Christoph Brueckner

My travel blog

By Christoph Brueckner

   on Jul 30, 2009
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Concept Reviews

  • Shawn Arora

    Shawn Arora

    Rank: 1 Elite

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    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 3
    • Engagement: 5
    2 Votes
    Eliminate horizontal scrolling

    Posted on Jul 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM

    I think this is an absolutely amazing looking site. It looks clean and its extremely easy to navigate and view pictures.

    The only thing I would change is that I personally don't like to scroll websites horizontally; if possible, I would take make it fit into the page width.

    Also, just a heads up that the banner at the top is cut off when I look at it (the top part of the middle of the banner is not visible).

    Great work.

  • Andrea Tungler

    Andrea Tungler

    Rank: 1 Elite

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    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 4
    1 Vote
    too wide

    Posted on Aug 08, 2009 at 4:29 PM

    on my small netbook the site cannot be senn without hhorizontal scrolling. Big usability problem!

    I like the design and tha large pics very much. Nice work, but too wide

  • Angie

    Angie

    Rank: 1 Elite

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    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 4
    • Engagement: 4
    0 Votes
    Wow.

    Posted on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM

    I really love it.

    Just two comments. The logo at the top left is out of place and cut off on my screen.

    Is there a reason you cut the head off the illustration at the very bottom? I feel like I've seen that illustration some where before ??

    • Christoph Brueckner
      Posted: on Aug 12, 2009 at 10:32 AM

      Hi Angie, thanks for your review. Yeah, I really have to fix this logo thing - but so much other stuff to do :-( The illustration is from a free character pack by web company We Function: http://wefunction.com/2008/11/free-character-pack/ Greetz, Chris

  • Andrei Ivanovich

    Andrei Ivanovich

    Rank: 6 Apprentice

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    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 4
    • Engagement: 4
    0 Votes
    so, nice design

    Posted on Aug 19, 2009 at 3:27 PM

    but to simple. there are a lot of beautiful photos but you have to add some original tune

  • cengiz eselioglu

    cengiz eselioglu

    Rank: 10 Newbie

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    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 4
    0 Votes
    Nice and Diffrent

    Posted on Sep 07, 2009 at 1:28 AM

    diffrent photo site and nice design.

  • Misael Gaytan

    Misael Gaytan

    Rank: 10 Newbie

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    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 4
    0 Votes
    how long it is

    Posted on Jul 30, 2009 at 5:14 PM

    I like your site everything is nice it is original the only problem that i had was that it was long.

  • David Ingledow

    David Ingledow

    Rank: 7 Student

    397

    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 5
    0 Votes
    Width

    Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 6:22 PM

    I found that the website was too long. Even though I like the high quality images, maybe having some way of making them bigger using a javascript tool may make it less demanding for those with slow internet speeds.

    However, these are very minor issues and are likely not to affect many people at all.

    Overall, verrry good!!

  • Luciano Santa Brígida

    Luciano Santa Brígida

    Rank: 10 Newbie

    23

    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 4
    • Engagement: 5
    0 Votes
    Nice pictures, but large site

    Posted on Aug 01, 2009 at 11:08 PM

    I found the site too large... 1140 pixels wide looks nice for me as I'm seeing it on a notebook with a screen resolution of 1280x800. But what about those users with 1024x768 screens? Focus on your visitors before thinking about the design.

    The big images are nice, I loved it. I f you do reduce the width of the site, I'd recommend center the images and setting the extra info right bellow.

    Tip: take a look a 960 Grid System: www.960.gs to help your development.

  • Szymon Niemczura

    Szymon Niemczura

    Rank: 1 Elite

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    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 5
    0 Votes
    Language!

    Posted on Aug 02, 2009 at 6:32 AM

    Your blog is simply beautiful! Photos are amazing! Great job!

    Maybe you should consider adding English-language navigation?

  • Zeno Popovici

    Zeno Popovici

    Rank: 1 Elite

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    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 4
    • Engagement: 5
    0 Votes
    Navigation

    Posted on Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    Hey Christoph! :)

    I'm a photography geek myself and your photos and design are lovely.

    There are some nicks to work out though:

    1. Navigation. Your blog has no top (header) navigation and it's awkward to scroll till the bottom to check our your about/contact page.

    2. Size. As some of the other good people said here the site is not easy to navigate on 1024x768. I would decrease the size of the photos and/or move the photo menu at the bottom of the picture.

    3. Commenting. I find it very annoying to enter my comment in a straight line. Like most of us, we're used to enter a comment filling in fields from top to bottom not from left to right. Also, the message box might be to small for a loger comment. This might be a personal annoyance but I can't help it.

    4. Features. You might want to think of implementing a tag cloud or categories (Think of it this way: what happens when you hit 100 entries? How do you access them? Next/Forward would take ages).

    5. Try to make the right menu for photos more menu like. At least change the cursor to "pointer" when hovering over it.

    That's about it. Show us more of those photos man :)

    • Christoph Brueckner
      Posted: on Aug 10, 2009 at 6:49 AM

      Hi Zeno, thank you very much for this extremely profound review! I agree on the menu/commenting/features stuff. Will take some time though until I get to that because I have a lot of other sites to work on, but I will definitely look into it. Concerning the resolution however, I believe we designers should push the limits a bit. Eventually it will lead to users switching to better resolution systems when they realize their PC can't hold up, which in turn will give designers more freedom to express themselves sonner than later. Of course not if you design for a service that is meant to be really widespread, but for small initiatives like that, let's not hold back.

    • Zeno Popovici
      Zeno Popovici commented:
      Posted: on Aug 10, 2009 at 7:18 AM

      Hey Christoph,

      Well I guess it does depend on your target group :) Z.

  • Sam Mularczyk

    Sam Mularczyk

    Rank: 1 Elite

    490

    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 3
    • Engagement: 3
    0 Votes
    Width and paragraph style

    Posted on Aug 03, 2009 at 6:45 AM

    Too wide and paragraph alignment should be changed to left-align. Apart from that, nice work =)

  • Cat Lee

    Cat Lee

    Rank: 3 Superior

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    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 3
    • Originality: 4
    • Engagement: 3
    0 Votes
    yummy images

    Posted on Aug 04, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    great photos always gets the traveller interested, beware of small text though if you want user to actually read and interact with your posts.