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I read your profile so I know that you are a beginner... If you don't like my feedback, I am sorry... but generally I tell it how it is.
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the colours and design are very childish, there are ways of making childish comical designs look extremely cool, and sophisticated, but this isn't one of of them
The back ground is cool but doesn't suit the foreground
The fonts in the navigation are a bit avergae, and the submenu's that float could be quite difficult to navigate around. I suggest that you don't use small Caps within these menus.
it's a cross between vector feel and sketch, choose one, and stick to it, don't mix, or if you do, do an excellent job.
On a plus note the site has potential, so do a little more design research and work it through.
Good luck
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Aaran Casey commented:Thta's ok, but as a designer you need to tell the client what is what. Colourful is ok, but choose your colours carefully. I don't necessarily mind the figures but they link away from the website, not the best idea. At first glance I thought this was a website design for a kindergarten.
Obviously the client wants it colourful and have the fun appeal, so working on that, maybe look at making the the page background a piece of old pape with doodles on it, or semi scrunched up notepaper, and then make it blend this will make the rainbow stand out a little more, as werll as your content boxes with the watercolour borders.
Average - Yes, you have this design that looks like a 5 yr old drew it, and then these big ugly fonts for the main navigation, and then the strange submenu's floating off, and then stopping. For the main navigation use a different and more school yard font like BudHand Regular, for the floating submenu's use the same background as your content boxes, that will tie it in alot better.
That's an excuse - just search the net, there are more than a million designers out there, all with different pools of resources, beg, steal or borrow! Some places I would recommend: www.vecteezy.com, www.brusheezy.com, www.bittbox.com, www.sxc.hu...
stay with the sketch idea, it's a nice look, however remember that alot of sketch designs are vector.
Good Luck Metin you are on the right course!
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I like that the navigation is not the traditional horizonTl menu with drop downs, but it seems like you have to really explore the entire page to figure out what to do. Some very nice clean graphics.
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It's all fine if you're a beginner.
What I think you should fix is the glow around the text in navigation.
It's really not nice and you should make the color stronger and bigger :)
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I think this concept is a bit too busy. I commend you on thinking out of the box and coming up with something creative. I don't think the logo is working for me in the middle like that. I'm also not sure about including the kid art, front and center like that (Not sure if they wanted you to do that or not). The layout of the navigation and the the links on the right look like two different navigation bars. I would try and downplay the right links. Just my thoughts here, you obviously have are a creative person but I think this site might be a little too creative, if that makes sense.
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Metin Ucar commented:
In fact, the rainbow, placing the logo in the middle, and including the vectors/illustrations in the footer were what they wanted. I tried my best to satisfy their needs and create something I like. Apparently, I have a long way to go.
Regarding the links on the right hand side, you're right. They are too obvious.
I appreciate your critics. Thank you.
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I'm just gonna list this stuff
- I would make the body have that white cloth-like background that the center of the page does. The circle pattern does fit well with the illustrations.
- Vectors or illustrations-not both. (I would make it all illustrations...)
- The drop down menu is not immediately obvious at first
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Metin Ucar commented:
Using the grey background texture for body was what I had in mind at the beginning. However, it has shadowy and bright parts. So, I realized it won't look good to use it for body. Maybe, I'll create a similar texture which would be easy to implement to body.
More research for vectors and illustrations was needed. And seemingly I didn't do it. It's my bad. But, it's good to hear what my mistake was regarding the selection of concepts (vector, illustrations). Next time, I'll keep this in mind.
On sub-menus, well I couldn't figure out any other way to tackle this problem. I don't feel comfortable with them. Do you have any idea of making them more visible and easy to use without major changes?
Thanks a lot.
Greetings.
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for a beginner, I haven't got that close to doing a site yet, but you just need more organization of your type and visual elements. Work your ideas out on paper first see how it will line up/effective it will be. Good luck on your next one!
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I think you should study web design in all areas. There are too many issues here on this site.
Layout needs improvement.
A color scheme is awful
Typography
Poor images
Sorry to be harsh, I mean no offense. Good luck. Study, study, study there's a lot to learn on the net!
Good Luck to you.
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Your target audience are students and this looks very young like primary school.
I would try and convince my client to ditch the rainbow, sun and cloud and the cartoony graphics and then maybe work on one horse graphic to go where the rainbow is, but in a much more grown up style. Then use colours in the background to indicate the weather/ sweden. Say blue where you have the dark grey flower pattern to indicate the flag and rain and pale yellow where you have the light grey, which will make you icons have better contrast and will represent sun and the yellow from the flag.
You can always show the client the advice you've been given here.
I do really like the icons on the right and your box borders. Although some of the content is escaping the borders.
There is a lot of underlining, should only be where there is a link.
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I just think there is too much going on in the background. The rainbow as the background behind the navigation is a little much for my taste. I think the overall flow of the site is some confusing.
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There is some serious alignment issues here (in relation to text). The text below the SIGN-UP! is just out of place.
There is a girl holding a horse ready to throw it in direction of a deer shouting HEJ! - I am not sure what is a target audience for it and how that helps in conversion of a visitor into a customer.
Don't mix vectors and illustration. Ther is really no excuse there - if you don't have enough illustrations, buy some stock on Fotolia or iStockPhoto.
Change the background into something that will play nice with the rest of your artwork. Even a blurred paint strokes will work better than this.
I really like the crayon outlines around different boxes and the menu idea. Rainbow has some really good colors and adds vibrancy. Great job for a beginner!
1- Yeah, it's a childish design. My client wanted wanted to make the layout as colourful as possible, and plus fill the footer with such figures. You're on that it could have better. But I don't know how to make such a design look cool. Is there any suggestion you can give me, or any article/tutorial you can recommend?
2- Shall I use solid colour or a background pattern to overcome this problem?
3- Avergae? What do you mean by that? Any suggestion to make the submenus easy to display and navigate?
4- As it was difficult to find all the figures I need to use in sketch form, I was forced to go for vectors occasionally.
Thank you for being honest and criticizing thoroughly.