Constructive Criticism?

[Im Mars]

Soooo.
I've decided to venture on into the web designing/coding business.
And to start it off, I designed a little website for my gaming company
Any constructive criticism would be appreciated:

Second Attempt:

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Third Attempt:

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[Gangnam]

The content is way too big for purpose. It's not just you. I've seen many practise this awful habit/ misconception.

With exceptions (you're free to experiment, of course), most designs typically adhere to 11-12px for body fonts, and a little bigger (16-24px) for headings. You should also adjust other content to suit (reduce the width [where applicable] and height of those lines and buttons).

 

[Matt Clarke]

It looks good for a first piece, as n0minal mentioned, lower the font sizes and perhaps work out the spacing. Keep us posted mate!

 

[Detox]

Everything's over-sized. I however like the color combinations and it's simplicity.

Newcomers tend to over do their website with a bunch of colors, just to add as many effects to it as they can. At least you've understood parts of the concept of designing websites.

 

[Im Mars]

Anyone have a suggestion for document sizes in px when designing a website?

 

[Matt Clarke]

Anyone have a suggestion for document sizes in px when designing a website?

It depends on the look you're going for, however when you're having a website is just content in the middle, I tend to use 960px as a width, simply so I can fit the majority of screen resolutions in with my site, however having a bigger site can work and they you just use media-queries to make it suit smaller resolutions. I just do that to save time really haha (as long as it doesn't jeopardize the overall quality of the website)

 

[Im Mars]

Updated the thread with my second attempt

 

[Cyndaquil]

To be honest I am not sure why you are designing something which has already been released in the Fiesta Online section.

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For constructive criticism I would say, try to get your own style and not other peoples (for a live project anyway).

 

[Im Mars]

Updated with my third attempt ^^

 

[Cyndaquil]

ratio of top to footer is way off. the fact the footer is getting more attention than the actual website is bad.