ennuified.com WIP

[Ennui]

Crits, please:

http://www.ennuified.com/wip

I'm curious as to what you guys think of the design itself, visually, particularly the colors of the banner juxtaposed with the colors of the layout. Feel free to check out the code and crit that too, but it's a bit sloppy and I'm not really trying to put it out there. This is for the design only, not the content, which is why there's only a single page (all the other links are broken).

comments/recommendations/etc?


<3pitzy for the photo

 

[blck_prod]

Hi there...first of all it look's professional, clean and not to loud. And above all it has no loading bar...phew
But

the purple-blue is definatly not working for me. Try saturizing it more. Like it's almost gray but has a little color left in it. see Example
And as yopu can see a brighter color for highlights. This could be Cyan, magenta or orange. I choose cyan...

And the bedrock-typo...really doenst work with the picture. Arial, and similar typoss still work best if your planning on changing the pic regularly.

Im not that satisfied with the title but I think you get my point.

Just my 5 cents...Good luck

 

[Qonfused]

I like its professional feel, but I have to agree with the colors. While nice, they could be better. Keep the banner as it is: it works perfectly. Also, if you could, widen it to at least 800 pixels. Unless you plan on adding more columns, small, thin columns down a wide page kinda bothers me.

 

[Tyguy]

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[DigiQ8]

i dont like the colors D:
tho the design look professinal

 

[Dekstar]

While it's small size keeps it looking clean and tidy, I think you could easily utilize the entire page more, or even a little bit more of the page.

I like the colours that you have on there, they all work and reduce eye-strain with no clashing colours, but if you're not utilizing the space on the page, I think you might be better off looking for some very un-intrusive designs to go on the background. I'd think along the lines of easily looping patterns of medium/large size (so no stripes), rather complicated (like for instance celtic pattern) and at a very similar colour to the background colour, to only suggest it's presence.
What it does is while not drawing the eye away from your content, it makes use of the background and breaks up the block colours, whether the viewer notices it or not. Curves look most natural obviously.

 

[Thread]

Just a few comments, I like how it looks Though I think it would be better if you moved the whole box to the center (aligned both horizontally and vertically) so it isn't uneven.

 

[Stigmata]

Pretty much what Dekstar and blck_prod said. Except I like the colors a bit more than blck_prod does.

 

[Ennui]

First off, thanks for the compliments

Hi there...first of all it look's professional, clean and not to loud. And above all it has no loading bar...phew
But

the purple-blue is definatly not working for me. Try saturizing it more. Like it's almost gray but has a little color left in it. see Example
And as yopu can see a brighter color for highlights. This could be Cyan, magenta or orange. I choose cyan...

And the bedrock-typo...really doenst work with the picture. Arial, and similar typoss still work best if your planning on changing the pic regularly.

Im not that satisfied with the title but I think you get my point.

Just my 5 cents...Good luck

I actually like those colors a lot more. I was trying to avoid too much saturation because I didn't want it to look greyscale, but what you've done there is quite favorable actually. I don't particularly like the cyan though. Still, thanks, and noted

I like its professional feel, but I have to agree with the colors. While nice, they could be better. Keep the banner as it is: it works perfectly. Also, if you could, widen it to at least 800 pixels. Unless you plan on adding more columns, small, thin columns down a wide page kinda bothers me.

Ditto with the colors, and I don't particularly want to widen it (the layout is meant to be skinny) but I will probably do what Dekstar's suggested:

While it's small size keeps it looking clean and tidy, I think you could easily utilize the entire page more, or even a little bit more of the page.

I like the colours that you have on there, they all work and reduce eye-strain with no clashing colours, but if you're not utilizing the space on the page, I think you might be better off looking for some very un-intrusive designs to go on the background. I'd think along the lines of easily looping patterns of medium/large size (so no stripes), rather complicated (like for instance celtic pattern) and at a very similar colour to the background colour, to only suggest it's presence.
What it does is while not drawing the eye away from your content, it makes use of the background and breaks up the block colours, whether the viewer notices it or not. Curves look most natural obviously.

Aye. I'll have a mess around online and in PS.

 

[CyberPitz]

The colors are different, but I definately don't mind. They compliment my eyes rather well, for some reason. It's simple and professional.

 

[sinkoman]

Ennui, you have failed me...

<b>'s and [br]'s?

AND TABLE HACKS!

FFS, TABLE HACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You didn't even specify a DTD!

D: D: D:

Other than that though, it LOOKS very good. I'd say widen it up just a tad, unless you're working with mobile phones too. Otherwise, i'd say it looks clean and proffesionall, if not a little conservative.

It'd also probably be best to use your REAL name for the Copywrites. Looks a little less proffesionall, and perhaps even less useful, when it's got your webname in place of your real name.

Maybe even use a 4px or 8px bg or sommat.

:thumbs: on the design.

:angry: on the markup.

 

[hungryduck]

I like the orange/purple contrast....those colors actually seem to go together just fine

 

[63]

Me likee.

 

[DigiQ8]

you know what
i just found that the colors are good but the black outline...kinda werid

something like this would be good :

 

[Smoke]

RAWR, me likes.

 

[Fliko]

Im on the process of starting up a site, whats a good cheap host?

1and1

 

[Fliko]

You didn't even specify a DTD!

QFT Truth

Should include those tags...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

 

[Ennui]

i learned web design when i was ten, never really bothered with it.

 

[Fliko]

I know... I was just in a hurry to post it... Either way, should include


I like how the colors are though... Its professional, but it isn't white

 

[sinkoman]

i learned web design when i was ten, never really bothered with it.

So, I learned when I was 11.

It's a good idea to include them. Could give some browser compatability issues otherwise

Don't just copy paste what Fliko posted into your code, there are different DTD types, and I can tell you that yours doesn't conform to either XHtml 2.0 or XHtml Strict.

I think html 4.0 would prolly work best for you.