This is a concept I came up with the other day just for fun. I would love your feedback! Anything glaringly wrong? Anything obviously missing? You can be blunt, I'm a big girl I can take it Thanks very much !

 

The full-size image can be found here - http://www.harmonysteel.com/misc/kengai_creative.jpg

 

Hi Harmony.

 

Well personally I can't see anything that's drastically bad at all, you have a very nice calming palette with colours that do not clash and it's layed out quite nicely. The sections are clearly defined, I keep looking at the darker blue at the bottom and think "does the text stand out enough", and i'm sure it does.

 

Good work on the design

Hi Harmony.

 

Well personally I can't see anything that's drastically bad at all, you have a very nice calming palette with colours that do not clash and it's layed out quite nicely. The sections are clearly defined, I keep looking at the darker blue at the bottom and think "does the text stand out enough", and i'm sure it does.

 

Good work on the design

 

Thanks Ben ! I'm glad to hear it. There's nothing like a fresh pair of eyes over something you've been staring at for ages. I swear I must have the Photoshop logo burned into my retinas by now hehe.

I think it's lovely. Can't see anything wrong with it...

Thank you Eskymo !

I got to agree, it looks really nice.

 

Only thing would be that some of the text could potentially be hard to read for people with eyesight problems due to the contrast. Though, the key word here is potential, it could very well be fine. I think it's borderline.

 

Point 3.7 and 3.8 in this site http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/c....htm#section3-7 might be of help to evaluate colour contrasts.

 

I really like your use of space. Too often websites is just stuffed with content from edge to edge. And have also taken care of adjusting the line height of the text, something many people ignore and generally leave to the browser default. And I feel that the browser default line height usually isn't the best. Extra space makes it easier to read.

 

Looking forward to see more of your work.

Thanks Thomas ! I think you're right about the footer color, I ran the values through http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/colorwheel/wheel.php and, combined with the small font size, they could definately be tweaked for better accessibility. I've changed the footer green from a #89b9bf to a #70a4ab, just a few shades darker, and that seems to do the trick. Thanks for spotting that!

 

I really like your use of space. Too often websites is just stuffed with content from edge to edge. And have also taken care of adjusting the line height of the text, something many people ignore and generally leave to the browser default. And I feel that the browser default line height usually isn't the best. Extra space makes it easier to read.

 

Thanks, I'm a huge fan of white space and giving the poor information-overloaded eye some room to rest and process all that information. Line height is something I always have to fight for would you believe, the client always wants to squish the text up. That's when I have to bring out the Official Support Documentation Most of the time it works.

Oh, that's a nice little resource you linked to. Really good to come across hard facts and numbers. Thanks for that!

very very nice - really calm and proffesional....

 

The only thing I would change is to keep the icons as the original colours (the famfamfam ones)... partly because the license might not cover the change, but also because a bit of colour would look good there.

 

Oh, another only thing is the watermark in the second (white) band - i would make it stand out a bit more... it took me about 3 minutes to even notice it ( i thought it was a smudge on my screen )

I'd keep the icons as they are. They don't seem that important to draw more attention to them self.

 

And the watermark is fine in my opinion. If it's stronger it'd distract from the text which is of higher importance.

I love the soft, soothing colors, great work!

from my first view, its looks pretty much spot on - good stuff

Thanks very much for the additional feedback

 

I did originally try the icons in full color but they drew too much attention so I went for a monochromatic look. Under the creative commons license for these it's fine to change the color but I should have linked back to FamFam, bad me! *slaps hand* I'll fix that up.