Digitaldivasonline.net Thoughts

[digitaldivas]

Basically am wondering your thoughts on the color scheme and navigation.
Please bear in mind, it's under construction. Anyway, feedback is appreciated.

http://www.digitaldivasonline.net/ad...olo-babes.html

[Joshua G]

3 menu bars at the top is 2 too many. also the smaller images being darkened should be changed. they are not appealing being darkened & lazy people like me dont want to mouse over the image to see the colors. otherwise its pretty nice. good luck.

[jimmycooper]

3 menu bars at the top is 2 too many. also the smaller images being darkened should be changed. they are not appealing being darkened & lazy people like me dont want to mouse over the image to see the colors. otherwise its pretty nice. good luck.

I like the darkened photos. Kind of like a subtle call to action.

[papill0n]

color scheme is good but i would add a color like pink or yellow

navigation buttons need some upper and lower padding , better still use uniform either text or grafics for the nav - one or the other

i dont like the links loading in a new window myself

plenty of empty space on the right side at 1600x1200

edit: im undecided about the darkened images, with more color in your theme i think i'd leave em

[harvey]

I like it as usual

however, from a code and useability POV you're doing it really, really, REALLY wrong. Having to create another image, then load the effect with JS, making many non necessary HTTP requests (not to mention loading all the images without a preloader to the very least). All that work and unnecessary code could be solved as simple as this:

HTML

<td class="narrowtd"><!-- EEEW, TABLEZ!1!!! -->
<a href="#"><img class="myimgclass" src="yourimage.jpg" alt="" /></a>
</td>

CSS

.narrowtd{width:92px; background:#333;}
.myimgclass{width:90px; height:194px; border:1px solid #fff;}
.myimgclass:hover{opacity:.50;-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)"; filter: alpha(opacity=50);}

and voilá!

btw, I'd try some color change on nav hover, even something subtle would work

[SGS]

The dark images made me think I had a problem with my screen.

[digitaldivas]

thank you all so much for the feedback. Yes, the blank space to the right is the ad space. I did the rollovers just for something different as well as "dumbing down" the color a little bit. I had originally went with just thumbs, but the optimized color with the thumbs was just a bit too bright imho.

I have been bouncing ideas around with my friend's mainstream multimedia companies employees, learning about "color psychology" and all of that, just trying new stuff.

It will just be a simple, classy index when complete. I work alot with pinup models, burlesque girls and thought it would be fun to include some of the more adventurous ones on this adult model index, for the exposure and everything. I just yearn for indexes that are not like the zillions out there with no personality. Why I spend so much time making them from the ground up. Imho there are some awesome very "joinable" adult sites out there. I try to put the best face on my sponsors at all times, learn through trial and error and all of that... I just love doing this, basically.

I also feel that adult photographers don't really have a dedicated showcase for their talents. ...and there are some AMAZING photographers in our industry. I want to eventually tie these areas into http://www.moderndebauchery.com, where it's all subversive art and erotic photogs. Just trying new stuff, subtlety tying the various concept sites to each other.

Thanks Harvey again, for the code and the info, I appreciate it. I am building it with dreamweaver, the rollovers are auto commands, yeah this site is static all day long. Thanks papill0n for your 2 cents, hope your well, you too Josh!

[harvey]

Thanks Harvey again, for the code and the info, I appreciate it. I am building it with dreamweaver, the rollovers are auto commands, yeah this site is static all day long. Thanks papill0n for your 2 cents, hope your well, you too Josh!

Like I said, I really like your layouts, and this is no exception. As for DreamWeaver, I don't use it at all, mainly due to this kind of outputs, but I'm pretty sure you can define CSS classes to apply, that way you won't need the JS

On a side note, I made a mistake on the CSS, the way I did it it will show the full image first and the darker image on hover, when you have the opposite, so it should be like this:

.narrowtd{width:92px; background:#333;}
.myimgclass{width:90px; height:194px; border:1px solid #fff;opacity:.50;-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)"; filter: alpha(opacity=50);}
.myimgclass:hover{opacity:.100;-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100)"; filter: alpha(opacity=100);}

where, of course, the "50" values are 50% transparency (you can play with those values)


furthermore, if you don't care about the image classes, you can imply use this:

.narrowtd{width:92px; background:#333;}
.narrowtd img{width:90px; height:194px; border:1px solid #fff;opacity:.50;-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)"; filter: alpha(opacity=50);}
.narrowtd img:hover{opacity:.100;-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100)"; filter: alpha(opacity=100);}

this way, any image inside those narrow column tables will show the opacity effect without the need to add the img class

[digitaldivas]

thanks Harvey!

[Redrob]

I though it looks classy. I like looking at the women and not being distracted by the background.