Other Road Design v3

dab42pat · Apr 22nd, 2008, 00:10

I tend to find that most of the palletes found on this site work well. Just experiment eg change your speech mark colour to #E6867A and see how it looks.

Also perhaps add line-height: 1.5em; to your text as it looks slightly squashed IMO.

Pat

CloudedVision · Apr 22nd, 2008, 00:19

thanks dab, ill take your suggestion, and ill experiment with the colors

CloudedVision · Apr 23rd, 2008, 01:23

tried out the eden color scheme from COLOURlovers. This is what I got. What do you think?

Aesir · Apr 23rd, 2008, 07:58

I like it. It reminds me of www.loworks-store.org. I think the font looked abit squashed, but its good.

nuideas · Apr 23rd, 2008, 09:17

i would say not.

if you are wanting basic principles of choosing colours for your site - and you want to look proffessional then i can offer my 10c worth.

1) Background colour

Choose a background colour - either white or black to start with

2) build the site with greys

Build the structure of your site using css and then introduce greys (only 2 or 3 shades).

3) add some colour

If you chose black as your background colour then take the lightest grey and substitute with a colour.

if you chose white then do the same with the lightest colour.

4) add images

when you have got to this stage then print screen it into photoshop and overlay coloured areas (like navigation areas) to the colour scheme that you have created so far.

BTW... personally i think that if you use more than 3 fonts on a site it looks disjointed. I tend to stick to a minimum of two.

hope this helps?

nuideas · Apr 23rd, 2008, 09:21

the "i would say not." was to the comment about the eden colour scheme.

Ed · Apr 25th, 2008, 22:38

Hi CV,

Just remember that I give very in-depth critiques!

Here's what I think:

You appear to be using two logos. I'd get rid of the one the 'Y' that is supposed to look like two roads or incorporate into the top bar.

All those pages are silly! It makes a website seem too big and overwhelming for anyone, and there really is no point. These are the only pages you need: Home, About Us, Our Services, Our Work and Contact. (And if you're smart, you probably don't need the 'Our Services' page) That Volunteering info can go in the About Us, The 'What we offer' and 'other services' should obviously be merged, 'Get a quote' and 'contact us' should be merged and 'Web Design' + 'Web Development' should go in the 'Our Work' page.

Pick three fonts (including ones used in images) and stick with them. It doesn't matter whether you use italics, bold, semi-bold once you stick to the same three fonts (four MAXIMUM).

The colour scheme isn't exactly the nicest, and as stated above, have a look at a colour palette generator or something of that sort.

You should be using the CSS image navigation method that prevents any flicker, using one image for your whole menu, and not one for each item and it's states. Have a look at an article written for the Newsletter.

Use a current state in your menu to show users what page they're on, and ditch the humpy thing at the bottom, bad for usability as if the page is long they'd have to scroll to the bottom to find out.

There's too much unformatted text on the homepage! God, there's no way I want to read it. Then I wonder why there's a quote to an apparently irrelevant poem.

Those what we offer boxes, to the right on the homepage should be done using CSS...don't be lazy! And yes, you can get shadows on divs using CSS.

Ed.

CloudedVision · Apr 26th, 2008, 21:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed

Hi CV,

Just remember that I give very in-depth critiques!

Yep, you definitely do. I'll take your suggestions in and change around the site. Expect v4 in a week or so.

Thanks for the critique though.

welshstew · Apr 28th, 2008, 18:12

I would have to agree about the fonts, there are just too many different ones used here.
the green in the top and the green in your logo do not match, so it's just looks wrong