site crit?
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- crispytoast
any comments or suggestions? it's my first site design. i would like to have text on there somewhere, but i kind of like it w/out. This site will have a PHP/mySQL backend delivering a rare design booksite (hopefully in a few weeks!).
thanks!
http://www.highvalleybooks.com/
crispy
- robotron3k0
it's a very mysterious site, i'm not sure who your audience is but simplyfying the navigation will help (right side, try taking off the "home" button when your in a sub page vs. the "home" button on the home page), i'm also not sure about the rollovers circles, it make is seem more a a memory game, maybe you can find an alternate way of doing that ... It may also give you room for a "call to action..." or at least not make the user click more often to try and figure out what to do, you also might want to consider, just a thought...
- crispytoast0
thanks for the thoughts. i'm making it for a friend of mine who wanted 'the most original site on the internet'. he wanted a circular site, but i talked him out of it... also he wanted a bunch of 'targets' with pantone colors. when the data is populated, each one will show a catalogue of books when you click on it.
so it is mysterious by design. i haven't filled out any site stuff yet, like 'about' etc. cuz i wanted to get some feedback on the design.
i will take the 'home' button suggestion into consideration
thanks!
crispy
- the_user0
it hurts my eyes. might want to choose a slightly narrower color palette.
- crispytoast0
anyone want to comment on the color scheme? any constructive criticism would be welcome!
thanks
crispy
- eeklipzz0
I really like your colors. It's kinda art-decco... great!
- ilmarine0
yep, the color scheme rules. maybe some adjustments here and there (like the bottom right circle). the mouseover of that button is good, btw.
also. only because "catalogue" has that g, it is not the reason to push the text further up than on other buttons.
but the mouseovers are a deffinit no go. think if amazon.com would be so popular if all the links had to be moused over before they revealed there true meaning...
- crispytoast0
ok, i guess i'll move the site section names to the front on the targets and just bold them or something on mouseover. that does make a lot of sense.
thanks for the input!
crispy
- BonSeff0
does not work on mac9.2 ie5
sorry
- corin0
It looks dull to me. Lots of colours but not many shapes if you know what i mean, (there are circles and rounded rectangles but they all just make 1 big rectangle) Everything just seems to sit exactly where it is supposed to in orange space. Becuase of that it seems kind of boring to look at while still being difficult to navigate, hence I don't get a real myterious feeling from it. I like the idea of the stacked circle rows but the individual targets require something more to justify the fact that they currently show no information (until rolled over). Maybe you could try playing with the design of the targets and from that develop something more interesting for the other buttons.
- platinum0
some of the images are not being displayed for me. PC i.e. 5
- crispytoast0
corin - i think maybe i was trying too hard to make a very simple looking site. my friend doesn't want a lot of clutter or busy-ness, on the other hand i do want the site to be very easy to figure out and navigate. when the database gets populated all the targets will click into a catalogue in that category. so the mystery will be what's behind the targets. the idea of not having lots of text is to force the user to challenge themselves to actually click thru. this isn't a mass audience, it's a rare book site focussing on design, fashion etc., so it's supposed to be fun. but obstacles are obstacles and justification is important. thanks for your input, all good suggestions.
crispy