Design Crit thread : All welcome (3 Viewers)

[mugagag]

Just an odd doodle i am going to use as a back cover...

 

[taubstumm]

is this thread still alive?

ok, here we go:

www.tcd.ie

went live today.

xhtml/css/web standards blah blah blah

comments please!

 

[spiritualtramp]

comments please!

the site is looking pretty snazzy,interweb boy.

 

[krystal]

VG! did you design it?

 

[taubstumm]

VG! did you design it?

yup.

dealing with the reaction now...

"hang on: you want me to put in a link to your website, but you don't have a website yet?"

fun.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

man, i'm on IE 5.5 and its rendering all over the gaff. the style sheets dont work at all.

only messing, looks great. heheh

 

[broken arm]

man, i'm on IE 5.5 and its rendering all over the gaff. the style sheets dont work at all.

i'm on e and me brain is all over the gaff

 

[Zeelander]

is this thread still alive?

ok, here we go:

www.tcd.ie

went live today.

xhtml/css/web standards blah blah blah

comments please!

Fine work sir. Easy to navigate and pleasing on the eye. Much moreso than a lot of other college websites, I tells thee.

 

[taubstumm]

thanks peeps... i should say that the original design was done by my erstwhile colleague m, before she went off to have a baby... then i did the redesign/template/accessibility/coding/content-filling-in/putting-live...

 

[broken arm]

css gives me wood

 

[paul-]

Just an odd doodle i am going to use as a back cover...

Deadly.
Is it just pencil?

 

[chickenham]

Hi Mugagag,
IMHO you need to decide whether you want to push your work in the direction of stylised symbols (like in comic book iconography) or more in the direction of some kind of more extreme photo-realistic rendering. At the moment you're falling between the two posts and the work comes off a bit teen-aged looking as a result. Choose your discipline and run with it - get out of the noodle-zone.
Good luck!

 

[Wavioli]

www.futureshorts.com/ireland

ps. tom and kirstie, be gentle

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

www.futureshorts.com/ireland

ps. tom and kirstie, be gentle

needs more cowbell.

 

[Wavioli]

but i used all the cowbell I had!

 

[Bag'o'cans]

css gives me wood

What do people use to make websites these days?, seriously like. All i know is dreamweaver and i'm afraid the pack has left me behind while i was in the cave, no that i care, it's just i hate making sites for people when only i can edit them!
Whats all this fancy new stuff, asp etc...?

 

[mugagag]

Hi Mugagag,
IMHO you need to decide whether you want to push your work in the direction of stylised symbols (like in comic book iconography) or more in the direction of some kind of more extreme photo-realistic rendering. At the moment you're falling between the two posts and the work comes off a bit teen-aged looking as a result. Choose your discipline and run with it - get out of the noodle-zone.
Good luck!

Nah I draw because I enjoy it, and it's something I dont have to think about. When all comes to all it's just lines put together. Don't want to draw in any specific style to make it unique or anything. I like the way I draw, and it'll change in any random direction later, maybe.

 

[taubstumm]

What do people use to make websites these days?,

i use valid xhtml, styled with css. i like to think it's becoming the norm; it certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense than anything else, and more and more people are starting to use it. if you're curious, you could start by going to this website or buying this book.

seriously like. All i know is dreamweaver and i'm afraid the pack has left me behind while i was in the cave, no that i care, it's just i hate making sites for people when only i can edit them!
Whats all this fancy new stuff, asp etc...?

you don't need to use anything special. just be willing to learn and use good basic design practices. there's no mystery, just hard work.

asp is microsoft's language for making databases. i don't know anything about it, but i've heard it's kind of crummy.

 

[taubstumm]

oh, don't let people mystify this stuff for you, either. all professions are conspiracies against the laity and all that.

xhtml: extensible hypertext markup language. it's just html with a couple of things added on. it's what you use to put the stuff in the page. like html, it's a doddle to learn the basics - you can do it in an afternoon.

css: cascading stylesheets, or 'styles' - it's what you use to arrange the page layout and make the page look pretty after you've put the stuff in.

the best web design tool in existence is a piece of paper and a pencil.

having said that, though, if you're not a good designer, you're not a good designer.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

the best web design tool in existence is a piece of paper and a pencil.

Eh? Hows that work? you scan it in or something?