Style critique

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

Love the logo btw, very nice!
 
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.
 
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?
 
Looks like "critique" is the new OcUK buzzword. :p

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.
 
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.
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.
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.
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.
 
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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 ;)
 
I give up :p

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

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

ima post some php too just to make you happy! :p
 
Out of interest, are any of them your designs? Some of them are seriously good
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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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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