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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 16:34
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after reading some comments in my last thread, i confirmed what i thought, it was terrible. I am tryong to redesign it to make it look better, but with odd mind, bad organizational skills, limited coding experience, and limited flash experience, its hard for me. I have made what i think might be a better background for my website, but have not applied it yet. will anyone tell me whether this is horrid, and if it is, how to fix it?

If anyone else could help me with any aspect of designing my website, please do.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 16:48 Edited at: 1st Jan 2007 16:48
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too bright and garish (EDIT: Just noticed how bright and garish my Thingy Ma Jig logo is... but for some reason I like it!)

Do you even need a background?

My advice... Spend 20 minutes going to some of your favourite websites (in terms of look, not content) and try to figure out WHY you like them. How many have backgrounds? How many have cheesy 3D buttons? How many use animated GIF's (as part of the design).

I personally find the best designs are incredibly simple. No backgrounds - unless than background is a VERY subtle gradient.

Just my opinion(s).

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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 17:40
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I'm terrible at creating backgrounds, and sites without them always look empty to me...

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 19:33
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ok - well have you done the exercise of finding sites you like? Provide us some links of what you like.

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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 20:19
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ok.

1. http://allowe.com

2. http://tomorrowsnobodies.com/

3. http://www.zophar.net/

these are some websites i go on

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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 23:09 Edited at: 1st Jan 2007 23:09
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I'm not in the same league as Nicholas or some of the others, but your background image is 'alright' as long as you don't actually try to put text on it.

Example:


Having it as a background behind your main block works alright, if you were set on it, imo.

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Zaibatsu
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Tinkergirl- how would i make a textbox like the one you show?

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Oddmind
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hey I told you I didn't want to sound mean, millions suffer from your same situation.

Just keep it simple, sheik and easy to navigate. You need to have some sort of theme, the wallpaper/game texture background never really work out good.

A good colour palette is the first step.

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Medieval Coder
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Choose colors that go together. Make the words very easy to read and your golden. Just go with the simple one color background.


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indi
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a div tag or nested table structure would do that.

think of a theme and stick to it.
think of a colour range that will apply to that theme.
sparingly choose 3 colours and a tone
think about colour harmony, look up some websites
think of elements that go with that theme.
stick with the concept instead of getting out of whack with the intended overall look to the theme.
start in greyscale with just tones if you want and experiment with colour further down the track

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If you have trouble choosing colors that match a certain color you like. Here are a few color matching links (a couple actually)

http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

The top one is my favorite though.

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