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[Clessi]

Hi people, I'm new in this forum so I'd like to introduce my self a bit.

Ive been designing for a hobby (self taught) for more than 3 years now, and I'm yet to go to a design college next year

I specialise in making Website templates and forum sigs.

I only know photoshop quite well, and dreamweaver. I really want to get to learn some Illustrator ^^

Anyways, here is what I've done in roughly two days on and off. I'll surely use this Trap17 host, and hopefully register a domain at AnotherA.net ^^


(Image saved low quality for watermark purposes)


Enjoy, and I would appreciate some intellegent advice / critique, ty.

Edited by BuffaloHELP, 31 January 2007 - 04:43 AM.

[owbussey]

The template looks very good. I guess the pink color goes with the theme of the site right or is it a universal color? The use of tables is very good and the layout is easy to understand. You might want to add some [ictures within the tables. Within each table I think it would be good to separte each subject with bullets of some sort. You might want to specify what the black box above the main middle table is.

I like the template and see if you can use other colors for different themed sites.

[evion]

The template looks good, but we don't know what the site will be for .
You might want to optimize the header a little though, since it looks pretty "heavy" if you know what i mean. In my opinion, as I'm not a pink person, i would recommend you tone the saturation of the pink/purple down a little to a more softer pink/purple. It eases on the eyes a little and makes for better reading. If you want to save a little more bandwidth, try using normal text for the links instead of actual pictures.

Otherwise, i think it looks great. The header's design is pretty awesome, i could never come up with designs like those. The little merge-bevel-like thing just catches my attention more readily than the whole site .

Good luck on actually getting hosting and creating the site, hopefully we'll be able to see a live one soon.

[Saint_Michael]

agree with evion on that reason being is that once you begin slicing it you will have a easier time slicing the images properly when it comes time to code them. Also you the text on the conect box needs to be clearer as well. It's a bit hard to read

[Clessi]

owbussey, on Oct 24 2006, 05:31 AM, said:

The template looks very good. I guess the pink color goes with the theme of the site right or is it a universal color? The use of tables is very good and the layout is easy to understand. You might want to add some [ictures within the tables. Within each table I think it would be good to separte each subject with bullets of some sort. You might want to specify what the black box above the main middle table is.

I like the template and see if you can use other colors for different themed sites.

468*60 box is for banner advertisement
Thanks for the suggestions ^^

evion, on Oct 24 2006, 07:53 AM, said:

The template looks good, but we don't know what the site will be for .
You might want to optimize the header a little though, since it looks pretty "heavy" if you know what i mean. In my opinion, as I'm not a pink person, i would recommend you tone the saturation of the pink/purple down a little to a more softer pink/purple. It eases on the eyes a little and makes for better reading. If you want to save a little more bandwidth, try using normal text for the links instead of actual pictures.

Otherwise, i think it looks great. The header's design is pretty awesome, i could never come up with designs like those. The little merge-bevel-like thing just catches my attention more readily than the whole site .

Good luck on actually getting hosting and creating the site, hopefully we'll be able to see a live one soon.

Ty mate. Youre right about the saturation thing, I've toned it down on the backgrounds of the contents.
I'm done coding it. I'll be hosting it when I have 30 credits, so it wont be long now ^^

Saint_Michael, on Oct 24 2006, 08:02 AM, said:

agree with evion on that reason being is that once you begin slicing it you will have a easier time slicing the images properly when it comes time to code them. Also you the text on the conect box needs to be clearer as well. It's a bit hard to read

Thanks. I know about the wierd font on the content bars. It adds sort of mystery and they're fun looking so I would trade that for them being a lil hard to read for sure

[MIGUE2k7]

Nice desing but it is way too bright for me XD and the background image at the width fix doesnt match so good with the template color
but i like very much how clean it looks, good job.
You got skills

[sirphantom]

Nice Template

[crazymind21]

1 word ,,, SHOCKED ,but i' ll say what u can change or what i just don't like about it ok

- the color its just to THERE u know
- background of it all are just gradients u could have done it with grunge brushes wich would make it cleaner and way better looking than it is right at this moment
-the fonts in general aren' t matching up
-dun use these sextions, like smaller boxes on the sites and big in the middle try doing some original
- thats it

p.s=ur signatures are amazing, why not stick with that or try adding ur signature techniques on to ur layout it might works, its always worth a try
atleast that what i think

well gl anyway

greetz crazy

Edited by crazymind21, 28 May 2007 - 04:09 AM.