Site design on the right track?
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- kushman
I've been trying hard of late to tech myself good use considered typography and grids.
Got this design on the go for a new client:
http://internetessentials.co.uk/…
What do you think? It's not HTMLified yet but you get the idea...
- graham0
like it
- kuttyranks0
hahahaahah- Looks like he is having his arse tickled with a feather?!uncle_helv
Yo this dude is sitting behind me..... this could seriously offend him!
kushman- better not let him see it.anxiousarms
- fodcj0
Dull down the dark background pattern
- skii0
like it also.
i'd maybe introduce some more of the muddy orange into the headed copy and close up the kerning on the body copy by a pt or so, looks a little open. nice a clean design though.
- Lillebo0
Not bad. Hmm, have you considered dropping the background pattern, or at least fade it down to 10% or even 5% opacity? And perhaps integrate the content elements (pictures etc) more directly into the design. Perhaps have them fill out the width of the area / act as a header of some sort.
Also there is something with that font in the header ("New for 2009..") .. a little too much noise/grain or whatever. Dunno. Keep it up tho :)
- I think the text fuck up is due to Illy's poor output of bitmaps. Will be fixed on the final version.
kushman - Are you designing the site in Illustrator?Lillebo
- haha - right on the money!kushman
- Fail.Lillebo
- why? Illy is perfect for mockups pal
kushman - Lillebo was waxing lyrical yesterday about web stuff. Thinks he's some kinda star. Take no notice.Raniator
- I think the text fuck up is due to Illy's poor output of bitmaps. Will be fixed on the final version.
- kushman0
Ok here's a version with a much more muted background
- citizen_h0
yeah knock back the colour of the pattern as it does your eyes in
- kushman0
Are we saying more colour (or color if you like) is needed? Too much B=W?
- ian0
Its ok, better with the muted bg pattern but perhaps you need to bump up the opacity a little, its gone somewhat washy.
Agree that there probably too much space between the nav and content and also between the logo/nav and intro copy/content. Tighten it up a bit but not too much the whitespace is good.
Think you could also introduce some more colour to it, its a bit flat at the moment, even a muted colour palatte of grays combined with the orange and black could lift it a little.
Also not sure about the horizontal lines, are they needed? They just kind of float at the moment, too far away from anything. Consider dropping them altogether just to see if it frees up the page a bit.
- OhYeah0
kushman, like the site a lot. It's nice and minimal and nice use of type. But like some of the comments above maybe add more color? Have you tried a dark brown? Try that and then use an orange tone for links and H1 ect might look good.
But over all nice one chap!
- 23kon0
You going to be using flash image replacement for the headline text?
Been using that a lot recently on sites. Works well.
Starts to slow things down though if you start having too many styles.
- JSK0
Please lock your directory