Webdesign

[aimeekitty]

Hey ya'll... so, I need to redesign my website, it's been a while. I need some inspiration.

Please show me links to your favorite art-centric websites and artist's websites!

I want to keep things relatively simple (no super super flashy things), but other than that, I'm open! And if you have any suggestions for me (ie how I should change my website), please feel free. I'm going to ponder it for a while and then make some changes.

ALSO, if you have any FAQ type questions you'd like to see answered, I'll be updating that, too.

Please see previous post for Felicia artwork. <3

Comments

[ajmeow.livejournal.com]

I would suggest that when you redo the site to not use iframes. I know they're handy, especially cause your site is so bloody huge but it's really hard for people to get to content directly that way. When they try to navigate directly to pages, they'll be outside your frames anyways. You can try embedding pages in divs instead!

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I dont know what divs is. :)

[mabdese.livejournal.com]

divs are like tables in that they're a way to place/divide content on a page.

http://www.tutorialtastic.co.uk/tutorial/create_a_tableless_layout < a great tutorial for making your first div layout

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

agh... *___* thanks, I guess I'll have to study that for a while

[supergrouper.livejournal.com]

If you want to be able to update your sidebars, etc. all at once without using tables, you can use .php file extensions instead of HTML (but with basically the same coding) and use the divs + php imports to import individual html files to display in the divs- kind of like frames, but without the navigation problems.

I've uploaded an live example of this technique here- http://www.littlesnowfox.com/layouts/swphp/

If you want to poke at the coding, the individual files can be downloaded in a zip file here- http://www.box.net/shared/c3gq01e6hd

I used to use a slight mod of this layout for my own portfolio before I switched to WordPress, so the concept of PHP imports for managing a gallery works pretty well.