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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Be gentle? smirk... not a chance. [b]Markup[/b] In mid 2004 there's really no excuse to still be using tables to control your layout. Read up on CSS layouts & design, and re-code it now before you end up burying yourself in markup soup. Trust me, in the long run, it's a much easier way to design and maintain websites. Alas, the W3C validator is down, so I couldn't check that ( http://validator.w3.org/ ) but if you haven't done so already then you should. Looks fine in opera but I can't offer any Mac testing atm, so I'll skip onto the design issues. [b]Design[/b] Messy messy messy. Did I mention it looked messy? I counted in excess of 25 1px black lines per page, and I wasn't looking at a piece of evenly spaced graph paper - no wonder my head hurts. How am I supposed to process and make sense out of that many lines? There's little to no order or symmetry between them, so it just makes things look uber messy, which is uber bad. The beveled effects, drop shadows, blurry and conflicting branding imagery aren't helping either. You need to simplify. Stop putting everything in boxes, and stop separating everything with a line. White space is a designers best friend, use it, and use it often. Symmetry is another element you?re seriously lacking. Balancing out your spacing and offsets would do a world of good for that site. Stop cutting up your main divisions! The little notches and large chunks taken out of the menu and background look like you were grasping at straws trying to add some interest to the site, but I'm betting you won't need them at all if you remove the excess amount of lines you already have. The 45% angels on the end of the menu items & headers also seem a bit like an afterthought as they don't mesh too well, but if you stop boxing everything off then you won't have to worry about them anyways. The main branding image (gras title) is blurry - sharpen it up. It could also do with a bit of a face-lift in terms of the layout. The subtitle just seems wrong to me. Ditch the colored squares in the top right. You have colored circles in the top left, they look nice, no need to confuse the situation with yet another shape. Simplify and clean up the drop shadows and bevels, or remove them completely. Choose one kind of background imagery and stick with it (either the grass or the really blurred circles) personally, I prefer the grass. It seems like a simple site, so keep it simple. If you want to add a bit of a visual punch, use a nice photograph or a really subtle (and by that I mean freak'n uber subtle) gradient in the background, or both. It's always best not to try and sell the content with the site design itself, at least not for a website like this. Anyhow, that's my 0.2 c [small](Edited by [internallink=2879]Cameron[/internallink] on 08-10-2004 14:01)[/small] Loading...
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