bl00dy.1 Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Hey guys just finished this layout for my friend opening up a portfolio site of his projects, ideas and eventually products. Lemme know what you think. Dont be afraid to be harsh =] Revised Concepts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rohdekill Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 I like. The bottom left looks cramped though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tanoru Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Table page structures are a thing of the past. You should lookup what a <div> tag does / can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Splicing up images does not make the site load any faster, in fact, it increases load time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Paul Paliath Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 It's an interesting design. However, something about it feels "cold" and "empty" to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bl00dy.1 Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 Rohdekill - I felt that to but hope itll even out with some content. I was also gonna add some animation maybe just a .gif of the words flashing like LED's or sumthing. Tanoru - I know a little bit about them but still learning. Read up on it and post back. Thanks man =]. Cupcakes - grr...I know this and it angers me to no end. I was wondering a way to optimize your site through slices and maybe putting the slices in different formats or something to increase load time. Like .jpegs vs. .gif you know? Paulz0r - I get that to. Was thinking of adding some more blue to add some vitality to it. I also feel like with no content it looks naked but working on filling it up. Thank you guys for the feedback! =] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jordan. Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 I am curious about where your content is going to go and how readable it will be against that busy background. Also, with regards to cupcakes point, you can just go with the whole background in one image. Only the nav links and anything that would change from page to page needs to be in new images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Piggy Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 It's an interesting design. However, something about it feels "cold" and "empty" to me. Same here, especially the stuff above the bottom left. It just seems unfinished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 The_Decryptor Veteran Posted April 19, 2010 Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2010 It looks "old", like it's from the 90's The way it's designed doesn't help, you have no doctype, you're using an entirely table based design, you're using deprecated elements (don't set the background colour via the bgcolor attribute) and you're using gif's for everything. Have you exported this directly from ImageReady? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted April 19, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 19, 2010 I would say it looks too much like it was spliced up from ImageReady or something. In the long run this kind of design will be impractical as you would have to add content around the design - if you follow. I would consider scrapping this design and making it all look sharper, and a bit less image-based. Try a combination of gradients and plain colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrJohnSmitherson Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Try using divs, not tables. They are "cooler". You need a doctype. And use more CSS instead of styling in the HTML. Also don't use "center". Center using this margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; I like the design though. It looks cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrJohnSmitherson Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 btw the site looks fine in IE6 and IE 5.5 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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