My new blog design

[ellie]

This is for my digital scrapbooking blog, probably more for ladies

What's your thoughts about design?

scrappity blog

[JimOfferman]

Nice! Although it looks like your design doesn't quite render correctly in my browser (Safari): there is about a 10px white border on the right side of your header (all the way down to the bottom).

Also, the animated gifs are commandeering a little too much of my attention.

But otherwise, it's really nice. And stop fussing about the header!

[ellie]

Jim, jim, jim, don't you know animated gifs are all the rage in the scrapbooking world?

Seriously, normally I would agree with you but animated gifs in the scrapping world is huge!!!!

Yeah I know about that pixel thing. I can't figure it out, will have to get the developer I work with to fix it up

How come I never get much feedback on my sites? Is it because my sites are feminine? Come on I give people feedback on their sites

[z1freeride]

I think it looks great. I would remove the words "scrappity blog" from the header. It does the same thing as the home button...

Nice header design...

[kpugh]

Beautiful Ellie! You are a talented artist and designer, and it comes through on your site design. Nicely done!

As the husband of a scrapaholic, and also as a professional photographer for the last 15 years, I've seen a lot of scrapbooking-related stuff, and lots of BAD Photoshop and Illustrator stuff. It's nice to see some good work being done out there!

I agree, remove "scrappity blog" below your header. It's unnecessary and detracts from your design.

Also - I don't see the need for you to get more "cotton-candy-ish" with your header. In fact, I think it has a good balance of fun with nostalgia...a perfect feeling to fit scrapbooking.

[ellie]

Oh thanks for all your nice feedback. I lurve it, give me more...give me more!!!

I agree about the "scrappity blog too", but I need it there for the moment so it, shows up in the top title bar. Otherwise it just says Firefox, which won't make it as searchable on google. I know there's some code that I probably could hack, but aggghhh, I can't be bothered. Where's my programmer? he he!

Actually I am a designer by trade kpugh and I want to bring my skills to scrapbooking, so people can improve their layouts. I actually was getting involved with it, to help out some friends who wanted to share their layouts so I started a forum for them, but now I can see that it can be good for me as well. Especially pushing my photoshop skills. It's actually pushed me more creatively in a long time. Even starting the forum, has been such an eye opener and it's great way for me to improve my marketing skills. Who would of thought?