A Review of Website Design by Amy Martin

Color palette is a little strange...

  • Amy Martin

    Amy Martin

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    Color palette is a little strange...

    Posted on Dec 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    I am assuming the magenta on the navbar pill is an activation color (i.e., a mouseover?) If so, the color, the shape and the gradient are a little out of place as everything else is somewhat flat (which is fine for a corporate site) and nothing else on the page is that same color.

    If "home" is an active link, I'm not sure why it's a different color from "read more." Though many sites don't do this, using the same color scheme for links helps users know what is clickable without having to run their mouse over everything.

    I'm also not sure why "read more" is a slightly different color from the footer?

    I also find the four colors of the Custom Templates logo a bit jarring (i.e., too many colors, some are so close that they are almost the same but not quite, seems unbalanced).

    CHOOSE US and WHAT WE DO are almost the same size as the logo type which makes for a difficult information hiearchy... maybe bring them down a few points so it's more obvious that those are headers and not the page title? The blue bullets aren't really necessary and add more color confusion. Also, CHOOSE US and WHAT WE DO could use a little more left padding. And this is a little hard to do in web design, but it would help make the page look more solid if the text in the CHOOSE US and WHAT WE DO columns were baseline aligned. Are they also different point sizes?

    Anyway, most of that stuff is very nitpicky. Your design is fairly solid and that's why it's easier to see the tiny tweaks that would make it look more professional.

    • Alexander Charles
      Posted: on Dec 21, 2009 at 6:37 AM

      Thank for ur detailed feedback Amy, will do the necessary changes ;)