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New Tableless Layout

Hey guys, I have a new layout that I am making for my website, and before I go any further on it, I'd like some critiques. I uploaded it to a random folder on my webserver, and am going to buy a domain once I get some more content.

Anyways, here it is.

http://forum-host.net/codestack

It doesn't use tables, and I made it completely by hand. I hope I'm not stealing anyone's design, because I honestly made this without any inspiration.

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Holy ****, its Dean fucking Venture!

I'm delighted that it's a tableless layout, but nonetheless, it lacks substance. Just borders and colors, borders and colors, nothing exciting or aesthetically tantalizing.

Are you familiar with Photoshop? I suggest you design your layouts graphically (even if you have few or zero images) before coding them. If you code first, it limits your creativity, whereas designing before placing restrictions on code allows for the maximum leeway in your design.

Also, your code is almost valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. I hope you'll work out the kinks if you're gonna stay with this blanche layout and at least be able to bear the W3C's approval.

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Originally posted by Sodfather
I'm delighted that it's a tableless layout, but nonetheless, it lacks substance. Just borders and colors, borders and colors, nothing exciting or aesthetically tantalizing.

Are you familiar with Photoshop? I suggest you design your layouts graphically (even if you have few or zero images) before coding them. If you code first, it limits your creativity, whereas designing before placing restrictions on code allows for the maximum leeway in your design.

Also, your code is almost valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. I hope you'll work out the kinks if you're gonna stay with this blanche layout and at least be able to bear the W3C's approval.

I wish I had more images, however I am not sure where I could place them. There really isn't much I can do with it anyways, except maybe some backgrounds and a header. Also, I am planning some images next to the links.

Thankyou very very much for your response though, and it will be taken seriously.

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Holy ****, its Dean fucking Venture!

Not too bad, the text from the roll overs is in a bad place in my opinion. Some form of image, im thinking a faded background in the content area, like in this here attachment, not exactly like this, i just threw it together real quick

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It's not to bad. Maybe on the text roll over make it a different color. It also looks very plain, and I think lack of images.

Just my two sense.

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There's nothing really to look at. And that's what websites are all about - content.

The problem is the colors are too bland. The desaturated look just doesn't work. The fonts could be smaller in terms of the navigation and I'd recommend taking out the :: doodads.

Also, you need to think about consistency. You have Mark's Stuff indented and the headers of the content as well, but you didn't indent the text below each header, which kinda breaks up the flow.

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Nick
Pixel-Infinity