Quality Standards? Options

[digitalfragrance]

Alright. I have nothing personal against these designs, or their designers. In fact, some of these designers have other great layouts. However, I think that the ones on this list are EITHER...

A. Too simple for a DIV layout (not much content either)
B. Too simple for a Standard layout (no banners or contact tables...)
C. Low image quality
D. Inadequate designing

Granted, some are better or worse than others.

Are we adhering to what was discussed ealier about slightly raising quality standards as we go? I know that was a topic that all of us agreed on before I stepped down. Whether or not the mods are, it seems as if the quality of some layouts accepted is below the standards that we had.

http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25363
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25268
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25263
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25262
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25260
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25294
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25273
http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=25215

Take it or leave it, but that's what I think. Does the community feels the same way I do?

*NOTE: I paid no attention to who accepted these.

[Smarmosaur]

oi. actually, those stripe layouts, i was pretty proud of. i was going to submit atleast 5, but decided i shouldn't push more than i have.
just to explain myself a bit, i was going for something COMPLETELY simple. sometimes, IMO, it's nice to just have a nice catchy layout without dozens of boxes. my friends also usually request one-box DIV's. it's really not like there's a rule with how many DIV boxes are on each layout. plus, it's not as if i just threw it together real quick. the color schemes took a while, then i had to figure out which main color looked best over the stripes, and do the rollovers. i honestly don't think the stripe layouts are that bad. KEEP IN MIND i'm not saying they're amazing or anything like that. i guess it's just a factor of personal taste here?

[emberfly]

oi. actually, those stripe layouts, i was pretty proud of. i was going to submit atleast 5, but decided i shouldn't push more than i have.
just to explain myself a bit, i was going for something COMPLETELY simple. sometimes, IMO, it's nice to just have a nice catchy layout without dozens of boxes. my friends also usually request one-box DIV's. it's really not like there's a rule with how many DIV boxes are on each layout. plus, it's not as if i just threw it together real quick. the color schemes took a while, then i had to figure out which main color looked best over the stripes, and do the rollovers. i honestly don't think the stripe layouts are that bad. KEEP IN MIND i'm not saying they're amazing or anything like that. i guess it's just a factor of personal taste here?

Even though I'm not staff or anything, I still read through page one. I must totally agree with what everyone on page one, also. I think rockitstudios did a great job on that layout. I know tons of people that really like 1 box divs, me especially. I know my thaught probably doesn't matter, but good job rockitstudios.. I really liked that one.


EDIT//

please read this:


I got bored (as usual) and decided to look through all the old, old, OLD layouts on createblog. I was curious about why some of my layouts were rejected and why those god-awful layouts were accepted? please go back to page 461+ of the layout pages and look at those awful creations. I'm not saying all of them were bad, but 99/100 were horrific.

EDIT//(again)

Heck, go back to say page 400+ .. some of them are still god-awful, and a whole lot of them have broken image links.

[misoshiru]

please read this:
I got bored (as usual) and decided to look through all the old, old, OLD layouts on createblog. I was curious about why some of my layouts were rejected and why those god-awful layouts were accepted? please go back to page 461+ of the layout pages and look at those awful creations. I'm not saying all of them were bad, but 99/100 were horrific.

EDIT//(again)

Heck, go back to say page 400+ .. some of them are still god-awful, and a whole lot of them have broken image links.

please. if you go back 400+ pages, that was when createblog was in its early stages back in 04. createblog was a much smaller community with its designers still starting out. it's very different from today when many members and designers understand coding much better than before. think of it as when you started out designing. how good were you back then? probably shit. in a way, those designs are like that. not to say that they are shit, but it was when many of the members who submitted their layouts were starting to grasp coding.

[brooklyneast05]

how good were you back then? probably shit.

dude was like 10 years old