Need design help for my site...

[NFP]

Hi,
Hows it going everyone "newbie" to the forum ... im a pretty baisic deigner ... im looking to enhance and advance my deisgning skills(mostly my graphic designing skills, which isnt all that hot).Im currently a webmaster of a tribute site to the rock band Nirvana http://www.nirvanafanpage.net pretty sure most of u have heared of them ... well anywho there are so many nirvana sites out there ... with so many great looking designing its hard for a fellow to keep up.So below ive listed 2 links to nirvana sites with pretty sweet designs ... which im trying to match are top .... After you've looked at the following sites below can ya tell me what stuff to get like desinging tool, graphic desining tools etc ... im not a very advanced designer so bare with me.Id appreciate any help i can get.

2 nirvana sites with the sweet designs im trying to match or top:

http://www.nirvana-music.com
http://www.livenirvana.com

 

[DarkDevil]

First you must master HTML and CSS before you should rely on programs. This is what i follow, and it is what my computer teacher teaches by... before he gives you frontpage and macromedia studios you must first master HTML and Notepad.

 

[shawnjohn]

If I was designing the site, the first thing that I would go for with your Nirvana in Flash is a different font, the font you are using is very hard to read and gets blurred. You might want to check and see if your text is anti-ailased or not and this may be your problem. I like the look of the Flash site, but I noticed that your HTML site is kinda drab. You may want to implement some dHTML, javascript and CSS to perk up your site. If you would like to some ways of using CSS and dHTML you can check out my websites at the link below. These are just quick and basic sites, but there is alot of dHTML and CSS within all the HTML sites on my online portfolio. You can take my code and use it if you see any that you like, but please make a reference to myself and my online portfolio if you plan to use any of them. Drop me a line when you are finished workin on the site and let me know how things are going.