Hello everyone, Im making a PodCast with my friend and I designed a site layout to go with it, however It doesnt feel right... Let me know what you guys think and what I should do to make it better. I really appreciate the input and thanks in advance for any help.

~Talimore

EDIT:

Forgot to post th layout lol.

http://whatwereplaying.com/images/l2.jpg

To be honest the colour scheme isn't too appealing and I wouldnt have guessed it was a game website until I saw the "inFamous" Article on the right of the page

If you check out most gaming websites, their headers and logos etc. all have a game sort of theme

If yours is a gaming podcast, perhaps you could have a Wii with headphones on or something, whenever I design, I "Design for my content" - Basically meaning whatever the content of the website is, i try to include that in the design

Hosting company layout - Perhaps some form of network image in the header or logo

Gaming website - A console or controller for a logo etc.

Try and be more creative with the design, at the moment it just seems a bit "Bubbly". Also, it could be that i'm at work and tired, but it took me a while to even notice the navigation! hehe

I think the idea of the website is pretty cool and that it could be something fairly popular, but the design could be a whole load better.

Have a look at this tutorial: http://www.pixel2life.com/viewtutorial/692...t_from_scratch/

This one has a very "Media Feel" about it, but is still a website about gaming, i think thats the sort of look you should try and go for.

I hope you can understand this lol, I confused myself while writing haha, but still...

Any questions i'll be happy to ask them or point you in the right direction if you get lost

That tutorial is what I was kinda going for. I like it a lot. Gonna give that a try and see what happens. Thanks for the link. I knew it was off just didn know how to fix it.

No worries dude, post your result when you're done

Would love to see the results, N4Z pretty much cleared everything up lol.

I finished the new layout. In the content Window I plan on having it scroll so the page will be dynamic. Also, I think I will move the Login | Register | Account text so that it is resting near the top of the navigation. Also what can I do to the logo to make it POP more lol. Thanks in advance for the tips and suggestions. Also, I am going to make the picture of infamous you see there be a scroll picture between articles. This style i scommon ony many websites. Something like the one at Gamespot. Anyway, yeah tell me what you all think.

http://whatwereplaying.com/images/layoutnew.jpg

EDIT: What is that thing called on gamespot? An Image Slider? Im good with php/html/css but I have never done Java so Im looking for a tutorial.

wow, looking good dude.

Here's an awesome little tutorial for a jQuery image slider you should take a look at:

[url="http://www.pixel2life.com/viewtutorial/73827/making_a_slick_content_slider_with_jquery/[/url]

Keep it up man!

Edit: Link error fixed.

It's one am here in Japan so Im going to go to bed but check this topic back tomorrow night because when I wake up (after a few hours of classes) im going to go and start coding this thing. It wll take me most of the day though because I am coding a custom user database and forum from scratch. And on top of that is the image sliding thing. So end of tomorrow il come back and post a link to he demo site lol. I also need to code a news program that intergrates into my user database. But check back if you want to see the completed site.