Hey guys! I started making a new design for my website and here is what i came up with! Please have a look and tell me what you think! Forms, color suggestions - all is welcome!
http://pavel910.homeftp.net/HFS%20Sharing/Website/index.html
Well I like the layout alot! but im really not too sure on the colour scheme - specifically ists not easy to read the text. I think it would be good to have your picture in the banner also, that way you are likely to remember the site more! The more you can link the design to yourself and you interests the better!
I would personally go for something very simple.
Like for instance: http://creepcolony.net/
Hey pavel, I do some 2d design/graphics art stuff (though I don't have much experience with websites, some but not much). If you want I might be able to do some images for you or something. I agree with mattacuk, the text is a bit hard to read. Also I have to say I'm not digging the background too much
I am always having troubles with the content part design. I like the way the header tuned out but i never know how to make the damn text part!
Ok i removed it from that link and will try to work some more on the text part. Will keep you updated! Thanks for replies!
Hey Pavel if you ever have problems with color try using this web page:
http://colorblender.com/
It builds a palette around a color you choose.
Pavel, the link wont work anymore.
How about a movie clip of you with the guitar and you say "Are you ready" and then you play a killer riff?
Nah sorry, all I got was 404 not found :-)
Will check again later
Hey Pavel!
If you're not a master of web design you may want to look into a Content Management System like PostNuke which uses PHP.
Here are some examples:
www.sofakinggamers.com
www.predatorial-tendencies.com
You can download skins for free or design your own (which takes learning PHP, I've always just downloaded them)
This takes some time to learn to use PNphp and what not, but probably less than creating your own web from scratch. There is also an addon for forums called pnPHPbb2 which are really, really easy to add-on.
Thank you all for your links and suggestions! I just got a killer idea for a design! Work in progress and i already see it's gonna be 100 times better than the last one! I removed the previous file - i will let you all know when i put a sample of a new one! Thank you again!
Ok, turned out to be ready pretty soon! There it is:
http://pavel910.homeftp.net/Website/index.html
I really like it now!!
Well i am not a big pro in Photoshop so for now i will stick to this simple design! Thanks for comments!
pretty sick website!!
"Welcome to the Pavel Denisjuk website!
Interested in shred? You're at the right place!"
i love that line!
Ok from now on you can see the progress on my new website using the official link: http://www.pavel-music.info/
I decided to upload it even if it's only the main page - but i like this design so much that i want to get rid of the old one!
Biography section is updated so if you want to read some - check it out!
http://www.pavel-music.info/
EDIT: a friend of mine gave me a link to some "metal surface" tutorial so i checked it out and created a better version for my site. Now it looks just like it should i think!
I don't like all the rips and stuff in the metal, TBH. The metal looks good because it looks solid and strong, but when it has a bunch of rips in it like that, it doesn't look like solid metal but more like tin foil or paper But it's definitely looking better!
Also, I personally find the italics a little harder to read, but that could just be me. One thing about your bio page that needs changing is you (I think) want it to look pretty professional. Meaning you need to go back through and change those i's to I's and whatnot, but mostly it looks very good.
Ok the "I" thing is solved. I also may create a header without the rips but than again the part below the NavBar looks pretty good with rips!
Thanks for suggestions!
hey pavel, looks better! just a suggestion, maybe you wanna add some pics to the Biography section. Probably pics of your first guitars (if you still have them) or pics when you were little, pics of you playing guitar when you were younger, etc. just an idea.
Keep it up!
Yeah that's a great idea! Sure - i will add them these days! For now i want to find the definite design so later i can work on content, text, pictures, etc.
A friend of mine who likes to spend time with Photoshop gave me a little suggestion and now when i did it it looks pretty cool. Now the metal is more "SOLID"
Much better! Just a simple bevel and edge rounding it looks like, but it helps the look a lot. I agree that the rips in the main section are fine, btw.
Cool! Thanks a lot to all who replied in this topic! I'll let you know when i update the whole website with pictures and content!
Guestbook is now working and i updated Biography with some pictures as you suggested - turned out pretty wild hehe Check it out!
There you go MikeM - got a link in the sig!! Thanks for suggestion!
can't seem to load the page
Pavel one suggestion would be to "engrave" your headline texts, so it looks like it's cut into the metal. I think that'd make it about perfect. Example:
Pavel, I enjoyed reading your Bio. Damb, you are only one year older than my son.
Nice! Ever considered website design?
And That photo of you is, for lack of a better word, cute.
Looking good Pavel.
are you planning on having some of your original material available to listen to on your website? I'd Like to hear more of your actual music, instead of just bits and pieces from the lessons
Guitarman700: this is my first design that has a decent look. I would sure love to do websites but i need a bit more knowledge of Photoshop and coding.
CrashOops: yes - but the stuff i recorded by now is either unfinished or is a crappy quality record so i don't want to upload any of it. After 11th this month i will finally be free of university and i hope i will finally sit down and finish practicing one of my newest compositions including orchestral arrangements which also needs a lot of work to put it in Cubase. I only have it noted with Sibelius so i'll have to spend a couple of days transferring it from notes to actual record!
I have to say I never really liked off-centered websites much, is there any way you can center it on the page, or fill up the right side with like, links or something?
What resolution are you using??? It's centered only on 1024x768! I'll have to fix that!
Aha! I use 1280x1024, that comes from a lifetime of gaming in hi-res
I updated the equipment page! Pics included
JVM: i solved the resolution problem! It should be perfectly centered for you now! Thanks for the tip! I would have forgotten that if you didn't mention! I know a lot of people use high res today! But i have 17" monitor so i never think of high res users!
Yes, it looks great now
Also i wanted to ask those who visited my website - if you find any bug with preview or something please let me know here on forum!
I open the website with Mozilla Firefox and it works great. When i open it with Internet Explorer the Equipment page is all screwed up but all the others work perfect - and i don't know what's wrong!
So please - if you find something - let me know what browser you are using and what page contains the bug! Thanks
Yeah I use Firefox, no problems that I can see.
I'm currently in school for webdesign and use this site often when I only have one browser type to try:
http://browsershots.org/
It allows you to test multiple browsers on multiple operating systems.
I'm wondering how you make your own website?
I hate to be picky (really, its a curse) but is there any way you can do the bevel thing you do around the edges to the rips on the side? Cause they look much more flat than the other edges, so it looks a bit odd
Is it possible to create a free web site that is yours and not linked to another site
could some1 xplain then plz
I don't think you can without buying the URL at least - but I could be wrong.
Technically you could have a free web page.
First off you would have to have a personal server to host your files. Second you would need a domain name but unfortanently domain names are not free so if you were going to the complete free route your web address would be 94.266.26.245 or something similar.
Not awesome.com =(
Well not exactly you could have an older computer running Microsoft's IIS but it wouldn't be too reliable. But hey if you are going to do it for free you have to cut corners .
Internet Explorer sucks so badly it's unbelievable! He creates his own bugs for no reason!!! GRRRRRRRR
JVM: i tried the bevel on those edges the first time we talked about it and it doesn't look good. It's much better this way.
EDIT:
I fixed it! It now works nice in Internet Explorer!
I started to us Firefox only a month ago as before it i was using CrazyBrowser which is IE based.
Thank God i managed to fix website bugs so it works in IE also! I know a lot of people still use IE so i have to keep it bug free!
Awww!
Sorry Pavel, couldn't resist!
Sweet picture, isn't it? I LOVE IT!
It's just so amazing to just watch the picture and think of yourself being a small kid like that knowing nothing about the world, nothing about "what life is?", you don't know even who you are, you don't know what you are gonna do in life.... amazing....
I found that picture in our family album and i HAD to put it on my website!
Kinda looks from the early 1900s
for media remember to put your self doing a crazy riff.
Well, if you are talking about the black and white stuff - This even looks better to me!
Oh yeah - there will be some wild riffing on RC-7 as soon as it arrives!
Hey Pavel...nice looking webpage bro.
Yeah that's me - somewhere around 3 years old!
You should title your pages, ie :
<head>
<title>Pavel Music - Biography</title>
</head>
This means that this shows up as where someone is if they have multiple tabs open in firefox say, instead of saying "http://www.pavel-music.info/" at the top of the page it will give you : "Pavel Music - Biography" instead.
Similarly like it says "Designing My Website - Masterclass Guitar Forum" at the top of this particular forum page.
I realize it's a bit pedantic, but its much more tidy.
Ah see, its the small stuff that gets on my nerves when I'm making a site, and I assumed you knew already and had just missed it out by accident Ah well, your site.
It'll be because your using frames, you need to put the title in the file that ties the different sections all together.
I don't use frames! But when you open SOURCE in Mozilla it says like i am. But if you View Source in IE it's all normal.
I guess maybe it's because the website is not in the root server folder for website. But is in subfolder.
I use Opera, and the source says thats what it is as well, strange
HTML seems in order for the file to display the title.
Found the problem:
http://www.xgteam.com/pavel/
Is the original link yes, thats where its hosted, when I go there, it displays the title, you have some sort of masking redirect, am I correct, because the page location doesnt change when I go to the Biography page say.
Therefor to change the title, you'd have to use whatever controls the domain name provider gives.
Yeah that's the original link!
Well, anyway, i getting a new domain very soon and will have my own host for my website so it will work fine than! It will be www.paveldenisjuk.com and the problem will be solved because i will also pay for hosting.
Thanks for putting your time into it Owen!
You what the site needs?
A nicer backround. I suggest something with a bunch of planets and galaxies. Then a "Heman" type chick in a fur bikini standing on the side, holding a giant f*cking lazer beam....just protecting.
Other than that the site is top notch.
Just to inform you! I got a new host and a brand new domain name for my website! It is now: www.paveldenisjuk.com
Little update here: did some project for my university and used my website to complete it - had to rebuild my website with CSS, so now it loads much faster and is also bug-free
cool Pavel,also the new picture on the homepage is cool too!
I never changed that picture It's the same since the first time i uploaded this design
Looks like a pretty nice site to me! It took a while to fully load, but I think that's on my end, as I think my router is fixing to crap out. But I think it's a very good site, overall. I'm too lazy t mess with my site much, so all I have is a forum atm.
hey Pavel- you repeat yourself slightly on opening page :
Nice professional website Pavel, good job!
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