Shadow and Flame

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 2:46 pm

Shadow & Flame have a website

Take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks to Dagorlad for the excellent logo. Thanks also to Sam and the others for their input. Feedback is much appreciated. If you can think of a way to improve the site post below and let me know. I'm no web designer and need all the help i can get.

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J.R. · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 2:53 pm

Congrats !

I'll check it out

Quinndalf · **Joined:** Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:34 pm **Posts:** 87

yeah congrats!

Bofur The Dwarf · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 4:53 pm

Looking very good

Quendil · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 8:34 pm

Looks good

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 9:54 pm

Looking good but when you look at it on a big screen (like a TV) you start to run out of background image on the home page, not really gong to be an issue for most though.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 10:26 pm

Thanks Phil - we're looking into the background now - the resolution is not too good either.

Fëanor, the mighty elf · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 8:08 am

It looks great!
All very exciting stuff. Good for you both!

Looking forward to see that Travelling Dwarf appear in the Products section.. :twisted:

This1s4Frodo · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 9:20 pm

Hey DMS

Web designer here

Love your work some great stuff and website is looking grand had a quick look and have couple of pointers I would suggest -

1. You don't see many website with such a vibrant background image, the reason is that it can take away from the content of the site. Consider removing it and replacing it with a gradient i.e. Black fading into grey perhaps. Or maybe even just reducing the transparency of the image by say 50-70%

2. Increase your text size, a general rule would be to have no more than 12 words per line. This actually can cause viewers to become disinterested and leave the site.

3. Stick with either serif or Sans-serif in your fonts (the little ticks of the letters) keep either one or the other, with a maximum of no more than 3 different fonts for the whole site.

4. oh and get google analytics on that bad boy so you can track traffic, and which pages are getting most attention.

Again don't take this as law it your site just my opinion and what I have been taught.

Great content tho and hope your update frequently looking forwards to reading more.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 9:31 pm

Thanks man - appreciate the feedback.

Yes I agree re. the font size I will change that once I finish Bard and Thrain and update the site.

The background we are looking at - we would prefer a black/ grey sort of smokey background (very dark almost black) with flames along the bottom only but we are having problems as for some reason we cannot use a pic above 300k which is problematic as we have to tile it to fill the page. Tiling it means the flames that we want accross the bottom end up repeated all the way up the page which does not look good. Working on it.

Analytics are on - fantastic tool!!

Thanks again buddy.

This1s4Frodo · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2014 7:48 pm

Nice site is looking a lot better

Looking forward to checking out the updates.

Sithious · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2014 7:21 pm

Looks great. Now I have a site I can get prices from to save up and order all of those Tree Giants, probably will order the bear as well as I think it looks better than the Film version (aka Games Workshops current incarnation). Shipping will hurt to the states, but will have to deal with it.

I do like the dark back ground with flame licks on the bottom.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:43 pm

Shadow and Flame finally has a website. We have been running our business from a blogger site for a while now and it has not been ideal to say the least. Its all live and up and running now if you would like to take a look.

There may be things you think could be better or perhaps not working correctly - take a look and if you have any feedback let me know. Much appreciated Shadow & Flame

www.shadowandflame.co.uk

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 12:24 pm

Just a heads up to say that the Shadow and Flame webstore has been restocked fully. All tree giants are available again in limited numbers for the time being. There is also a mountain giant available.

click the link to take a look.

S&F Webstore

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 4:00 pm

Nice. Any sneaky peeks of future projects?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 4:44 pm

Dorthonion wrote:

Nice. Any sneaky peeks of future projects?

Not going to post any pics just yet but all i will say is there is a lot going on within S&F at the moment. A new release is coming very soon with others to follow.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 6:01 pm

Armoured dwarf on ibex perchance?

I found you on Google+ as well as FB btw

Now there is no escape....

Erunion · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 6:13 pm

I need to order a Linden Ent, so I have the full set, but my hobby budget for this month is spent. Hope they last until next month rolls around!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 6:32 pm

Erunion wrote:

I need to order a Linden Ent, so I have the full set, but my hobby budget for this month is spent. Hope they last until next month rolls around!

Won't be a full set for long

Erunion · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 7:09 pm

Blast! Now I gotta put some MORE cash aside.

On the other hand, Woohoo!

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