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- neverblink0
Thnx everybody for your kind words, comments and criticism :)
- wouter
- canuck0
I like the work, don't like the site. Just feel it's a poor user experience.
- neverblink0
@mr_snuggles: I'm attending the Willem de Kooning Academy for Art Media and Design in Rotterdam.
- vespa0
ooh it took out my arrows
i meant to say previous project on the left and next project on the right would be more converional, but overall v strong, keep up the good work!
- mr_snuggles0
what academie are you attending, rietveld?
- vespa0
would be more conventional, but overall very strong work.
- neverblink0
ok, I see what you mean. I love his style, although he decided to have a lot less displayed on his page wich also brings the focus to the site.
I decided the visitor should be able to view my projects non-linear as well as linear. Wich brought along a whole other navigational system.
Now about the design: Although the navigation gets displayed over the images, I felt it had to be less important than the background. Wich is why I kept it.. well.. dull. :)
- mr_snuggles0
I consider Build to be one of the best at this style of layout
even with the latest version of his site, he's created a bit more interest in the nav by using tones and some nice highlight colour...
- UndoUndo0
neverblink, maybe progressive jpegs would be better?
- neverblink0
ok, thank you. I like the monotome appearance, but like you said that's just an opinion. There is actually a slight difference in the texts (serif and sans-serif at different sizes) as well as different greys. But I'll let you in a a secret, I first had the background of the titles all yellow ;)
- mr_snuggles0
bottom line is that there is no hierarchy at all. You can maintain a consistent type size throughout but please use a bit of colour or more interesting spatial relationships to encourage the viewer to look around.
Again, just my opinion, but if you sent this link to me, looking for an internship, most likely I wouldn't even bother to check out the work which is unfortunate becasue there is some good work in there...
- skt0
*drums fingers...
- neverblink0
@mr. snuggles: please show me sites wich you think execute this setup better. Or tell me how you think it can be improved.
I'm not here for love and praise, But I don't have much use for critique without telling me what's the problem.:)
- skt0
and...?
mr_snuggles
(Jul 19 06, 04:50)suit yourself
- neverblink0
ow and yes, I know php, but using AJAX would do nothing for the load times (images are loaded on click, same thing would happen with AJAX).
As I am rewriting the bgimage I can't use a low-source image, but I can set it as initial bg (after a click) wich would display it when something is loading.
thnx for that idea!
- mr_snuggles0
and...?
- skt0
thats a bit on the harsh side snuggles.. he is still a school.
- mr_snuggles0
not a fan of the site, I've seen this type of layout concept done well, unfortunately this falls short...
- neverblink0
the images arn't loading all at once, just the texts and links to the images.
thnx paraselene for the heads up on plagiarism (English is not my first language).
@moth> it now validates as XHTML strict and CSS2
- UndoUndo0
it may take a time to load because yr loading all content at once into the array, you might get on well with AJAX as you know JS (and PHP?) and you'll be able to reduce the load time then.
good stuff