Dragon of Ice — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:09:09 +0000

I definently like the new menus better.

To me, the new designs seems too closed in after seeing the old one.

gsmith — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:40:22 +0000

I would make the rollover color for button areas grey, and the logo background, it's too dark, some lights there would be great.

Roo — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:15:52 +0000

Well I don't have anything to show yet, but I did lighten the heder graphic, but forgot to take the bottom tab at the same time. So I have to re-do all over again before you can see.

I'm thinking maybe a tanish beigeish color for as a page background, which mean I'll need to also re-do the images on the page since they sit on a white background currently. Hmmmmmm.....maybe even a bit of a graident?

In all honsetsy if I could find a way to do the nav on the existing design that would make me happy I'd keep it.

Stuff to think about!

I appreciate the comments! The color issues seems to be a consistant complaint telling me that something is missing.

sumeiko — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:58:04 +0000

I think the new one looks great! Just one thing: it would probably look a lot better with some different colours in it, rahter than just mainly black and white. Make it a bit more colourful!

DaveyBoy — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:18:08 +0000

Definitely like the new design better, looks more like a site then just elements on a page. However, i do prefer the old site's logo, maybe you can incorporate that into the site? Invert the colours or something, so that the lettering is white.

Not too sure I like the orange boxes on the rollovers.

Nice site

Suzanne — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:04:27 +0000

It is more personal, yes. But that's part of your charm!

What about introducing something between black and white -- some warmer tones in the middle, some colour?

Roo — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:49:09 +0000

Ack! Okay I think the navbar is probablly causing that gap, I'll remove it later tonight and see of that helps. It's a good thing I've been focusing on the nav stucture in my brain I guess! Maybe adjusting curves in the header, just a bit might help.

You know I like the white version, (though I hate the nav), I'm just not sure it's business-y enough.

Suzanne — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:23:33 +0000

I like/d the highkey version because of the cup, too.

There's a gap in Safari.

Could you smooth the edges a little? It seems almost harsh by comparison to the existing site. You might want to look at the design in greyscale. I'm finding the black parts almost entirely disappear for me, but you might run into the same problem I had with Howling Acres and the white part at the bottom?

Temudzin — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:28:06 +0000

It's good there is more contrast in new version. But save that cup if you can, it was good-looking. And I'm not sure about those icons on extreme right. Maybe they could be smaller and in not so important place?

-Teemu

FPeter — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:45:27 +0000

The overall look is getting better but I always think colour is as important, maybe just me but I hate black or even dark colours.
I think bright colours are always more pleasing to visitors and could make a difference to the photo at the top