www.th3rmal.com

This is my first attempt at creating a website, so i want to know what you guys think of it =]

About 2 and a half weeks ago I decided to learn HTML and CSS, so i thought i might as well make myself a personal website while im at it. Went through ALOT of changes, cus i kept creating shit, or things just wouldnt work at all. Finally things started to work out, and that got the ball rolling. Im not very good (actually not good at all) at graphics work, so youll have to excuse the shitty graphics.

Been working on it for a while, changing things, remaking things, adding things and what-not, but i think its in a stage where i need opinions from alot more than 2 or 3 people.

Please no stupid comments (eg. "its crap, gtfo the internet"), i need some constructive criticism and opinions welcome =]

KNOWN ISSUES: I know that in IE, the right menu sticks right up at the top, also the <hr /> tags and the bg color arent working properly, i'll be fixing that soon, so in the mean time, please use FF if you can =]

And a big thanks to Nathan and Eddie who helped me regarding my coding problems =]

To be brutally honest, I don't want to spend any time on that website. From a design perspective, especially the colours, everything is just out of whack. The layout itself looks good, but your background and so on could use change. Something more easy on the eyes is good. Pastels are a good start . Good luck and keep me updated.

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Originally posted by ipab
To be brutally honest, I don't want to spend any time on that website. From a design perspective, especially the colours, everything is just out of whack. The layout itself looks good, but your background and so on could use change. Something more easy on the eyes is good. Pastels are a good start . Good luck and keep me updated.

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Originally posted by ipab
From a design perspective, especially the colours, everything is just out of whack.

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Originally posted by ipab
Pastels are a good start

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Pastel colors are soft, easy for the eyes, colors which nicely blend into eachother. A pastel palette is like a gradient between two very close soft colors.

Google "pastel colors" and the first result will be a website which uses a mix of pastel colors which nicely go together: http://www.behr.com/behrx/inspiration/emotional_3.jsp

notice all the soft variations of light brown and purple.

also, eg: http://www.graphic-design.com/DTG/Graphics/color/pastels.html

So do you think i should change just the bg color, or completely redo it all?

for your first site: excellent

yea... the colours and the menu images need to be fixed up... not really much more to fix up on it... but still very nice

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
for your first site: excellent

yea... the colours and the menu images need to be fixed up... not really much more to fix up on it... but still very nice

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Originally posted by Th3rmal
How do you think i should fix up the menu images?

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How do you think i should fix up the menu images?

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i just dont like the bluredness of it... also the background when you hover a link is kinda dodgy =\

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HINT: Don't use PNG fiels with transparency / alpha. IE6 doesn't like them, and makes your page quite ugly. The layout doesn't quite work properly either.

http://meetcweb.com/up/th3rmal.png (as viewed with IE6)

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Originally posted by MeEtc
HINT: Don't use PNG fiels with transparency / alpha. IE6 doesn't like them, and makes your page quite ugly. The layout doesn't quite work properly either.

http://meetcweb.com/up/th3rmal.png (as viewed with IE6)

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Fixed up some things in the site; namely the following:
 
    *  Bigger multi-line comment box on the Contact Me page.
    * Header now links to homepage.
    * Date added to every entry.
    * Text colors of posts and post headers changed.
    * Post headers now link to a page containing that individual post.
    * Menu font and style changed (including mouse-over effect

Need opinions again =]

Sorry for double posting.

nice... i would still recommend fixing the menus... i reall dont like them... sorry <3

personally, i hate the menus
i just have no idea on what to make =/
ideas? suggestions?

I think something simple like how you have done the main block of texts... just do that with a border on the sides... then make it smaller and yea... could work...

something like:


but with a better size and everything...

edit: or you could do it like the green from the side parts of the header

the post background doesn't match the rest of the website and the borders around the logo and sidebars are really blurred, and nothing lines up or anything and why is there so much CSS for IE? it's like a completely different website when you change browsers also, you have two headers

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Th3rmals Space</title>
</head>

<body>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link  rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ff.css" />

<title>Th3rmals Space</title>
</head>

<body>

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
the post background doesn't match the rest of the website

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
and the borders around the logo and sidebars are really blurred

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nothing lines up or anything

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and why is there so much CSS for IE? it's like a completely different website when you change browsers

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also, you have two headers

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http://rofl.th3rmal.com
* roflmao456 runs away from pedram's

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Originally posted by roflmao456
http://rofl.th3rmal.com

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Originally posted by roflmao456
http://rofl.th3rmal.com
* roflmao456 runs away from pedram's

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