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My comic is now going into its 3rd chapter, and I've gotten a few critiques. A few of them have been about web design. I am a total noob at designing web pages, and don't have a good grasp on what I'm doing wrong, so I was hoping I could get some critiques amd pointers from you guys, thanks.

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Post by Warofwinds »

I would recommend 4 things:

A color scheme. Right now you have blue on black (with red turnover buttons), but adding another color in there, like a gray or reddish orange would brings a more finished quality to the page. This would especially help in tables, with border colors and bg colors.

Smaller nav buttons. They are teh huge. You could easily shrink them down to half that size. These -might- be better left-aligned than right, but that's personal pref.

Bring up your comic nav buttons to right below the comic, and have them be the same size. Maybe it's just my browser, but they are far below the comic right now.

And lastly, a larger title, with an image that represents your comic more than the chair. The chair is funny, but people are coming to see your comic. ;) Pimp out your art in this! It's the first thing people see on your site.

I don't know if this was the kind of stuff you wanted or the actual code, but good luck shaping your site the way you want it!
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Post by Johndar »

thanks alot war of winds for the tips. And yeah, im not asking about coding, I dont even do the coding, I have a friend for that. Your comment was exactly the kind of stuff im looking for.

A nicer title would deffinately help, but I deffinately have to have the chair somewhere in there :wink. I'll try to implement it another way though, as your right, it doesn't really say anything about the comic.

Thanks for the feedback!

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Post by Gengar003 »

Red and blue should not go together, if it can be helped. (As a general rule)
"If you hear a voice inside you saying "you are not an artist," then by all means make art... and that voice shall be silenced"
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Post by Sedition »

Try making it flow a little more. Personally, when I read comics I enjoy the ones with a cleaner, more flowing website. Don't make the nev. buttons to complicated, and put them right under the comic. And try putting them on the left side instead of the right, that's where they are generally at.

As for colors, from an artistic standpoint I would say don't put red and blue together. If you want to use blue, try using cool colors with it. Try shades of green or purple. Those go together better then a mixture of both.

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Post by Johndar »

Thanks for the input guys. I've made a new design in Photo shop that my web designer friend is going to code for me. I might try to learn a bit more about HTML myslef though, I hate being so dependent on him. Here's what the new design is going to be for the main page:
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