New Design

[Plux]

Quick job, I tried to make it simple, with reds & greys:

How could I improve it?

The red & bold nav would obviously be for the active link or hover.

edit: this is a blog layout by the way.

[[Oli]]

Nice, Clean, Simple.
Good overall

Does give me some sort of 'prefabricated blog design' feeling.. (meaning it's not really unique looking)

Perhaps do some more with the content area ?

anyway nice colorsheme

[Source]

Too simple, too basic. I just don't like layouts that are that simple... a 5 min job surely? I can't see you spending too much time on that... that is where the issues lies. Maybe if I saw it with more content in and images I would like it.

Don't get me wrong, I still do like the colour scheme and the idea behind it!

[Plux]

Nice, Clean, Simple.
Good overall

Does give me some sort of 'prefabricated blog design' feeling.. (meaning it's not really unique looking)

Perhaps do some more with the content area ?

anyway nice colorsheme

Yeah it is a blog layout, that'd be the homepage, I'll do content area now.


& Thanks, I was looking through the reds and picked it out.

[Hayd93]

love it. Simple but effective have some rep

[Plux]

love it. Simple but effective have some rep

Thank you.


Here's it with content box & "nav"

[Plux]

Too simple, too basic. I just don't like layouts that are that simple... a 5 min job surely? I can't see you spending too much time on that... that is where the issues lies. Maybe if I saw it with more content in and images I would like it.

Don't get me wrong, I still do like the colour scheme and the idea behind it!

It was a 5 minute job, I didn't expect it to come out as amazing quality, I've posted it with example content, it's just a simple blog layout really.

[Excellent]

I love it! But the navigation ruins it, try something else. Well done. Can you see how good you can design WITHOUT brushes now?

[Plux]

I love it! But the navigation ruins it, try something else. Well done. Can you see how good you can design WITHOUT brushes now?

I agree, the nav is terrible, I'll change it soon.
& Thanks, I guess brushes just seemed to be my saviour

[[Oli]]

When you make a design, theres certain things you should watch out for:

- Header & nav have rounded boxes, try keep your main content rounded boxes too as it feels out of place now
- When you have a certain ammount of px of space between 2 boxes, keep that ammount the same everywhere you have spaces between boxes.. it will look cleaner

but looks alright