Sijun Forums :: View topic - Web Page Screenshot, I need tips with my design. wip

Matthew · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 12:36 pm

Hello

I am gonna make an update to my web-site, this is what I have made so far. I think it looks very empty to the left on the page, does anyone have any tips on what I should have there?
If you have any other comments or crits feel free to give them too me. :)

see you
Matthew

bitz · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 12:55 pm

Hey Matthew,

Why not move the top left image above the menu bar with the -Lensflares.net- ? That way the whole page can be moved to the left.

Also, you might just want to have a 'Gallery' link, instead of 'Gallery 1' and 'Gallery 2', after all, if you expand and want a 'Gallery 3', you don't want to have to redo the entire menu bar.

Just make pages within the Gallery pages and have 'Next Gallery' and 'Prev Gallery' buttons.

Looks nice tho.
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Matthew · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:21 am

bitz - Thank you for the tips there, I moved everything to the left and also made only a gallery link, didn�t thought of those things before, thank you. :)

I will work on it some more so it will take a while before I put the new site up.

Matthew

Gort · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:41 am

Bitz has a good point. The page has a reasonable grid like strutcure to it - except for the graphic in the upper left. Integrate the upper left hand graphic into the rest of the "structure". It's present, visual detachment is a distraction.

I would not move the whole page to the left unless you modify the background to offset the composition (of it being left). I would define the grid, design in the grid and then keep the whole grid centered with the current background.

Just' 2 cents...
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Matthew · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 12:41 pm

Gort - Thank you there Gort. You are right about the grid looking style, now I have problem what I should place to the right.

I tried earlier to left concentrate the whole thing as what bitz talked about but maybe this became worser than the earlier one.

Thank you for your help
Matthew

bitz · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 5:02 pm

Hey Matthew. The top part definetly looks better. If you're looking for more balance to it, try and do everything centered.

If you're looking for ideas, you can look at several web pages for 'side' columns that they usually have. I did that on my page:

http://www.phase2.net/

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bitz

Matthew · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 1:32 pm

bitz - thank you for your continueing tips. :)

Maan this is driving me crazy, there are so many ways to go around this design. I tried it more of a centered and I think this one is better than the previous ones, what do you think?

Thank you
Matthew

bitz · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 4:46 pm

Hey Matthew, looking good. One last tip would to be to shorten the cell size for the table that is containing the text so that it's the same size as the menu and picture above.

That way, you have more of a single rectangular structure. It also makes your text take up more room so it looks like more is being said Very Happy

Try it out and see if you like it.

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bitz

Matthew · Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 2:11 am

Yeah that is super. :) I am gonna stay with this design cause I think it works very well now. :)
I am gonna change in the text and also make The Gallery page and the link page and the rest of the site, Thank you for your help bitz. And also thank you Gort.
I am adding both of you to my links under the sijun links page if it is ok? You will be in the top bitz. :)

Once again, Thank you bitz. :)
Matthew

bitz · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 1:27 pm

Hey Matthew,

Feel free to link my site from yours Smile

After your site is done, just give me the URL and I'll post a link up on the phase2.net site.

Nice job on the site, looking alot better!

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bitz

hwslut · member Member # Joined: 18 Jun 2001 Posts: 100

Lookin' good Matthew. Great suggestions bitz. Huge improvement. Nice, clean, simply design. Much, much better than your current page, Matthew (no offence, of course).

Matthew · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 4:44 am

bitz - Cool, ok I will pm you when it is finished, maybe will put it up next week. thank you, yea I liked this one too. :)

hwslut - no offense taken, thank you. :)

see you
Matthew

Tronbot · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:18 am

i think the navigation bar and the photo dont look connected to the page, if you know what i mean.... the contrast is very big, and with the black outline they dont really fit... maybe remove the outline and take a slightly desaturated piece of the background texture?

or maybe you could try to make the navbar from the left side to the right?

anyway, its nice already Very Happy

Matthew · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 9:50 am

The photo is a painted picture I made a while ago. :)

Yeah I think you are right there, I have thought about to make the red background less red, maybe towards more grey ....hmm I will have to make some experiments with what you said, thank you for the tips Tronbot.

I will see what I can do
Matthew

Tronbot · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 10:55 am

May I do a quick "overpaint" here to show you what I meant?

Tronbot · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 11:15 am

uhhmm.... i hope you dont mind, but i hadn't got anything better to do Very Happy

, so i did this very quick one:

just an idea.... Question

Matthew · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 11:34 am

Wow. :) That looks beautiful. :)

Yeah I can see what you mean now, the dark red looks beautiful, now I wonder, I should maybe have the logo-picture more darkred too? ..hmm

Thank you for the over-paint and if you have more suggestions please give them too me cause this rocks, maan I have some work to do then. :)

Matthew

Tronbot · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 5:10 am

mmh... i think i would leave the logo picture as it is, because i think the black&white style fits perfectly to the red background...

Matthew · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 9:42 am

This is officially giving me a headache..hehe.

Ok this time I changed the background, changed the menu and changed the logo thou I think the logo would look better in full spectrum color, think I will change that to color.
Is it better or worse?

a big thank you to everyone for helping me out. :)
Matthew