Help plz?

[snowgoose]

Hi there is anyone willing to help me make my website more gothic in look for free plz help someone.thanx:cool:

[ronmatt]

what do you want? more gothic means it's somewhat gothic now.(?) can we see it?
you can't make something "more red" if you don't know "how red" it already is.

I do some 'gothicy' (or could do some) check it out. Well maybe these aren't really gothic.

http://ronmatt.deviantart.com/gallery

[snowgoose]

Hi ronmatt i knew i forgot something it aint very good thats why i need some help the addy for my site is www.clix.to/satan its only free so plz help me with it someone.thanx:cool:

[transmothra]

you'll want some cool fonts, like morpheus. google it, i'm sure it's still out there. but don't make your regular text in it, use it for images because not many people have spectacularly cool fonts installed. of course, having an image for text presents other problems, notably with accessibility, but as long as you use the alt attribute in your image tags you can get away with it.

other advice:

use a limited color scheme. dark grey, black (duh!), and either bright red or blue (either, but not both, and only in small amounts, just like trim on a truly cool car) make for a decent starter Goth Palette. even better is black (duh!), one bright color for trim, and an extremely dark version for highlighting content boxes or whatnot, e.g. red and dark maroon, or cobalt blue and dark indigo. (green makes a surprisingly cool, but more sci-fi-y color scheme.) the real trick here is finding something with the right amount of contrast, i.e., not so much that it causes damage to your optic nerve, but not the dreaded "black on black" that's impossible to read on a dark monitor in daylight without actually having to select text.

some of the most incredibly cool "goth" sites i've ever seen even went out on a limb and used no black at all! experiment.

definitely limit your "found-online-and-rightclick-saved-as..." animated GIFs drastically, 'goose. those things absolutely SCREAM 1996-era Angelfire/Tripod/GeoCities sites. believe it or not, static images are way cooler. you can use CSS to make them change state on hover (mouseover), if you want, but too much pointless motion is never a great idea.

[Piperwolf]

too much pointless motion is never a great idea.

I agree, while the first viewable page was good, I scrolled down to see what else was there and it looked like just more animated pictures. Make the navigation dramatic and possible outlined/indented and make sure theres nothing to the right of it (or if you put it on the left, make sure theres nothing to the left of it). The stay clear thing was neat up to the point that it popped up a mail message to you that I had to cancel out of. I didn't like that but that may be the kind of thing you wanted. What is not goth about it though was that it (the stay clear) shows blue. That color doesn't look well with the rest of the page. I think the biggest thing you need now is goth content to link up in an organized fashion with those animated pictures.