feedback on design

timmothy

timmothy

timmothy

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I am having to do a website for college and have come up with an idea of using the border as the nav-bar, sounds weird i know but i like the idea. Now before i go any further with this design i wanted peoples opinions on whether it is easy to navigate and user friendly for all types of people as that was one of the design briefs. Also i have used the logo as the home button and made it jump out a little on hover, do you think this is a good idea or would a home button be better?

If you guys could look through what i have done so far and give me some feedback it would be great. I have only done the home, services and contact page so bear that in mind.

Also this is my first proper website i am making so be kind.

http://www.ichunes.co.uk/home.html


Thanks guys
 
i did design it to fit on a monitor that is at least 1024x768, my monitor is 24" so was a bit difficult to get the design right for a tiny monitor... maybe i did not take into account that the user might not be using the browser to take up the full screen as there is the windows bar at the bottom..might have to rethink it,

Thanks for the feedback
 
thanks simisker, thats the kind of feedback i wanted.

I know with the corner based navigation that its a bit "out there" but thats kind of what i wanted, as almost everyone in the class has the same rough color scheme and layout so wanted mine to stand out a bit.

With regards to the home button, im not to sure where i could add one without ruining the clean layout i wanted. i was maybe thinking of adding a small navbar with three buttons on being " back, home, forward" do you think that might help as if it is someone not used to different designs it might be more recognisable to them, i would still keep my corner navigation though, this small navbar would just complement it.

As regards to the little problems you mentioned, could you maybe elaborate as i want to get this site right.

Thanks again for the feedback and everyone else keep it coming
 
thanks for the feedback guys, does not look good for me then :)

oh well i guess i just got carried away and was not thinking of what others would think of the design.

Will start again but wish i had asked on here before i had gone so far with it.

The site was made purely with css and a bit of html, my tutor wants as much as possible to be done with css.
 
simisker said:
What, and miss the snooker?! :p

One thing that'll help you, and gives further hints at why a corner-based nav may not be best:

View your site in Firefox. Now, go to View > Zoom and tick "zoom text only". Now zoom in, increasing the text size. Yes, some users will have text this big - and remember, your site has to meet the brief of being user-friendly for all types of people.

So, what happens? How can you solve this? What are the knock-on effects of you solving this?
Click to expand...

its that bad then:D

that text problem is bad very bad..never even thought about that, just checked the sites that the people made last year and they all have that text problem so i dont feel so stupid :) thanks for pointing that out.

Just for fun i validated the css and xhtml and it passed so i guess thats one good thing.

Looks like i have a long long way to go still but i am enjoying web design a lot..better than working in a pork factory :)

Thanks simisker
 
well i have taken all the feedback on board and will start re designing the website tomorrow. Once i have a working design i will upload it and let you guys see. Thanks again to those that contributed always nice to see that there are people on here that will go out of their way to help and not just comment "thats crap".
 
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