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telcanty
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2001 3:45 pm     Reply with quote
I am trying to start a Digital Art website over at WwW.DigitalPallet.CoM , think you guys could give me some feedback? negative or positive. I would really appreciate it.
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feebsaint
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2001 3:59 pm     Reply with quote
I was immediately impressed.

Your sense of design and colors are great. I liked the navigation a great deal, too. The fact that you have each image displayable in multiple sizes is very thoughtful to the viewer. More should incorporate this into their sites. Good luck with yours



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Jezebel
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2001 4:04 pm     Reply with quote
Looks nice! Not enough webpages with interesting greenish color schemes. They are all black/white or blue/grey it seems

One thing I found a little odd is that it has a link to e-mail you listed so often on the page... hehe, it's almost funny

Nice clean design. Simple designs are my favorite :>

-Beth

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Loud
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2001 6:07 pm     Reply with quote
Nice clean design. I really like the designs in the 'normal' section.

Usually I'm a sucker for eye candied sites, but this one does it for me to. Good layout, good art, good schtuff.
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Spitfire
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2001 1:34 am     Reply with quote
Im not amongst the impressed.

Not that it�s ugly or something. Just not really awe-inspiring. The colorful header generates an awful lot of dead space underneath.

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strata
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2001 1:46 am     Reply with quote
I like the overall thought alot... but a few pointers I'd like to suggest:

The top image with the logo and stuff steals the focal point from the rest of the page... it gets a wee bit hard to concentrate on the content text which has a pretty dark color to it... so I'd tone it down, just add some transparency. (can you actually say that? Add transparency... hmm)

Also I'd say that it's too left centered... there's alot of stuff happening on the left and top, but the bottom/right is practically empty with things to fill the overall impression out... I'd add just some lines to the background or maybe a static logo sit in the bottom right corner of the text area
(the thing you have right above the menu for instance) and make it very transparent, but still noticeable, and just have it sit there.
That'd fill it out a bit more.

The menu looks a wee bit slapped on for my taste... sort of feels like: "ok, I've done this great top and stuff but I can't come up with a menu... aaaah what the hell"
A tip would be to just try brightening the rectangle that you have behind the menu (the big one on the right, next to the text area)... just brighten that a bit in some shade of blue maybe... give it a bit more husk =)

Also, if you're just going to go with text links and no images or nuthin, I'd suggest you add a javascript such as seen on www.demonstro.com under the links section, where the text fades into brightness instead of just lights up... it's not a big effect, but it gives the page some more depth. A point tho, use it only on the menu and not on every link on the page... makes it more special... Also remove the text decoration on the normal links... underlines don't look that good imho.
I would also replace the stars next to the text in the menu... put a little arrow or something... just simple like this one:
and have that show when you mouseover a link... that'd look pretty cool.. =)

Tell me if you want me to send you the js.

Other then that, the copyright text is not centered with the background, so it looks a bit out of place =)

Also I'd like to see this page flashed, small stuff like having the watchamacallit above the menu rotate (the circle) and maybe have some transmission stuff (also like on demonstro) behind the menu and stuff like that... Also you could have the text in the top logo move in and stuff like that... just make two swf's (one with the top logo and one for the menu) and have the text are in normal html... just to get some motion in the page, but that's probably just me being a flash junky again =)

(of course still having a non flash alternative)

Also, I think it's spelled sterEotype... not steriotype... but what do I know about that silly english language types'a...

Sorry for all the crit but it's my job
I really like the way you've used the colors and stuff tho, and I really like the circular thingamejig above the menu.
Ah well, that's all, keep working man, really good job, loads of potential.


[This message has been edited by strata (edited January 26, 2001).]
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