It's important. It's ground-breaking and the world will stop on a dime if you don't vote y'know. Ok, not really but indulge me pleeeeeaaase! In case you haven't heard me blather on about it on Facebook, I'm taking a web design course (Part 2, go me!) and am LOVING IT! Right now I'm in the "criticize-every-website-you-visit-because-for-5-minutes-you-actually-think-you-know-what-you're-doing!" phase of things and MY GOD. Have you looked around on the internet lately?
Yeah, there are some crappy sites out there. Here is one of them: Yukon Yahoos
Yes, I have to take credit for that horror show. I liked it at the beginning of the project when I-didn't-know-what-the-hell-I-was-doing-and-creating-a-header-in-Photoshop-made-me-pee-with-excitement. But I can't stand to look at it now. Mostly it's everything about the design but also the fact that it's not even the complete site. I uploaded it when I wasn't quite finished the real project and never went back to fix things. Oh well.
Problems with that site:
- I was going for a "wood grain" background but it came out looking like a 1970's couch.
- Orange? And red? Really??
- The generic white dog mushing thingy... just... blahhhh...
- too lazy to go back and add videos to the VIDEO page
The good news! I did like my photo pop-up thingy, it's just a bit wonky. I also liked... what else was there? I was sure there was something else.... hm. I guess if I have to think that hard, it's a bad sign.
So that site will be up and running and replace this thing eventually, but I need ideas, colour schemes, logos, etc! If you have any suggestions - like what colours do you think go well with this site, us, the dogs, me, my theme (whatever that is, and NOT brown for dog-crap please), let me know in the comments. I may or may not listen, may or may not take total credit for your suggestions, but I can't guarantee anything!
Here is one thing that annoys me - advertising on sites, especially the cheesy, generic Google ads. I was searching at work for tables and table carts to purchase and came across this site, Banquet tables or Google Ads? You decide! There are ads in the middle of this page and a gigantic ad box at the bottom. The fact that there are ads that make the page way longer annoy me. There is some info at the bottom that their consumers might just be interested in but they have to scroll down past competitor ads for the same product first!
Anyhoo I'm getting carried away. Good thing this week's assignment is to pick a website and criticize it, haha. I think I inadvertently found my site.
Here is another project that was fun to work on (FB people have seen this). We were asked to replicate a real estate site from our text book. Here is my version of that site and be sure to read carefully! :)
http://courses.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~szaychuk/assignment_1/index.html
I had a dream I failed this assignment! ha!
Oh yeah, and my poll (the damned reason I started this post but got sidetracked) is on the sidebar. Happy Voting!
10 comments:
I will be the first to admit that my eyes are burning after looking at that white text for awhile!!
Hi Stacie I found the blue with the red /orange really hard to read. That just may be my OLD eyes though.
Do you mean on the other site? OLD eyes are just as important as any other eyes! :)
For some reason I have grey/blue on the sidebar here (I was messing with it last night), maybe that's what you mean? I can barely read that and it won't change for me!
Stacie, I think the colors look fine; the only change I think you need to make is to post more pictures of Pooh Bear...and I don't mean "Winnie."
Sincerely,
Pooh Bear's Fan
I'm happy with whatever you want to use as long as you post often!
Clearly the fantastic design is NOT why some of you visit, haha! So I suppose you guys are not the best critics... oh well, I won't complain! :)
Ok, then PB post coming up. Good timing "PB fan", I have a few pics I was holding out on! :)
What other things do you want to see? Let me know! Questions? Comments?
I read it thorough my RSS feed unless I'm going to leave a comment (like today). Gah! White text?! My eyes! My eyes! They burn!
That being said, I think that vibrant colours reflect the chaos of your subjects well, but blues and off-whites will complement your pictures - so a mix of both would be kind of neat!
But PLEASE have a white or slightly off-white background for your text.
I agree with the white text on a dark background but am gonna have to disagree with having a "white or slightly off-white" background... that will probably never happen, so not my style!
I like vibrant colours, white does not cut it for me in any facet of life so it sure won't make an appearance on any website of mine. I guess you'll have to stick to reading via your feed! :)
I do like the idea of blues though, and took a look at a bunch of blue-themed sites the other day. Some were just amazing! We'll see, for now I'm just playing around and having fun with it!
red is ROCKIN!!!
Yeah, I read everything through my RSS feed, so it doesn't even come up. In general, though, I'd vote for dark text on a light background. It's just easier to read.
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