Hi all

 

Just stumbled upon this forum from Google and nice to see such an active community here.. Hope to stay long here.

 

Now coming to the topic, I am new into web design and I am trying to create a design for my website here. The concept was to create a tiny header strip, a 'how it works' column on the right side and an HTML form on the left side of the content area.

 

So this is what I have landed at

 

 

Need your honest opinion people. Does this look good enough? Why does it look a little odd, or is just me being insecure? Your advice is going to help a long way.

At the minute it probably looks a little odd due to none of the text aligning in anyway. This is most obvious (to me) in the "How it works" section.

 

Also you need to add more content to it to fill it out, texts etc, to get more of an idea of how the finished page will look. Ideally the text content should come before the design process as this will let you know what you have to work with.

 

You could use lorem ipsum text to fill it out, but without knowing the amount of actual real content you will have you'd only be guessing.

 

Texts crammed into the design as an after thought can leave your site looking awkward. There'll either not be enough, so you'll try to bulk it out with irrelevant info, diluting the main focus of your site. Or there'll be far more than you anticipated and the design looks nothing like you planned.

 

Now that you are more focused on the text it gives you the opportunity to write some killer content that'll get you to the top of search engines for your chosen keywords in your niche (hopefully ).

 

Hope this helps!

Edited February 23, 201214 yr by Bomb

Thanks a lot for the detailed response, Bomb.

 

I just noticed that the text boxes adjacent to the 'text 1' 'text2' fields do not seem to have come in the PNG export. Also, the space between the 'Generate code' and 'Copy code' are supposed to be two large text areas with a script. The 'how it works' section actually contains the lorem ipsum text with the same number of lines as the original.

 

I shall create one more and update it so you get a better idea. In the mean time, could you also tell me your opinion of the site theme - the green strip with a fade-out gray bg? Does it look professional enough?

 

I guess I posted it here at the wrong time. I may not be able to get back on my design till Monday. Will post an update design then. Really appreciate your help.