Aloha
Sorry
didnt intentd to come off this way
I guess it is one of those years I am having
If you are serious I would do with your site (only cause you asked
would be to focus on say 3 of your nice photos for the front (I tend to use odd numbers if you can for display this is in general ??)
anyway make them a bit larger and try to do a collage of them maybe > ??
but put the focus on that (then have those in your galleries again)
as far as colors go I wold ditch the black and yellow text boxes and the blue and yellow text in the phot galleries box
and the yellow and blue text box for the main body etc..
basically find one color of text and one background color to use
I would try to cut down the block look of text and put a bit more about yourself on a page and if you have a pic of yourself
put that on there to webcruisers like knowing who the site belongs to
agian getting back to text I would again choose one color of text (black is always best in my book
and also you have a odd mix of sans and sans serif fonts I tend to like sans for body and use serifs for callouts or to make text larger and make it stand out
http://www.hawaiicanines.org did this a bit ago was a quick site so not 100% yet but pretty close to give you an idea it took us 2 days to do
agian nothing special just clean and gets the point across
I would also try to come up with a set menu system say on the left side where most people will be looking for it and when you jump to the galleries page I would try to stick with the same background color and layout look etc.. so a user doesn't feel thrown off balance and again I would limit the fotns to one color
also the idea of BOLD is to make something stand out so if bold is used here and there and not in a set manner say just headings then it looses its impact
also on the galleries page if you notice the colored fonts do take away fomr focus on the images
I tend to like subdued colors low in hue for photogrpahy type sites if Iuse black or white as a background you will get two dif feelings
now another thought if you want to use more color use it like the canines site where each color is used for a certain region or division but you then have to carry that theme throughout also make sure that the colors look good together (a lot of info on color theory out there)
also remember a consistent theme (such as the paw prints and totem the guide dog in each corner (one note on fonts we used 3 on this site which I usually would not but there mail out material is done in the comic font so the owner wanted the top titles of the pages to have some feeling of the printed material)
Chad D
OH I did not proof read my post
so sorry if punctuation is bad
Aloha
well I must say your site in my eyes is screaming of help needed
Honu, you seem to be a proficient in your job. Can you be
constructive, &
take your own advice:
better to say this is why I do not like it
As regards to:
or something rather than saying it sucks period ???
Oh, one last piece of advice, Honu: please go back & read carefully
again
MY post.
I NEVER said that. If you, like some others on this thread, can't
accept criticism, let me remind you of that famous statement:
"Accept criticism with self-EXAMINATION, not self-defence"
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Chad D
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