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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[Maccabee]

No comment.

[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.

[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.