http://www.mypix.us/img/_Mancer_/1115678658-8.png As you can see, I'm not exactly the expert here when it comes to templates. Pass me some suggestions about color, nav bar, brushing in the backround, text at the top, and other things to add to this. I want this to become a portfolio template, so whats in a portfolio template?
umm...loos the shapes and such keep it rectangle's and the other one, forgot it, lol and make a bigger content box becuase you got lots of space loose the scan lines boreder is huge, just make some cool sidebars. use better brushes, maybe some good grunge or blood brushes would be nice and i just dont like the color that much
....My honest opinion, start again from scratch. But if you're not into that kind of thing, try and remove some of the scanlines and add some more colour into it, like red.
Also, try to have it so that the entire template can be made of repeating units, gradients to the entire image are a bitch to code for and they don't add that much, not to mention the fact they raise load time a ----load.
not over brushes but i would make it smaller also lower opactiy of scan lines also maybe put scan line layers behind grunge no bevel either
Actually there is no bevel and emboss.. anywhere on that. Jeeze guys by now you should know what bevel and emboss looks like :/
it looks a lot like bevel and emboss.. either way, just the appearance of it looks nasty anyways, theres way too much unused space and a website like this wouldnt be too content-healthy because of its small size..keep working at it
gradients don't raise load times, heavy image use does, but that can be taken care of with CSS and such.