[smallest-one]

Hello everyone. I want to present you my unfinished web design mock-up, becuase i really need some critique in order to improve it. Sorry that it is in Latvian, but it is being created for a real estate company. The project is really urgent I have only one day left for the design. Btw, I'm not going to be the developer.

Thanks in advance. Click on the thumbnail.

[MikeChipshop]

[moved to 'reviews']

This post has been edited by MikeChipshop: 02 January 2012 - 12:47 PM

[smallest-one]

anyone?

[NickTheGreat]

I can try and help. At a first glance, the space in the top left corner is a little blank. It may look to crowded when the left and center column are filled in, but it's hard to tell.
The color scheme is great, and overall looks pretty good. If the few things mentioned above were fixed/added, I think it would be awesome.

[smallest-one]

the blank space in the top will be filled with logo that is going to come. thanks will try to think about more free space

grazias!

[JackDanielTracy]

I like it:) Obviosly, it's quite hard to say much more because without the content being there it's kinda 'blank' but as NickTheGreat said think about space, do you really need all those boxes?

Look forward to seeing it live!

[NickTheGreat]

smallest-one, on 02 January 2012 - 11:24 PM, said:

the blank space in the top will be filled with logo that is going to come. thanks will try to think about more free space

grazias!

If you need a logo, I can TRY and make one?

[MikeChipshop]

smallest-one, on 02 January 2012 - 10:50 PM, said:

anyone?

First off you posted in the wrong section, secondly you only opted yesterday and yesterday was the second of January, a time when most members are having down time for the new year.

Have patience, sometimes your link may be up for weeks before you get a decent set of reviews.

[Pedro]

Oh man, there's nothing there to be "reviewed".............................

[J.P]

Not a fan of the colours to be honest, they don't scream property to me. If that's the brand colours then fair enough.

The header is wasted space at the moment as you have crammed all the info into the centre and right columns.

The main left-hand column doesn't work for me, it grabs my attention but for all the wrong reasons. Try making the gradient more subtle.

That's all I can find at the moment, good luck!

[brightonmike]

Those colours are god awful. Poo-ey brown and mouldy looking greens, not to mention the use of harsh gradients. This is a website to sell property, so why does it look like the inside of a sewer?

I also echo JPs sentiments. Sorry to be harsh but there's nothing about your design I'd personally bother keeping.

Surely property search should be the core focus? As per this page: http://www.haart.co.uk/

This post has been edited by brightonmike: 03 January 2012 - 04:04 PM

[D.Schuster]

brightonmike, on 03 January 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:

Those colours are god awful. Poo-ey brown and mouldy looking greens, not to mention the use of harsh gradients. This is a website to sell property, so why does it look like the inside of a sewer?

I also echo JPs sentiments. Sorry to be harsh but there's nothing about your design I'd personally bother keeping.

Surely property search should be the core focus? As per this page: http://www.haart.co.uk/

the green colour is actually called baby poop green and it's a big NO in webdesign especially when matched with brown.

[TheNickyYo]

M8 I'm going to be honest here so you can improve your design skills, here it is..
It's Crap! it looks like it was designed in the 90's what you need to do is now restart it and don't send that to development.

Ok now that's out the way and you know it's crap you now know what kind of designs to avoid, you should go for a clean easy to read design. DO NOT try to impress the user with graphics and stuff the user doesn't care about that all they care about is the prices!! get that stuff in the users face!

[Bomb]

TheNickyYo, on 06 January 2012 - 06:38 AM, said:

M8 I'm going to be honest here so you can improve your design skills, here it is..
It's Crap! it looks like it was designed in the 90's what you need to do is now restart it and don't send that to development.

Ok now that's out the way and you know it's crap you now know what kind of designs to avoid, you should go for a clean easy to read design. DO NOT try to impress the user with graphics and stuff the user doesn't care about that all they care about is the prices!! get that stuff in the users face!

A lot of your "reviews" are pretty much you just saying things are crap, do you have any examples of your work we could "review"?

[Pedro]

Bomb, on 06 January 2012 - 05:26 PM, said:

A lot of your "reviews" are pretty much you just saying things are crap, do you have any examples of your work we could "review"?

Yes, I do, actually. But I am not asking for anyone's opinion on it.

Look, honestly, how can someone ask for a review on... nothing?
There's is no content. No nothing.

Web design is not just colors and columns, it's content. it's more content than anything else.

You can have a white page, with no images, no colours, but beautiful content and typography, and that's a beautiful looking site. Don't even need Photoshop.

That's why I get pissed off, because it's wasting my time. I come here to review sites, help people out, get my sites reviewed (which they never get any replies to, thanks).

Review nothing.

This post has been edited by Pedro: 06 January 2012 - 05:47 PM

[Bomb]

Pedro, on 06 January 2012 - 05:43 PM, said:

Yes, I do, actually. But I am not asking for anyone's opinion on it.

Was I talking to you?

This post has been edited by Bomb: 06 January 2012 - 05:50 PM

[Pedro]

Bomb, on 06 January 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:

Was I talking to you?

Here we go... another clever reply.

...nothing.

[Bomb]

[kree8or]

Pedro, on 06 January 2012 - 05:43 PM, said:

Yes, I do, actually. But I am not asking for anyone's opinion on it.

Look, honestly, how can someone ask for a review on... nothing?
There's is no content. No nothing.

Web design is not just colors and columns, it's content. it's more content than anything else.

You can have a white page, with no images, no colours, but beautiful content and typography, and that's a beautiful looking site. Don't even need Photoshop.

That's why I get pissed off, because it's wasting my time. I come here to review sites, help people out, get my sites reviewed (which they never get any replies to, thanks).

Review nothing.

I think Bomb was actually talking to TheNickyYo...

This post has been edited by kree8or: 06 January 2012 - 06:59 PM

[brightonmike]

Pedro, on 06 January 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

Here we go... another clever reply.

...nothing.

Massive guilt fail.

Tbh.

[TheNickyYo]

Bomb, on 06 January 2012 - 05:26 PM, said:

A lot of your "reviews" are pretty much you just saying things are crap, do you have any examples of your work we could "review"?

My work is crap too m8, only way to improve is by telling someone it is crap.
I will upload my work later and will respect an honest response please an il give rep, I want my work to improve however it cannot be done if everyone says your work is good when it is not!

This post has been edited by TheNickyYo: 06 January 2012 - 08:16 PM

[zed]

By just saying something is 'crap' thinking that alone will help someone's design skills is not constructive in the slightest.

[Gibson]

LOL amusing thread alert...

[Gibson]

brightonmike, on 03 January 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:

Those colours are god awful. Poo-ey brown and mouldy looking greens

lol.

[empek]

This thread is pretty funny, but all negative comments and personal affairs aside, I'll actually give an honest review about the design:

Positives:

• The layout is pretty good.
  
  
• The relativity in size of content buckets to each other looks good
  
  
• The design is all aligned to a set width

Negatives:

• As you might have guessed by now, green and brown don't make a very good combination, and especially the shades you've chosen
  
  
• Try to make your margins consistent. Choose a distance that works, and stick to it. It's a subtle element, but it goes a long way. (margin is the distance between things like your content buckets: sidebar, main content)
  
  
• The shadows on elements inputs in the header are a bit large. Try making them a bit smaller and give them a 11% opacity white drop-shadow to sell the 'embedded' effect
  
  
• The gradients on your list items are too strong. Keep your gradients very subtle so they don't take away from the content that will be on them
  
  
• The background has too much detail, and since it has a pretty obvious patterned texture on it, it starts to blend with the content, and disorient

Also as others have stated, next time you ask for a review of a website design, try to get some content on it, even if it's lorem ipsum.

Hope that helps.

This post has been edited by empek: 07 January 2012 - 05:33 AM