I'm trying to redesign my website (my personal one, for art gallery-resume-game info type stuff, once I get a better name) but I can't decide on what sort of look or format it ought to have.
What sort of 'preferences' do you have when viewing a website with a 'theme'? Elegant colors or styles? Photos or background images? Some of the artists work along the side?
I guess I'm just looking for design input. I want it too look professional, but I also want it to feel like....me. A gamer and fantasy nut. That sort of thing. I'm also intending do to stuff in blues and darker colors since I favor those....but I'm still open to suggestions.
Any? I'd love examples too, and if I come up with anything I'll post them here for critique.
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'Epic' is most concisely defined as something that, were you to do it in view of a person in real life, they'd pretty much have to sleep with you immediately to maintain order in the universe.
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'Epic' is most concisely defined as something that, were you to do it in view of a person in real life, they'd pretty much have to sleep with you immediately to maintain order in the universe.
I sneezed. It seems to have reshaped reality. My bad.
Don't put pictures or artwork in the background-- if you want to display your work on the main page, use it for thumbnails. Putting a picture or pictures in the background is the worst thing you can do, in my mind, to make a site seem unprofessional. Make sure all the colors work together, make sure nothing catches the eye that isn't important-- like said thumbnails, or the title, rather than the background or borders or whatever.
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Make it easy to navigate! That's the kiss of death, in my opinion, for making people want to look at a site... >.> If you can't find anything, then what's the point of looking through it? I've seen so many art/portfolio sites that look absolutely gorgeous... but the content's so hard to navigate through that I give up.
I guess that means having everything clearly labelled, so that you know for sure if something is actually a link, etc.
Other then that... it's up to you! XD You can always fiddle with it as your tastes change!
I guess that means having everything clearly labelled, so that you know for sure if something is actually a link, etc.
Other then that... it's up to you! XD You can always fiddle with it as your tastes change!
I'm fond of gallery pages which have a nice background (just a satiny or plain color that's not too bright) and tiny thumbnails of pieces. Frames, not I-frames.
A simple, easy to navigate site which has examples of your work by year (if you want to show that much) or by theme/type (black and white, color, mixed media, etc).
A simple, easy to navigate site which has examples of your work by year (if you want to show that much) or by theme/type (black and white, color, mixed media, etc).
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Personally, I like to try and make sites that will look relatively the same in as many browsers as possible - I'm a big fan of tables within tables within tables XD; I also much prefer dark text on a light background.. trying to read webpages with light text on a dark background hurts my eyes, and if I want to read what's where I have to copy-paste the whole shebang into Notepad.