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I need some direction...

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I must say, bodhi, that's a rather tall order you've given us... ;) OK, you need some direction, eh? "Simple and streamlined"? Well, I'll just toss some ideas at you and maybe that will help get the creative process started. While this certainly goes for all websites, it is especially true for the "simple and streamlined" type: your content will dictate what your website will look like. If you have a solid grasp on the content, function will follow naturally, and once you have a clear understanding of the function, everything else will start falling into place. I guess that's primarily what I wanted to say: focus on the content--bells and whistles will only take away from the effect. Everything else is pretty much going to be elaborations on this theme. Now, since you want to point up the content (the art, I'm assuming), you want to take away anything that might detract from that. The huge logo (the hand and ball thing) comes to mind as something that could be made much smaller and less distracting. You also don't have a link to the artwork in the menu. Yes, I realize that you've got the thumbs front-and-center, but the first thing people see at the top is the menu. Not to mention the fact that those thumbnails are only available on the home page. When you redesign, you'll definitely want to take that into account--the artwork needs to be more than just an incidental part of the site, it needs to [b]be[/b] the site. Hmm... yeah, you should definitely mull that over and see what you can come up with. Think of ways you can incorporate the artwork into every area of the site (maybe using miniature versions of the pieces as icons--just an idea). On the "simple and streamlined" front, consider carefully your use of color. Anything but black or white as a background injects something extra into the design. Personally, I've always loved the purity of white--not only does it not interfere, but it makes whatever colors you do use on it that much more striking. Um, yeah, I hope that's enough to get you started. I was just kind of brainstorming here... hope it helped. :) ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=270]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/1213]Sig Rotator[/url] \| Keeper of the Juicy Bits Loading...
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