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solidgold
08-11-2006, 04:06 PM
www.aesthetic-design.co.uk (http://www.aesthetic-design.co.uk) hope you all like it, any constructive critisism welcome
Hey Solid.
The information is there, and in that way its effective. However... as I would recommend with any site made for the creative industry. BE CREATIVE! Say something about yourself and your style with your website. If you don't know how to make it for the web, draw it out on paper first and then start asking questions here, and all over the web.
It looks fine. But not great. Do something different. We can see this type of design all over the web....
Good luck.
solidgold
08-11-2006, 08:01 PM
hey thanks, i understand what you mean about being creative which is why im producing as part of my personal portfolio page a much more colourful and interesting area,
i appreciate that this isnt a particularly rare layout scheme and i chose that deliberately but i have taken on board what you have said,
Solid Gold
chris_bcn
08-12-2006, 04:28 PM
I'm afraid that it is rather ordinary visually, and the code is well below par. Took a while for the images to load for me.
I think the main problem is that it doesn't stand out at all
JPnyc
08-12-2006, 07:04 PM
The biggest problem I see is that the coding is just nuts. That page could've and should've been written with 1/4th that much code, perhaps less than that.
Emmanize
08-12-2006, 07:34 PM
:eek:
Was it made via drag n drop? :D Just kidding. But it does look like a DW job in WYSIWYG.
Thats a lot of layers - but way layers? I am not liking the font or the drop shadows on those images - sends my eyes funny. I am also not liking that blue. Also your links didn't work for me. I am very easy to please as you can tell ;)
Keep plugging away and you will get there.
no structure no hierachy way to much mark-up for such a simple layout.
Figure out what you want to say and say it.
Design is less about how things look on the web and more about displaying information in an easy to udnerstand structure and hierachy.
Without that hierachy everything just falls apart becasuse that is what the web is based on- dsplaying information.
Like anything else you can't present information in an easy to udnerstand manor without a proper and semantic hierachy/structure.
So carry that idea through to the web.
The am going to assume from looking at your mark-up that you know nothing about mark-up so I'm not going to coment about it. Instead recommend you focus on improving the structure and hierachy as whole.
Allthough, the mark-up is a big part of well done web-design their isn't much anyone on here can say or do to help you on that end.
Its either you know it or you don't. If you don't then its your choice to learn or not… not much anyone else can do but tell you your method is outdated and unsemantic.
Daves_shed
08-13-2006, 04:07 PM
Overall, its a good start, but should probably look more exciting and memorable. Your a designer, threrefore need to show off your creativity. At the moment its looking a bit conservative and formal, which isn't really a good image for a company boasting design skills.
The main problem that I found, was navigating through your site. It wasn't easy because there isn't a consistant system. Its all a bit skattered at the moment I recon.