Webber Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Wasn't sure if non trials related sites were allowed.But heres my newly created website for my solo design "company" Dare2Dream Designs.Wanted something clean and simple.What do you think?www.d2ddesign.org.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Might be cool if there was a more solid theme? I'm no designer or whatever, but on that first bit of the page there's like 4-5 different fonts? Then it seems to change to the Portfolio style, and so on. Just doesn't seem all that cohesive, sort of... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webber Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 I get what your saying, but theres only actually 3 different fonts Just some italics etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 I like the colours. It's a pretty nice site! I'd use a darker font, and not italics, for the about you bit of text, but other than that, not bad. Interesting how you've got it all on one page though, when it moves down I kept looking for links for the other bits... how come you chose that and not separate pages?All the best for your freelancing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Manning Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Seem very similar to this Dare2b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webber Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Coincidental seeing as i've never heard of Dare2b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCircus Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 hahahaha dare2dream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlynnP Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Hey mate but i am sorry i have to agree with OBM I feel there is too many different fonts and even if they are not different fonts different styles which could be the same found but in large type/italics/bold etc..This is fine across most of the site but were it bugs me is on the contact form. I just feel the Name, Email and Coments text is just to big and stands out making it look almost like a completely different font, Mybe making this the same as the sentence above would be slightly nicer.My only other points are completely website based and nothing to do with design.I dont know what your stands are on web design i am ashuming you are a graphic designer and not a web designer so i first off say fair play to you for this attempt its alot better than most people would do.Few points to be aware of though.First one very simple to fix is your lightbox doesnt appear to be working so i am just getting the images load on a blank page.Secondly is somthing I end up picking up on more when i come home from uni and we all do it now in the digital age but we still need to pay attention to people like my rents out in the middle of the moors where we cant get good broadband access. Although your site is very low in graphical content due to the site being a one page site some of the images are taking awhile to load on my parents crap internet. Although I do like your one page layout it might be somthing to think about as for a good while I am left with alot of white space will the page loads.And the last thing I think might be due to you having done lots of myspace mods. ( Which I must say are very nicely designed ) Using lots of tables in web design is very out dated and is not very standards friendly or nice practice to get into when design websites. Try to use divs and style sheets as once you are used to them they are just as easy and nicer to use and friendlier for everyone else.Hope this isn't taken as a rant against you it is acturly the complete opposite just trying to give you some pointers as I like alot of what I see, so if you applie the web thoughts to your designs we could see some great work. Just never know how your words can be taken online so just give me a shout if you didnt understand anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webber Posted July 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 I thank you alot for the pointers Glynn.I am very new to designing websites which is probably the reason you found so many faults/problems as you've said aha.hahahaha dare2dreamAnd the funny thing is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCircus Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 it's a pretty wild company name man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 You're also one of a quadrillion people using it. If you Google "dare2dream", you're number 8 on the list behind other people with variations on that theme. It's just not all that original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webber Posted July 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Ah yeah fair enough, see your point.Its just one of those things where i've had the name for a little while, obviously nabbed the domain name.So it would now be to troublesome to consider a name change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Not particularly, in that the brand's not established at all? You could pretty much do whatever you want with it now and it'd be minimal hassle, apart from having to buy a new domain name which wouldn't really be the end of the world? You could even use the same fonts/layout/whatever that you've got now simply because "D2D*" isn't known by anyone yet, so they wouldn't associate it with your 'old' name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronz Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 There are more tables than a bingo hall in there.This might help you out, I wrote it a while back and it's been highly recognised within the industry: http://csswizardry.com/web-design+/Also yeah, should you consider a rebrand it'll nowt of a job (unless (which I doubt) you have gone to great lengths registering that name with Companies House). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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