Advice for adding a bit of color
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:35 pm
I have a website that's about to get migrated from a beta test to a production site. I'm a developer, not a designer; but I don't have a designer helping out.
I feel I've greatly improved the old layout, and I've gotten some very nice comments on the layout being clean/easy to read. But I do feel its still a little too "bare".
Here's the link [beta site with a self-signed SSL cert]
Beta Site of Ballroom Registrar
Things I've thought of doing:
1. Making the solid gray for the "stone" into more of slightly spekled gray
2. Add some kind of green/ivy on the pedestals of the pillars
3. Adding climbing ivy on the pillars (would need to eliminate the transparency effect on the menu/calendar then)
4. Making a real masthead.
Any other thoughts for how to make it slightly more visually interesting?
I feel I've greatly improved the old layout, and I've gotten some very nice comments on the layout being clean/easy to read. But I do feel its still a little too "bare".
Here's the link [beta site with a self-signed SSL cert]
Beta Site of Ballroom Registrar
Things I've thought of doing:
1. Making the solid gray for the "stone" into more of slightly spekled gray
2. Add some kind of green/ivy on the pedestals of the pillars
3. Adding climbing ivy on the pillars (would need to eliminate the transparency effect on the menu/calendar then)
4. Making a real masthead.
Any other thoughts for how to make it slightly more visually interesting?