GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Hi Everyone,
I took Web Design last semseter and I had this awesome website that I thought that I could recreate and I failed. So this semester I choose easy websites that I know that I can make. If I get better at coding this semster I will make my website a little more exciting. Thank you and enjoy!

https://www.sitepoint.com/30-awesome-we ... otographs/
https://blog.snappa.com/free-stock-photos/

I love your choice in color! The one with the old style horse and the red “design” really pops out in my opinion. The other one is good, but nothing seems to catch the eye like the red one!

I really enjoy the horse one is great, but I feel like with all the detail in the horse it could potentially overpower the type.

Submitted by Charlie Johnson

These are great images! I think that use of the carousel is the most successful, I love that your quote goes with your image. I think the layout for the computer roughs are both done very well, the only issue I have with them is the text in the one with the train bridge is a bit difficult to read. The mobile roughs are squished horizontally, not sure if maybe you just took the computer roughs and transformed them to fit the mobile size but they don't look right.

I really like the first set at the top the best. I am not sure how more text on them would be to how cool it is currently. I think the links at the top right should maybe move over to the top right and be bigger and more bold. On the mobile version, that bronzy color for the text is hard to read.


On the second set, I like the colors and images, but think they are a little strong. The images are very horror-esque which is fine if that is the goal you are going for.

I love the strong pictures in each of these designs! They all have such a dramatic mood to them!

I think your headline "let's go around and around with design" is cute and clever. Although with the mobile version of this design, I do find the horse (facing towards us, perhaps aggressively) paired with the black/red theme to feel a tad intense. I think pulling the text down a bit so it's farther from the horses face as well as a softer font might help?

As for your bridge/railroad set of designs I really really like the white font in the web version. I think maybe your headline would be more legible if it was 20% bolder/bigger. I also think your "Enter" could be moved just slightly to the right, to put it visually in the center of those two railroad tracks.

Wow! Horrifying.

Merry Go Round Broke Down 2:
This time the ponies are going to play with YOU.

I like (and have a case of the Jibblies from) your creepy merry go round design. It looks like a horror movie poster. Great use of contrast. And the red, uh, accent color is really doing its job. I like your choice of font, too. It's very legible and it's banality only increases the horror of everything else. Your navigation is easy to see and use. I like your object placement in the layout. It's very simple and gets out of the way of the background photos, who are doing the heavy lifting here. Good use of margin and padding, too.

No need to crunch and smoosh your logo and type for your mobile version. Just shrink them a little bit and move them around as need. I'd make the slash in your logo look like a paintbrush stroke or some sort of splatter.

Nice work!

All of the examples are spectacular! I think I like the colors and pictures of the top two as my favorite. I don’t think I have really any advise to improve them. Great job! The best I have seen so far.

Great quality image and the hierarchy of the text on the 2 design really stands out!
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Erik Reyes

Both designs have a solid foundation of layout and hierarchy. The colors are muted which causes a calming effect but the colors are muted and don’t stand out from each other which makes it difficult to read. The bright red to white type is very impactful and stands out very well. This contrast creates importance and hierarchy. The links for navigation could be more defined as of right now they are both small and easy to over look. Perhaps bolder font or larger size would make them a little more noticeable. The colors in your second design tend to blend together and make it difficult to read. Some more contrast in the colors would make the type more readable. However the concepts and layouts in both designs are very good.