2nd Modx site - Web Design Blog

Hi there,

I’ve pretty much finished my personal website refurbishment which is going to take the shape of a(nother) web design blog.

The sites lacking in content at the moment, but it will hopefully soon be up to speed.

If anyone could point out any cross-browser issues it would be greatly appreciated.

Web Design Blog - seo apologies

Sweet! This is a nice design. It has been a while since I have seen an purple web sites. Very rich textured design, I like it. Another great example of a MODx powered blog.

On OSX/FF all seemed to be OK.

Cool, I’m pleased you like the design. It doesn’t really conform to the whole generic ’web 2.0’ good design ethos so I wasn’t sure how it would be received. Hopefully the design will reflect the content when it starts to appear.

Does the footer image at the bottom appear to have too sharp a cut off on the left and right? It looks fine on my monitor at home, but Im on my GF’s and it looks a tad unnatural. . .

I love it Henry! Web 2.0 Shmeb Shmoopointoh! I get bored of the clean, big copycat look. The bottom fade looks just fine on my monitor - if I had it set any brighter I might see what you’re talking about. Design is stable in FF 2.x Linux.
Nice, man. +1 feed subscribed via Bloglines ;-)

Quote from: netProphET at Apr 08, 2008, 09:14 AM

I love it Henry! Web 2.0 Shmeb Shmoopointoh! I get bored of the clean, big copycat look. The bottom fade looks just fine on my monitor - if I had it set any brighter I might see what you’re talking about. Design is stable in FF 2.x Linux.
Nice, man. +1 feed subscribed via Bloglines ;-)

Ah thanks. My first subscriber

I just saw you in a css gallery...with a 5 star ratting
http://www.css20.com/2008/04/09/henry-hoffman/

Quote from: dev_cw at Apr 09, 2008, 08:15 AM

I just saw you in a css gallery...with a 5 star ratting
http://www.css20.com/2008/04/09/henry-hoffman/

Wow, that’s pretty cool. It sprung up in a few other CSS galleries, though with not quite as good a rating (in fact not nearly as good.) It just shows how subjective design is I guess.

Henry,

I think you will see a divergence over the next while away from ultra clean white and grey sites, especially for personal sites. Your site is clean in the sense of uncluttered, has enough whitespace or negative space and is well designed.

Great work.

Cheers,

Jay

Quote from: smashingred at Apr 09, 2008, 10:28 AM

Henry,

I think you will see a divergence over the next while away from ultra clean white and grey sites, especially for personal sites. Your site is clean in the sense of uncluttered, has enough whitespace or negative space and is well designed.

Great work.

Cheers,

Jay

Yes I agree; many sites that feature heavily in galleries/showcases have built upon aspects of ultra clean websites but are indeed moving towards a more visually rich approach. As long as the design pleases the demographic, I suppose it doesn’t really matter.

I would actually say that the use of negative space is one of the weaker aspects of my design; I think it looks a tad busy. I think this is mainly because I didn’t include some of the elements in my orginal mockup (rss feed, HR’s, drop-caps etc) and it led to them sort of being added as an afterthought.

I’m working on another design for a different project and I’ve definitely learnt from these mistakes. My problem is generally that I get so engrossed in a design that I forget what I want to achieve with the end result

Thanks for the comments.

Quote from: thehen at Apr 10, 2008, 02:59 AM

I would actually say that the use of negative space is one of the weaker aspects of my design; I think it looks a tad busy. I think this is mainly because I didn’t include some of the elements in my orginal mockup (rss feed, HR’s, drop-caps etc) and it led to them sort of being added as an afterthought.

The fact is that negative space doesn’t need to be a huge gap in text or visual elements it is enough space to give elements to breathe. You aren’t designing a poster you are designing a blog. There is inherently lots of elements on the page on a blog. In that I think you succeeded. In addition the contrast helps reduce the visual clutter and anchors the important bits visually.

Can’t wait to see your next project.

Cheers,

Jay