Please critique my style of design
Hey Guys, could you just in general critique my style of web design? Here's a link to my portfolio:
Thanks alot! I'm really looking for suggestions! Let me know specific sites you think are better than others!
UPDATED - 3-25-10: please review my website:
graisbeck posted this at 09:16 — 30th August 2007.
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Hi Ben,
Can i firstly say that i like your use of colours and your site looks great!
I see there is a :nbsp at the begining of your page title, i don't know if this was done on purpose or not but you don't need it (just a little thing!!!).
You may want to consider moving your to an external stylesheet, in order to give you more control over the full site, which means that any changes that need to be made to the full site need only be made to the one stylesheet.
Also you may want to think about using css for your layouts instead of tables.
I am in the process of converting my site to css layouts and its not too difficult.
Gary
PopeCuervoLime posted this at 20:14 — 1st September 2007.
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Awesome job with the website, and I do like the color scheme.
My only two suggestions:
1. Make the page background a fixed background.
2. Take off that 5 pixel pink stroke effect around the links and logo text and just see if you can get away with just having the white text there. If it contrasts too much with the dark background then re-apply a stroke, but make it about 1 to 2 pixels and make it a light gray, perhaps #D3D3D3 or #B3B3B3, something like that.
Cheers,
me
Homepage: erick S P A C E.com
Yosemite: yosemite.erickspace.com
barn0123 posted this at 05:44 — 11th April 2011.
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Hello Ben,
Great site layout, clean and easy to navigate. I think the design is simplistic but effective, the graphics are sharp and allow for quick load times while maintaining a professional look. The navigation makes exploring the site easy. Not more to critique, keep up the good work!
X_X_ROB_X_X posted this at 21:05 — 3rd September 2007.
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1) nice clean site. simple and to the point.
2) what is it you are selling? your resume or products?
3) colors work well and easy on the eyes.
kwiatek posted this at 00:56 — 17th September 2007.
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-nice design
-simple and clear organization
Well done
ejcross posted this at 02:08 — 19th September 2007.
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Nice, simple, clean! Not a bad site at all, although I prefer xhtml and css, it works.
Good job and nice profile too!
webseller2002 posted this at 00:28 — 21st September 2007.
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I like your style, the use of rounded corners and im totally digging your use of color. The sites also do not look like your standard "box" design. good work
benj posted this at 02:52 — 20th October 2007.
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Hey Guys, thanks so much for the feedback. Very appreciated.
Would anyone be able to lead me to somewhere where I can learn how to transition over to using CSS for my layouts instead of just Tables?
Thanks again!
benjisa.com
NiteWatcher posted this at 05:43 — 24th October 2007.
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http://meyerweb.com/ (THE CSS guru himself).
That's an excellent place to start. You WILL become to hate tables for presentation there...hate, hate, hate ...as divs are your friend.
It'll also help you with removing this...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">'to this...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN">'Which is a sign of a professional web designer now.
Once you get a hang of it, you'll never go back. Everything is cleaner, and one (or 2, if you wish for an IE specific) stylesheet to fix everything with.
ServeItUp posted this at 01:42 — 4th November 2007.
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great site! I would suggest simplifying the layout//there's a lot going on visually on the home page and you might want to move some of this content to other pages
at the bottom, make sure that your email address is clickable (insert it as a layer with , not just an image
bgaNET posted this at 18:40 — 18th November 2007.
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Very nice, clean design. I like it!
Easy on the eyes aswell, well done!
acaglumac posted this at 07:43 — 13th December 2007.
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I don't really like the colors. They are kinda depressing. Please change the colors. It still has to be fixed.
cinimodaz posted this at 23:24 — 16th December 2007.
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I will first say how much I liked the interaction with the mouse over for the other websites. I will also tell you that you have a real good color scheme. I would have to say the only real thing I saw that I would change myself would be the size of the site the length I mean it seems just a bit short and cut off.
phillip ingle posted this at 23:50 — 21st December 2007.
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Realy like the site clean easy and the graphics and layout are great it loads fast and the simple view realy works for me
philinglephotography.co.uk
www.philinglephotography.co.uk
johneva posted this at 06:53 — 22nd January 2008.
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Design wise sweet very nice looking site, but coding wise the are really bad, loads of javascript which I hate to se being used unless absolutly necisary which it was not, also when you do use javascript it should be kept in a seperate javascript file and called for rather than having it in with your HTML/XHTML file, it uses tables for layout which is a big no no.
DarthMall posted this at 16:37 — 22nd January 2008.
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I agree the design from an aesthetic standpoint looks great.
You should give yourself a better site map, the graphical one is good but the important one is the on that shows up at the bottom of the page, it is an SEO trick to link your whole site to every page on it, so by doing a site map that appears on every page you are linking to every page on your site on every page.
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fakie99 posted this at 13:43 — 30th January 2008.
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very clean and easy to navigate, but there is something i don't like about the wayt the portfolio is presented. it looks to much like news headlines or blog entries. would it be possible to just have one line for each item and have them appear as images or bullets?
Scuba Steve posted this at 17:20 — 12th February 2008.
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Nice and clean, easy navigation. Although you only have 4 pages to navigate, so navigation would be pretty hard to botch. Gradient/glow happy, although thats okay in this web 2.0 age
All in all, pretty good. I like.
cmei posted this at 15:49 — 31st March 2008.
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Hi,
I like the structure of the website. Everything is nicely organized and displayed. It was easy to navigate from page to page using the top menu. I really like the colour scheme that you chose for the website.
The only issue that confused me at first was the main purpose of the website. I thought at first that your site was promoting other websites. The website seems a little bit compact in terms of width size. Perhaps you can increase the width of your website and decrease the size of the left and right margin space.
jolly_web posted this at 01:40 — 1st April 2008.
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I like the layout and the colors, but I think the shiney technique is a little overrated. Great job though.
web-creation posted this at 04:58 — 18th April 2008.
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houseofgar posted this at 18:23 — 30th August 2008.
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First impression is a clean and relaxing website, the color scheme is soothing and this makes your visitors comfortable which means they will be more inclined to stay and look around.
The simplicity also is beneficial as it tells your visitors "this is what the site is about, Ben's portfolio"
I would suggest adding tn screenshots (similar to your homepage) of your work to your portfolio page as clickable graphics in addition to the hyperlink. The site is very graphic and the addition of small screenshots would give the visitor a preview.
If I were a client looking for a web designer, I would have a favorable impression of our work
kaiz49 posted this at 17:40 — 11th September 2008.
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First thing is first.I am appreciating your functioning style.Content in the main page also bulk.I am not objectioning for that.Most of the users like this layout.Colors which used while designing too simple and won't effect to eyes.good job.
fantom posted this at 11:11 — 18th December 2008.
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i like the navigation concept when some 1 hover on the navigation but rest of the website is too dark and the clear. try to see some good site for ref may be u can see cssmania.com. hope you like it
mjwalsh posted this at 01:21 — 20th December 2008.
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I like most of your designs, nice, clean, and just great looking overall. One thing I noticed on just a couple of your designs is that some of the images are just to big and need to be smaller, other then that, I like your style.
Sh_awn posted this at 14:37 — 23rd January 2009.
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Hi there. I really liked your website. Nice and clear design, easy navigation, good colour scheme. Good job!
nicora posted this at 08:25 — 24th January 2009.
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I think you have just about reached the sites potential. I have 3 suggestions that I think will help a lot. First, reduce the thickness of your borders. Second, in your blending options, change the shadow angle to 0 and reduce the opacity. And third, your gradients are not looking so good, see if you cant make them look smoother.
HTH
Iulian posted this at 22:12 — 24th January 2009.
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Nice, clean and straightforward. Maybe you can add a list of prices for some standard services.
benj posted this at 19:41 — 13th April 2009.
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Hello everyone, it's me, the original poster checking in.
First of all, thanks everyone for the feedback.
Next, I am working on a slight redesign on my website (current site is the old one), http://www.benjisa.com
See the DRAFT at: http://www.benjisa.com/draft/ (Please only view the 1st page and critique general design...content and code optimization is still in the works)
Would you please compare that draft with my current site, what do you like better/worse, and general poinst for improvement in the site.
Also, the big white box in middle of draft site will be animation/flash.
Thanks all!
benjisa.com
iceViper posted this at 15:30 — 14th April 2009.
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I prefer the DRAFT site, over the original. While I can see the draft is incomplete with dead links, and such. It is visually more appealing, and offers a more "impressive" look.
benj posted this at 01:25 — 15th April 2009.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm hoping it's better, but I've stared at these sites for so long I need fresh sets of eyeballs.
benjisa.com
Brutal posted this at 09:15 — 16th April 2009.
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It's simple to use which is great but it could still do with some images i think
benj posted this at 00:09 — 26th March 2010.
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Hey, it's been awhile and I now have now updated my website again. Please take a look and give me your feedback:
http://benjisa.com/
Thanks!
mkgen posted this at 23:23 — 28th March 2010.
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I love your logo and the mouse over effect.
What software have you used? FW? PS?
crazygolly512 posted this at 01:40 — 29th March 2010.
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you website designs they are pretty clean and neat.
i think its easy to use, and easy to learn. love the tone, and the style are quite similiar between your designs.
you know, the big images in the home page, menus are always put in a horizontal way.
it is kinda make your design a signature.
cool!
farneville posted this at 01:16 — 1st April 2010.
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You have a nice site keep it cool looking would be better if you make the content white in background.
How do I get my site reviewed here?
I can't see "Website Critique Area" as an option when trying to post?
Any ideas?
eriverrose posted this at 04:39 — 1st April 2010.
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I like your design, the style, colors, very nice. It looks very professional.
webwiz posted this at 02:07 — 3rd April 2010.
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Nice looking. But, looking at your latest version, I do observe:
- Design falls apart on +1 increase in text size in Safari
- font-size of 13px is way smaller than the default 20px on my 120 DPI laptop
- mis-matched background colors makes some text invisible if a background image does not download
- xml statement above the DOCTYPE puts IE 6 in quirks mode
Keep it up - you are getting there.
Cordially, David
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James_1983 posted this at 00:07 — 4th August 2010.
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Hi Ben,
I really like the site and think the colours on it work really well. It is really straight forward to work my way around. Good Job
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