Open Door Webdesign

[D4rK3N]

http://d4rk3n.deviantart.com/art/Ope...sign-155978293

[cC.ShorterGFX]

Quite nice dude. Im not all that good with making layouts but i think even i can say that the header and teh footer is a little chunky

[ratchetnclank]

Header and content is fine. Trim the footer right down though and never put navigation in the footer. o.0

[+s9.Oath]

i agree with RnC i like everything else besides the footer good work man

[Soap]

Lots of unnecessary bells and whistles to bog down the user's experience of the page.

When it comes to web design for your stuff, less is definitely more.
Prospective clients want one thing from you: Examples of good work.
They don't care about your blogsphere. Or your facebook. Or your twitter. They're your client not your internet buddy.

Large Green Bullet points are largely made of epic fail because they show you have a poor understanding of Editorial and Layout design. If the layout of your bodycopy is first class, a bullet point is not needed. They simply have no place beyond keynote presentations.

Overall, the website tells me you know how to put a website together, but it doesn't show me that you're a designer. The layout and presentation is clean, but mediocre, it lacks for imagination.

The 'open door' imagery for your title is cliché at best and demonstrates your inability to 'think outside the box' (which is great if you're going to be a corporate monkey of the design world).

the 'before' and 'next' parts need replacing to 'previous' and 'next'

and having the 'designed by' at the bottom is another big no no of design.

Not quite sure why you have the bottom part, either? You seem to be repeating the already obvious and overbearing navigation options whilst forcing your flikr gallery down their neck (if you have your gallery on the website, why do you need flikr too?).

In all: Ill-designed.

Here's a website from a very successful designer:

http://www.checklandkindleysides.com/

This is the only kind of flash functionality I've ever found useful and well designed.

Consider.

That's my 2 pennies. Sorry it wasn't a ZOMG BRILLIANT, but I believe in honesty.

[D4rK3N]

Lots of unnecessary bells and whistles to bog down the user's experience of the page.

When it comes to web design for your stuff, less is definitely more.
Prospective clients want one thing from you: Examples of good work.
They don't care about your blogsphere. Or your facebook. Or your twitter. They're your client not your internet buddy.

Large Green Bullet points are largely made of epic fail because they show you have a poor understanding of Editorial and Layout design. If the layout of your bodycopy is first class, a bullet point is not needed. They simply have no place beyond keynote presentations.

Overall, the website tells me you know how to put a website together, but it doesn't show me that you're a designer. The layout and presentation is clean, but mediocre, it lacks for imagination.

The 'open door' imagery for your title is cliché at best and demonstrates your inability to 'think outside the box' (which is great if you're going to be a corporate monkey of the design world).

the 'before' and 'next' parts need replacing to 'previous' and 'next'

and having the 'designed by' at the bottom is another big no no of design.

Not quite sure why you have the bottom part, either? You seem to be repeating the already obvious and overbearing navigation options whilst forcing your flikr gallery down their neck (if you have your gallery on the website, why do you need flikr too?).

In all: Ill-designed.

Here's a website from a very successful designer:

http://www.checklandkindleysides.com/

This is the only kind of flash functionality I've ever found useful and well designed.

Consider.

That's my 2 pennies. Sorry it wasn't a ZOMG BRILLIANT, but I believe in honesty.

:-) Thanks man ! Youre great :-) im not good in english but i really respect your message !

[Pet]

Not to sound like a broken record here, but as everyone said, the header is too bulky. I would suggest you try making it as small as possible, or do away with it all together. The previews of work should be more centralized, and the main focus, not tacked onto the main page like that. If you do, just have 1 or 2 examples, then all the rest on a page designed for them.

The text placement is well done, but I would use a little bit bigger of a font. When you start to get to the higher resolutions, it gets smaller and smaller. I agree, get rid of the green dots, they are a little bulky in the text section.

When I first saw this page, it looked more like an about me page, then a home page. On a home page you want to get too the point, and not drown out your statement with a lot of information that people may or may not read.

That footer is a little unsightly, just like the header, reduce it down as small as possible, or get rid of it. The contact information should go on the contact page, the navigation is already at the top. Image gallery for your portfolio should be on a page dedicated to that.

Now the colors. 98% of this page is varying shades of grey. Then you have a slightly muted blue and pink for the name, and a lime green for bullets and links? Colors need to work together just as much as the design, and content. This doesn't mean go and colorize everything here, but look at it and decide if you really want it as it is. Ex: Are all those grey gradients really needed, or could they be 1 grey tone, or even white? You have blue and pink in the name, but nowhere else, maybe change the green link colors to blue or pink, maybe a line separator that is 1 pixel in height to separate the section header with its content, and make that a blue.

1 last thing I would like to say, try to make it all fit within 1 screen, without having to scroll.

[D4rK3N]

Pet: you have right :-) next design will be better :-)

[Scrib]

"Lots of unnecessary bells and whistles to bog down the user's experience of the page.

When it comes to web design for your stuff, less is definitely more.
Prospective clients want one thing from you: Examples of good work.
They don't care about your blogsphere. Or your facebook. Or your twitter. They're your client not your internet buddy.

Large Green Bullet points are largely made of epic fail because they show you have a poor understanding of Editorial and Layout design. If the layout of your bodycopy is first class, a bullet point is not needed. They simply have no place beyond keynote presentations.

Overall, the website tells me you know how to put a website together, but it doesn't show me that you're a designer. The layout and presentation is clean, but mediocre, it lacks for imagination.

The 'open door' imagery for your title is cliché at best and demonstrates your inability to 'think outside the box' (which is great if you're going to be a corporate monkey of the design world).

the 'before' and 'next' parts need replacing to 'previous' and 'next'

and having the 'designed by' at the bottom is another big no no of design.

Not quite sure why you have the bottom part, either? You seem to be repeating the already obvious and overbearing navigation options whilst forcing your flikr gallery down their neck (if you have your gallery on the website, why do you need flikr too?).

In all: Ill-designed.

Here's a website from a very successful designer:

http://www.checklandkindleysides.com/

This is the only kind of flash functionality I've ever found useful and well designed.

Consider.

That's my 2 pennies. Sorry it wasn't a ZOMG BRILLIANT, but I believe in honesty."

Exactly, kiu man, just work on a few things. (PS I would have types it out myself but meh, I though whats the point in saying the exact same thing twice?)

[Chris]

I'm not a big fan of this either. This is definitely not your best work. The content itself is very unorganized. I can't tell what information I need to look at first. There are headers, which are offset by subheaders, and those headers seem to be the only thing connected to the content below.

The whole thing really lacks some consistency. As pointed out, the graphic bullets don't add anything to the organization, as it's already pretty messy. The other problem is you're trying to put way too much content on one page. A 3 column layout needs to be broken up, but it doesn't have to have a lot of space. Here, the messy look comes in when you squeeze those columns so much that one sentence takes up 4-5 lines. That just looks condensed, and not really necessary.

I think your type choices for the layout overall is a little weak. I'm a big fan of designing smart, and that includes using web-safe fonts for your navigation, increasing their semantic value and decreasing the load time it takes to load 5-6 extra images. If you're consistent, you can design a whole layout using only one font-family. Here you use several different ones. The items you highlight like the numbered items beside the green bullet are bigger than your body text. Then you have a green line of text the same size. The whole thing screams for hierarchy.

The very bottom is also a very weak element in this design. As said in the above sections, the headers are very poorly placed, and they don't help organize the information below. Big text is good in some cases, but it has to be balanced.

Overall this layout seems very rushed, and very atypical of a "template" design. I don't like template designs because they give too much power to the client. They tend to be biased when they choose what design they want to represent their organization or business, and that defeats the purpose of even majoring in design. If your skills aren't going to be used to meet their needs, why even have designers in the first place?

The design itself is very generic. The slogan says the organization is a graphic studio, but I see no work. Usually people who profess expertise in design are going to put their work first. Here it's like just another corporate puke site that offers nothing but stale content and links to more stale content. You've also got a header that says "Our Products", which is consfusing because unless it's a tshirt or merchandising design studio, they aren't necessarily going to have products?

To be blunt, it looks like you copied and pasted the same thing over and over, just to fit the 3 columns, it sort of explains the awkward choice of titling...

I honestly think this needs to go back to the drawing board. Lose some of the cliche concepts like the generic bullet images and the stock photo in the header (lol), and I know english probably isn't your first language, but it helps to use proper grammar. (Bloig seems to be evidence of a rushed design).

Work on your typo and your use of hierarchy. That and spend more time on thinking out your elements, and how you place them. In terms of user experience, this is just not a very friendly layout.