Tilted Symmetry

Well, it’s been a long road, but my site has finally reached a state that I’m satisfied with. Check it out.

http://www.tiltedsymmetry.com

Comments and critiques welcome as always.

jlivingston,

The site is kind of bare. But I like how clean and simple it is. I also really like your image for add comments.

Chuck

Way cool and clean. You might consider a min-width so the header logo doesn’t get nasty on the edge of the header when going narrow, and that the comments box doesn’t overflow the fieldset right border.

Love the software analysis and couldn’t agree more.

hey joey,

Loved your article. Any more in the pipe line?

You have my vote! (I’m not sure what for, nevertheless)

Very nice! I like the simplicity!

Thanks for sharing.

regards,

zi

Thanks for all the great comments, guys. I’m thrilled that you like the simplicity. Believe it or not, that simplicity took me many complex nights to design and come to agreeable terms with. Clean and simple was one of my main goals.

I keep hearing everyone refer to "the article", as if there is only one, and I hear Chuck saying that the site is a bit bare. The site is bare, however, I’m a bit concerned that perhaps somehow the top navigation bar is being missed. There are actually 4 articles of varying lengths currently on the site.

This is a great useability test. Is my interface failing to be intuitive?

Hi,

Indeed your layout is nice and simplicity is certainly the most difficult to achieve.
I’ve noted that in safari (V2) your submenu is moving down beetwen the page graphics_design(article list) and article detail

here are some screenshots:

Quote from: heliotrope at Jun 30, 2006, 08:33 AM

I’ve noted that in safari (V2) your submenu is moving down beetwen the page graphics_design(article list) and article detail.

Hmmm...I looked at the screenshots, and I’m not spotting anything that looks wrong to me. Everything looks to be as I designed it. However, that doesn’t mean there’s not a problem. Obviously there’s something that appears to be wrong to you. Could you elaborate on what you mean by the submenu moving down? It’s my intention that every page except the home page have a side menu that maps out the particular section of the site.

If you loot at the first screenshot, the title is over the submenu but in the second the title is on the same line.
The margin beetwen the header and the submenu is bigger in the first case.

I don’t have photoshop on the computer I’m writing from.
If I can, I will underline the difference.

:-)

I see what you’re saying now. Yes, that’s definitely intentional. The menu moves down when you’re reading an article, and the article’s header takes over the space at the top. I can see that it might look strange now, but the reason why the header doesn’t go above the menu in the Articles list page is because, once there is more than one article to list, that article excerpt will be part of a series of article excerpts to choose from. My thoughts were, if you’re looking at a list of articles, it wouldn’t make sense for the title of the article at the top to be bigger than the others; it’s just at the top of the list, and other than that, it’s not any more important.

You can check out the Journal section to see an actual list, which might help it to make a bit more sense.

I really appreciate the feedback.