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- nocomply
Alright everyone, the time has come for my brother and I to finally redesign sandiegopunk.com. Its severely overdue, as our current version is almost 5 years old and looks like crap. This is a website dedicated to the local music scene in SD, and it receives somewhere between 25-35K hits a month. In the true spirit of punk rock the site is nearly 100% DIY, and created, owned and operated by a very small group of close friends. This is the biggest and coolest project I've gotten to work on in a long time and I want to nail this one and do it right. Your thoughts on the look so far?
- kyl30
the google ads are a nice touch ;)
- uberdesigner0
is this anything like slc punk with that mildly charming guy who's fucking annoying guy from serial mom?
- uberdesigner0
btw the site sucks a bit
- Bluejam0
the ads are really getting in the way of the site basics. it looks like 'sandiego.com' got hit by a 468x60 banner and is about to fall off the main top graphic and it's playing second fiddle to said banner.
the site navigation is lost, surrounded and out played by too many google ad links.
on the plus side, good to see some colour introduced...
- todelete__20
Might I suggest taking the top component and flipping it on the bottom as well so when the user scrolls down it's not so bland down there.
- kyl30
better than the old version but try to carry those ripped element into the subsections if youre going this route and at least make the google stuff fit in colorwise or something.
- nocomply0
Unfortunately, all those banners and ads make us what little bit of $$$ we can from the site so they need to stay. However, we may be able to do away with the very top banner when I agree is particularly annoying.
kOna - nice idea about adding some color to the bottom. i was thinking about doing that but just got a little lazy in the end last night. If a number you guys think that will make it better I will definitely put it in there.
This site needs to make people say Wow...or at least not make them puke.
thanks!
- version30
apoplogize to the grid
has potential
right now, reminds me of a xanga site
- designaked0
Its not making me puke but it still needs a lot of work.
If, as I can guess from one of your posts, you only worked 1 night on this comp then its headed in a good direction. Just keep working on it and polishing it up.
I also agree with kOna.
- kyl30
Thanks brooke, unless you were talking about your new man, in which case awesome name!
- kyl30
waaa, wrong thread
- nocomply0
THanks everyone. I talked it over with a couple of designers here at work too and got lots of good feedback.
We decided it needs to be a little more rough around the edges. The mix of clean and scruffy is just not working out perfectly right now. I can easily fix it, it will just take more time and patience.
Look for version 2.0 soon!