so i decided that i want to update my site. i am sick of the old design. after about an hour i came up with this. but i’ve been sitting here for 3 days looking at it and i’ve hit a wall. i don’t really know where to go from here.
all i know is that i want to keep it kinda simple. it’s just my personal site… nothing special. all the same content that is on my site now will just be moved to the new one…
so please help me out. i am not a professional designer by any means but i do like to screw around with ps and i would like to have a cool looking website.
actually, i think it looks really cool definitely go with it, if you’re handy with flash maybe some simple animation would go well. i like the little rolleover buttons.
i was considering using flash for the main content but then i remembered that i suck really bad at it. but what i was trying to do before was more complicated then what i would be doing here. i toyed (sp?) with the idea of a flash header but it looked kinda plain. i could do a lot more detail work with photoshop then i could with flash. also, i don’t want a full flash site. but i will play with it a little bit.
the main splash page’s colors did match the rest of the site but i originally had the white background behind it and it was transparent. so when i got rid of that it made the red a bit darker. so thats something thing that i have to fix.
i also think a drop shadow would look really good. i will have to modify my original photoshop design though. because what you see there is just what i did in photoshop over a dark grey background. i will also change that.
if you think of anything else please don’t hesitate to post or email me or whatever.
Dave, I understand your limitations but I must tell you that working with Flash and Photoshop together is super easy. Draw up your header in Photoshop, say 740px wide and 200px tall. Get as fancy as you want, as colorful as you like. Now at this point you have a few options. Either:
A. splice up the image based on where you want to add flash animations, buttons, elements.
B. Save optimized for the web as a jpg (super high) and import to the Flash Library. Change your flash movie to be 740px X 200px and center your image.
Now you can add buttons, outlines, masks, scrolling fx, etc.
When you go to Publish your flash file, set the jpeg quality to 100 and do not compress the movie.
i thank you steady for the mini-tutorial. i just don’t think that i am ready for flash yet. maybe someday. but for now, i think i just work better in photoshop.
i made some of the changes that you guys suggested and added some text and crap. my one concern is that it’s too plain. i would like to add something over on the right side but i don’t have anything to put there really. so i don’t know. let me know what you guys think.
EDIT: i just found this site that i really like. it’s simple and it’s kinda what i want to do with my site. here is the link http://www.themindofcomicgeek.ph/
haha, no i didn’t. i was doing this last night during american idol so i must have missed a button. i wanted that outline to show up all the time and i was wondering why it wasn’t. haha. oh well. thanks for picking up on that!
Hmmm…Still fells real empty. You can have alot space without it feeling empty. Although sometimes difficult to do. Like my site (refer to thread I posted in showcase/critics), not to sound like I know everything, cause I don’t. Just giving you an example of how space can be unboring. Get what I mean?
yea DJ, i know what you mean. i think it’s boring… so i dunno what i am going to do. i think i might have to go back to the drawing board on this one. maybe just use some basic colors and not the pattern and gradient overlays. it just makes things more difficult.
also, very awesome website. i wish i could create something like that. it is truly awesome.
definitely go with it, if you’re handy with flash maybe some simple animation would go well. i like the little rolleover buttons. 
