Busy — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:12:23 +0000

IM = instant messages ?

the more you look at you the more you'd dislike it (perfectionist), get a few untrained eyes on it, 3rd party opinions

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:00:15 +0000

What IMs?

I'm not really satisfied with that logo, and I very much doubt that it fits in with this theme.

Renegade — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:20:47 +0000

...since your not listening to my IMs I'll post them here...

I still think the squarish Butterfly thing we made when we were at my house should be the logo. The text "Sitebug.com" has the bottom chopped off, can you move it up a bit so it isn't?

And like I have said...add height and width to the images...

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:06:14 +0000

Thanks! I did this design with the content in mind, and also aimed to create a right-aligned nav. The colours are straight off those stock photos.

I'll think about the mouseovers -- the images are also large and slow loading. May not be worth even optimising them.

We don't have any proper logo to speak of. It's something we've been wrestling with for a very long time now. Right now I've used Arial and Trebuchet as a placeholder... definitely intend to change that.

Thanks again!

Megan — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:39:39 +0000

I really like this a lot, abhi. I'm envious, actually. The colour scheme is fantastic. Really unusual combinations and so bright and eye catching. I love that purple colour and the green really sets it off. It's interesting to study this design and notice how simple it is, and yet how great it looks all put together.

One thing I'm not sure about is the secondary mouseovers. They seem to distract from the simplicity of the design. Since there is no really significance of the mouseover image it might be a good idea to just eliminate that aspect. YOu could still use a different picture there on every page.

I'm also not entirely sure about the logo. Maybe use a more exaggerated font, so the letters are wider and slightly more unique looking. That looks too much like a basic sans font.

disaster-master — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:06:15 +0000

Oh, I see the new image that loads for each link now. I am on dialup so it takes approximately 5-8 seconds for each new image to load after I place my mouse over the link. Just clicking through the other night I noticed the different pics on each page but didn't notice that they changed on mouseover.

The Webmistress — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:44:43 +0000

Actually it's not so bad today! When I looked and posted that comment the letters appeared to be overlapping each other but it's ok now

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 04:54:16 +0000

Thanks. The header image is just two stock photos that I put together, both from deviantart.com. The shots were really good -- especially the colours -- such that I didn't edit either of them, except to rotate the butterfly, paste it over the leaves, add a shadow, and crop the whole thing. Took a few days of searching to find excellent images, though.

I don't think I fully understand about the reloading butterfly. What's supposed to happen is when you hover a nav link, the blue butterly image becomes a different green image for each link. Mouse out of the nav and the blue butterfly re-appears. Also, to show current location, the blue butterfly image becomes a blue whatever image for each page. If the images appear to be loading, it's because they're quite big (I'm yet to optimise them). Or am I missing the point?

I'm also fine-tuning the colours now, so may do something about the greens that I'm personally not entirely satisfied with either.

Julia, what is it about the Quick Contact text that's unreadable? The colours, size, or both? I'm having some difficulty getting that to work right.

disaster-master — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:31:48 +0000

Looks nice abhi. Reminds me of my old site a little. I always did like purple.

I peeked at it a couple of days ago and there was a space below the header but I see you have fixed that. I am not too crazy about the green text in the main body but that is a preference.

i don't know if it is a ghost or what but the butterfly image in the sidebar is reloading when I mouse over the nav above it. Might be an IE thing.

Kudos to your for the very well done header image. I like that a lot!

The Webmistress — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:11:41 +0000

Looks much better in IE6 now except for the quick contact text which is almost unreadable.