I will agree with what Richard said, he has a more direct way of saying it then I would, but it something that needs to be heard. If you are the designer, then you would do well to heed his advice and rethink how you are going to do this website. This is obviously a beginner website production, which is fine, everyone starts somewhere.
For my suggestions I would say you want to try and refocus the page, and narrow down the information. Like Richard said, there is a LOT of dead space, especially on larger displays. It may look nice and compact at 1024x768, but that is going to degrade when you move up from there. I suggest making a container type DIV that you put all your content into. With what you have to work with I would suggest an 800px width, centered, with a solid background color. You can use the tiled image you have now for the body background. You also need to make the logo smaller, and more colorful, or something. It's not a terrible logo, but it is way to prominent and lacking in color. Moving it to one side or the other, with more graphic elements in your header would not hurt one bit. Get rid of the red line, it makes on sense to have bright red on a colorless page. Choose a palette of colors and stick with them, try a site like http://www.colourlovers.com to help with that if you need it. At least don't do total opposites like you have now. Make a footer and maybe get the contact info into it, instead of just a simple line below the logo. For CSS tips, you need to keep something in mind. Cascading Style Sheets get their names because they "cascade". Which means a style will be over written by any style that comes after it. You have your default "a" style at the bottom of your CSS document, which means it is going to override any "a" styled before it. Best practice is to do your default styles (body, h1, h2, a, p, etc.) first, which can then be changed by using classes such as "menu.a" and so on. Anyways, don't give up, keep plugging away at it and you will get better. I highly suggest getting a Twitter account and start following other web designers and web design blogs. If you are really interested, start picking up books about the subject. On Apr 15, 5:25 am, Bajazz <[email protected]> wrote: > OOps!! > > http://madhouseband.com/ > > On 15 apr, 12:23, Bajazz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Any input > > > Thanks!! -- -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/css-design/subscribe?hl=en
