It’s almost that time of the year again; a new layout is due! But I’ve been debating on what to use. I’ve been using iframes (a frame in the website scrolls, the rest of the site stays stationary) for the past years because I think it’s click-friendly, and it allows me to be artistic with the rest of the layout. But it also kind of makes it hard for people who have smaller screen resolutions to browse, especially in the gallery. I have been thinking about this or this kind of layout, where the important things are on one page. It is less graphic-intense, a bit more professional, and allows for a less confusing hierarchy of webpages. But it scrolls a lot and it is a little harder to be creative with the layout artistically without sacrificing ease of navigation. More advanced alternatives are flash and more difficult uses of css and javascripts, which would both require the users’ browsers to be up to date to view the site properly and require me to learn a lot more in those areas before I can do anything decent. Opinions?
Oh and
This sketch was from December or November if anyone remembers from Mecha Penguin… The lineart was done over a span of 3 months because I just have sooooo much time to draw what I want to draw. I won’t be finishing it anytime soon seeing how the school term is coming to an end (I have to study hard to make the scholarship worth it! oh and the scholarship was 15000 a year instead of 15000 in total… so it’s 45000 LOL ”’orz) and I am slightly behind on the pace I want to go at for my manga. Expect it in may or something!
{ Sake }
You could make 2 iframes layouts one less graphic-intense and another like the one you would normally make. Link to them both on your main page. Choices are always nice to have. (:
{ Icesplendor }
Personally, I really like your current layout. It’s easy for me to navigate (and it’s even easier and prettier when I use a buddy’s PC with a 1337 resolution). I don’t think you should stress yourself out with learning how to code a completely different layout when this one works just fine. :P
{ Phantom }
OMFG! PLEASE finish that blackbird and Veloce picture!!!!!! I BEG YOU!!!!
{ Shadilyn }
Ehh… I personally think you should keep your current layout. It’s more artistic, and you are an artist after all. :) I hope I’m not being biased, because your website shows up beautifully for me in 1024×1280 resolution. xD If you really wanted to make the layout so that’s it’s compatible with the 800×600 screen, I’d suggest maybe just shrinking everything and having your gallery pages show up in a new window, like zs suggested.