Stripes and colors: How loud is too loud?

I don't think it's too loud. The colors are soft enough to keep that from happening. A casual recommendation would be to add some mouse over effects for at least the menu and maybe some of the other clickable items. Not all images are links, but a good number of them are. You should make clickable regions easy to distinguish from other areas. It's also a little confusing what the site is for when you arrive. There's no real content to talk to the visitor. You can figure it out if you're there for a while, but you shouldn't make it hard on your visitors.

I'm no expert, but as 'stripes and colour' schemes go, yours is very attractive in my opinion. My only recommendation would be to somehow align the purple stripes that are in the background and the blue ones in the header and footer, otherwise to me the design looks slightly out of balance.

On another note, I'm trying to get my fixed-width page (980 pixels) to sit dead centre in the browser window. You've done a good job of this. How did you do that?

Si

Set the left and right margins to "auto".

When I read "stripes and colors" I expected to see something garish and distracting. This one is quite tastefully done.

bootedbear said:

Set the left and right margins to "auto".

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The site is already centered.

Looking good - Well done!

When I opened this thread I was expecting something horrific.

I was pleasantly surprised; your site isn't loud (at least not to me), and I found it tastefully done.

Made a few minor changes:



Also I think you could take away some of the white space at the side and possibly add a bit above and below in the content area.