Shadus S

Redesigned theme for TechTyrantNews.com

By Shadus S

   on Oct 17, 2009
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  • Aaran Casey

    Aaran Casey

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    Shadus

    Posted on Oct 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    This is a fair improvement to you last design, however to be honest you are a long way away...

    There a re a few things that you need to understand and research before you put up a website, and I think as I have offered my opinion on all of your designs that I should let you know:

    1. Who is your target Audience? Who are you tring to attract?
    2. What is the goal of your site?
    3. What do you want to achieve?

    Right after you have all those answers, you need to research your competition, what are they doing differently?

    Once you understand that, you need to create a logo, and look at making it a little more complex than now. Once this has been designed and you are happy with it, then you can choose the colours for your site.

    Generally websites, have more than one colour, at the moment you have blue, and a hue of royal blue. The pale blue is not bad, but there is way too much of it.

    Fonts - these are really important, as most people can tell what your site is about without reading anything just by looking at the font.

    Navigation, think about this from the end user's point of view, you need a main navigation, and internal and a footer nav... These help in SEO, and well as the general public / visitors happiness, and ease of use.

    You have a fair bit of work to do, but I believe that you will get there, might I suggest, that you ask some of the better designers on this place to help you out in a visual context.

    Good luck

    • Aaran Casey
      Aaran Casey commented:
      Posted: on Oct 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM

      Shadus, I get that you like the tools in Flash, but they are basically the same in Fireworks... or even try Illustrator, but designing in Flash... not one of the better choices... I only use flash to make UI, not

  • Sabrina Heath

    Sabrina Heath

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    design

    Posted on Oct 18, 2009 at 7:36 PM

    It's too simple, while the solid colors aren't too bad, the design still feels lacking. But it seems you have a basic understanding of laying out things, with improvement, you can get it better!

  • Nate Hamilton

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    Back to the drawing board

    Posted on Oct 19, 2009 at 8:10 AM

    This design really screams of early 90's design. i would take a look at a site like http://www.webcreme.com and gain some inspiration from some of the different sites on there. You should really be designing in Photoshop or fireworks. Flash was never really meant to be a design program.

  • A. Varney

    A. Varney

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    Too outdated

    Posted on Oct 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    Sorry, but it's really not very appealing. It's 20 years behind and really not suitable for a tech news site.

    I can't really imagine how you would realize the markup of the design.

    There's a lot of work to do. Try grabbing some inspiration of the CSS-sites the other users suggested.

  • Jennifer

    Jennifer

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    A bit boring

    Posted on Oct 20, 2009 at 12:05 AM

    Sorry but the site looks a bit boring and outdated.

  • Vincent

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    i'd change everything.

    Posted on Oct 20, 2009 at 4:50 AM

    I'm sorry but this isn't design for me. It's just a sort of powerpoint zoning.

    May be you should change your working method. Don't focus on a sofware.

    1 : do sketches on a paper. try to find colors combinations and layouts.

    2 : Use Photoshop or similar to make it real.

    3 : Use Flash only if you want your website to be in flash.

  • Nicholas Jackson

    Nicholas Jackson

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    Back to the drawing board

    Posted on Oct 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM

    Doesn't look like you've got it when it comes to design - yet. But don't give up, my first sites 5 years ago looked a lot like this, much is down to PhotoShop knowledge, so keep plugging away!

  • Mike Madison

    Mike Madison

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    ummm

    Posted on Oct 21, 2009 at 1:31 AM

    this looks like it was designed in the early 90's try following a few tourtorals on net tuts on designing a website. and i would use photoshop rather than flash

    • Jorrie Neverland
      Jorrie Neverland commented:
      Posted: on Oct 22, 2009 at 7:12 AM

      Looks like '90 dosbox www.patterntap.com for some inspiration I would dish and start over all

  • Miro

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    not working

    Posted on Oct 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    I suggest you browse around here for inspiration http://www.cssdrive.com/

  • Jason Pant

    Jason Pant

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    Everything

    Posted on Oct 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    For a tech news site, it doesn't seem very tech oriented, attractive or aesthetic. It's plain and drab and not very engaging to the eyes.

    I would suggest browsing some of the css galleries like Miro suggested and give a Photoshop concept a try instead of Flash, there are so many more tools and options available to make your concept look great.

  • Swarat Ghosh

    Swarat Ghosh

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    color is too bright!!

    Posted on Oct 18, 2009 at 2:00 AM

    dude, sorry to tell u but the design is very much backdated..need to see lot of latest website' s watch www.cssremix u will get the idea...

  • Alex Fuller

    Alex Fuller

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    was this a joke?

    Posted on Oct 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    I'm assuming you are fairly new to photoshop?

  • Daniel Suarez

    Daniel Suarez

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    redesign

    Posted on Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    I'm sorry, nothing is working in this design. What is your design background? I