XZINSANITYXZ wrote It's too basic, bad color scheme and has oversized content. Not user friendly, hard on the eyes.

I'm really undecided on the color scheme. I just used this background until I'm done with the site. What colors would you recommend to go with the gray? Not sure exactly what you mean by oversized content... Care to clarify? Thanks for the feedback, BTW.

XZINSANITYXZ wrote It's too basic, bad color scheme and has oversized content. Not user friendly, hard on the eyes.

Does this look any better?

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I like everything besides the design

Dogify wrote I like everything besides the design

What do you mean by the design? Like, the way things are set up or what?

PandaSnip3r wrote

XZINSANITYXZ wrote It's too basic, bad color scheme and has oversized content. Not user friendly, hard on the eyes.

I'm really undecided on the color scheme. I just used this background until I'm done with the site. What colors would you recommend to go with the gray? Not sure exactly what you mean by oversized content... Care to clarify? Thanks for the feedback, BTW.

Go with a light gray color BG and try to size the content appropriately, the whole this site is best viewed in, seemed oversized.

Its not bad for your first attempt, my first sites were terrible :')

Being a web designer/programmer myself, coding in most web languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (With jQuery)) i feel i may be able to help you out abit ;)

Some tips:
- Try not to use solid colours, can you make it into an image and add little noise? or small stripes? ( [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] )
- Do all of the colours go? Do they clash?
- If you was paying for it, would you like it better?

Try and think of those as you develop it.
To improve what you have there, i personally would:

• use a coloured background (red seems to be your colour scheme) and add some noise, if you don't know what i mean by that then take a look at [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
  
• Make it brighter, more "happy" you can do this by mixing in a range of colours, for example a different colour for links, bright colours like white.
  
• Also, try and use a graphic for the title banner rather than CSS3 for two reasons, Firstly, CSS3 doesnt work in < IE8 and the other reason being you can make it look more realistic
  
• Try and use shadows where possible, so like under your top navigation, under the center bit of the banner. It's small details like this which make all the difference
  

I have a current project which uses a red-ish colour scheme with opacity etc, Feel free to take a look at it for ideas if you wish: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Love the way you used the opacity.
I don't like the stripes.

Could you please tell me how you done the rollover effect when you went over the browser icons? i love that!

Looks good so far, just too stripy.

-Facebook wrote Love the way you used the opacity.
I don't like the stripes.

Could you please tell me how you done the rollover effect when you went over the browser icons? i love that!

Looks good so far, just too stripy.

I used a "box shadow" in CSS. I made the shadow the same color as the banner containing it, giving the illusion that it's all one piece.

Here's my code for it:

iiLagZz_x wrote Its not bad for your first attempt, my first sites were terrible :')

Being a web designer/programmer myself, coding in most web languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (With jQuery)) i feel i may be able to help you out abit ;)

Some tips:
- Try not to use solid colours, can you make it into an image and add little noise? or small stripes? ( [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] )
- Do all of the colours go? Do they clash?
- If you was paying for it, would you like it better?

Try and think of those as you develop it.
To improve what you have there, i personally would:

• use a coloured background (red seems to be your colour scheme) and add some noise, if you don't know what i mean by that then take a look at [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
  
• Make it brighter, more "happy" you can do this by mixing in a range of colours, for example a different colour for links, bright colours like white.
  
• Also, try and use a graphic for the title banner rather than CSS3 for two reasons, Firstly, CSS3 doesnt work in < IE8 and the other reason being you can make it look more realistic
  
• Try and use shadows where possible, so like under your top navigation, under the center bit of the banner. It's small details like this which make all the difference
  

I have a current project which uses a red-ish colour scheme with opacity etc, Feel free to take a look at it for ideas if you wish: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

I'm really not aiming to please everyone's browsers as on the front page of my website I've added a link to download a new browser if the page isn't displaying properly.

PandaSnip3r wrote I'm really not aiming to please everyone's browsers as on the front page of my website I've added a link to download a new browser if the page isn't displaying properly.

Don't expect people to download and install a different browser just to view your website properly for 10 seconds.
Instead, they will think "he can't even make a working website" and leave your site ;)

It reminds me of a carnival, but i think it is to basic and the graphics are bad. But being your first i give you credit.