Preliminary critique
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:32 am
Heya everyone.
I'm generally a big fan of simple, elegant websites. I like content to be contained and not all over the place. So yep, big fan of boxes, basically. With that in mind, here are my two roughs.
The first one has more variety with fonts and includes some color. The image is a picture of my new library and displays my bookworm nature. I would typically put the links within the box somehow, but this time decided to be wild and put the black bar at the top. I'm not sure if I like how it turned out, really; it almost has too much white space hanging around.
The second one is my personal favorite. It's strictly black and white and offers great contrast, which I enjoy. It's simple and to the point and very minimal, which is my usual style. The image also makes me smile, because that's so me. I'm not a social person and I don't care for people who talk and talk and talk. So yep, I often have the urge to just "shh!" I also focused it on the right side versus the customary left, because I like to stand outside the box, haha.
Both of these layouts offer only one facet of me, because I don't like to give it all away on first glance. Mwaha. Any constructive criticism is super appreciated!
Probably my one most inspirational website is The Fanlistings (http://thefanlistings.org/approved.php), because you can go to this one website and find links to over 17,000 more. I like to just browse them and see what other people are doing, and that in turn gives me lots of ideas. A lot of them are kind of the same and get repetitive, but there are some really awesome sites on there. My other inspirational site is http://www.k4lab.info/, which is an online portfolio for a Polish boy I've never personally met. It's just so pretty, and the animation is subtle and effective. He has other web designs linked on there that are cool too.
I'm generally a big fan of simple, elegant websites. I like content to be contained and not all over the place. So yep, big fan of boxes, basically. With that in mind, here are my two roughs.
The first one has more variety with fonts and includes some color. The image is a picture of my new library and displays my bookworm nature. I would typically put the links within the box somehow, but this time decided to be wild and put the black bar at the top. I'm not sure if I like how it turned out, really; it almost has too much white space hanging around.
The second one is my personal favorite. It's strictly black and white and offers great contrast, which I enjoy. It's simple and to the point and very minimal, which is my usual style. The image also makes me smile, because that's so me. I'm not a social person and I don't care for people who talk and talk and talk. So yep, I often have the urge to just "shh!" I also focused it on the right side versus the customary left, because I like to stand outside the box, haha.
Both of these layouts offer only one facet of me, because I don't like to give it all away on first glance. Mwaha. Any constructive criticism is super appreciated!
Probably my one most inspirational website is The Fanlistings (http://thefanlistings.org/approved.php), because you can go to this one website and find links to over 17,000 more. I like to just browse them and see what other people are doing, and that in turn gives me lots of ideas. A lot of them are kind of the same and get repetitive, but there are some really awesome sites on there. My other inspirational site is http://www.k4lab.info/, which is an online portfolio for a Polish boy I've never personally met. It's just so pretty, and the animation is subtle and effective. He has other web designs linked on there that are cool too.