Rounded Corners or Not?

What do you think? Does a site look better with rounded corners?

Here is my site movies.2DoNext.com

Would it be "friendlier" if I rounded some of the corners? If so which ones? All?

 

Yes, I think you should round some corners. Which? That depends on how rounded you want and if you're also willing to add effects (drop shadows, etc.)

I'd also recommend brightening the colors a bit too. The site looks a little washed out.

 

I;ve always thought rounded corners looked nicer, especially on feminine type sites like lingerie, weddings, that sort of thing.

But I find it a pain to make so I don't do it.

 

Thanks, I was thinking about changing the colors too.

Does anyone have an easy way of doing rounded corners. I have tried a few ways and they are usually not too easy.

 

Here´s a tutorial from where i learned rounded corners...it´s very simple tut.
http://www.kromefx.com/index.php?page=vt&id=29

 

Thanks,

I was hoping for a CSS way of doing it

 

You would have to wait until CSS3 becomes adopted more fully.

However, you can do better than that tutorial by making 4 images for the corners so you can have a resizable width and height.

 

Check out http://chronotron.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/nifty-css-rounded-corners-extensive-list/ for a variety of ways to do rounded corners.

 

Thanks Claudek
That is exactly what I needed.

 

I don't think rounded corners are very good way to make the site better. I hate unneeded features on my site.

 

There is, albeit sparsely supported. Mozilla Firefox supports this custom property: -moz-border-radius.

Browsers with primative CSS3 support use border-radius. Both units are in pixels, but be warned that the former might not be valid.