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I agree, the first one definately looks better. I also think the colours work as well

try doing a styles board, use google image search and get some images from the era's you are interested in, put them all together on one canvas and get your styling cues from that. The problem with looking at similar target sites is inevitably your head will fill up with ideas already done and it will be hard to adapt to fresh ideas. With style boards you have more chance of doing something original. Just my opinion of course, hope it helps

Thanks re: portfolio - Not online yet, but I will be getting onto that as soon as. I will add some of my 3D work onto a gallery here though at some point

This is something I would like to know, Im sure im going to come across this problem sooner rather than later

Hi Guys and Gals, Thought I would throw in a quick intro. My name is Simon and I am currently doing a home learning web design course. I am looking for a good community to get to know that may be able to help me grow as a web designer, hopefully in time I will then be able to inturn put the help back into the forums. Although I am new to web design I am well versed in computer graphics and animation (mainly 3D) Hope that wasnt too sickly for you all. Thanks Simon