New Template Design. Give me your thoughts!

[Zenax]

http://freezebox.x10hosting.com/templates/DarkNess/

Take a look, updated version as of 02/12/2006 (UK Time: 12:51)

[unpixelatedgamers]

I like it. 7/10 because the background colours are a bit bland and it seems a bit narrow. Other than that, nice work!

[Zenax]

Thank you, however work still needs to be done to it, but they are minor adjustments for example centering things, and applying little css tweeks. But the mods being made would not affect the overall look!

Regards,
Zenax

[Fedlerner]

Nice nice.. I'll give you a 7.5/10.
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[Zenax]

Thank you, more comments would be appreciated!

[ZeptOr]

You can try some different variations of text colors, for example, the blue text is a little out of place. Regardless, I like your header and overall design

7/10

[Derek]

This is good, 7.3/10

[dyfuse]

It's nice, simple, and straight to the point - I'll give it 8/10.

I agree that the bright blue text may be a bit out of place, but personally I like the color and think its alright!

I feel that with your navigation box with curved corners just feels too unused. There is a great amount of blank space on the right of the box, and the text links seem to far to the left. Maybe (only a suggestion) the space between the text and the outside boundaries of the box are evened out, it would look much more 'snug'. But if this is to be sorted with CSS, then I understand!

(Maybe you may want to try moving the login boxes to the bottom of the navigation panel? - only a suggestion)

[Zenax]

Yeh, I orginally had the login boxes in the bottom of the navigation, and the looked dodgy :S

But thanks for the advice etc.

I am glad this is getting better ratings than my last template I made!

Regards,
Zenax

[dyfuse]

Well, it's good that this one's getting better ratings...anyway, you learn from mistakes/errors and get better as you go along....so it's good to know you heading in the right direction (and not the other way)!

So the login box in the nav box didn't look good? Oh well, just a suggestion. It sometimes just looks out of place, mainly due to the fact that it pushes the text further down the page, and therefore the "main text" of the page is not flush with the nav box.

Best of luck for the fine tuning of this design (and any future designs you create).