The Best Designed Websites for VN's

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The Best Designed Websites for VN's

#1 Post by BigSteps » Tue May 19, 2015 1:37 am

What are some well designed websites that were made for visual novels that you guys know of? I'd like to see some for reference for our upcoming website. :)

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#2 Post by trooper6 » Tue May 19, 2015 9:08 am

I think Cyanide Tea's website is very very nice:
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#3 Post by Morhighan » Tue May 19, 2015 4:31 pm

I know that both Kinjo and I use a wordpress theme called "Customizr" for our sites. It's a pretty flexible design that you can customize to do a lot with.
You can see our sites here for samples:
Goldbar Games
AIdol and ADVaNCE

That is, if you're using wordpress. Good luck!

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Re: The Best Designed Websites for VN's

#4 Post by Kailoto » Tue May 19, 2015 8:21 pm

I don't really mind if a website is just marginal, but some of the best ones that I've seen tend to mimic the style of the VN in the website. sakevisual has a great one for RE: Alisair++ that borrows the styles of the GUI elements and fonts.

One thing I would highly recommend for a dedicated website is to put easily identifiable download or storefront links on the home page. People have short attention spans. Story, character, and other tabs are also pretty standard, especially for dedicated sites.
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