Personal Site (phish theme)

Just messing around in photoshop, and made a webpage of sorts ....

I like critics, so tell me everything - don't hold back.

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/aphong/index.html

hongbanger,

I like the design. You've got a good start there. One thing that I, personally, would change is the font for the vertical menu on the left edge. The font used seems a bit narrow and makes it a bit harder to read. I also think that menu would look better anti-aliased. I would love to see how the page looks with content to fill up all that white space. I think it would look good with some graphics/pictures tied in with your content. Again, this is only my opinion. Keep up the good work, you've really got something going there.

Hey,

Welcome to the Forums you two!

Firstly, I must say that I really dislike this site. You said that you like critiques and so I will give you a proper one.

Firstly, on a design point, You really need to take that big leaf off.. It's really misplaced and unnessescary even if you are advertising narcotics!

Secondly, you have a big white space between the place wqhere i suppose the content is going to go and the left navbar. Why is that? Take it out! It will look better that way.

Thirdly, take out that lens flare it is very cliche! An overused Photoshop effect if I do say so myself!

Fourth, What is going on with the menus? They are all over the place, make one menu with all of the different pages in it, else at least put all the left navbar into one menu and then make a menu across the top of the page underneath the banner!

Fifth, The text is horrible! You need to use a nice standard font such as verdana or times new roman. I would say Verdana is better for this type of design. Also, make sure it is a legible colour. It looks to me like you have used a pixel font and made it a really big size! That's just misusing it!

Sixth, all of the white spaces between the left navbar the banner and the content. Take them out and you get a much smaller and neater design. If you must have some sort of seperation between the things in the design then at least have a nice background pattern.

Seventh, Don't you think that those colours are a bit misused? Purple all over? it's nearly only one type of purple aswell. Try using purple as a supplementary colour to a nice eye pleasing colour. Head over to http://www.colormatch.dk/ to find some better colours.

Finally some fine tuning. Once you have a single menu set it so that there is no spacing between the banner and then make the menu full length! Then do the same for the content. Maybe think about making it a slimmer design.

USE CSS!! Not tables!

Marc

thank you for the replies everyone. I'm taking both into account and am re-doing the whole site as we speak.

Do you by chance have a webpage that could help me out with CSS??

http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm has some good CSS tutorials

yes, we have a resource forum: http://www.teamphotoshop.com/forum/vbforum/showthread.php?t=18076

That's a CSS topic

Marc

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/authoring/stylesheets/tutorials/tutorial1.html great tutorial on CSS

oops, could someone delete this post?

Loving the leaf!! HAHA oh man, sorry but have to say that's the best part about your site, but it makes up for a lot! :D