Design advice
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Design advice
Here is my first attempt at a website http://www.chattennis.com. I need design advice, critique, etc. Any advice would be much appreciated and please be brutally honest.
- Christopher
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Firstly, it only displays correctly in IE. Firefox has the left column overlapping the middle and other problems. Then the site does not resize gracefully. I think specifying minimum widths would fix this.
As far as the design it is a little bland but fine. Little things like removing the letters from the logo and putting a mouth chatting (or two tennis balls chatting!?), cleaner corners ...
As far as the design it is a little bland but fine. Little things like removing the letters from the logo and putting a mouth chatting (or two tennis balls chatting!?), cleaner corners ...
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I have changed the look of mytennis forums site a bit. I think it looks a little plain. Is there anything I can do to spice it up a little bit without overdoing it?
I would start with 2 things:
- the header is very large. if it were a beautiful image and only on one page, that might be ok. but in this case it's a bit of a waste of screen estate, in my opinion.
- the light blue color combined with the white makes it all very cold and pale. White is not bad, but combined with light colors it is. If you'd change the blue to a darker, warmer blue it would improve a lot.
- the header is very large. if it were a beautiful image and only on one page, that might be ok. but in this case it's a bit of a waste of screen estate, in my opinion.
- the light blue color combined with the white makes it all very cold and pale. White is not bad, but combined with light colors it is. If you'd change the blue to a darker, warmer blue it would improve a lot.
Try googling for some info on color schemes. Your design as it stands now is using two colors that are very close in value and don't have a formal relationship as applied to the color wheel. Try messing around with background-color and taking putting a warm color from the red side in, like a rust orange/ clay court color. Tertiary tension. Or see how adding a dark green for an analogous approach would keep things more elegant.