Comments on new site please...

[Conteo]

*photos n designs*

[Toon]

I like the background but I'd prefer rounded corners on the main box to match the circle style of the background, why totrials?

[D856C]

Very crop-circle ...y.

Looks good.

[Conteo]

Originally Posted by Toon

I like the background but I'd prefer rounded corners on the main box to match the circle style of the background, why totrials?

Its meant to be tutorials lol, will get round to changing it soon.

I like the circles.

[LeadMagnet]

Don't use jpeg in this case. Jpeg is made for images with many different colours, such as photographs.
When you have such flat colours (i'm talking about the circle background btw) use either gif or png, otherwise you'll see the jpeg artefacts way too clearly like you can right now.

Jpeg file size increases more with increased dimensions than colour count,
PNG and GIF file size increases more with colour count than dimensions. The less colour you have, the increased likelihood that GIF or PNG is more suitable.

*edit* A very common mistake i see people making is using JPG for everything on their site, such as in your case, you also used it for your navigation buttons and i can see the bleeding around the edge of the text. It makes the text look a bit blurry.

[mattfaucher]

Shame the navigation has got that slight blur, could you not just change the hover state using CSS instead of images

Other than that minor point and the totrials lol, I like it.

[Conteo]

Originally Posted by LeadMagnet

Don't use jpeg in this case. Jpeg is made for images with many different colours, such as photographs.
When you have such flat colours (i'm talking about the circle background btw) use either gif or png, otherwise you'll see the jpeg artefacts way too clearly like you can right now.

Jpeg file size increases more with increased dimensions than colour count,
PNG and GIF file size increases more with colour count than dimensions. The less colour you have, the increased likelihood that GIF or PNG is more suitable.

*edit* A very common mistake i see people making is using JPG for everything on their site, such as in your case, you also used it for your navigation buttons and i can see the bleeding around the edge of the text. It makes the text look a bit blurry.

Ar... thanks for that. I didnt know that. Will change them to gifs of pngs then ;) I wondered why the text was a bit blurry.

:)

[LeadMagnet]

generally, PNG > GIF
But png transparency doesn't work in IE<7

[SatanicPenguins]

also, strip the gAMA tag out of the png before u upload it, or else it wont match other colors on the site.

[LeadMagnet]

I've never heard of this gAMA problem before. Is there a way to strip it out from within photoshop or do you need another tool for that?