My Site (temporary)

[JayBird]

Ok right now until i register a domain, i used a geocities account here it is:



http://www.geocities.com/musicimages135/

ENJOY!

[RabBell]

ehrmmm...

shouldn't there be a design?

[JayBird]

what ya mean?

it's under construction havn't you seen the front page?

[sebus]

i'm sorry but that's just awful .. go back to the drawing board, look at other sites for inspiration.. learn photoshop/flash; learn the basics first.. keep at it !

[cameron_]

i'm sorry but that's just awful .. go back to the drawing board, look at other sites for inspiration.. learn photoshop/flash; learn the basics first.. keep at it !

yeah, it needs a lot of work - I wouldnt spend any time there...

[JayBird]

did you ckick the continue button?
or the 'preview' button? if ya did, did you like the nav buttons at least?

[RabBell]

yes, I did and thats the part of the site I'm talking about

I'm gonna be harsh cause it's what people like to read :thumb:

it's terrible, truly bad. The buttons you mention are way too big, bulky, amateurish, horrible, just bad bad buttons.

Go back to the drawing board. Learn design. Browse some of the web sites below and look at what you should be aspiring towards. I'm not saying you should be producing sites like this but it gives you something to shoot towards

http://www.styleboost.com/
http://fcukstar.com/
http://www.moluv.com/
http://www.favouritewebsiteawards.com/home.html

try some design books, try learning photoshop, sorry but you need to learn more before working on your site...

[colombianking]

its just aweful
sorry to be mean
but learn some more
and put more effort

[JayBird]

um with the first site? their buttons are kinda big too.. is it cuz mine just plain suck? :snooze:
also, i know flash, PS7,6, pagemaker alittle of truespace....and other stuff :ponder:

[JayBird]

and i know alot more flash than most adults too (about a million (that's including CHina)) so STOP SAYING I GOTTA LEARN MORE!!! soz for being harsh, it's just my first full flash site, Except for PollyGone.(you'd prob say to work on it more lol) so plz
if you want to say: HOLY !@#$ THAT SITE SUCKED!!! it's ok... i want to hear all your opinons

oh and columbianking: your rite i did the WHOLE site in like 5 minutes, just like my avatar lol but hey, it's a work in progress


hey wow... 5 members on my thread, i dunno what that has to do with what we're talking about but...

[JayBird]

I'll showyou what the pollygone page looks like in a sec im on my dad's computer







brb in a sec

[MEvsYOU]

OH.MY.GOD. WHY?

[JayBird]

???? the in the heck r u talking about

oh w8 nvm its my crappy site (see? even i am dissing my site :D)

[3d Nirvana]

and i know alot more flash than most adults too (about a million (that's including CHina)) so STOP SAYING I GOTTA LEARN MORE!!! soz for being harsh, it's just my first full flash site, Except for PollyGone.(you'd prob say to work on it more lol) so plz
if you want to say: HOLY !@#$ THAT SITE SUCKED!!! it's ok... i want to hear all your opinons

oh and columbianking: your rite i did the WHOLE site in like 5 minutes, just like my avatar lol but hey, it's a work in progress


hey wow... 5 members on my thread, i dunno what that has to do with what we're talking about but...


lol i have to agree with the other people's comments sry. and ur age (even tho i dont know how old you are) is not really a point of argument. Many guys here are really young and really good :thumb:

kepp at it and it'll be great some day :)

[JayBird]

im 12 and by the way, you spelled keep wrong lol

PS: thx for saying it in a 'nice way'

[JayBird]

ok here's the Pollygone site i mentioned:


Enjoy!

remmeber: i want ALL opinions!



nvm file too big lol

here's something else instead

it's a password thingy

um i forget the user name and pass lemme check...

[JayBird]

ok the User name is Nick and the Pass is JJ

[3d Nirvana]

im 12 and by the way, you spelled keep wrong lol

PS: thx for saying it in a 'nice way'

it's a typo, we r on a forum, dosent have to be perfect :)

Take critisism and learn from it. Don't defend yourself against it. You'll never get better that way. :)

[JayBird]

i know... it's just me! (also: i am a male, not a...a..girl)

[von_dragon]

Im glad to see your trying but, im sry it is just too... plain...boring...ugly. Make it more iteresting by not only using squares and that plain font. Just me opinion.

btw when rab said to check those sites out for inspiration he meant to look at the links inside of those sites. Not the sites themselves. They are awards sites and give away awards too really cool flash sites. http://www.internettinyawards.com/ thats another good awards site.

[JayBird]

ok kewl! so hows bout a gradinent(you know wat i mean) for the BG?

[JayBird]

!!! Oh DARn!!! My company tagline is: Are you Ready?

[JayBird]

well what about you think about the Construction MC?

[JayBird]

@Von: ah... i see what ya mean...



also, what do you guys think about the password and user thing?



@Von Again: there ya go i edited it now ya happy? lol


ok now i edited my post again, i gotta go, it's getting kinda late

BBT!!!

[von_dragon]

Man dont post that man times in a row. Just edit your post. :thumb:

[3d Nirvana]

ok kewl! so hows bout a gradinent(you know wat i mean) for the BG?

nah gradients are 99% tacky and unprofessional, dont use them :)

and yes there is a edit button that you should be using :)

[Hellion]

:huh: I'm sorry dude, but you need to keep practicing. The good side? At your age, it is GREAT for you to get interested in web design. Think of this... in a couple of years you'll be able to do way better things, if you put your effort into it. But for now, KEEP PRACTING AND GET USED TO TAKE THE HEAT!:skull:

[love police]

is this an alias of WandMan?? :h:

[Sliker_Hawk]

Company? You're 12.
You do need to learn more, probably not about flash, but about design. The buttons are ugly.

lol @ love police.

[innoxist]

Hey, good start. At least you could actionscript at 12. At 12 I was wandering around Neopets. :)

Unfortunately, I think you need to work on your design a little more. The gradient of the buttons make them look too amateurish. There are buttons with gradients that are well-made. You can look up tutorials to do them. A little photoshop won't hurt either.

Look at good websites more, it improves your sense of style. If you're into the metallic look, there're lots of sites around that do it well. A search on Google will also reveal how to make them.

Keep at it!

[JayBird]

yeah Innoxist i am kinda into the metalic look. and i'll take your advice and google some sites and tutorials. alright thx guys!!

[natashavg]

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I just realized this post was from two years ago so hopefully useful to someone if not the original thread starter :D
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Ok so I looked at your site and it reminded my of my website when I was your age. I got interested in web design and spent alot of time learning and reading about html. ALOT of time. SO finally I decided to make something. Several months ago I discovered that it still exists on geocities. I used to have games and stuff on the website but those got removed.

This is my site. www.geocities.com/natashavg (http://www.geocities.com/natashavg). It sucks. It took time.

If you search "free css templates" you can find MANY templates for sites. They will include html, css, and image files. You WANT to learn css. I don't know why no one ever told me that it existed. There are alot of tutorials for css like this tutorial for a button (http://sophie-g.net/jobs/css/e_buttons.htm).

Yeah your site needs alot of work and that's fine because there are alot of reasources out there to help you get going.
I searched for css templates, menu codes, etc to study and learn.
I searched through css tutorials.
I went throught the lynda.com as3 flash tutorials and messed with Illustrator and Photoshop in my spare time.
Searched through forums.

It helps to find a site you like and try to duplicate it. This helps you learn new things and gets your programming moving if you don't have an eye for design.

Also a big help is critiquing other peoples work. When you start noticing what doesn't work, you limit your own use of them. What I think would be kindof neat would be to have a thread where people link to a site and critique it. Not just saying this is a great or awful site but actually explaining why.

(oh, and css can do great things but it is still possible to get a poor looking site using it so looking at other peoples css sites and finding out why they look good is a good idea. Look at WHY sites work AND why sites don't)


//edit. . I just found this really interesting site. You load their page which is OK but not that great. Actually it is one of the submissions. Then you go to view all the submissions that have been made. Each submission is a css file to the EXACT same html file. Every submission has a different feel and it shows how simple and fundamental css is. It is a really cool idea. I've seen this done with tables but not websites.

here is the site (http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/040/040.css&page=3)

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[Pasquale]

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[BoonDock]

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