Re: landslide

taff — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:00:47 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by mmi
hey - I trust you won't pass on mmy "expert" advice - "selfidentified" produced 30 hits in Google; "self-identified" produced 1,770,000

Ya did notice my caveat on the textual content, right?

I'm still waiting on the updated text.

landslide

mmi — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:48:24 +0000

hey - I trust you won't pass on mmy "expert" advice - "selfidentified" produced 30 hits in Google; "self-identified" produced 1,770,000

disaster-master — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:34:03 +0000

Ah, yes....mucho better. I'm not sure if I would drop the header all together. How about leave it as is...possibily change it to all black and make the page title just a tad smaller?? *just slinging some thoughts around here*

taff — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:24:40 +0000

OK - took some advice, passed on some

I've centered the whole layout with the black border - thanks disaster for the suggestion. I've also tightened up the navigation a bit. I tried the stone angel logo up top but just didn't like it so she's back at the bottom.

Additional colour: not yet. maybe never. nothing is looking good to me.

Fonts: I finally received a couple of issues of this publication in the mail. Each one is chockful of varying, "irreverent", "edgy" fonts. If anything, I may not have enough happening on this site to really reflect the magazine's style

Having said that, I think that maybe the sans serif page header is a little too much. I'm thinking of dropping it as you can see at the mission2 link above.

Thanks again for the feedback.

mmi — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:46:48 +0000

I agree centered one is better - on Mission Statement, "selfidentify" is typically hyphenated

The Webmistress — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:21:24 +0000

I prefer the second centered one and I love that colour green although I agree about trying to add another colour to maybe lift it a bit.

Busy — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:09:45 +0000

I dont see the dot either, unless its black

The mission2 page would get my pick I think. The backwards e looks really out of place, but then again the stone face and look and feel of the site make it arty farty look, of which I know nothing about lol. you've captured that arts and culture look well.

I think another color should be introduced as well, not sure what or where, maybe a baby blue, or red stone color?

taff — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:03:27 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by disaster-master
ACK....PINK!! Well, you have definately improved the site.

No I do not see a •
This is what I see.
http://www.virtualgraphiti.net/WMF/notadot.gif

Oh.. THERE!

I thought you were referring to the text links on the sub-pages. Hmmm, something to think about.

Megan:

Yeah, I've been a little "monochrome" lately in my designs. Wait til I post my "orange" site

I think I like it centered better as well, with (as d-m suggested) a bit of a margin and a black border. I've played with a few additional colours but none seemed to grab me.

I AM way over the limit on fonts, aren't I. I thought that maybe with the "multi-font" aspect of the logo, I might get away with it.

I did find one that was close but sometimes I find "close" looks worse than a total contrast. Here are the headers done in that font:

http://www.sitesunseen.com/clients/ncp/titles2.html

They don't really work for me.

disaster-master — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:36:56 +0000

ACK....PINK!! Well, you have definately improved the site.

No I do not see a •
This is what I see.
http://www.virtualgraphiti.net/WMF/notadot.gif

Megan — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:36:52 +0000

Looks good. I'm wondering if you could try to introduce another colour somehow.... hmmm... something to think about anyway. I also tend to think that there are too many different fonts being used here - the logo alone is very complex as far as fontography goes, and then you introduce another one for the nav areas and headers, plus the plainer sans font for the "Open City:.." text at the top. It's too bad that you couldn't track down one or more of those fonts from the logo.

I definitely like the centered page better.