Halp! Site feedback plz
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- cannonball1978
I've been working on this site for a little over a year. I do pretty much everything - publishing, editing, illustration and design.
Would love to know what you think, what's working, opportunities for improvement, and if you have some words of encouragement that would help me keep going it would be much appreciated :)
Tools: Framer, Procreate, Affinity Photo 2.
Illustration Process: Sketching IRL, Illustrating on the iPad Pro with a custom art board.
Editing Process: managing a slush pile with Moksha, editing using Google Docs.I guess you would classify this as an independent press. I'm going to be attempting to bring more well-known authors to contribute, and pumping up presence at conventions, so ideas for swag would be appreciated as well. Maybe tee shirts or book totes?
- dbloc0
It's a little boring, but works
- Get rid of the word FRONT on the home page
- Make the footer links black like the rest of the text
- dbloc4
First thing I though of was PhanLo
- Nairn0
what is it?
I probably need to know that up front, even if you do - inside an out.
- Nairn2
"Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We want to shine a light on all tomorrows."
Until you're established, you really need to spell it out for the plebs.
- uan0
after a story, I would expect related stories. not Previous... or Next up... just 3 related Story links from the Archives (can be the previous or next one).
also, they lag a bit in loading while scrolling.
I love the the typesetting in the stories, but it could use some idk visual accent sprinkles, like initials, even decorated initials. or cliches, printer’s ornament, dividers... just to guide / entertain the readers eye.
- Maybe some custom dingbats?cannonball1978
- yes, dingbats, some classic or custom ones:
https://i.haasie.com…uan
- slappy0
The search/hamburger menu/subscribe icons feel dated. I realise that the weight and rounded corners relate to the logo but I would make more minimal and modern.
The width of the centre column feels too narrow on larger screens unless you're going for a nostalgic feel.
I think you could use more contrast between the text sizes, either make the body copy smaller or the heading larger or both. I would flip the typefaces and make the serif the headline and the sans the body copy but that does get done a lot.
The tags/folios could be smaller and maybe monospaced. Should be same padding on the top/left of them.
Agree with the other comments above, also not really a fan of the get this, get that in the footer, get fucked?
The full page menu doesn't make use of the full page, and the type style feels a bit default. I think it should either be more visual or more minimal.
- Fair point about the text. Lots of variation since it's pulled form the CMS so its a slow massage.cannonball1978
- The ingredients are all there, nice work.slappy
- I actually liked the rounded thing. which width are you using? I'n on a 4k and the column feels smaller than 1200px wide.oey_oey
- About 1000. I find it preserves gutters for cards on lowest denomination of mobile, preserves image aspect ratios without heavy server-side resizing.cannonball1978
- I'm also keeping some side spacing to eventually illustrate some subtle page backgrounds so the illustrations feel "imbedded" in an illustrat-ey site typecannonball1978
- dbloc2
Use the ō as texture somewhere just to make it a bit more interesting, even if it's just offset large in the background with a low opacity.
- duckseason1
I see some contrast/accessibility issues - specifically that orange on orange story - The Formative Enemy Mine
- typography wise you mean?cannonball1978
- Yeahduckseason
- thisoey_oey
- cannonball19780
Dang thats it? Remove front page header, reading contrast, narrow columns? And boring?
- dbloc1
Almost forgot. Add a little squirrel to the bottom corner too.
- oey_oey0
Hi! I logged in just to give you some feedback because that's what QBN is actually for among other nice things and I'm also working on my new website.
I will give you a deeper opinion tomorrow or on Monday but my first reaction was:
It looks like the website from an Illustrator and no this is not necessarily bad on the contrary.
I asked myself also what is this FRONT and I even clicked it.
I like the thumbs but wouldn't do it on my page , not because i don't think they work, they do and are clean.
The footer was interesting, out of the boxs of footers we know, there's no clear separation to the page and the only thing that bothered me a little was the top padding to the content and the Newsletter email box,( was it for a newsletter?)..it falls out of the rest of the page design.
correction the top padding is okay (from the footer) and the newsletter thing is just slightly off but hey it works.
I like it, i like the colors and general tone. feels a bit liek a japanese animation illustrator website but without the manga.
It feels nice in the eyes.