need fresh eyes, pls.

hi guys,

lately i have been rejected zillion times so i decided to post preview here in order to get some good advices before i try uploading.

this is something i am working on. it’s not finished yet (footer for example) and i am kinda tired of looking at it.

any advice is more than welcome.

ty!

URL : http://www.iac.hr/Template_015.jpg

It’s far from Monochrome at least….just kidding

Too much gradients for my taste. Messaging is not clear enough, for example you have the logo in the middle then some wording under it in that rounded box, thumbs next to recent posts, what are they? And so on, you get me?

Headings in sidebar are in ugly color and don’t fit at all. There you have it, brutal answer .

Besides that, I think it’s a nice temp and needs more improvement. With a little bit of reordering and attention to details you can make a good one out of it

Cheers.

yeah your layout/idea isn’t bad but it needs quite a bit of work yet to make it truly profitable. Remember just getting it approved doesn’t = sales…

thnx for advices. i’ll post V2.0 soon

@segen: i wanted advice. so brutal answers are welcome as well.

Please accept this as constructive criticism; I like your ideas and creativity.

Personally I’d make the ‘let us colour your life’ bit into a drop-down; it looks ok but would look better if it were something of use that you could hide. I’d use the same gradient you used in the main header (very top) for the sidebar backgrounds (Recent News, Testimonials) and make the sidebar more narrow so you can fit in larger thumbs in the centre. Finally, I’d either turn the header upside-down to become the footer image or drop the footer image in favour of a drop shadow. Maybe even add a barcode style font or something futuristic like the font ‘Federation Bold’. Hmm…..

Nice idea.

Finally, I’d either turn the header upside-down to become the footer image or drop the footer image in favour of a drop shadow.

i am not sure if i understood this part correctly. can you explain it a bit better? thank you.

hi guys, here is newer version:

http://www.iac.hr/Template_015-2.jpg

i preserved old one too:

http://www.iac.hr/Template_015.jpg

so if you have some time, please take a look and shoot brutal posts. they’re all helpful and welcome.

It definately looks better

It definately looks better

Only one question: what happens if an user needs 5 or more buttons in the navigation menu?

you’re right. i plan to fix that in new preview.

i was thinking to make portfolio scroller smaller and put bigger links under the logo (at position over light grey). this way links would be bigger and will be able to put more links.

thank you.

image updated with new link layout.