website professionalism

hey

ive made a few websites in my time (by html and php) but i want to have one that looks more profesional. At the moment all my banners etc. are just things i made in paint.

so if you could give me some tips and hints on how to make my website look more professional they would be greatly appriciated.
(Note: my websites arent on the interenet so i cant show you wat they look like)

Thanks grant

o yeh i forgot to say i DONT want to use templates

Your question sounds to me like you are asking for tips on how to improve the quality of graphics on your site and not necessarily the coding of it, per se. If this is the case, let us know and we'll move this to our digital art board where you may get more appropriate suggestions.

yeh thats wat i mean
thanks

I moved the post then. You should start then, by getting a better graphics design program within your price range. Can't do much without a good graphics proggie. Once you get one, play with it night and day until you get the hang of it, and then just start creating things, until you like what you create. Read tutes on the proggie and ask questions about its capabilities and how to do things you don't understand.

ok thanks yeh i have adobe photo shop on the family computer and i sorta know how to use it i think the main problem is just ideas. also what is proggie???

proggie is slang for program.

Ideas come with experimenting. And you can't just "sorta know how to use it" if you want to get good with it. And just so you know, there's a difference between the $500 full version of Adobe Photoshop, and the Photoshop Album SE that is available on some family computers. Make sure you have the real deal. The Photoshop Album SE will help you fix and catalog images, but that's not the design program.

o crud bucket i have a feeling we have the "non-real" one. umm we also have umm photo impression. would that be any good?

Hello,
Graphics... I use Photoshop CS It's not one of them programs where your just going to set down and start using, it does take time but this would be my best advice to you.

Hope this helps

For Grant's benefit, Photoshop CS2 is a current version of the "real deal". If you really have a serious intent to study and get good with graphics, images, layouts and the like, then take the time to talk to your parents about it, and if it is within their budget, ask for it as a Christmas present or something. They can view details on the program at http://www.adobe.com and you are able to download a fully functional 30 day trial version of the program from the website. If you download the trial, then I would suggest that you spend the next 30 days of your life living and breathing Photoshop, so you can show your parents positive results and give them positive cause for considering a full purchase of the program.

I think that program runs around $1,199.00, great program but I will never master it, so much to it, I have been using it for over 3yr and I still have only touched the suffice.

And yea talking about living and breathing photoshop, thats a must if you want to get to a point where you can start making the images you have been dreaming of making.

Thanks Supper for explaining more about this program, but I feel that it would take allot of work for someone not having someone there with you that knows the program to give you some sort of start, I was lucky to have had some good friends to help.

PEACE

sorry,,,,,, its super

The program is $599 dollars on Adobe's web store

(no clue where you came up with that dollar amount.)

It's $549 dollars at amazon.com

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium
Adobe® Creative Suite 2 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, GoLive® CS2, and Acrobat® 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue® CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos.

$1,199.00

Adobe store

Not a bad price for what you get