GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Hey guys,

This is Dalanie Chester and this is my final for project 1.

For my final, many of you guys loved the textured background from the preliminary, I took that to heart and made your request. All I used for the background was the cloud filter and did texturized in the filter gallery. I changed my fonts from yataghan to Lucida Blackletter to expand more fonts (also, I had a problem downloading the font yataghan.) I left the header as it was, all I had to do was live trace the drawing and the kanji (Japanese symbols). I stretched out the navigation bar as long as the header and used Apple Chancery for the type. I fixed up the project boxes and also the about paragraph. I had a suggestion of changing a word in the resources area, and so I did. I used a lot of strokes to show how inspired I am of anime. I also used outer glow to demonstrate the illumination of the moon.

Enjoy guys!!

Oh!!

I almost forgot! Due to my flash drive being corrupted on me (sucks), I had to remake my page from scratch.

Oh, what a crazy day that I've been having!

Hi Delanie!
Nice job, I like it! It's well balanced and the colors work well together. The text seems a little small for these old eyes, maybe you could make it a little bigger for us old folks.

Hi, Dalanie!

I really like your use of color. Your theme is very apparent, and although I wish your typeface reflected the line weight and strokes of Japanese characters instead of what would be used in an Old English book. That said, your personality and interests come very clearly with this page, great job!

Looks good Dalanie,
You should animate it one day =)
-wendy

Hi Dalanie,
Nice Job! The color scheme that you chose goes well together and I love the textured background, nice touch. I really like your design in the right hand corner it caught my attention right away. Your self portrait is a beautiful picture of you and I love the mask that you're holding. Your navigation is perfectly balanced with you header and elements below. Couple suggestions that I would make is to make your project and resources buttons a little smaller and make your body paragraph font a little bigger. It is hard to read and notice. Otherwise great job!

wendy_boddy wrote:Looks good Dalanie,
You should animate it one day =)
-wendy

What do mean, Wendy?

Hi Dalanie,
I like the color and texture of your design. The old english font mixed with the Japanese characters is a bit confusing. I also agree with others that the body copy could be a little larger. Nice job!

Hi Dalanie,

This home page represents you so well and your interests come through loud and clear. Great job on that. I like you color scheme and your textured background.

I agree that the type choices are a bit conflicting. Lithos Pro might be a good complement to the cosplay theme of your site, or try researching comic book fonts.

Nice work overall.

This is a really neat layout because it represents you! I love the hand drawn illustrations, as well as the background texture. It's a wonderful idea. To me though, the whole design is coming off a bit cluttered/busy, and I believe this is due to your choice of font (although it is a fun and dramatic typeface). I feel like it is a little too embellished for the style you're going for, and instead, should be something more simple, and maybe more brush-stroke looking. But good job!