midnight layout Rating Options

[pandemonium]

well im working on a design for my cousin who wants to have a site of her company i guess. which is an idependent film productions i guess. well anyways..
i need some feedback and c&c on what to change because im not happy with it.. i know its bad. so i need help.. this is what it would look like
1. the navigations, i mean wtf was i thinking so i need a texture or something
2. haha idk that's why im asking for help

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[brooklyneast05]

i think you're going the right way as far as neat and not low quality looking stuff. it doesn't look bad. however, i think you're main problem at this point is that you're lacking a direction. you have two different textures, and then the wood pattern, and then another brown color at the bottom and blue navigation and it just kinda looks confusing. midnight manifest...ok so i get the moon, but i don't know where the wood or other browns tie into it.

i wouldn't use that texture behind the heading and on the sides together. it's like they are similar, but not similar, and same color but not the same color. i think if you're set on using a texture you should pick one and go with that. the different elements aren't tying together right now i don't think.

i like wood patterns, but i'm not a fan of them being the background to content sections. i think the really defined black lines make the pattern too busy to be behind text. if i were you, i would go with a solid color or a really quiet pattern behind text because you want people to read that. the text really should be the focus of a content area, not the background. that being said, i usually prefer wood backgrounds to be on the sides/tops of layouts. sorta depends on the wood grain and how smooth it is. i also think they typically look cleaner running vertical rather than horizontal, but that's me.

i don't think you should add a texture to the navigation just because you've already got so many textures going on. have you thought of going darker in general? because this color scheme isn't screaming "midnight" to me.

sorry that's long critique