RoboticPro

Good evening,

My name is Brian van der Horst, I'm a programmer/(Noob) Designer from the Netherlands
and I'm currently trying to re-design my website: http://www.briansservice.nl

But with everything I make I can't be satisfied with sadly..

I have the following previews:
http://www.briansservice.nl/6/
http://www.briansservice.nl/7/
http://www.briansservice.nl/8/

I also designed a new logo the old one can be find at the main website
the new one can be found at the new layouts. Which I'm pretty satisfied with.

Can someone give me a push in the good direction or give some tips?

Yours faithfully,
Brian van der Horst

thinkbomb

I like the original better than the three examples you gave. Have you thought about trying Wordpress? There are a lot of decent looking, free themes you can use.

PhilComforthost

Yes, i prefer the original logo and website rather than the later examples, although i liked that you were exploring ideas with your buttons on the later versions...

I have to disagree with the above post though. If you are a webdeveloper/designer you should NOT use a free theme from Wordpress - what does that say to your customers? However, there's no harm at all in taking a look at them, and as many other sites as possible to give you as many new ideas as possible. Mix and match ideas, try as many combinations as possible - eventually the right one will come. Good luck!

Phreaddee

none of them really strike me as great, but you need to get a colour set sorted. adobe's kuler is an awesome online tool for this.

the first layout doesnt have a menu, but it is probably the cleanest to work from.

the buttons whilst its good your experimenting with these things look ghastly in that blue, as does the purple borders on the other one...

I'd try and keep it really minimal. find a solid colour set and build from there.

and a menu too.

the logo...think it still needs some work...

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RoboticPro

@ThinkBomb: I don't think I'll use wordpress I worked several years on learning the code and it gives me 100% control so I rather use that.

@PhilComforthost: Thanks but the ying yang concept is very general so I kinda need my own logo so i'll keep trying then.

@Phreaddee I know about kuler i'll try to work with it and the first design the big text
is the menu, One of the reasons I want to have a different layout is because it isn't
recognizable

@All Sorry for the late reaction apparently i don't receive email notifications...
but I'll keep you updated

Thanks for the advice so far,
Brian van der Horst

che09

I would say you can start here,though I would also add to have some color changes,such as the third lay-out the color is good!

It does needs more attention!

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griffinella63

Your designs for me are pretty good. And I really like it. What do want to add on your designs? Well, good luck there friend.
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duncanmulligan7

I guess you need some more editing. You can find inspiration from the professional web designer's design. They're terrific. Visit their blog.

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RoboticPro

@griffinella63: I don't have the feeling this is good clean and proeffesional.

@duncanmulligan7: uhm perhaps add a link?

RoboticPro

Ok people I tried again:
http://briansservice.nl/9/

What's your opinion?
The menu will be a dropdown later on.