Site Crit (redesign)
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- detritus0
You've got four 'fad' types on your site -
- Circle in a logo
- Splatters
- Yellow high contrast design
- Scrunched up, tightly-leaded textEach one of these serves as a distraction from the bulk content.
I'd drop two of them - your call which (personally, I quite like the yellow and the splattering).
Not too sure about the lack of home button in the main menu - usually doesn't matter so much, but you have quite a distance between your nav and your logo.
"No chefs equal no cookie cutter designs" doesn't read well to me.
Is your font web-ready? Seems to be quite a lot of artefacts with it - with top and bottom pixels looking squished or cut off entirely, depending upon size.
Can't help but feel you could cut the site down by a few pages - seems like a lot of redundancy/overlap between "home / about / clients / portfolio".
I'm by no means a shit-hot designer, especially in comparison with a few of the bods here - but your site reminds me of my earlier efforts, when I struggled to think of a way to differentiate myself, to make myself seem like I had my finger on the pulse. I'd rely upon graphical gimmicks and pad things out to try and create the illusion of scale and competence.
What I try and do these days is take all that shit out and make a site work with the bare minimum. Seems like the designery thing to do - though perhaps this is just a further pretense from a failed designer, a decade down the line...