site crit... take 2
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- Leissa
i've made a few slight changes...
any feedback most appreciated!
http://leissaincanada.blogspot.c…
Leissa
- madirish0
whatever crit you get, do not take chossy's weak pick up lines seriously...
.... he tries, but the kid just needs help.
;)
- Leissa0
haha, so chossy? what's your latest line? can't wait to hear it!
:)
- k0na_an0k0
i'd make your secondary links 'more about us' and such a point or two smaller. make them the same size as the text in the boxes.
the page feels a bit clunky. take a look here....
http://www.egographies.com/
http://www.xynthetic.co.uk/
http://www.gate303.net/see how their shadows and gradients are nice and smooth, they flow very well. i know what you're trying to do with yours but it's not quite there yet, one more step to refine it and the page will be much softer.
i like the layout and you used the grid well.
keep pushing. it's almost there.
- jevad0
It's a nice layout for sure - but I do think you could balance the weight of the page out a bit more by playing with the type - and the colour of the type.
Especially with the headlines - Drop the all caps and use a lighter blue.
Drop down the 'more links' a couple pixels - don't use caps - and use a lighter blue still...
Hope you don't mind but I threw something together quick to give you a direction for some sort of type treatment:
Play around with the text and links. I would definately give the body copy some line spacing of 16 px or so...
- Leissa0
Thanks! hugely appreciated...
back to tweaking for me!
- jevad0
npbs
welcome back to london!
- k0na_an0k0
very nice of you jevad.
good treatment of the text too.
- Leissa0
I don't know about welcome BACK, this is my first time living/working here... currently on the job hunt. have a second interveiw with a company tomorow, hence the mad rush to get this design finished! is it common for them to ask you to design something to a brief as part of a second interview?
- madirish0
and to piggy-back on jevad's crit there- the largest issue i feel is how so much of the text is evenly weighted across the layout. nav to header text to headlines to pull-quotes, etc. it is very hard to discern a content heirarchy as it is laid out now, or w/ nic's.
also, the way you treat the 3 photos differently is distracting a bit to me. maybe pick one that works and paly w/ scale and size of the images rather than treating them all differnt? it might help reinforce your grid and thus the heirarchy.
- jevad0
Yeah - that too!
"is it common for them to ask you to design something to a brief as part of a second interview?
Leissa
(Oct 5 06, 09:37)"Unfortunately - yes. A lot of companies do this.