they are both tempelates… I guess they are also free
for god sake at least change a few lines in the code and add a ■■■■ pet to the index page. If it’s about dogs and cats it shouldn’t look this way, it’s more like an useles blog’s common design than a place where animal lovers could meet and spend their time
chris… no offence but ur designs just arent working. you cant make a decent looking website in 5 mins. just take ur time. look at some of the sites posted under the “Kool Sites” part of kirupa and you’ll be golden!!. you gotta learn some cool tricks and some nice effects before you can make a decent website too so i would suggest just fidling around with photoshop and learning how to use glows, gradients, filters and borders.
yea this new design is an improvement…as said, keep at it an you will increase your skills…
but i will stress again how important it is to look at good sites and analyse them…most of us can tell when we look at a cool site - but a good designer can understand and explain why some sites are awesome and some suck…
immerse yourself in good design and you will start to grow, immerse yourself in crap and you will stink
this one was by far the best. Try cat colors though… take some pictures of a cat and use their colors… like cream and smooth colors. Also try http://www.behr.com use their color smart tool to put together some nice colors to use in your site. It works very well for me
Also, in your CSS… you have .style1, .style2, .style3. You need to get into the habit of naming your classes and id, to something that relates to what it’s modifying. If I just asked you what .style6 did on your site would you really know what it was? Now if you had .liststyle or sth in place of it you could easily say, that’s styles the list.
On your site you can’t give credit to google or sxc, you NEED to give credit to the authors, not the search engines you found them in.