Post your websites!
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- GTP_JosX
Graffix Studio - A site to share your graphics, get help with graphics & have a good time.
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- GTP_Jondot
Shouldn't a site with a name like "Graffix Studio" be able to design their own "Graffix"?
There's not much to say really. The skin is the same on one of your other forums, and from what I can see it's only been up since 2 hours before you posted it here (bullets have left guns slower), so it's just a shell.
One thing I can comment on is the background image. You clearly haven't altered it in any way before you uploaded it, seeing as it's 600kb in size and 1600 pixels wide by 1200 tall, and it has to go. Not everyone is on 5mb broadband and it takes far too long to load. And you badly need a logo.
It's not a very positive comment from me, but I'll be positive when the Vista fad is over and people start designing their sites to look like something other than the latest OS.
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- (GTP_) dustdriver
Jondot has a point (no pun intended)
Working with css isn't that hard and there are a lot of tutorials online to help you.
If i make a side i would finish the design completely before showing to someone else, not just the beginning of it.
(and not made by using an existing theme i found somewhere on the internet)
Working with css isn't that hard and there are a lot of tutorials online to help you.
If i make a side i would finish the design completely before showing to someone else, not just the beginning of it.
(and not made by using an existing theme i found somewhere on the internet)
- 2,808
How did I know one of the semi-older members would say something about that. I retract my original statement, however the fact remains that you're 10 to 1 more likely to find a younger, less-experienced 'web designer' posting in a post your websites thread here than on an actual, dedicated web or graphic design forum.
I don't appreciate people getting torn apart for no reason - We all sucked at one point.
Let me ask you: how awesome did you feel the first time you installed a forum and selected some pre-made theme, or created your first HTML site that actually utilized the color and underline attributes? Personally I felt darn good, and I told everyone I knew (black background, BRIGHT green and orange text. 👍 ). I agree a user shouldn't post the same design more than once, or an incomplete site, but even so, there is no point at tearing up a member who is trying to learn.
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- (GTP_) dustdriver
I wasn't proud when i made my first site, i found it hideous 
I want my work to look good before i show it to someone.
Jondot himself said that the comment wasn't nice, but Joey now knows what he has to change. Practice makes perfect, and you can only practice when you make it yourself or adjust it after copying. (css in so much easier to learn if you have good examples to toy with)
I want my work to look good before i show it to someone.
Jondot himself said that the comment wasn't nice, but Joey now knows what he has to change. Practice makes perfect, and you can only practice when you make it yourself or adjust it after copying. (css in so much easier to learn if you have good examples to toy with)
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- GTP_JosX
My main aim in the next few months is to learn all the main languages such as CSS & PHP
My first site was made entirely of images & text & only works on low screen resolution
http://computing-world.net
My first site was made entirely of images & text & only works on low screen resolution
http://computing-world.net
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- GTP_Jondot
That's a fair point, and I agree with you. Without digging up what Joey has posted in here over the past year, it's very difficult to argue my point. And, because I don't want to do that, I'll admit defeat and say that yes, I was quite harsh there.
However, you've got to realise that to a degree I was arguing a point I'd posted in here exactly 2 weeks ago. I could have copied and pasted the first 2 paragraphs into that post instead and it still would have made sense.
Yes I was fairly harsh, but when history repeats it's self it you become less patient. I apologise if I offended anyone (especially Joey), but I hope you can see where I was coming from.
(For the record, since that post I've been talking to Joey about what he might want his site to include in the future and have offered to help him. So no hard feelings I hope)
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Just so you know, I had read what you said two weeks ago before I replied.
I would imagine most people felt a sense of accomplishment once they completed their first work, but I could be wrong. It is how I felt, for sure.DustDriverI wasn't proud when i made my first site, i found it hideous
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- (GTP_) dustdriver
But maybe the difference was that i already knew how to make sites before i actually made one myself,
and still it didn't look good
and still it didn't look good
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- AlexGibbo27
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- GTP_Jondot
Same. I clicked the link in his Signature and found it.
Ok, CCX. This is the 6th site you've posted in here that you don't appear to have tried designing yourself. No kidding. Here's the posts, remember them?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2583543&postcount=271
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2491004&postcount=214
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2440709&postcount=153 (That one wasn't even yours, and infact your advertising there appears to have been deleted)
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2429841&postcount=144
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2439262&postcount=147
I appreciate that coding is difficult to grasp (everyone starts with pre-designed templates) but you've got to move on! This is your 6th site now - stick with one and develop that! This is just me, but I can't see the reward in creating site after site after site and abandoning them after a month. That's a bit like getting a canvas out, painting your name at the bottom and then giving up.
Now, if you'd created that skin yourself, I'd have given some critique and told you what to change etc. And so would everyone else, I should think. Why? Because you put the effort in to try and work it out yourself. I started off the same way, but I realised that nobody wants to see the same design over and over, and so I had a go at desiging myself. My first attempt sucked, but atleast it was mine. Honestly, start trying and we'll start helping.
I would tell you what needs changing with that design, but I don't think it's really worth doing. Until you carry out the difficult task of sticking "css tutorials" in Google, you won't be able to do anything about it. Until you try, you won't get anywhere.
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- (GTP_) dustdriver
You can make such a free forum look like you want by adapting the css file.
There are some high quality forums made by using such a free hosting thing.
There are some high quality forums made by using such a free hosting thing.
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- GTP_Jondot
Okay Jondot, breath. Lets just decide not to reply to a post if the URL has the word free in it, that way no one gets their heads ripped off.
I know...
I'm stopping now for the sake of my health. It's just...so...ARGH! But hey, I know when I'm not being listened to
. Well, by the people I'm replying to at least...
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- AlexGibbo27
Well I'll be honest,
UFGaming was not mine
gt4art was gm's
the3 was not mine
ExoticWheels however was,
And so is torqueshift,
Now on torqueshift All;s I have made so far is the 'new post' and 'no new posts' icons, (one being a gold wheel the other being silver) The banner which will be replaced shortly didnt exactly take as long as the london 2012 logo.
I'm quite close to purchasing a domain for exoticwheels or torqueshift depending on which one is running most efficiently and has the most activity,
I'm also 15 and quite new all this domain and hosting stuff, i never really seriously looked into it until now. I dont exactly have millions to spend on getting a domain, and I haven't a clue where the best place to purchase a domain from is.
at that given time having a small website was just a bit of fun and I wasnt exactly trying to become a billionare trying it.
What I need to know now are, for a relative beginner, what is a good place to purchase a domain, and hosting package? (if separate sites so be it)
UFGaming was not mine
gt4art was gm's
the3 was not mine
ExoticWheels however was,
And so is torqueshift,
Now on torqueshift All;s I have made so far is the 'new post' and 'no new posts' icons, (one being a gold wheel the other being silver) The banner which will be replaced shortly didnt exactly take as long as the london 2012 logo.
I'm quite close to purchasing a domain for exoticwheels or torqueshift depending on which one is running most efficiently and has the most activity,
I'm also 15 and quite new all this domain and hosting stuff, i never really seriously looked into it until now. I dont exactly have millions to spend on getting a domain, and I haven't a clue where the best place to purchase a domain from is.
at that given time having a small website was just a bit of fun and I wasnt exactly trying to become a billionare trying it.
What I need to know now are, for a relative beginner, what is a good place to purchase a domain, and hosting package? (if separate sites so be it)
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- GTP_Div
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- GTP_Jondot
Nice 👍
One thing that I'd change is the border on the left column (FAQ, Categories etc). Change the border colour to something like #2A2A2A so that it stands out a little better. Having said that, I think all bordered content would look better with a darker outline (like the featured products).
Also, I'd stick the categories into the tables like the shopping cart and FAQ. It just looks a little out of place to me.
Other than that, it looks fine to me. I'd have a rollover image navbar, but that's just me.
One thing that I'd change is the border on the left column (FAQ, Categories etc). Change the border colour to something like #2A2A2A so that it stands out a little better. Having said that, I think all bordered content would look better with a darker outline (like the featured products).
Also, I'd stick the categories into the tables like the shopping cart and FAQ. It just looks a little out of place to me.
Other than that, it looks fine to me. I'd have a rollover image navbar, but that's just me.
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I'm always open to suggestions, yours make a lot of sense.
Any example of the rollover image navbar?
Any example of the rollover image navbar?
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- GTP_Jondot
Basically, it's when an image changes when you wave your mouse over it. It's handy if you want to show a link as highlighted.
Example (my site): http://www.thecarforum.net/forum/
Move your mouse over the navbar images and they change blue. You can essentially do whatever you want with them too. If it seems a bit daunting, Dreamweaver has a wizard for setting it up.
Mine's actually a bit outdated. The whole design is being replaced this summer anyway, but hey.
Bobk: Really? Is there any specific type you dislike? As long as you do it tastefully, I don't mind them. Even just something like the text underlining or changing colour can be effective (even if you can do that via the CSS in the first place).
Example (my site): http://www.thecarforum.net/forum/
Move your mouse over the navbar images and they change blue. You can essentially do whatever you want with them too. If it seems a bit daunting, Dreamweaver has a wizard for setting it up.
Mine's actually a bit outdated. The whole design is being replaced this summer anyway, but hey.
Bobk: Really? Is there any specific type you dislike? As long as you do it tastefully, I don't mind them. Even just something like the text underlining or changing colour can be effective (even if you can do that via the CSS in the first place).
