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- forbes
just launched my new website http://digitalfabricdesign.com/ its my first crack at wordpress, thought id see what you guys think?
cheers
- penelopes0
cooollllll,
- mg330
- doesnotexist0
you should have the visit site links open a new page
- livelikebruce0
Nice job. Looks really good.
- ukit0
Not bad. Can't help wonder what it would look like without the alpha-ed out photo in the background.
- forbes0
ukit, i tried probably dozens of backgrounds and nearly went with just a plain black one. its been a wok in progress for so long thoght id just release it to the public domain before i changed my mind again!
- fyoucher10
My thoughts;
Looks iight, not too shabby. What I don't like is the dot this and dot that throughout the site (i.e. .PORTFOLIO, .CONTACT). Think it's unnecessary and makes it feel too auto-kern init. That might just be me tho.
I don't dig the rollover colors for the nav (you're using different shades of gray which are a bit too light for the rest of the site. Plus, some of them towards the bottom aren't filling up the entire button area which needs to be fixed.
I think the grid column used in the about us section for all of that copy is too wide. It's hard to read using the aliased font. Maybe try making the width smaller or stacking those paragraphs into multiple columns.
Don't dig the texture on world map, it looks blurry. Maybe try a solid color like white.
It would be a nice change to see the background image change occasionally.
I think all of the content is a bit too close to the left of the browser window. Maybe try bumping everything to the right 20 pixels.
There's some bugs in your portfolio section. Over here on FF2, the first row of images for Emo aren't aligned top. All three columns are shifted.
- duckseason0
I like it overall.
I feel the spacing in the navigation is a bit off. Seems as if the "archive" section is too close to the "categories" section.
I agree with fyoucher1 in regards to the world map.
I also have the same feeling as MHDC that I have seen a logo very similar to that, but can't quite put my finger on it.
- senseg0
logo reminds me something
halfproject?
- svenreed0
the one thing that bugs me the most is that external links open up in the same window. personally, i find that annoying as hell, especially when viewing a web based portfolio. chances are that many of your viewers are going to want to visit these external sites and quickly return to yours...then again i could be wrong.
lovely work, and i like the design as well as the new logo. but it resembles the letters D and F, can i ask why?
- Llyod0
are emos gay? are they even that good?
- forbes0
cheers for the comments guys - some very insightful stuff
fyoucher - the grid column width is used throughout the site, apart from portfolio. its that wide just for consistency's sake
good point on map - il see if i can get something better.
if anyone know where theyve seen the same logo, let me know cos id sure as hell wanna know whos copying me too!
cheers
- VectorMasked0
Wow, pretty selective...
it doesn't fit on 1024. that sucks.
- gabe0
forbes, you should consider a way to minimize or scale the columns if the browser is less than 1280 (for people on 1024x768). my solution with a similar layout was to use CSS, but present my work samples using flash (and then scale the flash).
but, i'm sure you can achieve something similar using CSS.