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Post April 20th, 2009, 7:59 pm

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That is why I'm redoing the entire site... the content is bad and the design is bad...



Oops, I guess I overlooked that. I will look at your 2 new designs now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Just give me a review on those two new designs and I'll forgive you :D
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Post April 23rd, 2009, 2:08 pm

I think I will go with my first design that I have made... what do you guys think of it?
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Post April 23rd, 2009, 6:57 pm

It's alright, you might want to reconsider the monochromatic colour scheme, though. The glow-y part of the links seems like a bit of overkill and I'm not a fan of the square logo ... give it more colour and make it triangular or something not square.

You have a tendency to go with a layout that uses only one colour, or a couple of very similar colours. It works sometimes, but more often not. It makes text hard to read and the layout difficult to understand.
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Post April 23rd, 2009, 7:51 pm

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It's alright, you might want to reconsider the monochromatic colour scheme, though. The glow-y part of the links seems like a bit of overkill and I'm not a fan of the square logo ... give it more colour and make it triangular or something not square.

You have a tendency to go with a layout that uses only one colour, or a couple of very similar colours. It works sometimes, but more often not. It makes text hard to read and the layout difficult to understand.

Alright... I'll think on what I can add... I'm horrible with colors so I tend to choose on color and play around with shades of that color... I'll try something that works :D At least that is what I want.

Thanks for the review :) :D
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Post April 23rd, 2009, 8:41 pm

What about it now?

[EDIT:] I need help on the logo... I created that in MS Paint (Because I mainly don't know how to use Photoshop well enough to create that, so that is why that logo looks pixelated... I don't know how to fix that... could someone help me? (That is if the logo is up to your standards :lol: )

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Post April 24th, 2009, 6:18 am

Site: Still feels pretty monochromatic do you have a complement color you could use? Also if you use more neutrals and then have the blue and a compliment both the blue and the compliment will pop more.

Logo: You should probably create the logo with a vector program like illustrator. What are you looking for in the logo?

What CMS are you looking at? I am a fan of wordpress, drupal, and joomla, depending on the size of the site.

Also your still welcome to this one, lol.

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Post April 24th, 2009, 6:28 am

Go with that one Bogey, the color scheme's nice. The text area is much easier on the eyes. I like it.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 8:00 am

lol, this is just a design I based off on of his last designs the last time he updated his site.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 8:09 am

Yep, I remember it, but side by side with the others proposed, this one gets my vote. Esp. if you do something nice with the menu & bar on the left.

I don't do many personal pages that necessitate a login immediately, but the page would look just fine without it until you implemented the functionality.
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Post April 24th, 2009, 1:47 pm

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Go with that one Bogey, the color scheme's nice. The text area is much easier on the eyes. I like it.

lol which one? The one I said I might use or the one CXLink suggested?
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Post April 24th, 2009, 1:48 pm

CXLink's recommendation
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Post April 24th, 2009, 1:50 pm

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CXLink's recommendation

Well, that's basically my current design... just that I don't like the logo...

I guess I'll keep that and redo the basic functionality of the site... I'll probably remove the forum (for now anyway) and work on my own stuff...

@CXLink: I'm going to create my own CMS... that is my side project if you noticed my other design related thread on Ozzu... I'm creating that design for the side project :lol:


Thanks everyone for the review and help and recommendations... above all, thanks CXLink for convincing me to stop fooling around with the design :lol:
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Post April 24th, 2009, 10:03 pm

I recoded the whole template and redid some things in it... I think I like this version a bit better... what do you say?

// Removed the link (See this post)

Thanks :D I'd really appreciate a review on that design :)


I don't really like that logo CXLink provided on his image of my template that I could use... to tell you the truth, I don't really know what kind of image-logo I want.
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Post April 25th, 2009, 1:39 am

I'd go with a sans serif font for main content (perhaps a dark grey instead of straight black), but keep the serif typefaces for the headings ... and change the colour of the link ... just looks like the generic, default blue.
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Post April 25th, 2009, 7:38 am

Should I have the text justified? Kind of looks like a news site.

Thanks for the font types suggestions :)

[EDIT:] That made it look more like a news site :lol:
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