web design

[okee]

If you want an easy way to try out fonts/colour schemes etc take a look at
the Artisteer demo it creates themes for Joomla, wordpress and a few more
as well as exports to normal html, It's a quick and easy way to test a look

Demo video
http://www.artisteer.com/?p=demo

Version 3 Download

http://www.artisteer.com/?p=download_v3p

[trucidare]

something like this?



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[Ian Price]

Not sure about the woodgrain effect, but that's appealing

[Kitty Hello]

Yes, it's nice. I think something metallic might work, too.
Or wet glass (http://wallpaperstock.net/water-drops_wallpapers_6852_1280x1024_1.html )

How about blue instead of orange?



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[trucidare]

hehehe its your site send me the blue buttons and i use them.

the wood in background is for my eyes bright white makes me sleepy

[erico]

Looking at erico's portfolio, That image he did for the Darkbasic competition is brilliant.
Something like that in the header would really spice things up

My god, that was a long hand draw I did I never though would make anywhere!
Now it gets posted here, brings tears

Yes. Erico's work is really stunning. I never thought I'd met such an artist in my life.
But I guess he's pretty busy. ... or expensive

Neither of both, well, actually busy is sometimes correct, since I do work for publicity, sometimes I get full weeks of 14-16h day work (and still get home and work on my own stuff after such), but sometimes I get months off, It's quite unpredictable.

I can help with anything needed for this,
will try to come up with something soon to show up,
can't promise though, it's close to Christmas...

[Schranz0r]

I think the buttons are to big for this design...
And PLS make a "Download Free 2D-Version now" so everyone can easy download the newest setup. 

[ketil]

Not to be rude, but all of these designs seem a little "homemade" to me.
There are a lot of good basic themes for most cms'es out there.
Why not get an graphics artist to tweak one of them to suit your needs ? (having one built from scratch would be expensive).
Have a look in communities like http://abduzeedo.com/
There you can find a lot of inspiration and some good templates (if you dont build them from scratch).
Heres a joomla template I built from scratch for an customer http://www.caponemolde.no/
It's totally cluttered by the customer since I delivered it, bad pictures, symmetry distorted ao., but you get an idea. This was also one of my first websites, so my design is far superior nowdays.
I might be able to help in a couple of months, but I am far to busy right now.
Btw. What CMS do the glbasic site use ?

[Kitty Hello]

It's all my own php code :/

[Kuron]

Gernot:  If it is any condolence, I have spent the past three weeks trying to come up with a design for my web site and I still do not have anything remotely decent looking to put online. 

The GLB site has always looked fairly good to me, so no matter what you decide upon, I am sure it will look great.

[MrTAToad]

I think the new design looks very professional.  It just needs to show the top 3 Showcase pictures on the main page...

[Hatonastick]

Ohhh look.  A spam account with pseudo advice.


[EDIT] Previous post removed. Ian

Oi, who let you into my post?

Not to derail the thread, maybe I'll post this somewhere else but I swear GLB forum has become really hard to access lately.  So many timeouts and failed messages.  I thought maybe it was my link but I haven't had any trouble with the other forums I'm on.

[MrTAToad]

Had no problems here

[Ian Price]

No problems here either.

[Moru]

No problems for me either, snappier than usual. Could it be the link to europe from australia? Is other european sites slow too?