Re: FN-FORUM: I designed I but I don't like it ...

date posted 1st January 2006 23:11

Hi Max

The site works - thats good.
The problem comes in with the colour choices and the use of images. If
you are going to use orange I think your other colours need to be
stronger. The Orange site is an ok example of black & orange working
together, but this is much more striking: http://dark-i.com/default.aspx
. Try using some strong greens and/or blues too.
As for the images, lets face it speakers are boring. There are ways of
improving things however, such as
close-ups http://www.dj-tom.com/t4e/t4e-speaker-1280x1024.jpg
a stark background http://rubenpost.tripod.com/Speaker.jpg
perspective http://www.makezine.com/blog/sonic1.jpg

Sorry if this has made things worse!
Good luck.

steve

John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:

>Happy New Year All,
>
>I'm looking for some help from the designers amongst us.
>
>I have just posted a mock up homepage for my client at
>www.pasoundhire.thepigfarmer.co.uk for his comments & I'm dreading it
>because ... I don't like it!!! Has anyone else suffered this before??
>
>All I had to go with was his logo which is a single graphic and is in the
>banner - and a pile of images of speakers, most of which are dung (Devonian
>term).
>
>I have never used Orange and now I have, I will never again and the whole
>thing just seems chaotic to me as I usually design very clean and almost
>empty sites. The thing is, I just feel that my usual style would not fit
>this guys industry - up to now I have catered for high end glossy mag' style
>sites for designers and make-up artists etc etc.
>
>I was about to start again and then thought it may be a helpful exercise to
>post it here and invite a selection of harsh, but constructive criticism to
>help me on the rebuild.
>
>I don't want any rendering or validation related scolding as this is a true
>fag-packet mock-up. What I want to know is why it looks so bad.
>
>...... well, I know what I mean.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Max.
>
>AKA The Pig Farmer
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