Comments for Evka's Weblog

Comment on Comps for my website by envy789

envy789 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:27:40 +0000

I love the layout ver relastic and simple

need to fix your text on your about page align its to the right

and you need a hightlighte rollover for your navagation bar

Comment on Comps for my website by saritadesign

saritadesign — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:16:34 +0000

I like the stable theme, logo and green gradient background. The rambling leaves may soften the overall look too, which would be nice. How did you decide to create the wood rather than use a natural woodgrain image for the design?

My concerns if I were working with this design would be how to allow the page and stable frame to expand with more text. It looks like the side frames could be a repeating image to allow the page to grow in height with more copy or if the user enlarges the type. Is that your plan?

The text on the About Us page looks a little dark to me…you could try unbold, increasing the line spacing, decreasing the size and/or choosing a dark gray instead of black to see what works best at improving the look of the body text. I like that you tried the text over the photo effect, but not sure it works…what do you think?

I’m probably really asking for it to mention one more idea…but if you reduced the width of the navigation area to half the space between the nails and the logo, it might be more balanced and give you more space for content on the right.

I’m looking forward to seeing your finished site!

Comment on Comps for my website by weabeast

weabeast — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:32:36 +0000

I really like the wood frame design of your page. You captured the “feel” of a farm very well. The green gradient in the background is a good accent. too
I am not sure what you mean by the crawling leaves, but any movement might detract the sentiment of the page. I would not change it.
I also like the small frames around your images on your second page. Small details like that will make your page stand out. That is a motif that I would carry through out the site.

Nice work!
Mike

Comment on Comps for my website by waxman3

waxman3 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:23:41 +0000

I like what you have so far. The idea about the “rambling” leaves is a good one, and I think it will break up the woodgrain image so the eye has other places to go.

I, too, am wrestling with a woodgrain image, which I’m trying to fit into a tiled background image to save file space. I don’t know if that is such an issue anymore with modems being as fast as they are today, but you never know. Good job!

Jed

Comment on FOGE comp by envy789

envy789 — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:25:36 +0000

I really liked your idea of the play button that was very ingeniuos

I think I will use it for my comp too if thats all right

I also liked how you changed the color and style of the header so it is easier to read

Comment on week 5 DW homework by Jed Duvall

Jed Duvall — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:23:26 +0000

Trying to find the correct font was the hardest part. I like using PhotoShop for this, because you can use your arrow key to “walk down” the list of fonts. Maybe there’s a way to do this in FW…

Comment on Links for second assignment by gigi-mo

gigi-mo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:48:48 +0000

Eva – your page2.html url (above) is broken?

Comment on Adobe Seminar by gigi-mo

gigi-mo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:38:24 +0000

All excellent comments – the drag and drop features are really very relevant when working between the image editors and DW!!

Comment on Designing for Web by gigi-mo

gigi-mo — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:39:58 +0000

Excellent points Eva. Firefox (the other dominant browser), is slowly but surely gaining a market share of the browser useage. About 1/4-1/3 of the people out there are using Firefox. This is a big deal, and designing for what we call “cross-browser” compatibility is essential. Basically, we want it to work in both browsers.

Fonts, are another ball of wax. Unfortunately, as designers who did print work, we are used to having the luxury of working with any font on our systems – normally MUCH more than the average user has. So we have to design with the average user in mind, and the small set of “screen” fonts – ie, fonts that are legible on the screen.

With the web, your goals are multiple – you want to design for accessibility by a wide audience, and for a medium that is far less restrictive than print.

Comment on Chapter 1 by gigi-mo

gigi-mo — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:47:19 +0000

Eva (or do you prefer Evka?) – continuing to expand your knowledge of handcoding is an excellent idea. It’s important for a designer to have a good grasp of hand coding, so that you can control your designs, in programs like Dreamweaver!