New site idea, opinions appreciated

Flanders

Flanders

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Over the last few nights Ive had a few spare minutes and I've been playing about re-designing my web site. Im not sure whether or not Im actually going to overhall the whole site and change over to this as yet, but I thought I would test the waters with it atleast.

You can have a butchers at it here:

http://www.simplestuff.co.uk/light
http://www.simplestuff.co.uk/dark (different colour scheme)

Opinions would be grately appreciated. The one bug I know about is that the navigation only looks how it should at 1289x1024. I fudged the positioning of it to save time :p Obviously if I decided to change it all over, I will have to rectify this. Any thoughts on the best way to posistion it where I want it would also be welcome'd.

Anyway, thanks for looking :)
 
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Cheers guys :) I must admit, looking at it "the morning after" it doesnt have the same impact on me as it did last night. I agree totally with the fact its a bit too light, I think that could be solved, as OvertoneBliss said, by having a darker body background. Incoperating the old design could be a possibility, I'll have a play next time I get some free time.

vaultingSlinky - Im not sure what you mean about the new name, its the same as the old one :confused:

Again, thanks for taking a look :)
 
nin9abadga said:
very nice mate!

it is too light though but i like your code, and i like the look of it and the way it is designed.

i have a question though, how did you get that "bar" (the one with the nav on) to stretch right across like that? i've looked at the code but i cant work it out. :confused:

nin9abadga
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Thanks :) The #navigation is outside of the #container so isnt constrained by margin: auto which centres everything. By default the width is set to 100%, so it stretches across the whole page.

I suppose for good measure I should have added width: 100% to my #navigation but it works all the same.
 
Well, I couldnt leave it alone tonight, so I've tried it with a different colour scheme. Took some inspiration from an old Zen Garden design.

http://www.simplestuff.co.uk/dark

Having problems with a logo though, as soon as I make a suitable one, I'll update it.

EDIT:

Beginnings of a logo up, not sure if Im happy but it will do for now.
 
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robmiller said:
Give it some contrast! Darken the text and logo a bit so that people can read it :)
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Take a look at the "dark" variation. :)

Still not happy enough to change it over completely, but I think Im going to keep playing with it.

Mr_L - Thanks for the comments :)
 
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