Layout Quality, On CB, what determines layout quality? Options

[eshirley]

I submitted my first MySpace Div Overlay layout and it was rejected today. I got a message simply saying "bad quality overall."

The thing is that I've been webdesigning for a while and I thought I knew what quality was - Image quality, blending techniques, origionality, function, and form. I worked hard on this layout (it was mainly the codes that got me) and my response was very vague. I would like to make layouts that CB would find "good quality" and maybe get posted.

I've seen a lot of layouts here, and I just really don't think that mine is that bad, here's the "rejected" link to the layout:

http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=18314

and if that doesn't work, it's on my profile: http://myspace.com/emily915


I would really appreciate tips, and maybe enlightenment of what I am doing wrong!!



Thanks!!

[eshirley]

Oh okay, that helps A LOT! I really appreciate your reply!

I was going for bold colors, because that's what the image pretty much had - bold yellow and blue. So, I used thick borders to go along with it. (or so I thought - but apparently other's don't think it's attractive lol, so I guess I'll lay off of it) I wanted the viewer to look at it and be like - what? I wasn't going for elegant or pretty, but rather out-of-place and slightly uncomfortable, if that makes sense.

Better image quality - I'm a little confused on this? See, a lot of layouts that I've seen have poor image quality, well to me they use so many brushes and overlays that it really takes away from the image... I dunno, why is THAT considered visually attractive? Sure they may look interesting, but it really gives me a headache.

Yeah, I don't have internet explorer on my computer, so I don't do scrollbar decoration. (Safari and Firefox)

So, better CSS for links - no thick borders/strokes - gotcha!

Thank you very much!!!!