GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Here are my two choices going forward in redesigning Yale University Art page. I wanted to stick to to a similar theme that Yale is using throughout their web pages, being that the art page feels disconnected with its current design my goal was to bring a unity to the main website of Yale University for those looking into the program.

I love the color choice, it makes the site look more scholarly! I like the first homepage better but the type might be hard to read. The layout of the first inner page is neat. If you took that image from behind the photos of the staff and used it as a slider image on the first homepage and moved the type underneath the image, it would look amazing. It would also bring in more color. The background of the staff page would look clean if it were white, which would give more focus to the staff. Hope this helps, great work!

First ones, I prefer. The images and type give the layout dimension and also I think a mood that reflects Yale. Saw the original site and your layout makes it look so much better!

Nice redesign on the website, sir. Nice indeed.

Overall, I like your "site_01" the best, though both have some really good design elements. You've really done an excellent job making the website worth a damn. Nice use of Yale's colors. The contrast really serves to highlight important parts of your composition. You have good margins in your whitespace, especially at the top bar and in from the edges of the document and between the type boxes and other elements in the document. The navigation is easy to see and use, and is well placed. I also like the use of serif typefaces here. It would initially seem to clash with the clean layout, but it works with Yale's logo and already established branding.

I'd vertically center the navigation in its blue nav bar. Right now, it's too far off the bottom. Make sure you have good margins on type in boxes. Also, make sure the margins are even (i.e. the top margin is the same as the bottom, the right margin is the same as the left, etc.).

Good work!

I definitely think you were successful in capturing unity throughout your website designs. The color scheme and the layout overall are well constructed and visually appealing. I (like the rest of the class so far) like your first layout a little more than the second. I like the easily identifiable navigation placement and the off centered image placement. The only think I might change is to lower the opacity down on the background image in the additional web page. It may help the rest of the layout to pop off a little more. Good work!

Really good job showing unity through type and color choices, I would go with the first one, I especially like the way the inner page turned out. Really good work.

The first design is easy to navigate and captures the Yale style more than the second design. To improve the continuity, images on the staff page could be cropped to the same size/ratio. Overall the page layout is interesting, the offset photo on the home page works well for the design.

Ariesboxsye,
The first web-page works better. It is laid out well and the color scheme seems to work. The only thing to adjust/change/improve/include is the open space in the top, it's too distracting and can use some kind of filling.


Jose_Macias.

These are both looking great. Site 1 feels more inviting and accessible. The body copy text doesn't quite feel right; it's not utilizing the space that it's in, well, I think. It feels cluttered and hard to read, but only subtly so? It's intersting. Maybe try to reduce the amount of type and break it into more, smaller paragraphs, and give a little more padding around the text so it isn't quite as close to the edges of the blue squares on the left and right?

Great Job on your websites, You can go either way frankly both are great, And I do not have any suggestions on how to improve your website.