shop NPCs...they had been discussed by the staff before, and we've decided to leave them out of the shops for the moment. But it is true that every shop has an NPC, both in art and actual NPC accounts with avatars. A bunch of them have item sets that are actually acquirable too. From past events, I believe.