Need critique - I need a critique for the new InfoStar site...
Hi everyone. I made a new layout of the InfoStar site and wanted to know what you thought. Please tell me any comments or suggestions that you can think of to make it look better. The URL is http://www.infostardesign.com/newsite/
Thanks,
Brian Farkas
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dyc posted this at 20:18 — 2nd August 1999.
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Nice, and infinitely better than the one that's currently at infostardesign.com
- Web Hosting GIF is needlessly big. Still very nice at 12KB/64 colours.
- Top title is a little effect-happy; choose either bevel or drop shadow (or neither!).
- Fails the 640 x 480 test...
- News too close to server image.
- E-mail link broken.
- Your rollovers reload needlessly; this appears to be because they assume that they're at infostardesign.com/ and not /newsite
- I don't like paragraphs with frequent and semi-randomly bolded text, but that's personal taste.
- About your text: first, "90% of web designers should not be..." if you say something like this, you have to back it up - specifically, say exactly why you should be, not just "We've been on the Internet a while.". More in the same vein: "multiple DS-3 connections to different backbones". Which? I assume that you're reselling, but you still have to give basic information.
JP Stones posted this at 03:48 — 3rd August 1999.
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Well dyc said most of what I would have said
It looks nice but there are a few nasty bugs.
- on the mouseover menu some of the inactive images seem distorted on mouseover. eg: promotion/guarantee (is this just on my PC?)
- from a logical geometric point of view the top left hand side of the menu should not be drop shaddowed as the bottom of that menu is.
- force align your text.
Otherwise good job.
JP
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Anonymous posted this at 22:16 — 3rd August 1999.
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Yep, there are a few nasty bugs needless to say. But I like it better than the old design. It is to wide for my screen 640x480, but most sites today are, except mine
JP Stones posted this at 22:31 — 3rd August 1999.
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Yeah, my latest site is the first I have design for a higher res screen. It was a tough decision
JP
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Brian Farkas posted this at 22:37 — 3rd August 1999.
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Ok, I'll try to fix those bugs soon... I decided to design it for 800x600 because that is really what the majority of the web uses, and I've talked to several other professional web design companies also and that is what they do... Maybe I could try a script to direct based on resolution... does anyone know of such a script?
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Carolyn Jones posted this at 18:47 — 4th August 1999.
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Hi Brian,
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I really like this new design/layout.
love the neutral colors, however the server really stands out -- this could be what you want though, that graphic balances the page well but the grey doesn't go with the golden color. Like I said it doesn't really clash but makes the server pop out more
I rather like important points highlighted in bold -- breaks up large text areas and gives the reader something to "skim" for when they don't want to read the entire page.(or when site critiquer is up past her bed time
menu does seem to have a mind of it's own.
take care,
Carolyn
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