I helped you a bit with your older thread getting the forums working. Here I'll give you some critique on the layout.
In General you had a big problem with making your Text readable. In most places you use White Text against a White or Light Background. Maybe you should incorporate another color into your designs to give the layout some more variation.
I also don't like how the layout seems to change in every other section. You should just stick with one layout and
skin each area to look like what you want it to be if you really want every area to have a different layout.
- The Text in your Logo is almost completely unreadable. You can't see the
H,
I, or
C in " Torchic " because it blends into the background. It'll look a lot better if you use just about any other color. I recommend Red or a Dark Red. Whatever works for you.
- The Top Left image you use on the Torchic Layout is cut off. Look at the circle at the bottom of the image. It's been cut in half. You should either fix the cutoff circle on remove it completely. I'd recommend you remove the cut off circle completely. It'll only take about a minute or so to fix that way.
- When you hover over any link on either layout it turns white. We can't read what it says when it turns white. To match the color of the layouts the hover color should be either Dark Red or Orange on the Torchic Layout and Green or Dark Pink on the Shaymin Layout.
- Remove the Blank Links (the ones that say " Link ").
- You should probably shorten " Pokemon Things " to just " Pokemon. Even if you fix the Header Images (see below) you still won't be able to read the entire thing.
- The first two columns of both layouts look fine. The third column? Not so much. There's too any things over there. I recommend that you make that column shorter by removing some of the Content. How about putting your Affiliates and Topsites on their own pages and put the Chatbox somewhere else. It should be possible to put your Chatbox on your Forums or since you do have your own Forums to remove the Chatbox completely.
- The image you use for your headers (the one with the swirls and Torchic's Head) is
really crowded. It makes the Text hidden inside hard to read because it's also white. I think you should remove the swirls on the left side of all of those images so it's easier to read the contents. There's already a few swirls on the Right Side so it wouldn't be losing too much.
- I noticed you use the same image for the headers in the other two columns as a header for the main content area. The background for the area that says " Welcome to Achamo~Torchic! " is what I'm talking about. The most ideal solution would be to just make another image that will fit the area that also uses the swirls and the Torchic. There's a few other ways you can go about it, too.
Now for some good things. I think the
Shaymin Scheme looks better then your Torchic Scheme. It's a lot easier to read with one notable exception:
the links. Not even the regular link color is readable let alone the Hover. You should use a Darker Pink for the link color.
For the Shaymin Scheme ...
Remove the Outermost Pink and White Border. It's not needed since you use Borders on the inside.
Either Remove the Background Image (the grass) or Finish it. It looks really unfinished compared to the other images because there's a noticeable cutoff. If you decide to keep it remove the fixed scrolling so the grass only shows when you scroll to the bottom of the page.
The Logo for THIS layout is easily the best layout image you made. I really do like it. It's a shame the image is cut off, though. It'll look a LOT better if we can see the entire image.
http://achamo-torchic.brokenwishes.net/games/md2/main.php
Code:
body {
background-color: whatever color the tan is; } ...
The rest is fine though the Image Quality could be much better.
http://achamo-torchic.brokenwishes.net/games/dp/index.php
This ... not such an easy fix. I think the background color should be Pink (for Palkia) and the Headers should be Blue (for Diagla). A Gradient like you have is doable but it'll take a while to make it look right.
