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Published: 2010-03-02 08:54:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 3943; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 0
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This is a remake of all my previous vindicatedARTS attempt ([link] and [link] and [link] and [link] )Brushes used are from [link]
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Okay World of Warcraft, let's dance! >B3
This is the first I can recall ever having to critique a piece focused on web designing, but hopefully I'm up to the task of giving insight to the creation.
Here the artist has used very serious colors of black and gray, with a hint of lighter cyan to contrast. Although the interface doesn't feel quite alive because of the black absorbing all the light and emotion from the already dead gray...however, the positioning of the windows as well as the map design above prove to show a sense of professionalism, and that lessens to the negative's impact on the piece as a whole.
Bottom Line: Try to use psychology in better this piece. I know it sounds weird, but hear me out. When you think of computer web designs of the future, you're using the psychology of both yourself and the customers of the market to figure out the best way to impress and sell a product. Thus, if you tried to use people's psychological assumptions on what the best and most futuristic web design is, you'll realize that you've found the lock to the key (your skills) to the door to greener pastures of success! Think about it. As for this piece? it's fine...not bad...not great...it's fine. I'm not a huge fan of black, so that can be one reason why I don't have much interest. But remember, color can inspire emotion, and symbolism suggests that colors like black depress the stimulus in the mind, and make for a blah blah atmosphere. Sure, it also makes for a serious tone, but too much of one color never impressed anyone save the blind. BUT DON'T GIVE UP!! YOU CAN DO IT!! e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="24" height="18" alt="
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/poke /dance /laugh
No worries and the critique definitely shed some light. I kind of get what you meant as well but I can't deny the fact I'm a huge fan of black color.
I tried viewing the design @ my work place with lousy rig and seems like the color goes real dark and solid.
Thanks for taking out some time to write something.
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Np! I was happy to finally do it.
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At the first glance, I just thought 'wow, nice!' Which is good, because you'd want your visitors to think the same, I suspect. ^^
After looking a bit more careful I can see some minor points that could use some editing. The easiest one being the 'Photography' tab. I think that one should not be spelled 'Photogrpahy' e.deviantart.net/emoticons/w/wā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
The intro page seems good to me, it's clean and easy on the eye, while not being too clean. It may be a bit on the dark side though, I find myself straining my eyes a bit when I look at it. And maybe the upper part of the dark brush at the left - I would fade it a bit. The gray one is perfect, but the darker one seems to distract me rather then bringing attention to the text.
The 'gallery' seems nice, but a bit crowded. I don't know whether the images behind the active image are part of the gallery too or just 'background'?
If they are part of the gallery: keep them this way. It's nice to see some different sized thumbnails once in a while. It wouldn't harm them if they where a little more transparent, blurred or faded though. At the moment they take too much attention away from the active image. I think that is because of the many details they have - I see swirls and colours and little boats, and people and - stuff. Blurring the non-active images would hide those details, and bring my attention back to the active image. If you are not going to blur or fade them, then at least try to make them black&white. That will fit in with the rest of your gallery quite nicely while taking less attention. I would recommend to only use colours in the active image, and nowhere else. The blue is very fine though.
If they are not: why are they there? Are they necessary? I would rather go for a background with brushes when the images aren't functional. That would make your intro page fit in with the rest even more, and take less attention. For a portfolio, you'd want to have all the attention to the photos (and the text), wouldn't you? ^^
The 'sidebar' with the text works quite nice, it's easy on the eye and clean once again. It gives room for just the amount of information that is necessary. Lovely! You might want to put a little more space in between the characters of your font though. That would make it seem less crammed and hammered into place e.deviantart.net/emoticons/w/wā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
The navigation seems easy enough to me - good job. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
The footer looks a little crammed once again. Because of the blacker background, the font appears whiter then the rest, making it shout a loud 'HEY HEY LOOK AT ME!' I usually prefer a footer to give home to the legal information and the 'nice but not very important information' like twitter. I would therefore make the links non-capitalized, the font a lot smaller, and the colour a lot less white. A darker grey wouldn't hurt at all.
Besides that: more space! Maybe you could slide them a little more to the right, and line them up with the gallery itself. That would 'break' the information away from the gallery information while 'recreating' more space in the bottom of your page. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
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I guess you're right on the spot in regards to the first point. I mean which designer(s) doesn't want their design to make a deep and good impression?
You really looked through the design and I appreciate that a lot because I, myself just realize that there's a typo error.
The images behind the active image are part of the gallery indeed and I've always thought turning down the opacity would do the trick but doesn't seems that way now. Your suggestion on changing the inactive images to black and white does sound very feasible and I would consider if I ever code this design to work.
I thank you for taking some time out to write something this long.
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Well, I hope I was. ^^
I like the images behind the active image a lot - it's different from what I've seen. :] If you'd code it, feel free to show me the link!
My pleasure. :]
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This is a very nice piece in my opinon, the intro page is nice and sharp and I think it would look nice on a larger screen in full res, I dont fully understand the top half of the image but it looks nice. This is a fantastic minimalist website which also inspires me as I am also a grahpic design/web designer. Your choice of colours work nicely together to make an extremely nice looking website. I know id have it as my website
The things I dont like:
The footer is way to crammed with text.
The font on the left sidebar is plain and blocky.
Overall this website makes me want to explore more of the site because it looks INTERESTING!
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Great layout, nice design! And a good feedback post from badboythemer
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very nice man, the structure is very good. gonna have to 
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wow. This would be a really nice journal skin methinks.
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Thank you. I'm thinking of converting as well but not much spare time this few weeks.
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Yeah. I hope that the Sim's sponsor thing lasts long enough for you to find the time to convert it if you decide to, because it would look really good
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Oh cool, I really like it, it's so well done, the elements position plus the contrast they have is quite impresive.
I would change the turquoise with yellows/oranges.
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Thanks for the kind comments
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I like it
But the link "WEBDESIGN" is selected on the top, or a photography is showing .... but great work
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Thanks for letting me know, tends to miss out minor detail during the process.
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I rly like it, but you should change the footer, its a bit to conspicuous.
And the Hover in the Navi is wrong - making "Photo" coloured blue whould make more sense
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I will take what you have mentioned into consideration but this design probably won't be getting coded any soon. Thanks for the comment.
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I like the color scheme and tones, looks very nice. But, as someone said before me, the layout is a bit tight and straining to look at. I kinda get the feeling I don't know where to start with my eyes.
Also, the links to Twitter, StumbleUpon etc. is a bit big and bold, takes up too much attention in my opinion. I would perhaps also try and place them on the right side instead.
Otherwise very clean and nice, would be nice to see it in action.
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Love it. (= Is the top part a splash page or does it just show up while the site is loading?
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Clean layout, though rather cramped in the content , it's a lot to look at on one page imo
Colors are great, neutral with a good contrasting color to make it pop
The image slider is not balanced, the previous tab is smaller than the next tab 
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The image tab is indeed larger than usual to show the selected state. Thanks for the comments!
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