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- DavidFelt
Website for a phorographer friend o' mine...
Any crit appreciated, layout colours etc.
Cheers!
- Dancer0
Definately needs some supporting grpahics, looks a little unconsidered as a layout. Like the start of it though.
Colours are nice.
THat magenta 'new' burst looks sooooo outta place, way to bright and agressive.
- Nairn0
I like the Igloo Art header and the following hand written text... but then you go and finish-off with a completely different website?
Feels like you've not finished, frankly - the various Navigation elements just float around and bear no relevance to the header.
- agentfour0
igloo art logo in black.
photo just looks plonked. maybe use the masking tape element a bit more going over the image at top and bottom.
- DavidFelt0
The layout is based on a grid i promise, the reason ive had to use no graphics on top of the image and ive used just plain verdana is that the guy is going to have to update his site at least once a week, so they need to stay pretty simple unless you peeps have any ideas of how i can work around that....
yeah, its way from finished though, just looking for a bit of feedback on how its going.
thanks peeps!
- DavidFelt0
*BUMP*
Come on... anyone else, any more thoughts?
nice one!
- Nairn0
There's no reason the bulk of your nav elements couldn't use the handwritten text as graphics, with sub sections and pic-credits displayed in verdana - it just requires you to integrate any html text sleakly.
Personally (and especially with simple hand-drawn sites), I don't see the benefits in necessarily sticking to a rigid grid system - especially when it's not tangible. I'd either line everything up by eye and leave it feeling more natural, or integrate elements which accentuate the underlying rigid structure.
Whatever, I think it's got lots of potential if you hone it a bit more.. good luck!
- DavidFelt0
I was thinking how about actually drawing the grid on paper, with notes and annotations and then having that in the BG, to sort of make it like ive planned it by hand, then introduced the necessary HTML elements afterwards? what you all think?
- Sven_sk0
i think your photography could use some work.
- Nairn0
Sounds like a great idea - go for it!
- DavidFelt0
not my photography, but thanks for your more than constructive crit!
arse hole ;)
- Dancer0
Disagree.
I don't think you should mess the whole thing up, just handwrite the menu items and atleaste have the sub menu hang off something at the moemnt they are both really floating.
- DavidFelt0
yep, theres option number 2 dancer, ill give it more work and post again later, thanks dudes!
- ********0
Easily the worst bit of work you have put up for a crit. Is this the work of your intern again?
It just doesn't have anything holding it togethor. Half clean lines, half crafty, no clear direction.
I'd head in the direction of crafty, tape borders on the photos, more hand written elements and fill the page a bit more.
- Sven_sk0
not my photography, but thanks for your more than constructive crit!
arse hole ;)
DavidFelt
(Nov 16 05, 06:07)no reason to rude.
just saying the photography could use some work if its a photography site. looks REALLY grainy and not pro.
at all.
- DavidFelt0
thanks skt, i agree too, what do you reckon of the layout though, more crafty look overall seems the way to go, but i think the layout is okayish....
- ********0
I don't like the large space between the main and sub navs. But if that fills up with handwritten elements or even scraps of paper etc behind them it will help.
I would also try bringing the photo down a bit so its verticaly aligned with the top of the nav rather than the logo. But have the tape (if you use it) spilling up into the empty space above.
- agentfour0
you could still use stuff on top of the images....if you really want. You can use png's on top of bg images or in layers on top. Depends how far you want to go.
- DavidFelt0
I wont be coding it, (I hope), cause im shit at that, so what you reckon, go wild with the design and then see if i can get a good coder to build it for me?
that could be the way to go, just working on a more handmade one, i may actually hand make all the elements, lay them out on the floor on photograph them, anyone tried this method, think it will trasnfer well to the web????