demonhale — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:13:50 +0000

Launched it Today... With additional pages in the works... thanks for taking a look...

demonhale — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:54:38 +0000

Thanks for the thorough and clean feedback...

What makes the first one tight is because of the way things are organized on the CMS...
What maid it obsolete however is the Corporate feel some of my client think it expresses, and that the look is generic to all kinds of sites... I liked it since updating was a breeze due to the CMS, the organization is better and this was the longest running theme DH has ever had...

The second one I have trouble organizing, so it jumps all around my older pages and some of the partner sites...
The thought of this one was a quick whim, the way I organized it (same as the new one) is too unorthodox, although this one received some kudos and admiration from design and webmaster sites. What makes this one fall off the list is the lack of showcase of the designers ability, and I received complains on font size, and too much blah blah...

The third one evolved because of the two above, the navigation shape I'm currently contemplating, but the height is that way since I want the navigation to really stand out. Some elements are of different styles but the cohesive form are the three colors I chose... Oh and I'll put this one up for single review once I got all the pages up...

And btw, I think it will look a bit large in 800x600... although I'm not forcing the visitors to change res, most of them on my stats at a very high res...

Thanks Again!

~chris

Brooke — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:07:10 +0000

Yeah! Thanks!

I like the green one the best (at first glance) because it is so tight. There are different sections - it is very easy to find things.

In the green one I do not like that gray/paper bkgnd or the showdows on the right that are around the boxes. It's your old one so...

In the teal one:

the header feels like it should be centered over the white box - not the whole thing.
the logo is on white, the rest of the header is in gray, then there is the nav in blue - too much division all at the top.
when you click on some of the nav and go to outsides sites, there is no way to get back to DH. Are those other sites, or other sites of yours?
I like the rounded corners.

In the black one:

I like the logo a lot!
the welcome to...(that is below the logo) and the logo are taking up too much space. Try the welcome to...smaller, in the back, all across the top under the logo, or to the side of the logo...
the nav is too tall imo. I am also not a fan of the orange hover thing. Not the orange (that's awesome) but the shape and size.
email us now - too big!
the portfolio thing - cool, but - it is too tall. It takes up a ton and there is no room for explanation of the site. Now I know that it is in the header - but that text almost has to be just right above so people will read it.
It feels disjointed - things don't look alike. The logo, header, nav, portfolio, and the logo boxes at the bottom. They all seem to have different styles.

That's all I have. Let me know if you want more explanation! Good job on such different looks!

demonhale — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:03:15 +0000

The first one you mentioned (green and gray) is the circa early 2005 - 2006 (like I can't sit on the design for a while, experimenting with a cms)... the second one is from 2006, (gray and teal blue)... And the newest would be the black header (I'm planning to stick with that for a while)... You can compare all three if you like so I can see the strengths and weaknesses of each... My plan for the latest reiteration is to show-off some of the things I made that I haven't shown well on the previous ones... Thanks for your time...

Brooke — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:25:19 +0000

There are 3 different designs that I see...

1. Gray background with green accents
2. Gray background with teal/blue bar towards the top with the nav in it
3. White background with a black header

Which one is current? Which one is new design?

demonhale — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:59:13 +0000

oh and btw if you still dont see it tomorrow, use this proxy URL...

http://www.mysp4c3.info/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/www.demonhale.com/index2.php

demonhale — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:50:32 +0000

Thanks! Looking forward to your inputs...

Brooke — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:45:33 +0000

okay - I will look tomorrow!

demonhale — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:34:56 +0000

Ok, i get it, the host server hasn't updated all my pages for different IP's I guess tomorrow the page will be visible. It's the first time that the update took too long though...

Brooke — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:30:11 +0000

here is the redirect that I get: http://www.cataluna.com/demonhale_rd.gif

I have typed it in, I have copy>pasted, I have tried in several browsers...