DarkPrince2005 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 I know that this isn't really tthe kind of thing that is posted allot, but I could really use the help. I recieved a comment about a website I designed saying that it was clean, elegant, and simple but not very inviting to look at. Is there anybody that might have a few ideas on how I can be able to achieve such a look without really changing the logo? Any comments and help would be appreciated. http://www.spign.co.za Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMV Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Hello It looks ok, but, with a black background, black nav bar and white links, it looks very black and white I would say, experiment with other colours, even maybe a gray if it will work. www.colorblender.com is a good tool for matching colours ILMV Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-693402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 Thanx ILMV That is what I also thought, was thinking of adding a neon blue-ish pinstriping to the table borders. But I'll also play around with a bit of grey. Thanks once again for your comment and critique. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-693415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 I agree with that user. Its clean but its so ... bland. Add some more images. Maybe a blue color here or there, right now in my opinion I don't like the logo at all. It seems too fancy and elegant for me. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-693813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 I have changed a single page, none of the links work, but it would be nice if I could get any comments and critique if I'm heading in the right direction to make it look a bit more inviting. Old... http://www.spign.co.za New... http://www.spign.co.za/New/index.html Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMV Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Thats looking better, for me, the links appeared as dark blue on a black background Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 The new doesn't look like much on an improvement. The colors are pretty terrible and the design lacking. As a web design company in a very competitive market we at SPIGN Development have designed our own website to mirror the qualities we strive to build into every website we design, as we believe in client satisfaction. Do you think a client would be satisfied with this? I can understand people building websites as a hobby or to promote their hobby, but if I just went out an bought my first digital camera I'm not going to call myself a professional photographer and start my own business. With that said, there is really nothing there to critique. You have a very blurry logo and a couple paragraphs of text. As stated the color choice is pretty terrible to begin with. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 The navbar looks totally out of place. You have rounded border divs then the navbar is just plain?? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 It's better but as everybody else has said, seems to lack something! The nav definitely needs work! Looks like you spent all your time working on the rounded corners then when you came to design the nav, was fed up / bored. The main text is also a bit bland, looks tiring to read.. there's no headers, images or anything to catch your eye and keep you interested. The logo doesn't really fit the style you're trying to achieve, or at least the "SPIGN" text doesn't.. and the 2 blues don't go well together. Adam Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 I think that putting the navbar in another rounded border div would be bad looking Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 That was my opinion aswel Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Hm try putting all that in one rounded corners div instead of two Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 its clean ish some ideas on the nav you could move it up into the header image making the links black (kinda like an imagemap) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Again I'd suggest spricing up the colors a bit Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-694929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Too lazy to read the previous posts, so sorry if I'm being redundant. 1) Change the font. Boring... 2) Put some graphics on the homepage. 3) Create a footer. 4) Add some containers for the portions of text. Everything else looks good. I really like the header. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-695001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMV Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Oh, and make it validate http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spign.co.za%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-695287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMV Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 @DarkPrince2005 I do not answer posts directly via PM, could you please link to your changes in this thread, then the entire forum can comment... ILMV Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-697544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 Could you please have a look at my new design, think I'm really heading in the right direction. http://www.spign.co.za/New/index.html Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-697563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 It is certainly better than what you started with. Is there a reason you want to use those dark colors? Dark is ok when you have enough to pop out at you. You need more contrast to pull off a dark layout. Then menu is showing purple links which can barely be read. It should also extend further to the rounded corner. I don't particularly like a single column of data with nothing to break it up a little. A footer would also be nice. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-697629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 Ok boys, girls and fellow programmers... after allot of work, self-scrutiny and effort I think I finally have something. http://www.spign.co.za/New/index.html I have changed the font, lightened the colors a bit, made it validate, etc. I'm not done yet, but can you guys once again give me your honest and personal critisism... Thanks Yours In Code... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-703414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Why not stretch it to the bottom? You have a lot of empty real estate... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-703416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 I tried, and I can't get it to validate... also tried to vertically center it aswell... both attempts without any luck... ??? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> .scrollable { width: 800px; height: 425px; overflow: auto; background-repeat:no-repeat; } .b{color:white; font-size:10pt; text-decoration:none; } .s{font-family:verdana; font-size:9pt; font-weight:550; } .v{width:100%; height:100%; } body{margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#A19C9C"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="v"> <tr> <td height="100%" width="100%" align="center" valign="middel" bgcolor="#A19C9C"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="800"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#A19C9C" colspan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-image:url(top.gif)" height="129" colspan="2" align="right" valign="top"><font size="1"><br /></font> <font size="2"><font color="gray"><b>Contact Number:</b> 083 878 0721 <br /> <b>Email:</b> info@spign.co.za <font size="1"><br /><br /><br /><br /></font> <b><a href="index.html" class="b">Home</a> <font color="#d8d8d8">|</font> <a href="about.html" class="b">About Us</a> <font color="#d8d8d8">|</font> <a href="services.html" class="b">Services</a> <font color="#d8d8d8">|</font> <a href="faq.html" class="b">FAQ</a> <font color="#d8d8d8">|</font> <a href="contact.html" class="b">Contact Us</a> </b></font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-image:url(main.gif)" align="center" valign="middel" colspan="2"><div class="scrollable"><br /><br /> <table width="650"> <tr> <td align="left" class="s"><font color="#D8D8D8"><br />As a web design company in a very competitive market we at SPIGN Development have designed our own website to mirror the qualities we strive to build into every website we design, as we believe in client satisfaction. <br /><br /> Although our combination of creative, fresh, innovative and unique ideas we include in our design through the use of imagination and technology may add a novel appeal, we still believe that every project's design should:</font> <ul> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">be simple</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">be graphically clean and elegant</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">be functional</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">be easily navigational</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">be informative and useful</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">use the correct keywords</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">have a good well written structure</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">attract visitor traffic</font></li> <li><font color="#D8D8D8">and convert visitors into customers.</font></li> </ul> <font color="#D8D8D8">And it is through these beliefs that we are able to provide a service that is very different from most- on average producing more visitors to your website and higher client satisfaction.</font></td> </tr> </table></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="20" style="background-image:url(bottom.gif)"> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-703522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Do you honestly even look at the errors? Error 1- valign="middel" Hm I wonder if it should be middle... Error 2- "middel" again Line 55.... Look at the errors next time... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-703536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 yeah I actually look at the errors, it should be middle, but even fixing the spelling mistakes doesn't work. Initially at first it actually did center vertically and horizontally but when I refreshed using Ctrl+F5 it just went ack to how I didn't want it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-704858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Is your page updated so I can try to validate again? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/133310-solved-more-inviting-look/#findComment-704893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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