Grin Party Website Layout (updated)

I think you've managed to make something that would relate to your target audience. The header looks good the way it is and the footer is working too.

Ideas for the middle would be to make it more rounded like the header. You could even remove the large blue box and have the content float on the white with accents of blue / green to pull important items out.

The o in host a party took me a while to read.

This is a nice design, the only thing that jumped out at me is that more than likely you'll have to scroll to get to the intro paragraph, have you considered an intro statement in the top content area? "A Party for Every Portrait" is a great tagline BTW but it took me a second to put "2 & 2 together" to figure out what the site does.

I like the big photo area and the footer is great, just needs to be tied into the header (or vice versa). Again, great job here, this is type of site that I usually respond favorably to.

t do justice to your design concept with this layout :)

I think the design does a great job of communicating to the key audience. The color scheme is light and playful and the layout spotlights the most important information.

One thing I would change is the menu; although the menu in itself is nice, I feel like it doesn't tie in with the overall theme. Even with the matching colors, it seems more modern than playful.

I feel the changes to the menu could help tie the header and footer together to keep this design unified.

I think you need to get to the meat of the site sooner as you scroll down. Great art and very ncie looking. Is the Host a Party! image at top right clickable? Get the user to engage by making it an obvious button or link.

I really like this site! Its easy to browse through and the layout is very solid. However, I don't like the font used for the main navigation. Why not use the cursive font?

You did a great job on this! I really like it. I like the first footer. But I also see that your side bar has this big empty space cloud. I would put the social media icons up there so you can make the "subscribe to our newsletter" in 2 lines :)

This is a little cutsie for my liking, but trying to look beyond personal preferences, I think it works well for your purposes. Looks like you paid a lot of attention to the details on this site, very nice!

This is a great design! The revised navigation is a great improvement from the original version. It now fits with the rest of the design.

I prefer footer option 1 since the photo in the bottom right balances the rest of the page. However, i would suggest changing the background color of the form field to white or tan so it doesn't dominate the space. Maybe it's me, but I am drawn to that dark blue bar before anything else int he footer.

Good job!

Really great design! Hard to say something! Illustration, typographies so awesome!

I just think a picture (portraits) or two in the middle of the first page could be great for the understanding... I prefer the second footer, more organized for me. For logo, perhaps the monkey's tail could be play a little more bit with the typographie... To finish, I think menu on the left could be a little more reworked... (icons, for example?)

It looks very cute layout nice design i luv it

Illustration are too good. Is it your own make? Well done.

Have have no negative feedback.

Colors are nicely balanced.

Again good work for illustration...

I was done once I seen the monkey hanging from the logo lol. This site is beautiful and creative. I will like to see how you make it fit on all screens.

Also on the current site how did you create that nice timer?

Every single time somebody comes out with one of these outdoor, vibrant themed layouts, I can't help but love it.

Good work here, Angie!

I think the front page is perfect, there is not a single thing I could think of that should be changed there. Just make sure to use sifr or cufon when creating the site, because else you won't really have any html text and that will give you an SEO problem.

On the gallery page however - I just don't think the photos look good in the context of this site. Each photo is beautiful per se, but especially b/w photographs need a darker background to really look good. Maybe you should just put links to different galleries on the page and let the actual photos open in one of those jquery lightbox apps.

I also don't think that b/w and color photographs should be mixed, they both look below optimum this way.

Still I gave it top ratings because the rest of the site is just so close to perfection for its purpose. Also dig the interim page you have online.