Despite being a big Apache fan, I didn't think of their logo when I saw yours. Theirs is a bit bland for my liking. Yours did/does have a familiar feel to it though. Has a design / artsy feel to it, and I mean that in a good way.
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Despite being a big Apache fan, I didn't think of their logo when I saw yours. Theirs is a bit bland for my liking. Yours did/does have a familiar feel to it though. Has a design / artsy feel to it, and I mean that in a good way.
this is my first sketch up of the actual site, no were neer done of course but its bed time so i will finish of the sketch up later but lets see what you guys think of it just now before i proceed with this one any more.
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A small critique for now: I would give it a little more whitespace padding on the right after Design.
I know this comment won't be overly helpful, but just something that I noticed with it integrated into a web site. The feathers seem to look a little too "real." It stands out on it's on a little too much. Though I admit I'm not sure of a remedy (if one is even needed). I'm also sleepy so that could be part of it.
I agree with angelwatt on spacing of the name and as for the feather possibly if it was smaller in relation to the name it would not look overpowering and be more balanced on the page. I also think the "home" line should be smaller. Over all it does look professional.
I would stick with the smaller. I already hate fixed width sites, but when I have to scroll horizontally it makes it that much worse. There's still a good percentage of people who run their screens at 800x600 resolution, and you'll have a mixed bag of people visiting your site. You generally have to design for the lowest common denominator as they say.
Heres my critique and please take it in the spirit it was intended which is to help.
1.) Your navigation buttons are XL, you should keep them close to the same font size unless your target demo is Seniors.
2.) Your content font is to small, Try 12 or using some line height.
3.) Bevels, as stated before, are a tell tail sign of an amateur.
4.) Your logo commands the page, it's too big.
5.) I'm confused why it's 800px wide? If you are going for 8x6 resolution you need to go down to around 760 or so, 800 pixels will cause horizontal scrolling on 8x6 monitor. So you either need to commit to 8x6 and make it smaller, or 1024 and make it larger (I use 960px).
Again, just adding my point a view as a designer.
1.) Your navigation buttons are XL, you should keep them close to the same font size unless your target demo is Seniors.
2.) Your content font is to small, Try 12 or using some line height.
3.) Bevels, as stated before, are a tell tail sign of an amateur.
4.) Your logo commands the page, it's too big.
5.) I'm confused why it's 800px wide? If you are going for 8x6 resolution you need to go down to around 760 or so, 800 pixels will cause horizontal scrolling on 8x6 monitor. So you either need to commit to 8x6 and make it smaller, or 1024 and make it larger (I use 960px).
Again, just adding my point a view as a designer.
^_^ i think i'll go for a 980px wide that a nice size. Bevels is something that i like for buttons but only when there less pronounced than the ones i have i often go more for a inner glow. And yippers i'll make everything smaller and more sophisticated looking. It looked ok when i was tired lol.
Back to the drawing board will be back laters with something better.
Back to the drawing board will be back laters with something better.
^_^ this any better, not finished but it feels cleaner to me.
for the 800x600 argument, well everyone i know ether has two extreams. a macbook or a 1400x900 + display. Even old people because there so cheep. And on my own sites the only person on 800x600 is my mother by the looks of it and thats only because she likes the text bigger and refused to do it any other way.
for the 800x600 argument, well everyone i know ether has two extreams. a macbook or a 1400x900 + display. Even old people because there so cheep. And on my own sites the only person on 800x600 is my mother by the looks of it and thats only because she likes the text bigger and refused to do it any other way.
Not knowing your level of experience, age, training, etc I'm not going to make any judgments (good or bad) regarding the quality of the design itself, rather I'm hoping my feedback will be of use to you in taking the design you have posted and making some improvements to it.
1. Size: the logo, top menu ( both shape and text ) and left menu text are large, very large. I know this has been mentioned in a previous post and I must re-iterate that again. At most I would make the menu text 14px ... but 12px would be probably best. Your logo should be 1/4 of it's size and maybe tucked in to the left.
2. Padding: the is very little room for the body copy to 'breathe'. You have it very close to the edges of the content area with very narrow margins. I would at least double ( or much more ) the space around the body copy.
3. Overall design: I think if this site is to try and 'sell' your design abilities I would work on the overall design originality. If on the other hand you are promoting your technical web design skills (HTML, CSS, etc) then just make sure that is reflected in the code of your site.
Hope this helps!
1. Size: the logo, top menu ( both shape and text ) and left menu text are large, very large. I know this has been mentioned in a previous post and I must re-iterate that again. At most I would make the menu text 14px ... but 12px would be probably best. Your logo should be 1/4 of it's size and maybe tucked in to the left.
2. Padding: the is very little room for the body copy to 'breathe'. You have it very close to the edges of the content area with very narrow margins. I would at least double ( or much more ) the space around the body copy.
3. Overall design: I think if this site is to try and 'sell' your design abilities I would work on the overall design originality. If on the other hand you are promoting your technical web design skills (HTML, CSS, etc) then just make sure that is reflected in the code of your site.
Hope this helps!
the navigation and subheading text is way too large, same with the content title. Make it only a little bigger than the body text. Also, lose the feathered divider in the navigation and go for a solid line or indent or something
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1. Size: the logo, top menu ( both shape and text ) and left menu text are large, very large. I know this has been mentioned in a previous post and I must re-iterate that again. At most I would make the menu text 14px ... but 12px would be probably best. Your logo should be 1/4 of it's size and maybe tucked in to the left.
A. Yes on my macbook it looks small but i tried it on a other screen and it looks excessively large. Left menu is being removed it clutters and over complicates the design to much.
2. Padding: the is very little room for the body copy to 'breathe'. You have it very close to the edges of the content area with very narrow margins. I would at least double ( or much more ) the space around the body copy.
A. Thanks will work on the padding issue, but not in photoshop. I will work on the body text issues in css, i really don't like photoshop for working with text.
3. Overall design: I think if this site is to try and 'sell' your design abilities I would work on the overall design originality. If on the other hand you are promoting your technical web design skills (HTML, CSS, etc) then just make sure that is reflected in the code of your site.
A. The site is not to sell my originality i am more a coder than a designer but i do plan on working on the design aspect but my ideal client is someone that ones there site very simple nothing to overly complex and tacky with every gradient under the sun, i class microsoft.com as bad design and http://www.xbitlabs.com/ as a example of clean and simple design though it is a lil dated now.