Need advice on colour scheme and nav bar please

[millsi80]

This is the first time I have actually made a site (almost) from scratch. For this one I used a very basic 3 column css template that I found and have done the rest from scratch. The site in my sig is the one I am redesigning (I got some help with that one). I am not sure about the colour scheme or the nav bar on the left.

The text in the centre is just part of the template that I left on to give it a bit of substance as I work on it.

If you could give me some feedback on those 2 things or the site in general, that would be great!

You can see the layout that I made

 

[ian]

the text logo at the top is too light and hard to read, perhaps a darker text logo against lighter background.
WIth regards to the text navigation links, the text font looks too big.

 

[millsi80]

Thanks for the reply, I will change the text and fix the banner.

 

[wetgravy]

first and foremost ... remove the 90 odd lines of css code in your header and put it in a secondary .css file.

and other than that, i would change your nav links from images to css (they will look and work better) and make the banner more interesting and less like a photochop collage.

 

[millsi80]

i would change your nav links from images to css (they will look and work better)

How would I do that?

 

[zkiller]

How would I do that?

Create a unordered list and style it using CSS.

Here's a few examples: http://www.alvit.de/css-showcase/css-navigation-techniques-showcase.php

 

[pingeyeg]

A little too boring. Needs some more detail, color and pictures of some sort. Give it some more pizazz.

 

[millsi80]

I have changed the nav menu to use css and have changed the colour scheme, bg colour and banner.

If you could give me some suggestions, that would be great!

 

[pingeyeg]

This is much better, but I don't like the header. Doesn't give the site justice. There needs to be more to it than that.

 

[millsi80]

I am will work on it, it is a bit plain, I agree

 

[cmjvulavala]

As a layout its looking okay... as a few people have said... jazz up the top banner a little.
only other thing would be to make sure that you pick a suitable font colour for your main content... the middle section background seems a bit of a weird colour at the minute. I would either go for a grey colour (looks sort of like a pale brown for me :S) with darker text or a darker colour with light grey/white text. Thats pretty important to get it right... if not then you might struggle to read the actual content which cant be too good.

Overall a decent design... one or two things to change but there always is with designing templates

 

[kiko_friendly]

I also agree about the top banner.

you should use less images on it. Make them vary in size, perhaps? I also think that the photos should be clear instead of having that odd effect on them.

I would also use a different font style, colour and whatnot. I'd position it somewhere else, too. Perhaps try having HouseMDVideos in a larger font than .com, or a different colour?