band site

[ares]

made this for a friends band, site should be going up soon
my first attempt at a layout, and i plan to update to a new one later on but this is it for now. tell me what you think


UPDATE:

http://xsuicidebeforebetrayalx.com

[Illegalx17]

thats awesome mate! i love the grungyness of it! great job!

[MetalSkin]

very grungy, very nice. reminds me of the days when i was a head banger :-)

[ROTD]

Very nice...awsome grunge effects...cept id work on the link Text make it more grunge to go with the rest of the site...and make it a lil bigger.

[ares]

*ediT!! update:
i'm gonna make the text rollovers too, so they will glow a faint red when you put the mouse over it. tell me what you think

deviant link

[Illegalx17]

very nice, i love the update, i have an idea, my friend did a band site and when you put your cursor on a link it shook, he did it by doin a couple motion blurs in photoshop and moving them around and puttin it into an animated gif, it turned out pretty sweet.

[ares]

hey cool idea!
i've never done an animated gif, and always wondered how to do it. i was gonna ask you how, haha but i just go find a tut. thanks again

[undertone]

awsome. what kind of music do they play?

[Illegalx17]

i can summarize it. duplicate the layer with the link a couple times. if it isnt already raterize the text. then go to filters>blur>motion blur and choose a flat angle, find a good distance, but not overkill. repeat but change the angle on each one. you should have just a flat one like --- and an up and down one like | and one or two diagonal ones, eg \ or / . optionally, you can move the text around a little on each one. then you go into imageready, and make 4 or more new frames. make the first layer visible on the first frame, then in the new frame make it invisible and hte next layer visible. repeat this till you have all your frames. it should look like its shaking.

[Bradley]

Pretty standard emo/screamo/metal band layout. But that's a compliment. I think the links looked better when they were smaller. The link text doesn't fit in the update you made. Like others have said, try a grungier/less clean looking font. That one looks like Americana or something. As for link effects, maybe try a scratch out idea.. like on the from autumn to ashes website.