[WIP] New Web Design Site

Here it is so far. This is a screenshot of it coded in google chrome. I used some CSS 3 selectors like the bg shadow to add subtle hints of shadow behind the h2 and h3 tags, as well as the small paragraph in the main area.
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I've been playing with different background colors, and will probably allow useres to pick a background and css colorscheme when they arrive, but I wanted to get this main orange one done first.

The Featured Project area to the right will be a jquery slider to view a few featured works, and got a few other ideas for the site as well.

Still a lot of work to be done, in the blank space next to the cartoon guy, there will be a contact button and a few other things, so its only blank because I haven't gotten that far yet. The one thing I've been focusing on is usabilty for users, so i'm trying to make everything websafe fonts besides the logo image. Other than that, everything is web-safe text with h tags.

 

Looks good...

 

I really like it ^^, one thing that kind of bugs me is the contrast of the blue with the orange D:

 

Thanks, I chose the blue and orange because of the contrast, but like I said I'm going to have users able to choose from an array of color combos once its done, so the best way to do that is use opposite ends of the color wheel.

 

^_^ Perfect! Did you vector the computer man yourself?

 

no, its from a guy who does some really nice stuff at istockphoto. I've never gotten much into vectoring, althought I've been wanting to I just haven't had the time.

The most I've done is vector a car which was quite a challenge in itself.

 

Ahhh, coolio~

 

Its alright, I agree with FMB even if you offer users an option having the default as something like that is kind of a turn off from your website. Try red as default?

Also nice vector choice i love his work as well ;D

 

You're too obsessed with red.:lol:

I would say a darker blue not really a drastic red change. Maybe a blue going for turquoise.

 

Try doing a gaussian blur on the content area, it'll be like frosted glass.

 

The vector guy is cute, but I'm not sure cute really works on such a fiery background. maybe make a "cute" one as well, for the users to choose from?

 

The look of it is great... although i admit the blue on orange looks weird.

 

thanks for the comments all. I'm trying some other combos now to see what would be best for the default colors on the design.