Week 16a

Today in class we continued our website critiques and I gave feedback to my fellow students.

Week 15b

Today in class my website was critiqued. Here is the feedback I received:

-The contact section is very effective, it shows you everything that you need to see.

-Add a hover element for the social media links. The hovers can match the colors for the rest of the site.

-Give the copyright section at the bottom more breathing room from the social media links, also there is too much space between the kickstarter button and the social media links.

-Good use of shape and color. This makes the webpage relate to the product which is effective.

-The composition is well organized.  

-Works? (I wrote this down but I can’t remember the context.)

-The text in the large blue triangle is too close to the edge and creating edge tension.

-The triangle being on top of some elements and behind others is and effective use of the Z-axis.

-Since the product is about photography have more images on the page.

-At the top of the page the triangles are a bit too bright and distract from the logo.

-Add a set footer to the page to signal that it is over.

-The light animation where it turns on and off is a nice effect.

-Another comment about text edge tension with the blue triangle.

-At the top of the page vary the dark triangle sizes a bit.

-Add more line spacing for the paragraph at the top of the page.

-Split the larger images into several smaller ones.  

Week 15a

   Today was a day for lots of small changes to the website. For the top image I added some dark grey triangles to the top image to break up the edges even more. This was part of a compromise with Professor Pannafino. Then I realized that I needed to proof read my content still so I went back and fixed a bunch of errors there. I added a hover effect to the Color spike illustration so that it now looks like the light lights up when you hover over it.  I aligned some text a bit more carefully, made my rule lines smaller, added a rule line to the unordered list. At the bottom of the page I edited the picture of Duncan and Steve a bit so that it fit into the page better, and I also changed my submit button to match the larger Kickstarter button. At the very bottom I added some trademark info to close out the page.

Week 14 Out of Class

    This week out of class I finished up my web page. The first thing that I had to do was to complete all of my missing content like the GIF of the lights and the button link to the Kick Starter page. Once I had all of that in place I went back and messed around with the spacing between areas. For the most part I added more space because a lot of the content felt crammed together. The largest change I made was to change the Second and Forth content areas. I made them have a very light grey background instead of the dark one they had before. I thought this really helped each area stand out more because there was a clear separation of zones. For the Second area I continued the Triangle motif, but this time I made the triangles huge so that the different scale helped to highlight the area. I am really proud of how this effect turned out, I think it gave the website the little something more that it was missing. For Monday in class I need to go through and proof read my content because I was told it is full of errors.