[UPHPU] html design templates

[Velda Christensen]

Oops, meant to send this to the list.

jtaber wrote:
> Everyone else seems to have nice web pages but our html page designs 
> are pretty ugly (probably due to a real lack of artistic talent).   
> I'm talking of things like nice menu tabs, buttons, gradient color 
> schemes.   It's not like any of these can't be hand built, but 
> building components like a shaded button image just consumes too much 
> time.

Why don't you download or develop some schemes that mostly use CSS for 
color and layout?  Ideally you should only have to deal with a few 
images, and only use those for backgrounds and subtle enhancements.  
Quite frankly, if a layout can't look nice on its own without gradients 
and glassy butons, chances are you need to go back to the drawing board 
anyway.  Let your content command the attention.

A few of my favorite color scheme helpers:
- http://colourlovers.com
- http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/

For fancy buttons, look for 'sliding door css'

If you're still dying for a background gradients, Gimp works great, and 
you can still implement them with CSS.

If you don't have a good logo, do consider hiring a designer for that.

For what it's worth,

-Velda
www.novapages.com