KIMIMELA 1 Posted November 29, 2005 (edited) untitled.bmp Do you think the layout overall looks ok? Do you think the button looks ok? What colour text would look best- white?: yes or no? Please help me out with your opinions guys. I've cropped it down so it doesn't warp the screen Edited November 29, 2005 by xXTrekkieCaraXx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrekkieMage 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Very nicely done. I'm not sure about the commbadge in the top corner, but that may just be me. The bottons are nice, but I don't think they match very well. There really isn't much else purple in the site. Maybe a gold or a blue (to match the TNG lettering) What will be going in the content? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Phaserman 0 Posted November 29, 2005 That looks awesome, Cara. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LordOfTheBorg 1 Posted November 30, 2005 Not bad.. but, change the buttons, plus the line (white) doesn't look very good.. good start, tho! Nice use with dreamweaber, to! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BKY1701 0 Posted November 30, 2005 You should not use frames, even though they are supported by all modern browsers, they can be incredibly annoying. Use full-page tables, they are a bit harder to make, but look much more professional and are not as annoying. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted November 30, 2005 Thanks you guys. It was made with tables but I'll set the thickness to 0. As for the buttons, I can see where you're coming from there guys. The content will be my multimedia art I have been doing throughout my course so Universities, Job Employers or Clients can see my work. I've done lots of work for the Performing Arts groups for backgrounds to their dancing. As a practising Web Designer I think I should own a website, don't you think? My illustrating lecturer My web design lecturer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bones88 0 Posted November 30, 2005 (edited) The buttons are the first thing that jump out at me. I think you should use them but just run them through an image program and adjust the color. Personally my vote would be to shift them red since that would look good and the letters would still be very easily read. Also, the background. It's gotta go. Too, generic of a star spread. As for the frames, they should be changed to tables if nothing else because they have a habit of interfering with bookmarking (learnt that the hard way). If doing the tables manually sounds like too much effort I highly recommend changing th language you use to PHP as it will make table and cell generation much simpler and also helps prevent code stealing. Other than that concept seems good. Edited November 30, 2005 by bones88 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted December 27, 2005 (edited) Guys, forget that layout completely, I've signed up to Funtigo! Check out my site. I've got no content on it so far. Please vote, I am making the scrolling across rather than down, like on my lecturer's site. First question: Do you think this navigation is right? creativecozza Edited December 27, 2005 by xXTrekkieCaraXx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tal 0 Posted December 28, 2005 It looks good, but one thing i would do is resize the home page. Its a little wide because i have to scroll across to see the rest of the content. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MANVERU 0 Posted December 28, 2005 hm, I think you might need to tone down on the repititious pics. But overall, glad to see you're getting the hang of the wonderfull world of HTML!!!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted December 28, 2005 It looks good, but one thing i would do is resize the home page. Its a little wide because i have to scroll across to see the rest of the content. I was hoping to create a scroll across page. Something went wrong in the HTML there... I need some alterations somewhere... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bones88 0 Posted December 29, 2005 Nice but one thought on the vertical scroll, it's not scroll mouse friendy (at least it wasn't for me). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrekkieMage 0 Posted January 4, 2006 Teh creativecozza site is nice, but the repetitive pic is a bit distracting. Maybe soemthing more simplistic...like this: Student CS page or the website you pointed out: http://www.henrykszor.com/ The trick is making it visually apealling without overdoing it. Which the repeating bright blue comes close to, but there are ways of toning it down without losing the idea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted January 4, 2006 The difference is, I don't have the right software to do it and I'm not 100% sure about HTML right now. I'm saving up for a Mac and the software: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2 and Dreamweaver MX. I use them all the time actually at college. Yes, I do think Henryk's site is very clear. So is his artwork. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stvoyagerfan 1 Posted January 5, 2006 what are you using for you html? in my computer class we used microsoft notepad for our html and saved our document as a .html extension and the webpage came out pretty neat. if you need any html help let me know and i'll see what i might be able to do. tm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted January 5, 2006 Microsoft HTML Editor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MANVERU 0 Posted January 6, 2006 Gah!!! That's your first mistake. First off, do you know HTML code? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted January 6, 2006 (edited) Gah!!! That's your first mistake. First off, do you know HTML code? I know very little. So no, not yet. But the place I'm using, Fintigo.com, allows pagews to be designed in WYSWYG form. Edited January 6, 2006 by xXTrekkieCaraXx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Data 0 Posted January 6, 2006 There is more to setting up a website than knowing html. There is JAVA, SQL,PHP, Perl not to mention several other codes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted January 6, 2006 There is more to setting up a website than knowing html. There is JAVA, SQL,PHP, Perl not to mention several other codes. I know. When I go to University in September I'll learn XML, HTML, PHP, JAVA and much more. How it looks now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Data 0 Posted January 6, 2006 Cara, I was saying that to Manveru. I know. When I go to University in September I'll learn XML, HTML, PHP, JAVA and much more. How it looks now The text is hard to read on the purple background. It needs more contrast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted January 6, 2006 Cara, I was saying that to Manveru. I know. When I go to University in September I'll learn XML, HTML, PHP, JAVA and much more. How it looks now The text is hard to read on the purple background. It needs more contrast. Well how am I supposed to know?! :lol: :) :) j/k Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Data 0 Posted January 6, 2006 (edited) The black text on the purple background is an improvement. Much better. Edited January 6, 2006 by Data Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Odie 0 Posted January 6, 2006 I like your web page very much, Cara. Good job! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrekkieMage 0 Posted January 7, 2006 (edited) Getting better! Try bolding it, that'll make it even easier to read. For and HTML tutorial (actually XHTML, but I'm not going to bog you down with that right now ) go here: Getting Down With XHTML If you pardon the cheesy name, it's actually a very good tutorial and it will give you a nice start into CSS as well (which is a must for web design!) Edit: It's a very basic tutorial, but it explains things very well and it has several referance sites. As for the actual site, it's getting better, but my personal preferance is sites that are less busy and more streamlined. Try a solid and complimentary color and make the image the focus. Edited January 7, 2006 by TrekkieMage Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Capt_Picard 0 Posted January 7, 2006 Check my site here if you want to look. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Data 0 Posted January 7, 2006 Nice theme, Capt. Picard. LCARS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MANVERU 0 Posted January 8, 2006 Much better Cara, Me likes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrekkieMage 0 Posted January 9, 2006 Very nice Capt. Picard! Very cleanly laid out and put together. My one critique would be that the font is very large to me, but that isn't really a bad thing. It's much better than the hundreds of sites of seen with font that is much too small to read But yeah, It looks very professional :o Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
