Style critique

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 10:34

Just a quick one and not a major site or anything but just checking to see how other people rate the style, the main two things I'm wanting input on the background, I think it looks quite nice but is it distinct enough? And when looking at a single image is it too big? Should I reduce the size of the single image a bit?

And general input appreciated too.

Site here:
http://chaoticsignal.com/image/cars/concept

For reference, the original style of the script:
http://chaoticsignal.com/image/inde...oqYTkwNGRjZDNiNTE0ZDQ4ZWUzNGNlOTIzZDNlY2Y1MmI

reflux · 6 Oct 2010 at 10:36

Looks good to me mate. The stripes infer carbon fibre, which is obviously appropriate.

Love the logo btw, very nice!

gord · 6 Oct 2010 at 11:02

Sahweet animated bewbs..

Design what?

I think it looks good. I mean it's quite functional, but it does what it's meant to. Everything fitted quite nicely on my small screen too so I would say the sizes are fine.

Sp00n · 6 Oct 2010 at 11:03

It's a pretty basic gallery system with some diagonal lines, it works with the cars because they are hyper modern and the lines/straight edges give it a slightly tech feel, but I fear once you start having other types of images it will feel out of place.

Image size is fine, but in this current age, you could be doing more interesting things with jquery to spice it up a little bit.

What are you trying to achieve?

eXor · 6 Oct 2010 at 11:16

Looks like "critique" is the new OcUK buzzword.

Site looks pretty, and bonus points for almost fitting on 800x600.

I echo the jQuery sentiment. I saw the left / right navigation arrows and thought, "hmm, a nice gallery with sliding images"

Alas, clicking on an arrow loads a whole new page. This is jarring to the viewer, not to mention inefficient.

Of course, you need a fallback for when JavaScript is disabled. But, that's what progressive enhancement is all about.

FabienO · 6 Oct 2010 at 11:33

Lose the hover over that forces text and some images to move.

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:11

FabienO said:
Lose the hover over that forces text and some images to move.

Can you tell me what browser you're using and where you are seeing the movement, this shouldn't happen.

Sp00n said:
What are you trying to achieve?

I was only really wanting to make a nice little gallery page for current images and future stuff, nothing fancy just wanted to know if everything fit ok really. At the end of the day it was more of a coding project really rather than anything 100% useful. It may not seem it but I've modified the code quite a bit. Things like converting the url query into the title for the page and redirecting the actual directories to a url string, I really enjoy coding too much

I need a new project.

Sp00n said:
Image size is fine, but in this current age, you could be doing more interesting things with jquery to spice it up a little bit.

I guess that's something I may look into doing, just not sure whether it would confuse things any more.

gord said:
I think it looks good. I mean it's quite functional, but it does what it's meant to. Everything fitted quite nicely on my small screen too so I would say the sizes are fine.

That's pretty much what I was going for.

Sp00n · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:21

Skyfall said:
It may not seem it but I've modified the code quite a bit. Things like converting the url query into the title for the page and redirecting the actual directories to a url string, I really enjoy coding too much I need a new project.

coding != design

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:23

Sp00n said:
coding != design

Yea but you can't critique my coding

eXor · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:38

Skyfall said:
Yea but you can't critique my coding

Sure we can.

Right Click --> View Page Source...

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 15:38

I give up

I think I might add the... omg I just had a brainwave for another project I have!

Might add the ability to change the preview size smaller or bigger.

ima post some php too just to make you happy!

slylittlefox · 6 Oct 2010 at 16:03

Out of interest, are any of them your designs? Some of them are seriously good

As for the design, bit dark for my liking - but that's down to personal taste. As Sp00n suggested, look at the likes of Lightview to improve usability.

gord · 6 Oct 2010 at 16:19

eXor said:
Sure we can.

Right Click --> View Page Source...

Err, that doesn't show how the html was generated..

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:53

slylittlefox said:
Out of interest, are any of them your designs? Some of them are seriously good

Nope they are just one's I've nabbed from around the web.

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 20:31

OK, bit more input needed guys, thinking of making it a bit more dynamic and adding something like lightbox but with a custom design, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Sp00n · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:23

I think fancybox has more "custom" options than lightbox.

V4NT0M · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:35

Still not sure what I want to do with it...

Though for some reason I was up half the night coding some javascript so this version:

http://chaoticsignal.com/image/default_test.php?sfpg=cars/concept/*****

now resizes images so they will nearly always fit on the screen

A few more tweaks, but not sure if it's more annoying because the size jumps around.

Thoughts?

Sp00n · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:41

Couple things, the embed code generator is tiny, it took me a second to work out what the text was.

I don't think it needs any of the filenames, file sizes, dates etc... just makes it look cluttered, keep the image size though.

slylittlefox · 7 Oct 2010 at 14:35

Skyfall said:
OK, bit more input needed guys, thinking of making it a bit more dynamic and adding something like lightbox but with a custom design, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Check out lightview, it's better developed than lightbox.

FabienO · 7 Oct 2010 at 16:13

Skyfall said:
Can you tell me what browser you're using and where you are seeing the movement, this shouldn't happen.

Chrome when hovering over links. Not any more though.