Hi all , I tried to design my personal site, http://wysinnwyg.altervista.org/. My only imperative was to keep the design very very simple -- kind of like what you see in some university professors websites and things like that, but I also wanted it to be good on the eyes. I don't like the current "design" (if you can call it so), can you tell me what you'd change? thanks
The apple style menu is kinda cool haha! Personally, i'd make the site fixed width - if you're not going to have much content, fix the width at 780px - it'll make it look more populated (and still be fine for the 800x600 browsers). Massively increase the quality of the icons at the top - use gifs if you can restrict the colors to 256 (should be fine because the images are pretty small). Make the quote bigger. Restrict yourself to two fonts maximum for the content, maybe make the site heading an image. For the body / main text font, try using arial / helvetica. If you want to use a serif font, put some slightly bigger bolder sub headings / titles in a sans serif font. I mean there's *plenty* more you can do, but those are a few ideas.
yeah that menu is the only thing I like about the site Do you think it would look better with some kind of border/container all around the fixed width of 780px like iamben suggested?
How about now (English section only)? Can anyone suggest me a good font for the title/subtitle? And finally, what would you do about the blog section? thanks
try to use good color combination of font and background....n try give a sober still attractive look to it. try to give different look to quote...put it in different section...so it does nt mix with other text..
here: http://www.ajaxdaddy.com/demo-css-dock-menu.html ishpreenja, I don't know if you made that comment before or after I changed it... can you take a final look now and tell me what you'd change? What would you do with the blog section? Try to use the same style/color scheme or leave it that way? thanks
Hi, The menu at the top is cool. The whole website is ok, it's functional. What I would change is the colour scheme. I'd make it brighter, cleaner.
Cool menu at the top. For color combination you can check http://kuler.adobe.com/ (use IE to open it). You will find many nice color combination there.
go to templatemonster.com and check out their templates they offer financial based templates that are very professional looking... and if anything they can give you a good idea of something to gear your site towards if you plan on doing it yourself
sharpen the pictures and change the colour of the text that says "What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get"
I'd agree with Marcin. It looks quite dark. I always think that a white background always serves an academic site well. You can then lift the white with some pictorial content. Stuart
The fisheye menu at the top is cool; however, the color of the background and that of the foreground are too similar, causing the reader difficulties in reading the text. I would lighten the color of the foreground and choose a stronger color for the text. Since you have no images on the sites -- except for the ones on the menu, which are for navigational, not for informational purposes only -- you need to emphasize the text because the text is your most important content at this point.
the colour combination is usually as, the main content section would be a darker than the background colour. e.g. using light grey in the middle for content and white background. fonts black and titles dark orange is usually my favourite combinations. just play around with the colour tones and make it look good to the eye.