Today I am happy because my favorite website gets a forum. I check CSS-Tricks everyday usually twice. Today I saw the forums was new but no post buttons. I go to get a sandwhich and come back to a new and working forum! Anyways...
I have question please someone tell me whats up with this design I did. Here it is the link.
Please give me some inputs. I require the knowledge. How can be improved?
This is just the working design. I still need to tear it apart again and build it into Wordpress then remove worpress elements from most the site so only one section ("News") is a blog.
Thanks for the help, others feel free to chime in as well.
I like it! Love the sliding sections at the top. I will say this - the font that you used in orange? It's a little tough on the eyes. Maybe something that's just as wide, but with more defined characters? That's my main thing.
I appreciate dark color, and your website is really cool :) The only thing I'm not sure about is the font you used on the date section. I don't know why, but it dosen't fit with the rest very well in my opinion...
I think it's a really strong design, good work! All the tweaks I would suggest are typographic. The font in the blurbs in the slider-thingy are bitmappy and jagged, I'd play with some different options there. I general I could see bumping down all of the body copy a smidge and increasing the line-height.
Thanks for all who gave me some input on this design.
Typography has been my problem from the start. I am torn about what font to use for the menu and the footer, and have had no clue about font size and line height until now, Thanks Chris.
As for colors and stuff I will think about adding some. I wanted a dark design to draw the users attention to the product images. But still some highlights may be needed.
I think you did a good job if you wanted to point out the product. My eyes went straight to it as soon as I opened the page. I also agree on the header font's. Just something strange about it but if thats what your going for then I would stay with it. I don't think it really takes away from the site... it's just something I noticed that was different than the norm. There are a few JS errors that I am getting with firebug but everything seems to be working fine anyhow. Very nice design!
I wanted a dark design to draw the users attention to the product images. But still some highlights may be needed.
If you add colours it wont be a dark design but rather a dark rainbow... So leave the colours. If you want it a lil brighter, just lighten the hue and brightness of the existing colours and not add more colours.
I have made changes that people have advised and now come to you all again.
I do not like how things turned out. This site is making me sick and I could use some more critiques. How can I make the Blog posts look better, the photoshop bevel/emboss is generating a great deal of discomfort with me.
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I'd like to see if you could present the data a bit better. Perhaps more aesthetically pleasing.
Then there's the date:
May 13, 2008 to August 18, 2008
Perhaps you'd want to make them look more involved with the post. As it is now, it's stealing my attention away from the news-text. Maybe the post would've been more pleasing if you could make the dates look somewhat like this: http://lab.christianmontoya.com/css-dates/? (Not saying you should use those colours)
Thats a good point about the dates. Actually the dates you cited are are for Events. The post dates are on the very top left corner of the post. The Event dates are entered via the Write Post page in an Event Editor dialog. I styled them to draw the users attention which seems to be working but I agree they are ugly.
Thanks for pointing out the post meta data formatting. I will fix that.
Actually the dates you cited are are for Events. The post dates are on the very top left corner of the post.
Why not make it more obvious? If it's dates for events, why not point that out? Since the dates-box stole my attention, I never saw when the post was published.
And another thing: The footer-class was set to 1010px in width. This gave me a horizontal scrollbar when using Firefox 2 with 1024x768 as screen resolution. When I removed it (through Firebug), the scrollbar disappeared and the design was still intact.
Could you post a screenshot of how it looks off at this resolution?
I am finally getting around to fixing the horizontal scrollbar problem and would like to make the footer look right. If you are receiving a different problem can you elaborate?
I have question please someone tell me whats up with this design I did. Here it is the link.
Please give me some inputs. I require the knowledge. How can be improved?
http://indiebelts.com/images/thumb.jpg
http://indiebelts.com
In the end it'll be a good website. Have a nice day.
It validates now.
This is just the working design. I still need to tear it apart again and build it into Wordpress then remove worpress elements from most the site so only one section ("News") is a blog.
Thanks for the help, others feel free to chime in as well.
YES thats right! It is Mootools I usually use scriptaculous but want mootools this time.
The only thing I'm not sure about is the font you used on the date section. I don't know why, but it dosen't fit with the rest very well in my opinion...
I think it's a really strong design, good work! All the tweaks I would suggest are typographic. The font in the blurbs in the slider-thingy are bitmappy and jagged, I'd play with some different options there. I general I could see bumping down all of the body copy a smidge and increasing the line-height.
Maybe increase the height apart from that I like it and in regards to the type and colours, it looks ok to me....
Typography has been my problem from the start. I am torn about what font to use for the menu and the footer, and have had no clue about font size and line height until now, Thanks Chris.
As for colors and stuff I will think about adding some. I wanted a dark design to draw the users attention to the product images. But still some highlights may be needed.
If you add colours it wont be a dark design but rather a dark rainbow...
So leave the colours. If you want it a lil brighter, just lighten the hue and brightness of the existing colours and not add more colours.
I have made changes that people have advised and now come to you all again.
I do not like how things turned out. This site is making me sick and I could use some more critiques. How can I make the Blog posts look better, the photoshop bevel/emboss is generating a great deal of discomfort with me.
http://www.indiebelts.com
I'd like to see if you could present the data a bit better. Perhaps more aesthetically pleasing.
Then there's the date:
Perhaps you'd want to make them look more involved with the post. As it is now, it's stealing my attention away from the news-text. Maybe the post would've been more pleasing if you could make the dates look somewhat like this: http://lab.christianmontoya.com/css-dates/? (Not saying you should use those colours)
Thanks for pointing out the post meta data formatting. I will fix that.
Why not make it more obvious? If it's dates for events, why not point that out? Since the dates-box stole my attention, I never saw when the post was published.
And another thing: The footer-class was set to 1010px in width. This gave me a horizontal scrollbar when using Firefox 2 with 1024x768 as screen resolution. When I removed it (through Firebug), the scrollbar disappeared and the design was still intact.
Great looking site otherwise!!!!
Could you post a screenshot of how it looks off at this resolution?
I am finally getting around to fixing the horizontal scrollbar problem and would like to make the footer look right. If you are receiving a different problem can you elaborate?