Website layout opinions?
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Topic: Website layout opinions?
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Subject: Website layout opinions?
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 12:52pm
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http://www.jedworks.com - Jedworks.com
What do you guys think so far? its still (obviously) a work in progress.. |
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Posted By: gh0st
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:23pm
| Looks like an un-trustworthy, mediocre website. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:33pm
| thanks, that was helpful... |
Posted By: Pariel
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:35pm
| I think you'd need to develop some real services, and possibly another few pages linked to your main. |
Posted By: gh0st
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:35pm
| You asked what I thought? |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:42pm
yeah, like i said, still majorly under constuction, but what do you think as far as stuff like the banner, color scheme, look and feel etc. |
Pariel wrote:Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:43pm
ever heard of constructive criticism? |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:45pm
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Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 1:48pm
| heh, maybe true ^^ |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 2:43pm
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Your menubar is out of alignment in FF3.
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Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 2:46pm
| thanks ^^ |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 3:27pm
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Neon Green and Black is way to 1998. ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:03pm
| I'd widen the layout. Especially when you start adding content, 500 pixels will be very small. At the very least, I like to go around 750 pixels wide. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:11pm
better? |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:13pm
well, i had it thinner to be able to add polls etc on the margins, think i'll try it out though, i can always change it again later... |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:21pm
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The majority of people use at least 1024x768 these days.
I think you'd still have room for smaller second or third columns. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:25pm
| yeah, thats what i'm using, and your right, it would have to be skinny, but i could still put it there. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:28pm
| You could also maximize your width by using percentages instead of of static pixel widths. That way, it can expand to fit each user's demands. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:30pm
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Too much fading. If you look at other professionally designed website layouts, the visuals are simple at best. On this one, for example, it's just blocks of grays and blues. Simple is better. Also, find a very basic text, preferably sans serif for body text. This is my opinion, of course.
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Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:32pm
| hmm, i'll think about that, anybody else agree? |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:35pm
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The font doesn't bother me. Arial is a standard web text.
Maybe try keeping the gradient on the menubar, and see what a solid color looks like on the bars above and below the content block. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:45pm
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done, you guys think that looks better?
edit, side by side comparison http://jedworks.com/test.php - gradient http://jedworks.com/index.php - no gradient |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:53pm
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I think I liked the gradient more.
Also, uniformity will look better. I'd make the top and bottom bars the same size...actually take whichever size you prefer (I like the small size on the bottom), and flip it vertically to make the top, so they are identical mirror copies of one antother. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:59pm
| better? |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 11:04pm
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Eesh, you need to use a style sheet, seriously. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 11:08pm
| I think a good format that easy to see, use, navigate, and I've seen quite a few of their competitors start to copy is the webpage for a local diesel performance/machine shop: http://citydiesel.net - |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 11:29pm
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On a different note, this is the best college newspaper Web site I have ever seen:
http://www.thecollegianur.com/ - Linksy |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 11:29pm
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http://www.squarespace.com/ - why dont you use a editor
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Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 11:39pm
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Too blue, use more grey in that shade, your whole page looks like a link bar :( USE DIVS MAN. Also, a little too much contrast between the logo and the color scheme of the links. Otherwise, pretty basic layout, functional, it works well for what your content will be. ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 9:18am
because i want to do the coding myself so i can learn it, and as i havent tried building a website since i was probably 13 or 14 my web coding skills are obviously gonna need a bit of work, but thats part of the fun :)
i will definately try that out, thanks for the suggestions. |
Posted By: Pariel
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 2:31pm
You have way too much time on your hands... |
Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 2:49pm
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Look into Ajax, you can do some really good stuff with that. The site doesn't look bad right now but it is kind of plain/boring. Are you going to provide content like news about updates to some open source projects? If so, you could put some kind of a news section on the home page and maybe have it cycle through some pictures with headlines on them or something just to sort of bring some life to the page. ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 2:54pm
Wishing to learn a skill as basic as the ability to properly code HTML means he has too much time on his hands?? |
Posted By: Pariel
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 4:53pm
HTML is not a "basic skill". If you're using HTML for anything, you're doing something wrong. I learned HTML when I was about 14, and I've never seen a reason to go back. Maybe that's just me. I think not though. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 30 September 2008 at 10:55pm
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For anyone with an interest in creating or maintaining a webpage or blog, I'd say HTML is indeed a basic skill. Not everyone just wants to shove content onto a wordpress template.
Since AJ wants to create a website, then I'd say that yeah, html is a basic skill. |
Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 01 October 2008 at 9:37am
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your brush desgin on the edge of the banner is very janky, the cut off from white to the black background looks really bad. Usually you want the banner to blend into the background. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 01 October 2008 at 4:51pm
yeah, i was already planning on replacing the banner with something that was screen-wide anyway, just havent found the time yet. |