onesheetdesign.com

madeo — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:43:08 +0000

Hi.
I'm not sure about the color scheme ... ehm isn't it to colorless? However what is worse is the code...What about using CSS layouts or at least styling tables with CSS? Forget using stuff like http://www.zeldman.com/ | http://www.webstandards.org/ etc.

quote from zeldman.com/dwws/ :::

[INDENT]“Just wanted to let you know that my first recode after reading your book reduced page weight by 85%. I had put together a listing page (a big table) in a PHP/SQL database the old way, and the character count for the resulting page code was 211,000. After redoing it as structural XHTML, with CSS layout, and to standard, I ended up with 30,000 characters, and a better design.”—M. Beckley Roberts[/INDENT]

good luck
Madeo

llizards — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:53:31 +0000

I like the rollover effect on the posters and overall it is a clean design and very easy to use.

nicora — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:05:44 +0000

you indeed have some impressive works, but this confuses me

"Site design by altlab.com."

Is this a template? Not that there is anything wrong with that, I was just curious.

hi,

dogdropins — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:20 +0000

hi like the site very easy and good to use,

like the idea of the site

SearchBliss — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:23:46 +0000

I like the rollover poster thumbnails. I viewed it in IE (by the way). I looks good, my only complaint would be how dark it looks (depressing if you will). I'm a webmaster, but I am also an artist by trade (oil panting). I studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (so you know I'm not a self proclaimed artist). Given my background in art, I would chose a color scheme that will offset the black and white thumbnail images, but balance them when they are rolled over. In other words, the rollover images have a lot of radiant colors. I would use some of these for the page background instead of the gray.

jca — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:21:31 +0000

F Stop wrote: Holy ****, you did the box art for American History X? Wow.

The site does need a little work, but I'm in awe of the fact that you did that box art. That's one of my all time favorite movies.

Thanks -- American History X was a great movie to work on.

F Stop — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 01:21:07 +0000

Holy ****, you did the box art for American History X? Wow.

The site does need a little work, but I'm in awe of the fact that you did that box art. That's one of my all time favorite movies.

jca — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:00:35 +0000

Megan, thanks for the kind words and suggestions. There is much needed tweaking of the type and content to be done, especially on the front page, as you mentioned. I'll also have to revisit the battle between using relative and fixed font sizing.

Megan — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:12:39 +0000

Hey, thanks for reviewing some other sites first! We really appreciate that.

Looking at your site - wow, I'm impressed with the work you've done and the projects you've been involved with. I had a little trouble with the site at first because I didn't know what it was supposed to be. You might want to create a home page with some samples of your work and a bit of an explanation of who you are and what you're trying to achieve with the site.

I am getting a lot of horizontal scrolling in Opera 7.5 (win). I keep my window width at about 800px (windows taskbar on right, opera panels on left). Although the design mostly fits there's a lot of space on either side causing the scrolling. However, in this case it may be safe to assume that your target audience is using a higher screen res.

The design is a little bit low constrast for me. Normally I dislike greyscale designs but I think this one is appropriate here. The difference with artistic & design portfolios is that you want to show off your work first and foremost, and the dark backdrop does a good job with that.

I think the best part about this site is the way you've descirbed and explained your work in quite a lot of detail. You've got an excellent writing style and have managed to accuartely say what you need to say without being stiff or formal.

Excellent work.

Oh, wait, I can't believe I forgot to say this - tiny fonts! Remember that the web is not print - it's harder to read small text on a screen than it is on a printed page. Also keep in mind that not everyone has perfect eyesight and many have difficulty distinguishing small and/or low contrast text, especially on a screen. I think it's best to keep font sizes close to the default size.