How's this piece of thrash?

[Daniel]

It's been ages since I last wanted a review of my site for like, SUPER LONG TIME. Only about 2 and a half years. :P

Anyways, since I thought it should be time I start up a new site or hobby, whatever, I've conjured up my next rather terrible masterpiece:

http://www.fr0mage.com/test/

It's completely tableless, using CSS, it was made in Photoshop and HTML 4.01 traditional compliant. Though my photoshop skills are rather lacking, I say this isn't too bad myself. Knowing myself however, I'd probably get tired of it very quicky. :p

I wanted something simple, something with a single colour-theme, and something that will be easy to update and navigate. I think I got that down with this. :D

[tandoc]

For starters, if you're going to go CSS - make it XHTML at least.

the 'Fromage' header leaves something to be desired - IMO, the font doesn't go with the rest of the design, but oh well.

I'm not particularly into the black on gray, it strains the eyes a bit, a better contrasting colour would have done better, not sure what would be nice though.

You have borders on the left and right of the main 'everytyhing' holder - I'd like to see that border go all the way around the box - and align it in the middle, vertically, while you're at it - at least that's what I'd like to see.

While I like monochrome, the shades of gray chosen are too dark for my liking - even a hint of different colour, say on the bullets for example, would make it kind of cool; like a gradient fade from colour to monochrome. Just putting ideas out there.

All in all, it's not great, but it's not bad - and I like it.

[Daniel]

I'm too lazy to make it XHTML. And I don't see any benefit to do so neither. :p

The thing is, for some odd reason, the .psd file I have doesn't want to change the saturation on the bullet picture layer. :rolleyes: pos.

Anyways, I've re-made the bullet picture and changed the text a bit:

http://www.fr0mage.com/test/design3.jpg

For the header, I'd like to have the 'camo' look. Perhaps it's just an infatuation I have with big guns, explosions, and what not, but I really like the camo look with like, a Bladerunner-type font. Greyscale is always cool for me. But I think the coloured bullets look and stand out better now.

It's just a damn shame, that the picture was taken with really bright white light reflecting off the bullets, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to drown that light out without ruining the rest of it. :rolleyes: Also my extraction from the original photo leaves much to be desired(you can see clearly where it's jagged lol - polyganol lasso tool = not my friend).

[edit] I think I've found a compromise between the original(the one in my first post) and the one written above:

http://www.fr0mage.com/test/design4.jpg

It gives the bullets a different shade of grey/whitish, giving it a sorta old-school b&w film type effect. Kinda actually looks Al Capone-ish. :o~ It looks fairly decent.

[overulehost]

XHTML is highly recommended if you want your site to be viewed across other electronic medium. :)

[pdrucker]

its nice, lighten the background of the text area a bit, its too tough to read the black font on the dark bg.

[Daniel]

It doesn't look all that dark on any of my computers and monitors. ;O

Anyone else have this problem?

[Blank Verse]

It is readable, but yeah, that's pretty dark. I'm not gonna suggest you change it, because I think you might be as lazy as I am, and I know that if it were me....well, ---- that.

[Daniel]

Lazier, infact.

[Blank Verse]

I'd contest that claim if it weren't for the fact that it takes effort.

[Daniel]

Even if you did, it would just prove my point.

How about now:

http://www.fr0mage.com/test/

I think I'm going to stick with this latest version. It looks probably the best at the moment.

[Daniel]

Here's an update on what I've been doing over the past few days:

http://www.fr0mage.com/index2.php

I've been coding the back of the site for a few days now, almost done. Not much left to do. :D