hmmmm , just been to your site, unfortunatley , i don't really the design , the blue has to go , it reminds me of a pop up window blue colour, ill give you credit for putting stuff onto you site, as mine is still quite bare , plus im lazy, i recommend you use Dreamweaver and photoshop and maybe learn some php or asp scripting , if you want to add any of your links to my site to increase visitors you can. pm me when u have more content up.

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Thanks for looking at the site, Sorry to hear you don't like the blue.
It will be staying for now as I want to concentrate on content for a bit, It Would be great to swop links with you as my links page is next to be put together.

Trance ZoneUK

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Ok I don't like the site i believe the color scheme is way to bright and hurt my eyes... And I do not like the big buttoms(maybe you could resize them), I don't like having to scroll down to navigate a site. maybe rearrange the buttons smaller and at the top. Check my site out.....I dont have much time to work on it...but you can see what ive done in a few hours i like to use a color scheme that isnt soo birgh....Maybe its all just my personal prefrence.

www.Frozen-Web.com My content is lacking atm but the layout is good imo.

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Thanks for taking a look, My 1st attempt was dark like yours most people said it would look better brighter, althought maybe it needs breaking up a bit that i am looking into.
Thanks for your input

Yea, the blue is too bright. Try and get the colors so they dont contrast one another so much. But my biggest tip would be to get comfortable with photoshop so you can make some nice looking graphics.

Here's my site if you need any idea's SITE

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bright is not always a better thing. id rather see something dark than bright blue and yellow :/ (reminds me of a candy raver page!)

i think you are off to a nice start, but the design is way too basic. its all completely flat looking except for the buttons and the top image, so the contrast is way too much. just looks like you threw some buttons on the side and then added some text. it would work for a simple page, but if you want something to draw people in, it needs to be a lot more advanced.

so, yes. frame the page with some sort of graphic, or do something to draw the overall content of the page together, rather than it looking like stuff has just been thrown on the screen. black text on blue background is hard to read.. id chagne the blue, and also put some sort of color behind the text so its readable (again, if you add a background image graphic of some sort behind the logo/buttons/text, this would be easy to do.

i also really dont understand what that image bar is doing at the bottom of the screen. i tried to scroll/drag past it for a good 5 seconds before realizing its just an image hanging out down there.

on sublevel pages, i woudlnt use the same pill graphics as the links at the bottom. it looks kind of tacky.

sorry if this sounds overly critical, im not trying to be... you do have a good start.

Thanks for the input its great to get so many comments obviously I cant make all them work as we all have out own tastes and what we like but I agree it looks to flat. I have lots to be getting on with now so maybe in a week or so take another look and see how I am getting on.
Thanks to everyone for there help
UJ

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Good luck

Noticed something else you have it set so the buttons open a new window that is realy annoying.

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not at bad site vanilla , just some more advise to union jack , The hardest thing about creating a webpage is to actually start off the design , using your mind can be hard, the best thing to do is to get lots of images from , girls , cars , dj's , and stock photography, get familiar with PSP or Photoshop , I recommend PSP for begginers as it has more or less all the same functions as Photoshop, download some fonts and play around with the images , use built in tools like clone brush , gamma , or maybe get some plug ins, dont go to heavy on the design as ppl dont want to be sat waiting for ages for images to appear, stick to a color scheme , dont go wild crazy colors , try and come away from bright colors esp Red / Blue / Yellow, White and Black are perfect , use .gif compression instead of JPG and Defo use CSS , otherwise the text will look shit. check this site out

www.thebestdesigns.com

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ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert."

OK back again, I took all of your ideas and worked on some new looks.
Its not bright any more. I have put the buttons at the top now, hope this helps.
I am slowly getting there, I got photoshop8 at the weekend, been playing around with it at least my images are not going blocky now.
I want to get the links page done so it has more info. so any links to your sites or places of interest pass them on please.
I have someone setting me up a pop up free forum so that's more stuff to look forward to.
As for now i want to just get more info up any 1 got pics i can put up?
By the way the radio station linked onto my site is back up and running, Just got to wait to they go back on air.
Trance Zone Uk

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