GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Hello Michael and fellow students,

Thank you all for your thoughts and critiques of my initial designs. I appreciate everyone's input. Most everyone liked the first design and thought that the "Blue" design was a little bold and aggressive. I have decided to listen to the masses. Many of you didn't think I needed to do much to the design. I did make a couple slight changes to fonts, and font sizes and some placement. I really wanted to add my personal logo that I made in GRC_100. I really like the way it turned out and want to include it as my logo. For those of you that were not in my GRC_100 class the meaning behind the logo is that the way the b for my last name sits in the J it looks closely like a wheelchair symbol. With that being said I used the exact color of the handicap logos and placards and the gray is the exact color of the University of Nevada Wolf Pack. If you read my small body copy you can understand my love for Nevada athletics! I didn't think that in this design it needed a picture of me. I have been told most of my life that I have a face for radio! Haha! The changes I made were minimal and know that I continue to work on it throughout the semester. I hope everyone is having fun so far this semester and that it will stop snowing soon and we can have some warm Spring weather soon! It should be an amazing summer for our lakes and rivers.

I have added a poll question for fun if you would like to vote. This is also a test to see if anyone reads my ramblings!

CHEERS!

I really like these designs. Your logo really ties into the whole design. The colors are really great and it brings this creative and clean look. I am glad you took feedback from all of us, you have a really great webpage!

Fantastic job with the placement of objects with the type. Everything shows through wonderfully. It was well thought through. Really enjoy the placement of the logo and social media it seems to be in the perfect area. Really like how the mobile design some images are cut off, but it still is noticeably clear what it is.

Charlie Johnson

I think that this background photo is really successful in displaying what you want it to. I think that this a very good mix of having something interesting to look at while also being easy to read and navigate!

I really like how both of your final layouts came out! They're both very clean and the lines/alignment is super pleasing to the eye.
The only criticisms I have are pretty small. I think you could consider moving your header, body copy, and aligned navigation buttons to the right slightly. This would give a little more breathing room between your header/body copy and the laptop screen edge while also keeping your navigation buttons aligned.
Great job!

Yeah this design is great. I really like it. The only suggestion I can give is to neutralize the tmcc logo and social icons to either a black or white color. I feel like your design picture is plenty colorful and the logos and icon colors kind of compete with it and overwhelms the design with more color. Great job otherwise!

I really like the addition of your logo addition. I think on the mobile version, that adding a little more space between it and the other social media icons will help make it not seem like it is a social media option. It kind of blends in with those options, even though it is bigger than the other icons. It seems just fine in the computer version and I like the alignment.

In the mobile version, your about me paragraph gets a little lost against the background. I think a drop shadow would help with that. I also think you should make your paragraph wider to kind of match your name in width. I still feel like the white text on the picture especially towards the bottom gets a little lost. Maybe if you did a black stroke or something, it would help the legibility. Overall, great job! I still love the font you used for your name.

I like what you added and the composition of the photography within the type works successful. Great job!
______________

Erik Reyes

Awww! The poll was closed by the time I got around to posting. Drat!

I'm glad you picked the design you did. It looks so sophisticated. I like your additions, especially your logo. It's blues go with the blue on the desktop of your computer. I'm surprised how well the white type works with your background photo. I suspect it has to do with the fact that your image has more dark colors than light colors in it. I like that you only really use two typefaces and one of them only in your title. You provide the rest of your textual hierarchy using only different weights of the same typeface and it really works. Good use of margin too, both in how your website objects relate to each other and how they relate to the background photo. The social media blob in the bottom right works pretty well too.

The only real issue I see is that the baseline of the class information and your email don't quite line up on your computer layout. I also don't think you needed to right-align your navigation on your phone design.

Excellent work!

Looks great. The font is the greatest improvement.