Simple Matt Lanter Layout.. Options

[funride]

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I'm using this layout for my upcoming Matt Lanter fansite.
Its quite simple but I like it...

[fixtatik]

I like the set up for the most part, but there are a few things I'd change.

- The gradient at the top is far too acrid. Lighten it and go a bit more subtly.
- The font you used for the navigation, title and tag line has to go. It's nearly impossible to read.
- The black borders with the white lines are off. On the top one, the lines stick out above it. On the bottom one, it goes past the white border.
- I don't like how you cut off his head at the chin. Just pick a different photo and use that as the second image--copied, flipped and resized photos are stale.
- Also with the image/flipped image, you did a hard cut at the top, but faded at the bottom (and annoyingly almost unnoticeable).
- The alignment of the header/content area is awkward. The translucent white box is pushed over to the right, and the tagline is way off to the right.
- You used a dark red on dark grey background. That never works.
- The translucent box has curved corners, but the rest of the template is boxy. Kinda weird and distracting.
- No padding whatsoever for the "Top Affiliates" section.
- Seeing that scroll bar at the bottom is a turn off. It makes me think that instead of using margin:auto; you're using absolute positioning and a fixed left margin, based on only your screen.
- Why is the "Hi" heading in pink? Doesn't really fit with the rest of the layout. I could understand a lighter grey (or even red if the dark red didn't look so bad with dark grey), but the pink you used isn't even in the same RGB bracket.