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Design

Posted by Jason D'Angelo
Jason D'Angelo
6,592 Points

Took your advise

I took your advise regarding my site www.mode1web.com. I am doing a complete redesign. Let me know what you think of this. www.mode1web.com/newmode1

Thank you all for your help.

5 Answers

Jah Chaisang
Jah Chaisang
7,157 Points
Jah Chaisang
Jah Chaisang
7,157 Points

Jason,

That's a huge difference from the previous one!

A few suggestions

  • Your menu misspells *contact us

  • Stretched images indicate bad design. In portfolio, crop the image or change the thumbnail proportions so that you don't have to stretch the original images.

  • Use high quality graphics. On the bottom of homepage, you can clearly see grains because the images are too low-quality.

  • I appreciate that now the "contact us" stuff is not up at the top with big fonts, but now it's too blended in with the page. Change it to a button bar with a call for action.

  • The footer is really big for no reason.

Please keep it up. You'll get there!

Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points
Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points

It's a huge improvement. Although the site is almost an exact replica of the template. :P

Michael Lyons
Michael Lyons
11,031 Points
Michael Lyons
Michael Lyons
11,031 Points

Adding on to this, I agree. Don't be afraid to play around with different layouts. Maybe a vertical nav menu, less columns, etc. Be creative!

Jason D'Angelo
Jason D'Angelo
6,592 Points
Jason D'Angelo
Jason D'Angelo
6,592 Points

Thanks everyone. Yes, I am using a template called zerofour html5. I decided this would be the best way for me to learn. I can adjust the html and css to give it some uniqueness. I've only got about an hour into it so far but I am starting to see the details that you see. Thank you so much for the feedback. I know that once I get past this "design" mental block, I will be able to develop amazing things.

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

If the window/screen is between 481-960px wide, your layout doesn't adapt correctly. Might wanna use some media queries to sort that out ;)

It's a big improvement from your last site though, even if it is a template. I would say from here you should focus on getting better looking sites for your portfolio.

BTW it's adviCe not adviSe.

Nazmus Sarwar
Nazmus Sarwar
5,625 Points
Nazmus Sarwar
Nazmus Sarwar
5,625 Points

I am not able to access your new version of the website. But I would like to say that the overlap on the website texts and design is affecting the overall quality of the website. Although I am unable to see the newer version which you probably fixed, just pointing it out :)