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[ap0c01yp5]

Recently made it. Im still working on some of the coding and intergrading PHP into the website. It would be cool to get some good critique on the design. My original idea was clean, simplistic, to the point, and professional. Did i acheave this?

http://joeburton.kjbets.com

[Wybe]

IMHO, no you didn't.

The black background color hints already to your first deviation of your goals clean and simplistic. The contrast between the white and black is way too big, especially in the header area where you're playing with diagonal stripes etc. Really, I think it's a bad idea.

For some reason you're displaying your contents in an iframe. This eliminates goal number 4, professionalism. If your host supports PHP, try something with includes.

As for "to the point", yeah, I'm glad to see at least you're not littering your site with adds and stuff

[Dh.]

I'm not too sure on the design, i agree with Wybe on the iframe to.

[Matheus]

take off that black 1px diagonal stripes that is below and down the header
That kills the design

also, what they said is valid: black & white have a huge contrast, would be a lot better if you use some colors

I would recomend a light design, as dark ones aren't eye catching

[coolaid]

in my opinion, professional is clean and clear.

along with what everybody said up there (color contrast, and iframe removal), i think you should work on changing the font you use for the menu. it should be obviously clear. if i never heard the word 'portfolio' before, that line of text would've been pretty hard to read.

i also think you should add a hover style to the buttons.


and well.. hmm.... i think everything else is ok..... apart from being a table-layout

[funkysoul]

funny.. this one looks almost the same:
http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php...ndpost&p=142867

[Aussiestinger]

I do believe it was different when I checked in here the first time.

and I didn't comment cause there wasn't much I liked.

And this one is obviously "inspired" by it lol.

[Matheus]

he changed the layout now

now it looks a bit without contrast at the nav
and you used too much images at your layout
makes slower to load

[Wolfe]

It's definately better looking than before; however, there are still some areas for improvement.

It could be "inspired" by the other one. But, it is a simple and common layout scheme.

The navigation font is a little hard to read for some of the items. Some of the beginnning letters are just entireley too.. loopy?

Put a little padding on the left side of the nav images so they don't hit directly along the side.

Make the image of the hills, or whatever that is, expand to fit that entire box. I think that would make it look better.

Get rid of the iframe if it's not too much trouble. You could use some PHP and archive it and only show the most recent so it doesn't stretch too much. You could even use HTML to do that, although, it would get tedious and annoying.

The copyright would probably be better to do using another easier to read font, or even not an image that way you could update the year easier. (Assuming you plan on keeping it for that long.)

[ascen9]

I have a few issues with this design:
- The use of frames.
- CSS text styling is not present. This is absolutely ESSENTIAL!
- Rollovers on a navigation make me feel good. You should include them.