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# 1 11-04-2005 , 12:01 AM

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im making a website for my friends clan on quake 3. any suggestions?

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# 2 11-04-2005 , 12:07 AM

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Well, personally, I'd decide on the content first, then work out the design. So I think the question should be what does the clan want? Once you have that than you can pitch some look and feel ideas to them.

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# 3 11-04-2005 , 12:56 AM

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i kno wat they want. this is just the start

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# 4 11-04-2005 , 12:59 AM

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im going to do stuff with the black background also.

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# 5 11-04-2005 , 06:30 AM

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Okay, that's good... so what do they want? I'd love to be able to help or provide meaningful suggestions, without the right info that's hard to do. What do you plan to put in the image you posted regard the clan's site? or did you just want a critique of the image layout?

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just a basic menu and a streaming radio will be added. i mostly just wanted some suggestions for wat to do in the site.

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# 7 13-04-2005 , 10:15 PM

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A assume you will be using the two left spaces (the blue) as menues and the main part for the content?

If so I would look at (in a design way) how those structures are going to react when they are made bigger by the contents they hold. I'm sure with tables or CSS you could make it look nice, but on every site I do I always get that bit wrong and find menues being placed where they shouldnt be, and find them stretching and losing all thier shape and style.

As you mentioned you will be changing the black background. The only thing I can think of is to keep it to a solid colour, or make the pattern very very small so it doesnt distract from the main part of the site. If it was my site the background would have a pattern smaller in size than "mesh/fishnet" border you have on the elements, something not to disimilar to the tiny pattern used here at SM froum for the background - also makes it very light to download, just a timy repeating gif.

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yea.. just when u click on the menu buttons the context will only change

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# 10 15-04-2005 , 09:56 AM

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did you use photoshop for that layout?

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# 11 15-04-2005 , 10:11 PM

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yes photoshop 7.0

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# 12 23-04-2005 , 07:03 AM

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one suggestion, try to improve on the gradient a bit, because extreme color variation-"ed" gradients looks bad, try reducing the variation a bit, will add a sense of depth, and if you are using blue, try another shade, simply because that shade of blue and black dont work, or try it with another background color (off-white will look great, try this : "#efefef"

yeah, btw, reduce the border width on all the "windows", and cut down on the distance between the menus,

these tiny adjustments can make wonders to your site,
try it out, let me see how it works,

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