Website Revamp

[kiyakotari]

I'm in the process of overhauling my entire website. It's going to be divided into three different sections. Here's the front page of one of those sections - it's inert right now, nothing is active, but this will eventually be functional.



I'll readily admit that I'm very old fashioned in my coding. All handwritten HTML and I even use frames (not iframes, but actual frames). CSS is beyond me. But I usually manage what I'm trying for, even if my methods are outdated. ^_^

Comments

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Very cool graphic!

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I made all the images myself, with the exception of the tiled background, which I found on a free-to-use wallpapers site.

[twigling.livejournal.com]

Love the graphics, it has grabbed my attention. I especially like the terms you use... they are real words but unusual... they twist the tongue and dazzle the mind.

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I spent quite a while coming up with some of those terms for my menus. I knew right off the bat what I wanted for some of them (like "Dramatic Personae" and "Daguerreotypes"), but I really had to ponder the others for a while.

[calalillith.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I really like the layout and colours, and as twigling said, the words you've chosen area really evocative of the mood you're going for :) can't wait to see it when its done!

The only suggestion I have is to maybe make the border elements a little smaller..? It'll make the content 'pop.'

..and handwritten html beats the crap out of what 'wysiwygs' will churn out :)

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Awww, crap. I tried to make the border images smaller, to see how I liked it, and apparently broke my Photoshop. I can't get them to save correctly now! Crap and double crap. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Photoshop to do this stuff. DX

[calalillith.livejournal.com]

o,0

What's it saying..?

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

It's not saying anything, they're just saving blurry now, even though all the save settings are the same. =_= And they're the exact same images.

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

OKAY! Got the pixelation to go away. I still don't know what was wrong, but I tried saving them with a custom matte setting and it worked well enough (though still not the same as they were before, go figure).

[calalillith.livejournal.com]

Hmm. You're probably already doing this, but are you working from the same original source image..?

*late back to the party*