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never used photo shop before

is this even where to begin with a site?

Looks legit.

might want to CTRL + S before ragequit

oh okay

that glow is really ugly
the spacing in the sidenav is uneven
the header art is really fancy so it's probably copyrighted
the diablo 3 button looks squished

you should use a grid to design, go to 960.gs and download some templates

not forever, but just for now you should stick to grids so you can align elements

you should also design your templates with your css in mind, and consider if something is going to be a viable option when it's being coded, or if it's going to end up being shitty design in practice

e: this goes with the grid, but try to constrain your design to 1020px wide, even though sites always float and scale, it's still good to have a template designed with 1024x768 in mind

This post was edited by nerobellum on Feb 6 2013 08:09pm

looks sick

No. Doing websites is unrelated to graphic design but related in a way. If you want to make a website I suggest just buying a premade template online and use it for wordpress. Will save time. If you want to make your own I think you should get more training because you pretty much have to code the website in CSS, HTML, and PHP which you probably dont know.

there is so much wrong with this comment.

web design is graphic design. graphic design doesn't apply to a specific field of study, it's just as broad as the term "art" except it applies to marketing, advertisement, and the general organization of information to create a cohesive brand or message to a client or demographic.

don't buy a premade wordpress template. you're just dicking around in photoshop trying to figure out the ropes, and what's more is that wordpress is around for blogging/cms, not just run-of-the-mill diablo 3 websites for funsies. they're good if you want to host your resume with an embedded blog/contact, and use it to store your portfolio, but i digress. don't go anywhere near wordpress right now.

good coding is about saving time. to learn good coding you have to learn to code first. basically, you should hard-code everything you do until you have good code, and then you can use pre-written snippets of code to build sites from there.

basically, ignore everything this dude said, and read what i wrote above it. the templates xadam123 is referring to are entire website layout sources, with all the css/html/php/xql documents. you don't need that. you want photoshop/fireworks documents that have some grid lines in them so you can keep having fun in photoshop designing page mock-ups.

but srsly he right