Final Critique For Project One
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:55 pm
Hello Everyone,
Thanks so much for your ideas on how to make my website layout more successful. I appreciate everyone’s input and made changes based on the feedback I got. I had a pretty good idea from the start, of what I wanted it to look like. Which is why both my ideas were very similar.
I went with the layout I thought had more expression and had more photos. I have taken over 15,000 photos so I wish I could add more but it would obviously blow some of my viewer’s minds! Lol I will have to work on simplicity with my designs for clients but since this site is for "me" I think the design I picked represents my personality more.
I changed the color of the fonts to a lighter hue from the original dark blue that I picked. I also changed the font style/family in the body area to be more readable. I got rid of almost all the blue frames and boxes. I decided to keep the blue frames around my navigation buttons/link area's to give them an area all their own. I think that made it also have different organized sections (The title section, the navigation section, the collaged photos section, the body section and the footer section of organized photos).
I also changed the size of the buttons to be larger and more readable. The title area was also enlarged. The class section area was changed slightly in that I changed T.M.C.C. to say the full college name. I added more space between the body text and the photos giving it “room to breath”. I also moved the photo collage up so that I could increase the size of the body text to be more legible. I wanted to do something with the title background like add a photo but couldn't find something that I liked and wouldn't take away from the readability of that area.
Thanks everyone for the comments and I really love hearing everyone liked my photos. I think that I solved the problem and created a homepage that looks good and effectively communicates my class information. I will make changes to it as the semester progresses I am sure.
Georgia Novotny
Thanks so much for your ideas on how to make my website layout more successful. I appreciate everyone’s input and made changes based on the feedback I got. I had a pretty good idea from the start, of what I wanted it to look like. Which is why both my ideas were very similar.
I went with the layout I thought had more expression and had more photos. I have taken over 15,000 photos so I wish I could add more but it would obviously blow some of my viewer’s minds! Lol I will have to work on simplicity with my designs for clients but since this site is for "me" I think the design I picked represents my personality more.
I changed the color of the fonts to a lighter hue from the original dark blue that I picked. I also changed the font style/family in the body area to be more readable. I got rid of almost all the blue frames and boxes. I decided to keep the blue frames around my navigation buttons/link area's to give them an area all their own. I think that made it also have different organized sections (The title section, the navigation section, the collaged photos section, the body section and the footer section of organized photos).
I also changed the size of the buttons to be larger and more readable. The title area was also enlarged. The class section area was changed slightly in that I changed T.M.C.C. to say the full college name. I added more space between the body text and the photos giving it “room to breath”. I also moved the photo collage up so that I could increase the size of the body text to be more legible. I wanted to do something with the title background like add a photo but couldn't find something that I liked and wouldn't take away from the readability of that area.
Thanks everyone for the comments and I really love hearing everyone liked my photos. I think that I solved the problem and created a homepage that looks good and effectively communicates my class information. I will make changes to it as the semester progresses I am sure.
Georgia Novotny
