Well judging from the screenshot it is low in quality. But I went into the queue so I could see the live preview &is it low in quality. What did you do to it? Your editing was probably the reason. As far as hosting images, most image hosting sites will compress your images so the only thing you can really do is save as a PNG &/or start off with high quality images. I don't get what they meant when they said the links weren't user-friendly but the navigation is a bit plain & simple. You need to add something that will make your layouts pop. Also the colors you chose don't really match. "/

I just suggest you wait for whoever reviewed your layout to reply back & work from there.

So your saying that all I can really do is edit the picture differently and the image hosts don't really do anything to the pictures, right?



okay.

I'm pretty sure that when whoever told you the links weren't user-friendly, I think they meant it wasn't a real link with the XXXXXX thing at the end.

what do you mean by the XXXXXXX thing at the end?

Yes to the editing part & no to the image hosting part. Image hosting sites compress images, meaning your images will loose quality.


Lol I think Mike thought this layout was for Myspace. Mike, this layout is for a website.

oh! ok! thanks! I'll wait until the person emails me back.



Mike....haha! We all have our mistakes.

I'm not offended....why would I be offended? hahahaha!

Okay, I'll change the colors.

i did that and now i'm talking to him. I'm not that stupid, GOSH!



Ok like i said I'll change them.



What else can I do to them?-I'm using HTML and that's all I'll EVER use.-I mean I can change the color (which is what I was planning to do after I got my domain name up) and add a background but why add a backgruond color that will just look weird on this layout.

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Everyone on the forums needs to take a chill pill and realize that not everyone is as good as a designer as they are. They should compliment the good things in the layouts or graphics instead of dragging the people down with the bad things that they did. Everyone here is just too uptight and is never nice to people like me who may not have as much expeirence in website design or creating any graphic or layout. You guys are so mean sometimes.

Sorry, lol. I'll make sure I don't make that mistake again.

I know that there are some people that aren't as nice as others but that's the price you have to pay when you showcase your work. I'm not sure if you read the Showcase Booth: Guidelines and Rules of Conduct thread, but you should. There are going to be people that like your work & people who won't & they will tell you what they don't like. It's all a part of becoming a better designer. You have to start from somewhere. I can relate to you because I was in your position when I first started to make graphics & stuff. With the criticism from the design staff & members on here, I learned new techniques & made my graphics better. Whenever I review your work, I try to be as nice as possible, along with the other members. So don't see it as someone bashing your work. Instead see it as a second pair of eyes telling you what you could do to improve your designs.

/long ass response that no one will read

I read it.

theerinkal, there is absolutely no point to posting your work if no one tells you what's bad about it and people only talk about the good things. You won't improve at all that way, which is what you and everyone else wants to see. Sure, some people will focus only on the negative, but you should still take their comments into consideration because that's what'll help you see mistakes or areas of improvement in your designs.

On to the actual layout. The website link didn't work for me, so I can't tell if the image quality problems are just because you sized down the screenshot or if the layout's image itself is bad quality; it seems like a bit of both. Are you using Photoshop? If so, are you saving for web? Try saving it as a .png or .jpeg with maximum quality; it might be compressed too much.

I like the concept of it, but I think you could have chosen better colors for the background and the border around the main content and menu. I also think the layout would look better centered, because the border goes all the way around the image. A repeating background would also make it more interesting, as long as it fits with the layout. I can't comment on the links because I can't see the site, but I think the mod might have meant that it's hard to tell your links from regular text (I'm looking at "topsite, myspace, forums," etc). I'm probably wrong, though.