[.Ryan]

http://ryan.reclusiveart.com/projects/thedesign5/

I am working on this, and well I dunno about it, bit scared to post it here for feedback cause you all seem so mean about it haha. Hopefully you can help me make it better

[lou]

'tis nice.

Few things:

Not sure about indenting your paragraphs - looks a bit weird, I would just stick to the norm.

I would change your body font to something rather than Arial, it's a bit icky - try Verdana or Tahoma... Georgia is luffly and it is proven that serif fonts are easier on the eye in some cases.

Hoik up the line spacing in your copy - maybe reduce the font size too.

My comments are mainly on the dynamic text content, the rest looks good

[.Ryan]

Thanks for the tips, I made the fonts smaller, and changed to verdana, I usually use verdana but went with Arial this time just to try something else, and then kinda liked it. I do like it more with the smaller fonts now though

and took out the text indent, I was going to change it to just the 1st paragraph having the indent but never got around to it, thanks for the tips should I also change the headlines to verdana you think?

[lou]

cool. you still need to up the line spacing quite a bit though. The Headings look fine.

[.Ryan]

I changed it to 150%, do you think it needs more still? thanks though, looks much better already.

[lou]

try a bit more - you will be surprised how clean and spacious it makes the whole design look - dont be scared to go quite a bit up. And but a break in after your headings

[Scott]

line lengths are too long imo

[pgo]

Originally Posted by BlueSteel

line lengths are too long imo

Related to this, I'd make the left column narrower (possibly dynamic width as well). It seems to be the supplemental content and the right area the main content. However, when sized down to 8x6 or even 10x7, it dominates.

Instead of having the whole thing fill 100%, have you considered adding a max-width/min-width?

The logo feels unbalanced to me - that 5 really dominates "the design".

Nice work, overall, though.

[.Ryan]

I made the line spacing 200%, still not sure about it, what do yous think?

Okay thanks for the tips, I made the left side 400px to fit the Weekly Feature pic (which can be made smaller) so I will make that smaller, I wanted it fixed so there was never too much space around it or anything. So should I make it say 300px?

and also the right side you think I should put a max width so like 600-700px?

Then the logo, lol. You think I should make it smaller, the 5 that is?

Thanks for all the help, want the site really good, cheers, sorry to be a bother tho.

[pedge]

Woah, an entire site in Latin - respect due...

P.S. I'd put your navigation in Latin too for consistency.

[.Ryan]

ha

anyways, I made the max-width 700px, looks a lot better because of your tips, I made the left side 350px, which isn't too bad, the only one close to same size left and right is 800px screen resolution, but I doubt many people that would go to a design site woule have 800px, but it is usable by them so imo it's fine, but eh dunno.

The right side I think is a lot easier on the eyes being max width of 700 px, but as you know stupid IE I guess the ie hack have to use now blah

[pgo]

Looking better. I'd shrink the left column a bit more, but that's me - line it up with the edge of your logo:

[.Ryan]

ah cool, nice idea, just did that

edit - agh, just IE is centering the right content now.

edit #2 - okay all is fixed