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.:Green Leavesby `ginkgografix

The journal that was made for the upcoming tutorial. The first part, which explains how to code it for the old structure is done (18 pages), now i just need to make the same for the gruze version.

Even if it is already coded and was meant to be a free template first, i won't make it available yet. I guess you know why.
Therefore i'm going to use this for the contest as a template. Not sure if i will be able to finish everything till tomorrow as we will have guests today, but we will see.

Hope you like it.
Enabled critiques here, to see if i might should modify something for the tutorial before it will be published.

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Top menu for gruze [link] by `thespook
Mini Gallery code by `thespook
Frog [link] by =SunOwl
Wood textures [link] by =cloaks
Twines [link] by ~3DigitalStock

Works for FF 3.0 and IE 7.0

If you have any questions read the F.A.Q. or ask me.

Critique by ~Cat-in-the-Stock May 31, 2009, 9:11:46 AM

As you know I am by no mean a pro when it comes to CSS, but I'll try to give my opinion on this design as thoroughly as I can.

The colors in themselves are lovely. I find that the bright green works well with the dark red. All the light sources seem to be alive and glowing, which is really neat. The font color is really yummy as well. I have a little problem with the wooden texture though. The tiling does not work really well, I think it could be more subtle. As it is now, I sort of looks like big stripes of textures vs big stripes of untextured color if you see what I mean. That in not so much of a problem, as the texture is quite toned down anyway.

Onto the features now. The first thing I noticed is the lack of a heading div. If one likes to have structured journals, it might be a problem, though it is not hard to code around that. I tend to find that without a heading, it looks more like a web page than a blog/journal.
I like the two features option you got there, both the box and the full thumb and column way. The rounded box looks cool. But I wonder why it is not in the middle. Is this because of the leaf design? it seems to be off to the left by a few px.
The top menu is well integrated thanks to that vine which helps the transition from title to menu to journal.
I also like this extra text next to the moods! Very handy to put copyright infos or philosophical quotations

All in all, this is a very nice layout (as usual), though I think it looks more like a pro web page than a DA Journal because of the lack of heading div which makes the whole journal too united (so i guess this is actually not a disadvantage

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`cloaks Jun 8, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

oh this is amazing!

i love it!

`ginkgografix Jun 9, 2009

*HorselessHerder Jun 4, 2009 Interface Designer

I love the use of the green vines with the wood textured background. I get a small sense of some abandoned wooden structure being overrun with nature.

I also like how you've separated and used both the deviation and the deviant for the second features option. Not only do you feature the deviation, but you also get their name out there.

More win for everyone!