Criticize my first site Please

  • relicshooter

    (@relicshooter)


    19 years ago

    Hello.
    I would really appreciate some constructive criticism on my new site if you have some time please,

    I basically wrote my own theme from scratch, trying to get more of a CMS type structure than a bloggy type site.

    As you’ll find out, it is very basic, I am currently tweakin the posts and pages templates now, mostly finished on the index page and the categories pages apart from any tweaks you guys might have for me.

    Feel free to be as harsh as you like I am a grown boy now I dont mind(Im already really depressed at the moment anyway lol!!!)

    BTW I’m not very good with CSS etc so its quite old-schooly and nestled in tables and whatnot but as time goes by and I get better with the stylesheets etc I’ll come away from that.

    The url is

    relicshooter.com

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  • Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    19 years ago

    Feels a little 90ish to me. But if this is your first time ever writing a theme congrats on that.

    Probably if you got rid or the borders around every table cell it would look a little better. Here is a good place to start learning about css.

    Thread Starter relicshooter

    (@relicshooter)

    19 years ago

    thanks for that, yes I thought it looked a bit oldschool too, I was aiming to break up the page a little coz all white looks a bit boring,

    thanks for the link,

    to improove my design skills will take some time and practise, I would also like any input as to the general layout/navigation,

    thanks agaion jeremy

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    19 years ago

    Ditch the tables, CSS is a alot more rewarding and alot more flexible. Experiment with color. Color is good.

    Thread Starter relicshooter

    (@relicshooter)

    19 years ago

    thanks mate, i’m going for it now!

    I found some cool corner “niftycorners” css rounded corner trick with no images or tables!

    So now all I need to do is work out how to section off parts like if I had tables,
    For example the three boxes I have on the front are still in tables I would like to get them out just need to get used to the syle and stuff for that,

    Ok so thanks so far you’ve kinda pushed me into making sure I at least get it a bit of the way there, got me dove into the CSS ive been putting off learning for months!

    About to maybe change the header etc, I like those rounded corners I found so I am gonna go with that and add some colors etc whooami.

    Again thanks for the input, I’ll be more than happy to put my finished template up with a thourough Readme, coz I have had to add some quite custom tweaks I havent found on many other templates yet,

    I am going for the CMS style, but instead of using the pages I have the posts, pulling fresh content to the front page in a well organised way, etc etc,
    I really dig the input so far guys thanks again

    Alex Cragg

    (@epicalex)

    19 years ago

    So now all I need to do is work out how to section off parts like if I had tables

    if you place things in divs, and assign them a unique id, like
    <div id="news">
    etc, you can then style each of these divs seperately and change their position etc.

    once you start with CSS, you will love it, its so flexible.

    rounded corners are cool! 🙂

    Thread Starter relicshooter

    (@relicshooter)

    19 years ago

    thanks,
    I will play with that, I have been scared since last time I tried defining absolute positions I did it wrong and stuck a google ad in the middle of the screen, stuck when you scrolled round etc!! lol
    reading that link though I can see where I went wrong, still not to sure about defining positions and absolutes if the content may be of a varying size, like what if I had content too big for the specified <div>??

    anyway again thanks for the tips, great forum this is

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