Would like some critique

[dbdg]

Cheers Az and points noted Brian

I'll work on it a little more later, current buttons are just the first thing I created, haven't been bothered to create new images yet.

I was attempting to make the main site look a little more like the admin system that will hopefully be up and running soon.

[dbdg]

Newest attempt, lot more contrast on the buttons and a bit more contrast everywhere else, still not going to be liked by Brian.

Clicky

[az]

Hmm..

contrast is definately better

That said, I don't like the new nav buttons either (looks win 3.11-ish )

Next/Prev arrows are nice, but I'd keep the words, too.

And you misunderstood me with the gray border, I think.. I meant to change the .info border to something like #666666 instead of #000000, because it distracts from the text if it's in the same color. Also consider increasing the padding by 1px (though that might look bad, I don't know).

I know the critique is quite harsh, and I couldn't do it better than you, but I think you can learn the most from honest critique (everybody can)

AZ

[KvHagedorn]

Where you have light colored letters on a dark button or background, it helps to outline them in black (see our own "post reply," etc. buttons here.)

[dbdg]

Crit isn't harsh Az, I do appreciate it.

I'll try with a black/darker outline KvH

[Rakido]

howdy,

had a first look at it. Two suggestions:

- do you develop for 800x600 or 1024x768? Right now the width of the site is around 880px. That's too broad for 800x600.
- get rid of the underline in the links, it distracts too much.

[DukeP]

Hmm.

I generally frown on fixed page sizes.

Try and make us poor people with more than 1024x768 feel that we are getting something for the inconvenience of these big monitors...


~~DukeP~~

[dbdg]

Going to be designed eventually for min of 1024 * 768.

I was going to try and go with a non-fixed layout but in the end the data is all going to pulled from a database, php based site. I can get a horizontal looper working easily enough for a fixed size (2 accross then down etc) but not quite sure how to get it to alter dynamically dependent on res, anyone know a way of doing this in php, other then detecting the res and loading a different page.

[dbdg]

/Ducks

Two more ideas, boarders, more boarders and yet more boarders.

News Page

Artist Page

[Brian Ellis]

Originally posted by dbdg
Going to be designed eventually for min of 1024 * 768.

IMHO, BIG mistake

Many surfers have a side bar on their browser windows. This implies that they will be using a resolution > 1280 x 1024, to fit in 1024 horizontally. At 1280, this leaves you just 256 for the sidebar, which is insufficient.

How many people surf at less than 1280? Probably more than 75%.

If you MUST have a fixed width (which I don't like) then make it 800 which probably >75% can accommodate without horizontal scrolling.

[dbdg]

My site has had a fixed min of 1024 * 768 since 1999, no major complaints yet, only one member has ever stated they would prefer a lower res, last survey I did asked for a higher res version.

However, I was thinking about the rest of the layout last night and I am probably going to start again and try to make the whole site variable, unfortunately will make a bit more sense for some of the other sections.

There aren't many 800 * 600 3D artists out there but I'll try to keep them happy as well.

Edit: Cool exactly half way to being a Super!