Nate Hamilton

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Company: Hamilton Design
Website: www.hdesignonline.com

About Me:

I am a web and print designer based out of Lancaster, PA.

Users Concepts

Users Last 25 Reviews

  • Concept: New website for conferencing service

    very basic

    I think this will work for your purposes, but could be quite a bit more interesting. It is very basic and straight forward. If that is all you are looking for, then I think you are fine.

      Posted: 6 hours ago
      • Design: 1
      • Purpose: 1
      • Originality: 1
      • Engagement: 1

      This review has no comments.

    • Concept: Ecommerce Redesign

      Looks good

      You have a great base to work off of here.

      1. In general, I think it's a little busy, so it could use some simplification.
      2. I would remove the stroke around the search box.
      3. Don't put the headings on top of the images
      4. On the colored boxes at the bottom, move the headings to the top of the boxes.
      5. Reduce the amount of swirls.
      6. On the checkout area, extend it the entire width of the page.

      Good work so far, just keep working on it.

        Posted: 6 hours ago
        • Design: 3
        • Purpose: 3
        • Originality: 3
        • Engagement: 3

        This review has no comments.

      • Concept: Religious Answers Site

        The background

        You have a great site here but the background is REALLY pulling the design down. Keep things light, airy and simple. The background is just making the design busy. Also, I think you logo could be much better. It needs to match the level of design for the website.

          Posted: 6 hours ago
          • Design: 3
          • Purpose: 3
          • Originality: 3
          • Engagement: 3
          • You both have recommended changing the background. Should it include texture or a flat color?

            Posted: 4 hours ago
          • Could be a very subtle texture or gradient but I could also see a solid color working as well.

            Posted: 4 hours ago
        • Concept: Up And Coming Website, Rate The Design

          Not working

          I know you are trying to use a dark design to play off of the dark side of the subject manner. However, it just feels very Gothic and dark. It doesn't look like an informative site, more like a gaming site or something else. It also is very basic and looks pretty dated. For me, I think you need to start fresh on this.

            Posted: 6 hours ago
            • Design: 1
            • Purpose: 1
            • Originality: 1
            • Engagement: 1

            This review has no comments.

          • Concept: Redesign and Rebranding of Mondera.com to Mouawad.com

            Great start!

            You have a great start here. There are few things that could be better:

            1. Remove the "120" year anniversary from the logo and put it in the header image. I'm assuming that the header image is a sideshow so you could just put it into the rotation.
            2. Don't fade the edges of the top navigation.
            3. Move the text within the header image more the left. Just space things out a bit more.
            4. I wouldn't do the drop down within the footer. Just put the most essential links with the footer.
            5. Move the logo's down in to the footer and make them all one color.

            Great work, keep it up!

              Posted: 6 hours ago
              • Design: 3
              • Purpose: 4
              • Originality: 4
              • Engagement: 4

              This review has no comments.

            • Concept: Website redesign for wireandplastic.com - Round 2

              simplify.

              There is still just too much going on. Thous this is a step in the right direction, your blue gradient column, gadient buttons and busy imager is still making things very heavy and cluttered.

              Lighten things up and make this site feel less busy and overwhelming.

                Posted: 6 hours ago
                • Design: 2
                • Purpose: 2
                • Originality: 2
                • Engagement: 2
                • Hi Nate. Have a look at the last picture. I have simplified the header and combined the flash/banner effect. Any suggestions on how the body should be structured so its not soo busy? Should i do away with icons? Set up 3 columns instead of 2? Thanks. Do you feel this design has potential to be cleaner.

                  Posted: 2 hours ago
                  1. That is a good start. I wouldn't put the shape on top of the pic, just place the text right on the picture.
                  2. Try making the right column a shade of gray.
                  3. Make the footer a charcoal gray

                  See where that takes you. I think the most recent version is a great step in the right direction!

                  Posted: 1 hour ago
              • Concept: Website design for Annapolis program

                Engagement

                I understand the time and budget constraints but this site is suffering from a lack of engagement. The bottom is fairly interesting because of the background, but the top is very plain and straight forward.

                On the other hand, I think the site works. It's very clean, organized and easy to read. Just might want to make things slightly more interesting.

                  Posted: 6 hours ago
                  • Design: 3
                  • Purpose: 3
                  • Originality: 3
                  • Engagement: 3
                  • That was kind of my assessment. I dropped it in here because I thought it needed some help,

                    An interesting image instead of the blue box would probably help, just not sure what that would be.

                    Posted: 2 hours ago
                • Concept: New Website for The Random Lines

                  The home page is great

                  I'm liking the home page quite a bit but here are a few changes:

                  1. Develop the header more. The right side of the header feels quite empty. Think about adding something to the right to make it feel more balanced.
                  2. Consider bounding the paragraph at the top in some sort of box
                  3. The white box within the footer looks really out of place. Is there any way that you can style it to match the style of the rest of the site

                  A few thoughts on the other pages:

                  The other pages really aren't working for me. I'd say finalize the look of the home page more and then tackle the other pages one at a time.

                  Also, your though of not having a navigation bar makes me a little nervous for you. To me, that sounds really, really annoying and would be off of your site pretty quickly. The web is all about control, for the user, not for the developer. The more control you can give to the user, the better. Don't put obstacles in the way of your users.

                    Posted: 6 hours ago
                    • Design: 3
                    • Purpose: 3
                    • Originality: 3
                    • Engagement: 3
                    • Cheers Nate. Will have to see how the lack of nav pans out, but I'm hoping I've laid out enough information for people to find their way around. When the worst comes, I'll add a menu, till then, I'd like to see where people click.

                      Posted: 6 hours ago
                  • Concept: 2 Home page design versions to evaluate

                    Alignment, alignment, alignment

                    I'm not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish with the overlapping elements, misaligned text and busy layout. The colors are great and I could see how this could become a great site, but you have to simplify, organize and format this in a way that allows me to focus on one element at a time. This site just isn't there for me yet, keep working on it.

                      Posted: 6 hours ago
                      • Design: 1
                      • Purpose: 1
                      • Originality: 1
                      • Engagement: 1

                      This review has no comments.

                    • Concept: Home Page Option for Health Insurance Company

                      Looking great

                      I like the changes here, just a few more for you:

                      1. Add line dividers between the sentences with the icons in the gray box under "What hCentive has in store..."
                      2. Fade the right edge of the search box in to the background.
                      3. Work on your typography to the left of the girl and add a heading.

                      This is looking really good, keep up the good work!

                        Posted: 6 hours ago
                        • Design: 3
                        • Purpose: 4
                        • Originality: 4
                        • Engagement: 4
                        • Thanks for all the suggestions, they were very helpful.

                          Posted: 4 hours ago
                      • Concept: Web Site Faceliftup and Wordpress Integration

                        Good for a template

                        If I was solely rating this on what I see, I would rate it quite highly. However, as Michael has said it is not very far at all from the template. So my rating is really for the template.

                        If that's where you are at and you need a template, that is fine. However, there is nothing like a fully customized site for your company, especially a design company. You also have to be sure that your site matches the quality of your work. Because if it doesn't and you can't replicate the quality of this site, you are in ways falsely advertising yourself. A very dangerous path to tow!

                          Posted: 7 hours ago
                          • Design: 4
                          • Purpose: 4
                          • Originality: 1
                          • Engagement: 4

                          This review has no comments.

                        • Concept: Wentros Logo

                          The "w"

                          These aren't bad concepts, however the "w" looks like it has more meaning than it really does. The separated ends of the "w" look like they are suppose to be "i's". I would focus on creating imagery around your tagline "creativity re-defined" instead.

                            Posted: 7 hours ago
                            • Design: 2
                            • Purpose: 2
                            • Originality: 2
                            • Engagement: 2

                            This review has no comments.

                          • Concept: Overdrive - Online Game Magazine

                            I like it

                            Great start here, I think you are close to something that really works. Here are my thoughts on what you could do better:

                            1. Make "Online Game Magazine" the same width as the logo.
                            2. I don't like the yellow navigation area. The yellow box is fine but I would work on the look of the navigation bar. It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the design.
                            3. Add more line height to your paragraphs.

                            Other than that, great work here. I like the logo idea and think it works quite well with the site!

                              Posted: 7 hours ago
                              • Design: 3
                              • Purpose: 3
                              • Originality: 3
                              • Engagement: 3
                              • Thanks Nate! I really appreciate your comments. =) I will work on the line height and the navigation bar!

                                Posted: 6 hours ago
                            • Concept: Logo design for web consulting company

                              Much better

                              This is much better, but still needs a little work. I'm not sure what the arrow pointing up has anything to do with things. Just use a regular line. I would also think about different colors. The yellow is really making things look faded and old school. You also need some sort of tagline that encapsulates what your company does in a few words. Great work though, I like where you are headed with this.

                                Posted: yesterday at 9:49 AM
                                • Design: 3
                                • Purpose: 3
                                • Originality: 3
                                • Engagement: 3
                                • Thanks. I intended the arrow to relate to directing-one's-attention sort-of-thing. Tag line is a good idea. Maybe something along the lines of "focused results" or something. I guess I could incorprate "direction" or "directing" into the tag line as well.

                                  Posted: yesterday at 9:58 AM
                              • Concept: Website redesign for wireandplastic.com

                                Tone it down

                                The first concept is the best but you need to tone it down. There are too many colors, gradients and effects. You really need to make this much more simple.

                                  Posted: yesterday at 9:45 AM
                                  • Design: 2
                                  • Purpose: 2
                                  • Originality: 2
                                  • Engagement: 2
                                  • Thanks Nate. In the first concept, do you like the positioning statement in the flash area? This is one of my reservations about the design. I believe the statement should always be visible and am uncertain of how the flash area will look if only the left side rotates.

                                    Posted: yesterday at 1:16 PM
                                  • No, I think that area is also complicating the design and making it look busy. You have a gradient on the right, bar over top and then a busy image behind it all. Think simple here.

                                    Posted: yesterday at 2:05 PM
                                • Concept: New Website for The Random Lines

                                  Not finished

                                  This is a great start but doesn't feel finished to me. Adding in some textures, strokes and gradients could really make this look more finished. I love what you have so far, just keep working with it.

                                    Posted: yesterday at 9:43 AM
                                    • Design: 2
                                    • Purpose: 2
                                    • Originality: 2
                                    • Engagement: 2

                                    This review has no comments.

                                  • Concept: Airport Parking Website Design V2

                                    Too fun

                                    This just looks too fun for the topic. If I'm coming to this site I don't want a bold, fun, in your face design. I want something that is straight forward, informative and clean. This looks like a monopoly board game. Sorry to be blunt, just trying to be honest.

                                      Posted: yesterday at 9:33 AM
                                      • Design: 1
                                      • Purpose: 1
                                      • Originality: 1
                                      • Engagement: 1
                                      • I know what you mean, im thinking much the same.

                                        Posted: yesterday at 9:35 AM
                                    • Concept: Supplier of broadcasting supplies - Webdesign

                                      Less segmented

                                      This needs to be less segmented and bold. The dark black is too much, try to use more of a charcoal color. I like the footer, so just work on making the content area look less segmented.

                                        Posted: yesterday at 9:20 AM
                                        • Design: 2
                                        • Purpose: 2
                                        • Originality: 2
                                        • Engagement: 2

                                        This review has no comments.

                                      • Concept: Wentros Logo

                                        Waaaay too much like wordpress

                                        This is pretty much a dead wringer to the wordpress logo...

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                                        Posted: yesterday at 9:18 AM
                                        • Design: 1
                                        • Purpose: 1
                                        • Originality: 1
                                        • Engagement: 1

                                        This review has no comments.

                                      • Concept: Website redesign for Real estate agent

                                        Not working

                                        Again, this looks pretty dated just like your last concept. Very segmented and looks like you are designing off of a table. The colors are also pretty harsh and don't really say "Realty" to me.

                                          Posted: yesterday at 9:17 AM
                                          • Design: 1
                                          • Purpose: 1
                                          • Originality: 1
                                          • Engagement: 1

                                          This review has no comments.

                                        • Concept: Health Insurance Portal Home Page

                                          I like it

                                          The second concept is the best, here is what I might do:

                                          1. I would move the two sections at the bottom to the top and put the form under those two sections.
                                          2. Fade the right and left edges into the white.

                                          Great work so far, I like the direction of this.

                                            Posted: yesterday at 9:15 AM
                                            • Design: 3
                                            • Purpose: 4
                                            • Originality: 4
                                            • Engagement: 4
                                            • Thanks a lot for your comments! Actually it is the same concept. where the add family details are hidden and would be a AJAX request in place. This helps to bring focus on the GET QUOTE button in the first fold. However the two sections @ the bottom can't be at the top since the primary goal of the website is to SEarch insurance Plans :). What do u suggest now?

                                              Posted: yesterday at 9:54 AM
                                            • Well if they are just sections that expand, I wouldn't put a repeating background behind them across the width of the page. I would confine them in some sort of box, make sense?

                                              Posted: yesterday at 10:28 AM
                                            • u r talking about the grey BG beghind the Family items? If yes then i agree. I have already updated new options which were created alongside without the grey BG. The Search stuff is already inside one white box and tht's where the family details are opening too as suggested by you. What say?

                                              Posted: yesterday at 11:41 AM
                                            • I'm not sure exactly what you are talking about, i'm getting confused. But the second version here seems to work. I'd say give the header a little more space to breathe and align the header to the left.

                                              Posted: yesterday at 2:01 PM
                                            • thanks !

                                              Posted: 15 hours ago
                                          • Concept: Coming-soon Page for IconMoon

                                            Repeating image

                                            I really like this but you have a couple issues. I would decrease the size of the logo and align it left. Also, your background image, on large monitors, aligns left and doesn't repeat, causing the design to look very strange.

                                              Posted: yesterday at 9:10 AM
                                              • Design: 3
                                              • Purpose: 3
                                              • Originality: 3
                                              • Engagement: 3

                                              This review has no comments.

                                            • Concept: Does the website clearly present the product/service?

                                              Very old school

                                              This looks pretty old school and dated. Your design looks like it was built off of tables. Try making this less confined and more interesting. The colors are also looking pretty bland. You need some images and interesting elements to make this site more engaging.

                                                Posted: yesterday at 9:07 AM
                                                • Design: 1
                                                • Purpose: 1
                                                • Originality: 1
                                                • Engagement: 1

                                                This review has no comments.

                                              • Concept: KEHAN Contractors Website

                                                Footer looks much better

                                                The dark footer looks much better to me. The page still feels like it needs to be lightened up more. Think about putting your content area on a white background instead of resting it on the dark wood.

                                                  Posted: yesterday at 9:03 AM
                                                  • Design: 3
                                                  • Purpose: 3
                                                  • Originality: 3
                                                  • Engagement: 3
                                                  • I'll check it out on a lighter background, but I was trying to avoid making separate containers like another design I'm working on. And, I didn't think it would look right if I just extended the white from the image border down to the footer. I'll play around some.

                                                    Posted: yesterday at 10:55 AM
                                                • Concept: Blog redesign for scottgale.com/blog

                                                  Good start

                                                  Here are a few things to work on:

                                                  1. Your logo could be be better, looks just like text right now
                                                  2. Either tie the blue color in the rest of design more or lose the blue color
                                                  3. The text on the header image is a little misplaced, same with the social links.
                                                  4. Define the right column more.
                                                  5. Put the thumbnails on the left of the content instead of the right.
                                                    Posted: yesterday at 9:01 AM
                                                    • Design: 3
                                                    • Purpose: 3
                                                    • Originality: 3
                                                    • Engagement: 3
                                                    • I like the logo recommendation. I'll work on that. I was struggling with that.

                                                      I really don't want to ditch the blue color so I'll see where else I can tie it in. I experimented with having a blue color be the background for the sidebar for definition.

                                                      I think the comments need a lot of work like you mentioned. Moving the thumbnails is a great idea to start.

                                                      Thank you for your thoughts!

                                                      Posted: 19 hours ago