Home Page and Gallery Prototypes

I have an update, yay! So far, I've been working on prototypes for my site. These aren't really necessary because I am not doing this for a professional job, but as I think I said in my introduction, I want to treat this as if it were a professional job.

I have a whole bunch of hand drawn wireframes and layout designs. I even made one of those stupid word lists , but I don't feel like scanning them just yet. What I have for you today are my two Photoshop prototypes ( made using Photoshop from Designer Suite 5.5) .The first is of the home page, the second is how I envision the gallery page to look. These are crude in comparison to the CSS I've been playing around with, so don't expect to look EXACTLY like this (click to see full version).

So here's what I learned: I learned that everything should not have a drop shadow, nor a gradient (not from this project, but from an earlier one). Sometimes colors I thought of don't look that great together, but need some tweaking here and there. Visual balance is nice, and I don't really like lop-sided layouts unless it does on purpose. I kind of like solid backgrounds less than patterns, so I looked up the pattern used here and just tiled it.

Before finishing the gallery page, I needed to actually find the plug in I wanted to be using for my project. I decided up this one after consulting two people. I  think a CD scans gallery really needs thumbnails of all of the pages available, as well as a big version of each picture since Visual-kei is like 95.67% about what the band looks like. Let me know what you think!