Avril Lavigne Fansite Lyt... Options

[funride]

This is the layout I'm going to put up on my fansite.
My inspiration for this layout is avril-only.com

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[manny-the-dino]

The blending and image quality could be better.

[funride]

It's just because I sharpened the images.
The only sharpening that bothers me is on the Av on the right...
I'm also going to use IFrames.
And Image Mapping.

[manny-the-dino]

Ohhh okay. Over sharpening can really kill a picture's quality though so don't go overboard with it.

[Maccabee]

No comment.

[none345678]

Then why the f*ck would you post. All that did was make you look like a douche bag. f*ck.


I would have to say trash this. I really don't know any advice or tips that would help. Maybe bring the white all the way to the top?

[Maccabee]

By saying no comment I expressed what I thought about it more then giving a page long rant about how much it sucks.

[none345678]

we don't give page long rants about how it sucks you do. we give constitutive criticism and tips to try and help this budding designer.

[technicolour]

No comment.

I was dead serious the other day when I told you not to pull your antics in here. Give constructive criticism so that they can LEARN. Hell I can give YOU a ton of constructive criticism. Hah.



NO @ the iframes. Please. No. Those things are so incompatible with many browsers that if you wanted a functional site it would defeat the whole purpose. Don't oversharpen images. That tends to look HORRIBLE. In Photoshop you can even fade the sharpening so it doesn't get too overdone.

And what's up with the image on the left being higher? That just does not look right at all.

[Mikeplyts]

I agree with Kristina. The image on the left is weird and the over sharpening is just blah. :/ You could also blend it better and stuff like how Natalia pointed out. It's just really lacking creativity and this isn't really your best style. Try looking at high quality tutorials online like at Psd Tuts+. This layout overall just looks... amateur.

[synapse]

I agree with Kristina. The image on the left is weird and the over sharpening is just blah. :/ You could also blend it better and stuff like how Natalia pointed out. It's just really lacking creativity and this isn't really your best style. Try looking at high quality tutorials online like at Psd Tuts+. This layout overall just looks... amateurbeginner.

fixed.

[fixtatik]

NO @ the iframes. Please. No. Those things are so incompatible with many browsers that if you wanted a functional site it would defeat the whole purpose.

Just a clarification: iframes only had compatibility issues pre-1999/2000. Between 2000 - 2004, only about 1% of all browsers didn't support iframes. Today, I don't think any significant browser doesn't, and even mobile phones support them. The two biggest issues with iframes are the fact that you can't adjust the height according the the page contained within it, and search engines will archive only the iframe content, not the entire page.

@ OP: I don't really comment on your threads, because they honestly all look the same. If you took the screenshots of your layouts and put them next to each other, you'd see only very mild differences. From what I've seen, your layouts are just blocks and a jammed image hogging the entire upper screen. To be blunt, they look like what we'd make in high school computer art class when all that was available was ancient HTML. Today you have CSS, you have JavaScript, both of which can do fantastic things to your site, if you use them properly.

My advice: stop googling celebrity images and gluing them together. If you feel one of your layouts is lacking something, it's probably creativity. Solid tones are boring: experiment with subtle gradients (not gradients that are so visible they're obnoxious), shadows, font sizes, textures. Experiment with corner shape, curve size, strength. In building a website, CSS is your best friend, not your skills of how seamless you can get 2 images together.

I don't recommend following tutorials. Doing that just draws you into the impression that anything you make needs to look exactly like the tutorial. Instead, read about CSS. Don't build a layout right away. Check out what each property is capable of doing. A good place to start might be CSS-Tricks.