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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

[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;



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)