Website needs crit.
#1
Posted 12 October 2008 - 02:33 AM
#2
Posted 13 October 2008 - 02:49 PM
hey all I was wondering If you could take a look at my website and give me some crits about layout and design and all that... also I didn't make it through the application process for the Design Team so any crits about what I could do better in that respect would also be appreciated. thx!
Its very creative! However, I have made a few notes:
The yellow text of the main navigation is partly over a white area. This is difficult to read. Perhaps a darker shade of blue, or a contrasting orange?
There are at least three fonts on the home page. I love what you are doing with the capitalized letters as a theme, but try to have the main nav font follow suit a little better (something other than military fonts )
I love your gallery! Lightbox is definately in style, and will help your users immensely. On your website section, though, make sure to open all links to other websites in another blank window. You don't want to make people leave your site against their will.
I would be cautious about putting your email on your website in plain text. Web Spyders can pick that up quickly and start a spamming train on you.
Nice awards! I would like to see them left aligned, though, so I can read them easier.
Great idea with the header icon in the top left! I might use that myself. Nevertheless, we as users are accustomed now to being able to click on the logo to get back home. I would set that as a link to the home page as well. It doesn't hurt to have two home page links.
You are on a great start! Consider those revisions to help our your users and give you more traffic!
#3
Posted 14 October 2008 - 09:10 PM
#4
Posted 14 October 2008 - 09:19 PM
#5
Posted 14 December 2008 - 06:24 PM
Travislayne - thx again for your crtis! I finally got some free time and tweaked my website some more... still don't have flash so...
anyways still looking for comments and crits about my website and my logos! heres the link one more time... AndrewLockhartDesign
#6
Posted 15 January 2009 - 10:15 PM
Here's the link again...
#7
Posted 17 January 2009 - 01:13 AM
if you are targetting a broader audience, you should consider designing for a resolution of 1024x768, ie everything should look good and important stuff should fit in 955x600
right now everything is too big, it should be more compact
thumbnails are too big and big vertical thumbnails on many rows cause too much scrolling
Lightbox images are too big.. lightbox is used to present images on the screen so they should fit on the screen, I hate having to scroll when there's lightbox
wtf is nfs? put 'not for sale' or even better, don't put anything at all
external links should have target="_blank"
#8
Posted 17 January 2009 - 01:37 AM
btw your website is pretty kick ass... man I need to get flash and dreamweaver
Edited by Rockhart, 17 January 2009 - 01:42 AM.
#9
Posted 17 January 2009 - 02:08 AM
if you reduce the size of the graphics and thumbnails, you could get everything to fit on a page without scrolling
yea there's something not working well with the lightbox, it's not supposed to display that low
maybe you can try this one Lightbox++ at Codefidelity just to see if the position changes, it's basically the same thing but with improvements and flash capability
Thanks it's actually my new website, started it in december and it's not completely done yet..
#10
Posted 17 January 2009 - 06:33 AM
Also design an actual logo for yourself cause this is just plain text with an effect. A logo makes allot of difference and determine the style. Cause you have 2 styles going one with web2.0 for your upper txt and below are all flat designs.
And not diggin the fonts colors, its boring for a designer it need to jump out bright and say you are a designer and much like a website from web1.0 era and looks way too dated.
You should search websites of famous designers and get inspired from them. Trying to design something without knowing what are the prefered design and trend , you will never design anything good, so search for trend and sites that rank good looking site to get inspired.
#11
Posted 17 January 2009 - 06:57 PM
Chung Dha thx for the crit. while I do agree w/ a lot of what you said the changes your asking me to do are kind of impossible right now. I don't have dreamweaver or flash (although I might soon ) and that whole website was coded by hand. once I get those programs i'll figure out how to modernize it I'm thinking something like this?
Edited by Rockhart, 05 May 2009 - 03:46 AM.
#12
Posted 19 January 2009 - 07:15 AM
That new one is too boring, its like website that people made back in the days internet just started. You don't need such large buttons, people are not blind. Do more with the backgrounds. BG of the menu have with other color than where the informations is. Also don't say Contact info, just contact is enough.
And your logo is to unreadable can only see ndrew saying. Rockhart is far too small to read. And never detach the A into a graphic. If you make the A into a graphic you still need to write the letter in the name so its still readabe.
#14
Posted 16 February 2009 - 10:53 PM
the center piece is 940X768 and the whole site will be designed for a 1024X768 screen (or larger) I'm prob. going to shrink down my logo a bit... plus I'm thinking of having an intro page (only about 3-4 seconds long) where my logo and name shows up bigger. anyways .. yeah!
Edited by Rockhart, 05 May 2009 - 03:46 AM.
#15
Posted 18 February 2009 - 03:36 PM
However, the only thing I don't care too much for is the homepage and the header at the top of the pages within your site. The color choice is fairly plain, as is the overall design. I'm not sure how to point you in a different direction, but I just feel like the site design is out-dated and very "blah". It doesn't seem to reflect your true talent, which isn't a good thing because people will judge a book by its cover...
Hope that helps, but again, just my .02. Don't feel like you have to change the complete look of your site just though just because I said it's plain and what not. It's just a matter of preference.
#17
Posted 19 February 2009 - 01:24 PM
Just curious...what applications are you using to design your site?
#18
Posted 19 February 2009 - 03:48 PM
I like the logo =) my only crit would be to use a serif-ed 'l' or uppercase 'L' to show it's not an "I", but again it looks nice just like it is now..
I don't think you need to shrink the logo, but you probably have to experiment more with different colour schemes
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