Shit, that’s a lot of fuckin’ skulls, innit?
Yes, brethren and sistren, we decided to change our clothes. Not that there was anything wrong with the old clothes, other than the fact that they hadn’t been washed in about a year, but sometimes a new look helps keep things interesting. Or so I’ve been told.
I am not responsible for our new look. I had some input into the tweaks here and there, but credit for the new banner, background art, and font goes to none other than groverXIII, the creator and frontman of The Number of the Blog who occasionally comes slumming here at NCS when he’s not working on his next blog project. Grover also designed our last site header, and this time, as then, he did it out of the goodness of his heart, for which yours truly is very grateful.
So, what do you think? Leave comments after the jump, and be honest.
And remember, no matter how much we try to pretty up the outer trappings of the site, the inner workings will still look like this:
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I think this banner is just damn puuuurty!
Even better than the last!
Many thanks, good sir!
Skulls are fucking metal.
That was what I was thinking. I thought to myself, “Self, you know what’s metal? A fuckton of skulls.” And thus a background was born.
Did you use the standard fuckton or the metric fuckton? Because I’ve been trying to count them for the last hour and I always get confused at 69.
Metric, because this is an international website and I want it to be accessible to all.
Also, if you get confused at 69, I feel bad for Mrs. Islander. Then again, I would imagine that a 69 would be difficult if you don’t have a head.
Huh. You may have put your finger on the problem.
And you just use your finger to solve the problem
I’ve learned so much since I started working on this blog.
Such as teh awesomes of teh vagoojuice?
What’s the difference?
The standard fuckton is 2,000 poundings. The metric fuckton is 1,000 kilofucks. If you do the conversion, there are only 907 kilofucks in the standard fuckton, so the metric kiloton gives more fucks.
I like it, at first it seemed like it was a bit much, like it was overwhelming, but I think I’ve warmed up to it. Looks great grover!
Islander, I noticed that at the bottom of the site it still says “Background art by Jon Zig.” I don’t think grover and Jon Zig are the same person… OR ARE THEY?! DUN! DUN! DUN!
I am not Jon Zig. I am also not John Galt, Jimmy Hoffa, or Keyser Soze. True story.
Glad you’ve warmed up to it. It’s a bit busy, but it helps that it’s confined to the sides and not under the text. Then again, I’m only seeing it on a standard monitor here at work, so I may feel differently when I get home and it’s on my widescreen monitor.
Look again!
The tickets are now diamonds!
Anything is possible when your man smells like old spice and not a lady. I’m on a horse.
The header definitely stands out more now.
Yeah, we found a good way to get the metal font to stand out. The gray was Islander’s idea, and I really like the way it came out.
WOOOOO! Lets celebrate by slaughtering some babies and drinking their goats.
On a serious note, I feel like the banner blends with the background too much, giving like a weird window effect. Maybe darker/different shade?
Just noticed the little bookmark icon, me likey.
I was actually going for that window effect with the header. And yeah, it’s always bugged me that this site didn’t have a favicon, so I decided to rectify it.
Favicon? Is that the little icon that’s left of the URL bar? I noticed NCS didn’t have one before.
That it is. You should now see a skull-in-a-box, who I lovingly refer to as Alfred.
I vote Alfred as NCS mascot.
Second that motion and move to have it have a stately bald man MAKE IT SO!
Alfred has seen better days. And it appears you will need to send me a higher-res copy of Alfred’s portrait for future uses . . .
I’ll see what I can put together.
You said rectify. lol
One has never attempted to drink a whole goat before. But, one imagines it would cuase much discomfort and/or indigestion unless blended first.
Looks sharp as hell! Very nice!
Much obliged!
And with this, NCS has officially bekome the metal blogosphere’s most kvlt blog.
Wicked artistic direction, best part is its not overpowering with the focus being the content, but if you choose to look at the background you will find plenty of detail and interest in it!
This looks awesome. Major props.