Site design on the right track? 1414 Responses

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kushman
I've been trying hard of late to tech myself good use considered typography and grids.
Got this design on the go for a new client:
http://internetessentials.co.uk/…
What do you think? It's not HTMLified yet but you get the idea...
Nov 5, 08, 4:15 a.m. – Permalink
digdre
nice
but maybe to much whitespace between left collumn and right one.
- So you're saying kill the guttering somewhat.... I'll have to do that to the 2nd column also then (there are 3 columns) Won't that make the 2 text columns appears a little tight?
  
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:16 a.m. – Permalink
graham
like it
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:17 a.m. – Permalink
kuttyranks

hahahaahah
- Looks like he is having his arse tickled with a feather?!– uncle_helv1/3
  
  Yo this dude is sitting behind me..... this could seriously offend him!
  
  – kushman2/3
  better not let him see it.– anxiousarms3/3
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:21 a.m. – Permalink
fodcj
Dull down the dark background pattern
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:23 a.m. – Permalink
skii
like it also.
i'd maybe introduce some more of the muddy orange into the headed copy and close up the kerning on the body copy by a pt or so, looks a little open. nice a clean design though.
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:24 a.m. – Permalink
Lillebo
Not bad. Hmm, have you considered dropping the background pattern, or at least fade it down to 10% or even 5% opacity? And perhaps integrate the content elements (pictures etc) more directly into the design. Perhaps have them fill out the width of the area / act as a header of some sort.
Also there is something with that font in the header ("New for 2009..") .. a little too much noise/grain or whatever. Dunno. Keep it up tho :)
- I think the text fuck up is due to Illy's poor output of bitmaps. Will be fixed on the final version.
  – kushman1/6
  Are you designing the site in Illustrator?– Lillebo2/6
  haha - right on the money!– kushman3/6
  Fail.– Lillebo4/6
  why? Illy is perfect for mockups pal
  – kushman5/6
  Lillebo was waxing lyrical yesterday about web stuff. Thinks he's some kinda star. Take no notice.– Raniator6/6
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:40 a.m. – Permalink
kushman
Ok here's a version with a much more muted background
http://internetessentials.co.uk/…
- much better– fodcj1/3
  I like the darker color but agree that pattern contrast was too much...– voiceof2/3
  Try making the BG the orange color and make the pattern slightly lighter than the BG– voiceof3/3
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:48 a.m. – Permalink
citizen_h
yeah knock back the colour of the pattern as it does your eyes in
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:51 a.m. – Permalink
kushman
Are we saying more colour (or color if you like) is needed? Too much B=W?
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:54 a.m. – Permalink
ian
Its ok, better with the muted bg pattern but perhaps you need to bump up the opacity a little, its gone somewhat washy.
Agree that there probably too much space between the nav and content and also between the logo/nav and intro copy/content. Tighten it up a bit but not too much the whitespace is good.
Think you could also introduce some more colour to it, its a bit flat at the moment, even a muted colour palatte of grays combined with the orange and black could lift it a little.
Also not sure about the horizontal lines, are they needed? They just kind of float at the moment, too far away from anything. Consider dropping them altogether just to see if it frees up the page a bit.
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 4:56 a.m. – Permalink
OhYeah
kushman, like the site a lot. It's nice and minimal and nice use of type. But like some of the comments above maybe add more color? Have you tried a dark brown? Try that and then use an orange tone for links and H1 ect might look good.
But over all nice one chap!
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 7:48 a.m. – Permalink
23kon
You going to be using flash image replacement for the headline text?
Been using that a lot recently on sites. Works well.
Starts to slow things down though if you start having too many styles.
- Good point!– OhYeah1/2
  Maybe. If I'm lazy I'll just move the H1 tag off screen and keep the text as an image
  
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 7:49 a.m. – Permalink
JSK
Please lock your directory
http://internetessentials.co.uk/…
- oops!– kushman
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Dog-earNov 5, 08, 7:57 a.m. – Permalink
ESKEMA
I like it but for the amount of info there, I shouldn't have to scroll...
15" @ 1440 x 900
- Hmm.. I understand your point. May have to rethink the situation vertical challenged people– kushman
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