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sonic718
Well I know the last template I made sucked so I started looking at some other websites and make this:
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa200/S...rationscopy.png
its coded, but after a while of looking for a good free host, I found awardspace, I've uploaded the HTML file in the file manager, what do I do to set up the website after that?
I am me and only me
Take a look at other sites, yours just reeks of amateur. Your logo is too busy, your background is distracting, and your content boxes are nothing but black rectangles. Also, a great hint is never use #00000, always go with a soft black colour.

Ignoring the flash part (unless you wanna learn flash), take a look at some of these to get an idea of a professional website:

http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates.php

They have everything from bland business layouts to graphic heavy band websites.
Xemaul
Text in the banner should be simple and easy to read. As for the rest, big step up.
Barak
The whole navbar needs redoing, it's too big, busy and looks really bad in both colors and graphics.
sonic718
Well, I've uploaded the HTML files to my host (awardspace.com) and I use a co.cc domain, How do I set up the website now?
I am me and only me
QUOTE(sonic718 @ Jun 28 2009, 02:50 PM) *
Well, I've uploaded the HTML files to my host (awardspace.com) and I use a co.cc domain, How do I set up the website now?


Go to the html links (mysite.co.cc.site.html)...
Rob
Hokay. So.

I'm going to ignore the horrific spelling and focus on the layout itself. First off, there's no distinction between the sidebar and the main body of text. They're both vying equally for attention which rather defeats the object of a sidebar.

The navbar. Where do you get yellow from? When your whole colour scheme is white and black, chucking a random splodge of yellow across the navbar just looks silly. I also agree with Fisher that it's too big - it draws attention away from the focus of your page, which is the main bulk of content.

The top "banner"? Being brutally honest, it just looks like you've chucked in some effects at the top of the page as an afterthought. There's no linking between the effects at the top of the page and the rest of it. Lose the light effects and the yellow and just work on blending it subtly. Subtlety works wonders.
sonic718
QUOTE(Rob @ Jun 29 2009, 04:28 AM) *

Hokay. So.

I'm going to ignore the horrific spelling and focus on the layout itself. First off, there's no distinction between the sidebar and the main body of text. They're both vying equally for attention which rather defeats the object of a sidebar.

The navbar. Where do you get yellow from? When your whole colour scheme is white and black, chucking a random splodge of yellow across the navbar just looks silly. I also agree with Fisher that it's too big - it draws attention away from the focus of your page, which is the main bulk of content.

The top "banner"? Being brutally honest, it just looks like you've chucked in some effects at the top of the page as an afterthought. There's no linking between the effects at the top of the page and the rest of it. Lose the light effects and the yellow and just work on blending it subtly. Subtlety works wonders.


Alright thanks for the tips, and btw can you point out my spelling mistakes so I can correct them?
Rob
Artical = Article
Coorperations I would assume to be Corporations, although being an actual legal entity, I would check that the company is registered etc. before naming it such. The main reason I assume it's not actually incorporated is because of the whole creator bit on the side.

Then there are a few business/grammatical points, which I've no idea if you've any control over:
  • Creator doesn't fly. Founder is much better. Also rewrite that paragraph so that it's more company-centric. More like "Dema was founded by..." rather than "Dalitso founded..." because that focuses more on him than on Dema, which is always more important than the individuals that make it up.
  • ...and he researches or advertising and he research
  • for firms and anyone in need should probably be something more like "..create logos to cater for a variety of corporate and individual customers"
  • lot of should be replaced with team of. Team always sounds better.
  • The mission statement. First off, it's a starter company. In advertising. You don't get big in advertising overnight. Infact, making any headway into it at all without big name backing is fairly impressive, even in virtual advertising. Secondly, it's a tad naive. If you don't have any input in this, then just fix it up so that the sentence works "...Malawi's most rapidly expanding/customer orientated etc. advertiser in order to meet the needs of all our clients.
sonic718
Ok thanks I'll correct them when I get to it, btw I didn't write any of that, It was copy-pasted from our old page tongue.gif I only wrote what's under "today's article"
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