FN-FORUM: Re. I'm looking for some help from the designers amongst us.

date posted 1st January 2006 20:23

Hi Max,
Happy New year to all and hope 2006 is a good year.

I am new to this site and forum so hope this sounds right to you and
i understand about the fag packet deign as it is hard to just get
some god feed back without people just slagging it. I think your main
problem with this style is that you are combining tones of black with
tones of orange. This is a very tricky combination to follow and get
right. The best use of these two colours is without doubt the Orange
mobile phone site. At www.orange.co.uk you can see how they combine
these colours to maximum effect.

I have posted up our phase 1 website which also use these colours but
to be honest this site is just a small site to just get some content
up there as i am in teh middle of phase 2 with full video and
presentation interactivity, a complete website not like the crap i
have put up there at the mo.

www.totalamber.com

Anyway, if you try to look at making the feel a lot ore crisp and
clean then this will help loads as you do not want a company that
deals in sound to have a dirty feel to it. There is also a great pic
on the home page of the knobs, try to use more with the pics if you
have these at bigger sizes. When i say try to make more of them, i
mean think of how best to present these images as they are what sells
in first impressions. look at how other people use similar photos.

Hope that helps a little and if you have any questions let me know.

Neil