Swarat Ghosh

Mock for Portfolio Website

By Swarat Ghosh

   on Dec 02, 2009
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  • Nate Hamilton

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    Getting better

    Posted on Dec 02, 2009 at 8:17 AM

    Make the brown text a dark gray like the rest of the text. Also, the quote marks should be completed if you are going to use them. Center the text with the rest of the design. Good progress here, a few more changes and you'll be there.

  • Addy Osmani

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    Needs a better second colour..

    Posted on Dec 07, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    What you need to complete this layout is trying out a variation on the background colours - perhaps a much lighter shade of yellow or white.

    Other than that, well done!.

  • Fredperes Peres

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    I would make sauqre tabs

    Posted on Dec 09, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    I think I'm thinking a lot about semiotics, but maybe you could try make your menu tabs square.

    That tab's shape make you look right, where there's nothing.

    I liked a lot the colors. Maybe the slogan could be in a hotter color.

    Nice job!

  • Clayton Borah

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    light interaction

    Posted on Dec 02, 2009 at 12:14 PM

    I like the light hanging from the top of the page. It would be cool if the light coming from it interacted with the rest of the page. I think it would make the light stand out a little more and add some dimension to the page.

  • Andy E

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    Tie the overview content into the design

    Posted on Dec 02, 2009 at 7:11 PM

    Very nice layout! The colors are great and the design is simple, yet sharp with some interactivity right on the home page.

    I would like to see the font size increased a few points for the Digital Media Services. It may look sharp (I'd have to see it) if you aligned the 'D' in Digital under the 'M' in Media and justified the text to stretch from the M to the A in Media.

    The top half of the page is great, but I think the bottom half is lacking something - maybe color, a shape - to tie it in with the rest of the page.

    Great work!

  • Corinne Ducusin

    Corinne Ducusin

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    The orange gradient

    Posted on Dec 02, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    I know you want the "latest" area to stand out but for me, the orange gradient is too much compared to the rest of the site. Like the previous reviewers, I think you need to use that color in other areas as well OR tone it down a bit. Desaturate and decrease brightness maybe, even make the gradient more subtle.

    Anyway, I noticed that you like to give the footer elements plenty of breathing room. Nothing bad about that - just my observation. You'll still have plenty of whitespace if you use borders between the footer elements. Just something to think about!

    Last thing, the grey you're using over the black might be too dark. Try a lighter color, I can barely see it in the thumbnail.

  • Cristian Nastasi

    Cristian Nastasi

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    Yes!!

    Posted on Dec 03, 2009 at 5:57 AM

    Mi piace molto la semplicità della bozza e i colori utilizzati. E' molto moderna e ben illustrata.

    Forse schiarirei leggermente il grigio di sfondo per far vedere di più i testi.

    Per il resto bel lavoro

  • Vinicius Machado

    Vinicius Machado

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    I think it's ok

    Posted on Dec 03, 2009 at 8:46 PM

    I saw your last work and I think that now you got a better way. I think that the design is ok but I didn't understand much about the circles with the transparency, what is it supposed to be?

    The rest I think is ok...

  • Matt Sahr

    Matt Sahr

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    The lamp isn't working.

    Posted on Dec 05, 2009 at 4:28 PM

    The logo (lightbulb and SGMEDIA elements) right now doesn't read like a logo to me. In the first iteration, it didn't make much sense for the light to be casting a darkening gray cone on the SGMEDIA word, but the elements were connected.. In this new iteration, the two elements seem just like... two elements.

    The top gray bar, with diagonal stripes, has a fade on it that suggests a light source coming from the top of the page. There is no sense that light is radiating from the logo-lamp. I don't suppose it's necessary to play up/emphasize the literal light source from the lamp, but it seems that the fade on the gray stripes plays AGAINST the lamp.

    Huh. Reading other comments, I see that another reviewer also wanted to see the light from the lamp making a bigger effect on the overall page. I can see that being a problem if you want that logo to be reusable in many formats/circumstances. Maybe the issue is that the lighbulb has a glow, and is fairly realistic. If it was more stylized, more drawn/line-art, we might not have such expectations for it to light up its surroundings.

    Orange bar: tabs on both the image window and the home/aboutus/portfolio are clear and clean, and I know what to do with them immediately.

    The "We are pioneers" quote. I think the bubbles behind the text are kindof cool, but also somewhat... unmotivated? Maybe I'm missing how they tie in or communicate, but I imagine the answer to "why?" is a shrug and the comment, "...they just looked cool?" I dunno. Maybe that's enough of an answer, but if a design element is too unmotivated, unpurposed, it starts to run into clipart territory. And one more gripe (sorry), the fact that you end your phrase with the word "programming," and then DON'T CLOSE YOUR QUOTE WITH QUOTATION MARKS, or even a period... freaks me out.

    The bottom bar. Clear and easy on the eyes. If one of your clients really is BBC, you might find some way to play it up more.