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I figured someone would say that haha
Since this will be a site targeting HS students, I doubt that anyone would confuse the two so that works to my advantage. |
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Looks decent, not very original though, and the gloss on the blue bar looks kinda fake haha.
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There will be a lot of functionality on this page that a JPG can't display. Such as drag and drop boxes, customizable portlets, flash news rotator (Students/Parents/Teachers/The Rest box), etc. So this definitely won't be simply a static HTML website. Thanks for the reminder regarding watermarking the image. I usually do but completely forgot because Im at work and dont have access to my usual graphics tools. So instead I reduced the quality to a 256 color bmp so that the quality is so bad no one would think about slicing it haha I also included how ads would look when placed on the site. Feedback for those would be appreciated. Right now it probably looks over bearing because there is no content except the ads. |
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It's a really really nice looking start... but I might consider pulling back a little bit on the Orange, it seems like there might be too much. My eye didn't seem to gravitate or focus on one certain areas because I was a little overwhelmed with orange. I would consider adding some more blue accents or another color to highlight.
Other than that it's a really slick design and a great start... goodluck and make sure to show us the final product!
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Watermarked and posted for you.
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I actually really like the design and color scheme, who cares if it looks kinda like sitepoint here is my big critique:
![]() Hope you don't mind I circled the issues I found and hosted the image on my hosting, let me know if you want me to remove it or send you the file. Make sure all of your sections/content groups are equidistant that means set up a base distance or two that you use to pad your elements, try not to use more than two, and make sure the elements are the same in terms of relationships, so banners are always the same distance from a content element etc. Looks good though good job.
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One idea I had was moving the login/register part to the upper right hand corner and the search box to the right hand side of the navigation menu (currently orange). I would then remove the orange menu (login/register/search) completely and change the navigation menu to a blue background (from orange). Did that make sense? |
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Thats a really good point though and I appreciate the feedback. I'll definitely look for that when the designer gives me the final copy! |
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I put that limit there so that it would bog down my host too much, but that was when I was on a shared host. I'm now on a dedicate host so I'll probably bump it up a bit, though the most I'd probably put it at is 500kb. When I get home I'll push the limit up a bit.
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I like your design a lot, I'd just fix the spacing here and there and maybe switch the color of the 2 navigation bars (blue <-->orange)
maybe you could move the top orange banner to the left (or the skyskraper banner also, so you'd have the student-teachers...box in the middle) in order not to have so much orange on the right side I wouldn't consider this whole orange thing a disadvantage, it should help create some sort of continuity from your site to cingular |
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First off, some of the elements aren't aligned properly. Not like what was previously stated with the equidistant stuff, but such as the word "go" on the search button; it looks off a couple pixels to me. Near the footer of the design you have some variations of white and gray background (sorta like a rectangular checker board pattern) - looks like somebody rushed through that and forget to clean up afterwards.
The gradients used for the search bar and footer don't really look to realistic and I think they should be re-worked. The two ads right below the navigation seem to have some out-of-place pixels in the background. The white bar right above the 3 orange boxes looks out of place (its very faint). With the navigation, maybe you could have the little arrow appear when the user hovers over it. Is that dark gray box going to have some AJAX? If so, that looks like a cool concept. The colors are nice, and the structure is pretty good. However with the 3 boxes near the footer, I think you should make the corners round like every other corner on the design; the right angle clashes with the curves. Are the ads that you are always going to use have that strong of an orange in it? If not, the comments about the orange being over powering shouldn't apply. I personally think the hue of orange and blue you choose work together very nicely. Also, blue and orange is a pretty common color scheme; we're just use to Sitepoint's color scheme, and their branding has implemented the association of the two into our brain (haha) so don't worry about. There isn't an equal amount of pixels between the canvas and the edge of the design. If you plan to center the design on the screen, I would fix that. Speaking of positioning take a look at this article: Designing with a Grid | blog.critical (and you could do a Google to find a lot more). It explains the concept behind keeping your design organized in a grid like format. I think you should make the 3 columns the same width as the square banner, and the 'AJAX' area (gray box that looks like it could be AJAX) the width of 2 columns. This will give you that little detail that makes a design really shine. You'll probably have to expand the size of your design to over 1000 pixels, but it would be worth a shot. Just try not to go over 1024 or you'll lose usability kudos with a ton of users out there. Also, here is some advice that pertains to the 3 columns. White space = good these days. I think you should get rid of the gray background and make it white. Make the content define itself in the design, not some lines (an example would be the The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia). However I wouldn't get rid of the orange bars. Just try that out maybe and see what you like. I'm a huge fan of simplicity and like many other "Professional Web Designers" have said, its the new way to design. Some inspiration for the "gray AJAX box" could be gathered from Yahoo!. As much as some people hate the corporate design style, you can take there ideas and mold them into some visually compelling way (using actual graphics/style haha) that looks bad ass. Yahoo has a bunch of cool AJAX (I think thats what its called) movement kinda things that look really cool. Maybe you could draw some ideas from that. Overall its not that bad of a design, just a few things can be improved on. Remember, the little details is what makes a design awesome. And with the links that I've provided you; take them as inspiration to get ideas, don't really copy them. However I doubt that has to be mentioned, we aren't at some little-kids-designing-templates forum. Thats all I can think of for now. I hope you don't feel like I'm bashing your design. I use to be a freelance web designer and I hated it when people commented on my work but didn't really give constructive criticism. I realize that this post isn't really organized that well, sorry about that. I could elaborate a little more, but I really need to study for my last final tomorrow. If you want me to get rid of this post then I will. And trust me, I've seen MUCH worse designs. This one really isn't all that bad, and put that together with your awesome ideas for coding (or at least they sound awesome, I don't know shit about coding) this site is going to whoop some ass! I guess you could call me a perfectionist (easier said than done though, I'm lazy as hell) which explains my nick-picking, long ass post. Hope it helped you out some. |
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