a friend told me...

that my website needs to have Flash and dhtml to make it look better. And he also told me that he can't read the rainbow letters on a black background. And he also said that bright lettering on a dark background does not look good, and it's not contrasting enough. Anyone agree with him? And what the hell is dhtml? And how do I put Flash on my site? These are things I'm totally unfamiliar with. I'm upset, I spent so many hours working on my site and apparently, it's ugly. lol.

NO!!! Don't listen to him, pheonix, your sight is really pretty. He's just being upsetting for no reason, I hate people like that.

LOL...awww, thank you Morgan, I do feel better now! I was like, arrrg, I can't believe I have an ugly website after all that work!

Thanks for the encouragement babe 🙂

well.... there's artistry and there's practicality

I'm an artist, I'm rarely practical.

One of the most important pieces advice given to me about designing web pages is that dark backgrounds are a no-no for beginners... try a medium color (i use blue, not too dark, not too light) with light letters (i use white and yellow).

It's all about the ballance between being practical with colors and design and being artistic with it. It takes a lot of experimentation.

I know nothing about dhtml and flash though, and I'm still trying to understand the nature of javascript

Phoenix, I just saw your website. It was great! I noticed you said a couple of your interests were the occult and the paranormal. Do you listen to Art Bell? That's a good show to listen to if your in to that stuff.

Thanks for the suggestions Gwen...I'm definitely going to do some experimenting with the color scheme on my site! 🙂 I do wonder *why* everyone seems to favor a lighter bg for beginners...weird.

romeclone--thank you for visiting! And thanks for the compliment darlin' 🙂 No, I've never heard of Art Bell...what's he all about? Sounds interesting...

Art is all about ghosts, aliens, crop circles, bigfoot, basically anything weird. You can go to his website ArtBell.com and find all of the affiliates in Oregon. It can get boring at times but its really funny when he leaves the lines open. You will hear some really weird callers and some of his guests are very strange too.

Hehe, thanks romeclone; sounds like my kind of thing. "Basically anything weird"