There are a few things that bug me about it:
-Scott Bunno Designs title/logo twice. We already know we're on your website, we don't need to know twice, and the logo on the left looks to be a bit outdated.
-The font choice on your nav is a little bit cheesy and screams Comic Sans as well as the body text.
-Those text shadows? Nope. You went way overboard with them. Tone it down a little bit. A 10px spread is huge. For text-shadows, start [b]really[/b] small and work your way up 1px at a time. Even your content box has a huge shadow and it looks outdated.
-You need to let your content breath. The website has almost no padding and it looks cramped into that tiny little box. Don't be afraid of white space, use it.
-The color choice on the entire thing is drab and sets me into a really off-putting mood. You should look into color palettes. Here is a site I can recommend: [url]www.colourlovers.com[/url]
-The menu that you have at the bottom of the content box looks out of place. You already have a portfolio link with a sub navigation so why have another one? It's confusing to the user and it sure as hell confused me. Plus, it sort of looks like a banner ad. A large one at that.
-Those huge social icons? Don't do it. They are almost larger than your logo.
-The animation timing on your menu is little bit too slow. Try .1s instead of .15s or even get rid of it completely. If you hover over it a few times, you'll notice that it instantly pops up and then fades in again.
I'm not slamming you at all, I'm just giving you helpful advice. Can't wait to see changes man!
[QUOTE=Chizbang;38525117][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/JSeLi.png[/img_thumb]
Working on it!
Has quite allot of work before its done.[/QUOTE]
Your design is very inconsistent, and it looks extremely generic. your positioning is also off and you probably have the entire rainbow on the site if you look hard enough.
Try something like this:
[img]http://puu.sh/1smnJ[/img]
Add icons and images and shit, make some small font size tweaks and fuck abouts and you got a fitting design there. I'd be delighted to give you a hand if you like.
Very rushed, but you get the point. Didn't mean to come off as cold if I did by the way.
[QUOTE=onox37;38526821]There are a few things that bug me about it:
-Scott Bunno Designs title/logo twice. We already know we're on your website, we don't need to know twice, and the logo on the left looks to be a bit outdated.
-The font choice on your nav is a little bit cheesy and screams Comic Sans as well as the body text.
-Those text shadows? Nope. You went way overboard with them. Tone it down a little bit. A 10px spread is huge. For text-shadows, start [b]really[/b] small and work your way up 1px at a time. Even your content box has a huge shadow and it looks outdated.
-You need to let your content breath. The website has almost no padding and it looks cramped into that tiny little box. Don't be afraid of white space, use it.
-The color choice on the entire thing is drab and sets me into a really off-putting mood. You should look into color palettes. Here is a site I can recommend: [url]www.colourlovers.com[/url]
-The menu that you have at the bottom of the content box looks out of place. You already have a portfolio link with a sub navigation so why have another one? It's confusing to the user and it sure as hell confused me. Plus, it sort of looks like a banner ad. A large one at that.
-Those huge social icons? Don't do it. They are almost larger than your logo.
-The animation timing on your menu is little bit too slow. Try .1s instead of .15s or even get rid of it completely. If you hover over it a few times, you'll notice that it instantly pops up and then fades in again.
I'm not slamming you at all, I'm just giving you helpful advice. Can't wait to see changes man![/QUOTE]
Thanks.
I like the bottom nav though, hopefully I can figure out a way to use it. I think I'm going to remove the picture and add illustrations that pop-up according to what category you are hovered over... give it a little more interactivity rather than banner-feel.
I also don't have much time, I already have a job I just wanted to update it and make a non-flash website, haha.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;38526950]Thanks.
I like the bottom nav though, hopefully I can figure out a way to use it. I think I'm going to remove the picture and add illustrations that pop-up according to what category you are hovered over... give it a little more interactivity rather than banner-feel.[/QUOTE]
-> Look really squashed together.
-> All of the content is a clusterfuck, I find it hard to find anything.
-> The bottom nav is misaligned and it doesn't fit the theme at all, it's also too tall and having links like that
on a footer is silly. I think you should remove that bottom nav thing and add a proper footer, and put all the shit you have on the bottom nav on another page. Maybe on the about me page. The youtube logo also has white text on a light grey background.
-> That logo at the top is huge, you can only fit 3 links on. Make it smaller.
-> Use a different font.
-> Fix your grammar. "i" -> "I" .
[QUOTE=D:\;38527060]-> Look really squashed together.
-> All of the content is a clusterfuck, I find it hard to find anything.
-> The bottom nav is misaligned and it doesn't fit the theme at all, it's also too tall and having links like that
on a footer is silly. I think you should remove that bottom nav thing and add a proper footer, and put all the shit you have on the bottom nav on another page. Maybe on the about me page. The youtube logo also has white text on a light grey background.
-> That logo at the top is huge, you can only fit 3 links on. Make it smaller.
-> Use a different font.
-> Fix your grammar. "i" -> "I" .[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I think I'm going to start fresh. This site was made from a botched-site that was used to show off many different videos. The code is terribly written by myself a few months ago when I didn't know how to write it in an organized way.
I want to make a much simpler site, with my illustrations and clean typography and white space. I'll show it here when I'm making progress.
Is a table of contents in the CSS frowned upon?
[QUOTE=onox37;38527445]Is a table of contents in the CSS frowned upon?[/QUOTE]
What?
I knew someone would say that. I was reading the woork handbook just to learn some new tricks and the first entry in the book was really odd. The author said he sometimes puts a tablet of contents in his css so he or someone else can navigate it more easily.
[QUOTE=onox37;38527555]I knew someone would say that. I was reading the woork handbook just to learn some new tricks and the first entry in the book was really odd. The author said he sometimes puts a tablet of contents in his css so he or someone else can navigate it more easily.[/QUOTE]
I just put styles in an order that makes sense with names that make sense.
I can always ctrl+f if i need to
[QUOTE=onox37;38527555]I knew someone would say that. I was reading the woork handbook just to learn some new tricks and the first entry in the book was really odd. The author said he sometimes puts a tablet of contents in his css so he or someone else can navigate it more easily.[/QUOTE]
Is it pointing to line numbers or something? It would be a pain in the ass to have to update that whenever you change your file. Just group related rules together and use ctrl+f. Anyone that can't think to use ctrl+f shouldn't be editing the CSS file anyways haha.
[QUOTE=onox37;38527555]I knew someone would say that. I was reading the woork handbook just to learn some new tricks and the first entry in the book was really odd. The author said he sometimes puts a tablet of contents in his css so he or someone else can navigate it more easily.[/QUOTE]
I use and suggest [URL="http://sass-lang.com/"]sass[/URL](or any other css pre-processor that is similar) if navigation trough css files is a problem.
I never have a problem navigating my css, I was just wondering what the general consensus was. I definitely need to learn sass or less.
[QUOTE=onox37;38527711]I never have a problem navigating my css, I was just wondering what the general consensus was. I definitely need to learn sass or less.[/QUOTE]
It's not that needed if you can make good use of cmd-f and the web inspector in chrome.
The place I work won't use sass because they say everyone has to have it setup and they have to know how to use it properly otherwise it makes small CSS changes take longer. Kinda annoying since I do almost all of the front end on the sites.
I guess I could argue it would take me half the time to write my CSS but I doubt they'd change their mind. FOOLS!
[QUOTE=jaybuz;38530514]The place I work won't use sass because they say everyone has to have it setup and they have to know how to use it properly otherwise it makes small CSS changes take longer. Kinda annoying since I do almost all of the front end on the sites.
I guess I could argue it would take me half the time to write my CSS but I doubt they'd change their mind. FOOLS![/QUOTE]
Use it anyways and just give them the compiled CSS files. What you [I]really[/I] should have done is just used it and if they didn't like it asked for forgiveness instead of asking for permission, that's always easier, and if you would have saved time with it you could have had that as a bargaining chip too.
[t]http://puu.sh/1sv6K[/t]
[URL="http://scooby.dev-zilla.net/portfolio/"]boop[/URL]
CC would be wonderful. C:
[QUOTE=Matt-;38532334][t]http://puu.sh/1sv6K[/t]
[URL="http://scooby.dev-zilla.net/portfolio/"]boop[/URL]
CC would be wonderful. C:[/QUOTE]
I really hate thin fonts like that, makes it hard to read - though that might just be me. Also, try to keep the fonts consistent between the "not available yet" and "official website (etc)" buttons, as well as keep the top/bottom padding equal on those buttons.
[QUOTE=jmazouri;38535740]try to keep the fonts consistent between the "not available yet" and "official website (etc)" buttons[/QUOTE]
oops that was my bad, I only applied the styling to links. ^_^
Hey guys, I would love it if some people could produce some constructive feedback for me.
I would like to know how I could further improve: [url]http://exclusive1.asia/demiurge-new.htm[/url]
Thanks in advanced.
Fuck it, nevermind. Apparently asking for advice is dumb.
[QUOTE=Exclusive;38536866]Hey guys, I would love it if some people could produce some constructive feedback for me.
I would like to know how I could further improve: [url]http://exclusive1.asia/demiurge-new.htm[/url]
Thanks in advanced.[/QUOTE]
About that site, I really think I need a more professional look now. I'm not sure of that design, I might get on to making something else.
changed the transition style of my slide thingy
[vid]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28034726/slide.webm[/vid]
[url=http://imgur.com/HmwsE][img]http://i.imgur.com/HmwsEl.jpg[/img][/url]
[url]http://www.niilonissinen.net/[/url]
I have been creating a website for my friend. He's a mentalist/magician and this is what I came up with. It's a really small website where you can find info about what he does, his contact info and a blog. I'm not so experienced with graphics, but I managed to do this one pretty well in my opinion.
Any tips how I could improve the look? Or is there something that totally makes you want to close your eyes?
Not sure about the blue text. I'd keep it consistent and make it purple / white.
Also not sure about the skinny text for main content (Headers look nice). I had the same thing on my site and it was a bit awkward to read. Other than that it looks fairly nice.
Also, why are [B]almost [/B][B]all[/B] magicians ridiculously blonde? Something about that creeps me out.
[QUOTE=Slater;38541350]Not sure about the blue text. I'd keep it consistent and make it purple / white.
Also not sure about the skinny text for main content (Headers look nice). I had the same thing on my site and it was a bit awkward to read. Other than that it looks fairly nice.
Also, why are [B]almost [/B][B]all[/B] magicians ridiculously blonde? Something about that creeps me out.[/QUOTE]
His face is pretty damn imposing. :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=Matt-;38532334][t]http://puu.sh/1sv6K[/t]
[URL="http://scooby.dev-zilla.net/portfolio/"]boop[/URL]
CC would be wonderful. C:[/QUOTE]
I think the name & social icon thing should be centered like the rest.
I just found this between my old works
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2951174/voze vinyl2.png[/t]
I can't believe I made it all in Photoshop
That's old? I saw it a while back when started to read this thread. Do you have a date?
[QUOTE=asantos3;38553244]That's old? I saw it a while back when started to read this thread. Do you have a date?[/QUOTE]
Around april this year i think
[QUOTE=TerabyteS_;38553788]Around april this year i think[/QUOTE]
So that's why it's in hieroglyphics. It translates roughly to "VOZE".
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