Resubmit of rough drafts from H. Silva

[hsilva45]

These drafts demo horizontal and vertical alignment using the Rule of Thirds (approximately).
In the horizontal I wanted to use the image for the page body background, but had some problems.
The pinkish box is a link, and changes to yellow/underline when hovered.

[Deitrik]

Both designs look pretty simple, I kind of want to see you do something interesting with the project buttons, but it is coming along much better than the previous submission.

[kirin]

its a good start, but i think you should be putting more of yourself into the design. Its your website, show hobbies,things you enjoy or even some cool things you've created.

[charliepecot]

It's ok to get a little crazy, here. I can see that all the elements of the assignment are here, and that this page was designed with the utmost in efficiency. However, we're in a "graphics" communication program, which means there should be a heightened awareness to the artistic component of projects. You may need to put aside logic for a bit and step outside yourself. Sometimes "design" may seem utterly superfluous, but for most humans it is a necessary part of life.

[AWilburn]

The good: easily navigable and readable. The bad: it doesn’t say much at all about you, or that you're in a graphics program. Try posting an image of something you have done. That would personalize it a little more.

[MattShock23]

It's looking okay to start. I like the center alignment of both designs. However, I think you need to play a lot more with personal tastes and font styles that suits your personality. There is a lot of negative space between your images and buttons that could be filled with different design elements like more imagery or one large background picture.

[c.j.jackson775]

The top one seems to be going in the right direction, much better than last one. Play more with typography, gradients, and size and positioning. Your probably going to need more room for your bio and I think you could make the grc program stuff a lot smaller. Maybe try to integrate "Howard's Homepage" into the sky of the image and also make the image a little bigger. Than use colors from the image to create background colors, heading colors, ect to unify the design.

[eARTh2haleypw]

Hey there Howard, I understand you're not a "graphics person" but I'm seeing a stride in progress with these roughs in comparison with your previous post. I feel your 1st layout is starting to head in the right direction because it possesses a greater sense of visual hierarchy, meaning it's easier to navigate. Your center text stands out because of it's placement; however, it'd be more interesting if you were to adjust font sizes and families to show viewers what is of most importance. For example, perhaps the text "Howard's Home Page" is more important for your viewers to recognize than the proceeding "GRC 175 Web Design and Publishing I..." so in order to covey that greater importance visually, it'd be in your best interest to differentiate each bit of information through the use of scale, color and font choice.

Also something else to consider is balance. As it is now, layout #1 is perfectly symmetrical. Symmetrical balance in not a bad way to organize information, but asymmetrical balance is often more interesting because elements within differ in size, shape and placement. I see you started to implement asymmetrical balance in your 2nd layout, perhaps you can work with the 1st in order to do the same?

I hope this helped you out a little! You may feel this in not your forte but keep putting forth the effort! You're doing great

[oasib]

I do agree with post above, that it is to simple, but yet it is still a draft, maybe by the time you done it will look very different. As of now, they look very alike to me, the bottom on in my opinion has a better color choice. Put more creativity, if you think you have none in you, research online, still someone ideas like Michael says he does from his students...lol..Good Luck

Amy (oasib)

[elizabeth_mejia]

I like the first page layout better. The image is eye catching. I suggest playing around a little more with the colors. Maybe choose colors that match the image you have.