concept crit. request
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- xrusos
four images linked in a loop to give my client a concept for direction... there will be a flash nav up top with the horizonal scrollie everyone has grown to love. mousing over a photo will reveal further information... and clicking to the left and right of the image will advance, go back. also, keyboard short cuts for left and right arrows. am i heading in a good direction?
*note that none of the nav functionality of the above is there... only 4 looped images. - just for concept purposes.
http://www.robertjkelly.com/conc…
what do you think?
- lovaboy0
the only thing i would really object to are the placement of the buttons - too hard to read. why do they have to be vertical?
other than that, it's not bad -simple. dunno about the clicking left or right thing - it seems like you'd need more of a prompt than that - but making use of the arrow keys is a good idea.
- Bluejam0
The layout seems to work except for the navigation. Seems a bit odd to have the text vertical. What would happen if one of the menu items exceeds a certain number of characters?
The menu needs work, IMO. Maybe it's a case of nicely designed columns instead.
Otherwise i like the look. I'd also shy away from placing text over the images and reducing them to a washed out grey...doesn't look appealing...
...hope that helps.
- xrusos0
the challenge with this site is to maximize the area to view the art work... and since the art work is various formats, layout becomes a challenge to work for panarama as well as portrait.
i chose the vertical gallery menus to offset the text based logo. i will look into reworking nav with columns... but that limits galleries to maybe 10, more like 8. this way it's flexible.
also pitching a design similar to http://www.addb.ro in terms of hidden navigation. no pics yet. thanks for the critique.