Some Design Suggestions

[jerxs]

I had huge plans for this domain, but I fucked around with it to long and have made it my own personal dump for basically whatever the hell I feel like dumping there. Its actually become the highlight of my day, posting senseless shit to my personal blog

Im sort of stuck on the design though, I started with a whore template then stripped it down a bit added some personal touches, but Ive hit a dead end, its to plain, but I cant get anything work, Ive tryed wrapping the content and sidebar in a div and adding a bg to set it off, but didnt work, tryed adding some style to the nav, didnt fly........

If you have a creative eye, take a look and shoot some design ideas this way

The link is in my sig.

Thanks Jer

 

[wickedDUDE]

well for one the videos on your main page slow its loading time down tremendously. why not have a thumbnail of the video and link to it on another page (for all of them)

 

[jerxs]

Yes I really nead to do something about that. Im working with wordpress on this one and dont know how I would go about doing that. I may down the road, find someone that knows PHP do it for me, if I can not find an easy sollution.

 

[guysmy]

I really like that theme. I don't believe the design should attract too much attention for a site like that anyway. The monochromatic look brings your eye to where it should be - the content.

Here's one suggestion: the little goldfish with headphones icon is a bit tough to make out next to your post headlines. Why not change it up a bit and maybe have just a headphone icon or a goldfish from the side view. Try using an icon ie pixel art instead of a photo for this. Better yet, if you get some clever programming in there you could tag each post and have an icon for different categories like here on wickedfire - one for videos, news etc.

 

[darkpedro]

Why not embed the content from youtube or another site like it? You'll save on bandwidth if nothing else. Let google pay for it.

 

[jerxs]

I really like that theme. I don't believe the design should attract too much attention for a site like that anyway. The monochromatic look brings your eye to where it should be - the content.

Here's one suggestion: the little goldfish with headphones icon is a bit tough to make out next to your post headlines. Why not change it up a bit and maybe have just a headphone icon or a goldfish from the side view. Try using an icon ie pixel art instead of a photo for this. Better yet, if you get some clever programming in there you could tag each post and have an icon for different categories like here on wickedfire - one for videos, news etc.

Thanks for the compliment and the suggestions, Im going to play with a few different icons to see what I can come up with.

Im going to have to work on the clever programming im not to good with php, I can look at a template and tell whats what, but actually writing the code, forget it.

Darkpedro, I do use Google and Youtube from time to time, but I was getting the feeling that the site was begining to look a bit generic, so I started embeding video.