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Hi Lindsay,
Good start, I really like the abstract kind of feel your giving it, just the colors and details need some work. here is what i think you can do to improve your site.
- Make your logo smaller, It should only take up 1/3rd of the width of yyour page MAX, I would go something like 1/5th.
- Now with the logo smaller, you can put your navigation floating to the right of it!. I would also recommend re-doing the navigation and fonts, the shapes are weird and the font is kind of ugly :(
- Take that "Attention getting, original, clean," and put that in the content, so that it goes all the way accross. and you have one-too many adjectives in there.
- Add padding to the bottom of the text. since it looks REALLY too close.
- You could put some of your recent work in a sidebar, or a small little "about me" blab.
PORTOFLIO PAGE.
- make the thumbnails bigger, and drop the ugly blue border and do somethin cool. a site like yours has the potential to do a bunch of fades and cool effects, take advantage of that!
- dont have different catagories like that, do something like, "web" "identity(logos)" "illustration" no normal people know what illustrator or InDesign are.
CONTACT PAGE.
- customise those forms! give them backgrounds!
- the font you have been using for heads is hidious.. I'm sorry, but you NEED to look for a new one.
- On the side of your contact page, in the sidebar, put in some other contact details, Phone # P.O box.. Email.. ect..
Also, to me it looks like your background is a nebula with some gradients and color effects thrown in, there are stars that make it a more square-ish shape. get a soft edged brush and delete those, as it is easy to do, and might bug people (like me)
I also think you might want to re-think your colors, the pink and blue is a weird combo. Maybe do a darker color with low opacity, with a border in white, (1px) set to overlay, That would give it a cool effect!
Anyways rethink the fonts, also make sure to add line-height [css] p {line-height: 150%;} [/css]
Luke
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Luke Marohn commented:Hey, thanks for the credit! I think the tabs would look better if they were rounded or something.
Luke,
Thank you for your advice. It is good to hear an honest opinion on it rather than "Oh it looks wonderful!" I have to say that I agree with you on a lot of the points you made.
I understand what you're saying about making the logo smaller and moving things around, but what I was trying to do was come up with a more original layout. I didn't particularly want everything centered like a typical layout. I will try your suggestion and see what happens.
The shape of the navigation buttons were inspired by how file cabinet tabs look, but I guess it doesn't come across that way. I didn't think the font was bad, but I will take another trip to dafont and try something else.
The padding at the bottom of the text does look pretty bad when I look at it on IE but it looks as it should be on Safari. I will fix that.
I like that idea about the recent work sidebar.
I totally agree with you on every other point and thanks again.