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[Calon]

Right, I've started work on Nivade 3 (Other owner is finishing Nivade 2).

What style/colors should I go for within this design, any helpful ideas will be +REP'd.

Bare in mind Nivade is a social networking website.

[redtom]

I would say some sort of clean white design, seems to be the in thing atm.

[Calon]

I would say some sort of clean white liquid design, seems to be the in thing atm
I was thinking of doing that, but I don't really want a layout which is going to consume heeps on bandwidth on each page.

[Nereo]

Yes, simplicity is important. People dont want too much on the page. Make it clean, white is a good colour to go for.

Simplicity is what made Google so big :P

[redtom]

I was thinking of doing that, but I don't really want a layout which is going to consume heeps on bandwidth on each page.

Use as little images as possible, you could proberly do most of the design using CSS.

[Calon]

Use as little images as possible, you could proberly do most of the design using CSS.
Yeah, infact that's not a bad idea.

Any color suggestions?

[Redacted]

white bg, curved dialog boxes and big curved text!

[Funya Chin]

Take simplicity hints from last.fm.

[Calon]

Take simplicity hints from last.fm.
Last.fm has a pretty good design, nice and basic. I think I have any idea of how I want the layout, but I still need color ideas.

[redtom]

I would use these types of colours;

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4206/sdfsdfsxb6.gif

The whites for the majority of the layout, the greys for the footers, headers and main text on the whites, and then use properly not one of the 3 actual colours I've got there but something close to them for things like the logo and for text to stand out, like hyperlinks. (But just one not all three)

[Calon]

I would use these types of colours;

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4206/sdfsdfsxb6.gif

The whites for the majority of the layout, the greys for the footers, headers and main text on the whites, and then use properly not one of the 3 actual colours I've got there but something close to them for things like the logo and for text to stand out, like hyperlinks. (But just one not all three)
Not keen on the red, unless use for the logo.

But thanks for the "color pallete" I should most likely use something like this.

[Jahova]

Yep, the more simple the more better, but put a bit of colour into it.