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Quote from: alir on March 11, 2013, 04:41:42 PM

Quote from: tkbx on March 10, 2013, 07:44:45 PM

What "critical design aspects"? People are used to seeing a cluttered grid of unnecessary things. Look at any website, and it could be easily rearranged into something like this, with very few elements. It would look much better, be easier to use, and load faster.

Can you tell me exactly what that design is missing, and why what's "missing" needs to be there?

I can't tell you what it's missing because I don't know what you were trying to design and I usually charge for that anyways Wink

I can tell you what you overlooked. For some reason you've settled on a whopping 30px padding throughout but despite all that space, the content still looks squished together. To fix that eyesore rather than add space around the content, increase the font-size, line, and letter spacing to improve readability.

While you're at it, ditch the drop shadow. You've done an awful job of implementing it because it exceeds your content width and doesn't blend in well. Frankly it would look more "minimal" without it, but that's what you're shooting for, right? The header is also abnormally sized at 108px tall, it may just be 2px off (or Cool

but it's picking up on the small things that make a good designer.

Thanks, I didn't save the layers, but I'll keep that in mind for next time.

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Quote from: tkbx on March 10, 2013, 07:44:45 PM

What "critical design aspects"? People are used to seeing a cluttered grid of unnecessary things. Look at any website, and it could be easily rearranged into something like this, with very few elements. It would look much better, be easier to use, and load faster.

Can you tell me exactly what that design is missing, and why what's "missing" needs to be there?

I can't tell you what it's missing because I don't know what you were trying to design and I usually charge for that anyways ;)

I can tell you what you overlooked. For some reason you've settled on a whopping 30px padding throughout but despite all that space, the content still looks squished together. To fix that eyesore rather than add space around the content, increase the font-size, line, and letter spacing to improve readability.

While you're at it, ditch the drop shadow. You've done an awful job of implementing it because it exceeds your content width and doesn't blend in well. Frankly it would look more "minimal" without it, but that's what you're shooting for, right? The header is also abnormally sized at 108px tall, it may just be 2px off (or 8) but it's picking up on the small things that make a good designer.

tkbx

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Quote from: greyhawk on March 11, 2013, 02:56:38 PM

All true, but in any design prototype worth it's salt you'd already have appropriate placeholders in there instead of going "Here's what it's gonna look like, now we're gonna need to go and scrap all of that again to do it for real."

As I said prototyping circa 1999.

You said "web design circa 1999". If your only problem with the actual design is the color (and these specific colors were requested, as was the layout), then your problem isn't with the design.

It will not have to be made from scratch, some PHP would be added to the current files, and they would be renamed with a ".php" extension. Considering the going rates for websites, BTC1 is pretty good for a template, even if it were horrible.

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All true, but in any design prototype worth it's salt you'd already have appropriate placeholders in there instead of going "Here's what it's gonna look like, now we're gonna need to go and scrap all of that again to do it for real."

As I said prototyping circa 1999.

tkbx

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Quote from: greyhawk on March 11, 2013, 01:47:02 PM

Good god, what is this?

Turquoise font on pale blue background.

Login data sent via http as plaintext.

Internal image links are broken.

Banner and Navigation elements are defined on every page instead of pulled from a central repository. A supporting nightmare.

No content management in place for front page content boxes. Everything has to be built manually. Supporting nightmare.

Dont' even get me started on the table background colour choice.

This is website design circa 1999.

The font and table are arguably bad design. The rest of the problems you describe are because the site, as you apparently haven't noticed, isn't actually running yet. No login data whatsoever is sent, the image was removed or doesn't have correct permissions (not sure which), and content management is likely going to be added later.

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Quote from: greyhawk on March 11, 2013, 01:47:02 PM

Good god, what is this?

Turquoise font on pale blue background.

Login data sent via http as plaintext.

Internal image links are broken.

Banner and Navigation elements are defined on every page instead of pulled from a central repository. A supporting nightmare.

No content management in place for front page content boxes. Everything has to be built manually. Supporting nightmare.

Dont' even get me started on the table background colour choice.

This is website design circa 1999.

And yet, not so surprisingly, still better than I would do with regards to design. Cheesy

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Good god, what is this?

Turquoise font on pale blue background.

Login data sent via http as plaintext.

Internal image links are broken.

Banner and Navigation elements are defined on every page instead of pulled from a central repository. A supporting nightmare.

No content management in place for front page content boxes. Everything has to be built manually. Supporting nightmare.

Dont' even get me started on the table background colour choice.

This is website design circa 1999.

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I might recruit you for a site I have in the works...

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Update:

I got the web site files on my host. http://www.bitpools.com/index.html

The 1 BTC was well worth giving me a jumping off point and the look is better than what I had spent a day or so working on myself that could be better spent on the back end stuff.

Note, the BitPools site is very much in alpha stage at this point.

tkbx

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Quote from: alir on March 10, 2013, 07:36:11 PM

Quote from: tkbx on March 08, 2013, 03:54:27 PM

Quote from: alir on March 08, 2013, 03:46:57 PM

I see a couple different fonts, an image, and a rectangle with drop shadow.

Try working on a design for more than 5min chief.

In a minimalist design like this, that's all you really want. It's better to have a few, clean-looking elements that do what you need them to than a Drudge Report-esque pile of ugly lines and such.
Are their any other types of designs you'd like to see, or that you think would be appealing?

I'm sorry but you can't just overlook critical design aspects and then call it "minimalist".

What "critical design aspects"? People are used to seeing a cluttered grid of unnecessary things. Look at any website, and it could be easily rearranged into something like this, with very few elements. It would look much better, be easier to use, and load faster.

Can you tell me exactly what that design is missing, and why what's "missing" needs to be there?

alir

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Quote from: tkbx on March 08, 2013, 03:54:27 PM

Quote from: alir on March 08, 2013, 03:46:57 PM

I see a couple different fonts, an image, and a rectangle with drop shadow.

Try working on a design for more than 5min chief.

In a minimalist design like this, that's all you really want. It's better to have a few, clean-looking elements that do what you need them to than a Drudge Report-esque pile of ugly lines and such.
Are their any other types of designs you'd like to see, or that you think would be appealing?

I'm sorry but you can't just overlook critical design aspects and then call it "minimalist".

tkbx

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Quote from: danieldaniel on March 10, 2013, 07:15:24 PM

Quote from: Elwar on March 10, 2013, 11:10:55 AM

Just a quick note to say that OP does good work. He just finished my page and it looks better than I had envisioned in my mind.

I will post a link to the page when I get home and can put the files on my server.

He was able to do the front end, GUI, work while I am still working on the back end dynamic content portion of the page. He was able to do the creative visual stuff that I have neither the talent nor the experience to make work.

Only 1 BTC?

I was debating myself on this for a while, because I could probably get more, and charging a low price sort of portrays the image of poor quality, but I figure if people end up seeing my work and liking it, they'll be more than willing to hire me. Plus, I can't complain making over $10/hour at 15, doing something I like Cheesy

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Quote from: Elwar on March 10, 2013, 11:10:55 AM

Just a quick note to say that OP does good work. He just finished my page and it looks better than I had envisioned in my mind.

I will post a link to the page when I get home and can put the files on my server.

He was able to do the front end, GUI, work while I am still working on the back end dynamic content portion of the page. He was able to do the creative visual stuff that I have neither the talent nor the experience to make work.

Only 1 BTC?

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Just a quick note to say that OP does good work. He just finished my page and it looks better than I had envisioned in my mind.

I will post a link to the page when I get home and can put the files on my server.

He was able to do the front end, GUI, work while I am still working on the back end dynamic content portion of the page. He was able to do the creative visual stuff that I have neither the talent nor the experience to make work.

tkbx

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Quote from: alir on March 08, 2013, 03:46:57 PM

I see a couple different fonts, an image, and a rectangle with drop shadow.

Try working on a design for more than 5min chief.

In a minimalist design like this, that's all you really want. It's better to have a few, clean-looking elements that do what you need them to than a Drudge Report-esque pile of ugly lines and such.
Are their any other types of designs you'd like to see, or that you think would be appealing?

alir

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I see a couple different fonts, an image, and a rectangle with drop shadow.

Try working on a design for more than 5min chief.

tkbx

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Here's another quick design

It doesn't look so good when you don't see it full size, so here's a link to the image itself as well:

http://s1.postimage.org/n4vm8wq6n/Logo_Photo.png

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I AM INTERESTED!

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Quote from: ironcross360 on March 08, 2013, 10:29:22 AM

Build a full website with Dreamweaver to show off

Just because it uses Dreamweaver doesn't make it impressive...infact i'm generally quite wary of someone who calls themself a webdesigner and uses Dreamweaver...

tkbx

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Quote from: ironcross360 on March 08, 2013, 10:29:22 AM

You should provide a full sample Wink

Build a full website with Dreamweaver to show off

Quote from: tkbx on March 08, 2013, 10:28:05 AM

Quote from: ingrownpocket on March 08, 2013, 10:27:07 AM

I want a complete Facebook clone.

PM me when the work is ready so I can send you 1 BTC.

ha

Certainly couldn't hurt. I don't use dreamweaver, but a full site would be a more appealing sample.

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