Do you have any suggestions on how to make my site better Leviathon? I must admit I do admire your work, Johnny Bravo.
After that compliment I just have to answer you
No seriously, when people are interested in making things better and learning new I just have to help in any way I can.
INDEX PAGE
First of all, I visited your index page and I think it's pointless. You used it as an intro page without any reason. Intro pages are usually made if you have multilingual website and you want visitors to choose their language. As a matter of fact intro page is generally made when visitors have to choose between two or more options. To understand it better here's an example. When you visit
www.asus.com and you'll notice an intro page where you have to choose you region to continue. That's a perfect example of useful intro page. When you don't offer any choice to your visitors intro page is pointless.
INTRODUCTION PAGE
After the intro page I discussed above, having the "Enter" button is simply confusing. Enter button is used in intro pages and having it on a page that's just after intro is not a good idea. In your case that button represents a link to your blog witch (I suppose) is most important part of your website. I made that conclusion because the "Enter" button leading to your blog is attracting attention more then any other link on that page. I this case I suggest you lose the "To access my weblog, please click the “enter” button located below." and make a new button that says "Visit my blog" or "Enter the blog" or whatever. That way it will be clear what the button is for and visitors won't need to read the whole sentence just to know that.
Designers don't put navigation menu (main menu) to the right for a reason. Try moving it to the left or top of your page. Trust me on this
OVERALL DESIGN
Consistency (or lack of it) is the main problem of your design. Almost every page has it's own layout and style witch a big no-no in web design. When you are planing a website it's always god to make a general idea or template and stick to it.
I see you used a tiled background. I don't know if you made it yourself (I suppose so) or not but in any case I don't like it. If you really like tiled backgrounds try this
www.bgpatterns.com. It's an excellent tool for making fantastic tiled backgrounds.
Using music in the background is good sometimes but you still have to let visitors choose if they want it or not. Mute button is probably the best solution.
Overall design is far from being good. You just have to work, and more importantly, learn more. I'm going to give you some resources so you can learn from the best and hopefully much faster then you would on your own. In the end I have to say that the look and feel of 90's is bothering me the most. If you want to be good in web and graphic design you constantly have to improve and flow new trends because if you don't you'll fall behind.
RESOURCES
http://tutsplus.com/ - one of the biggest design networks on the web. Great tutorials for anything related to design and web. Personally my favorite :biggrin:
http://creattica.com/ - one of the best inspiration resource where you can learn by studying other peoples work. Like a previous one this is also an
envato project.
http://www.tutorial9.net/ - Photoshop, photography and web tutorials
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ - an excelet blog for web designers
http://cssglobe.com/ - an excelet blog for web designers
Hope this was helpful and good luck with your future work.
