Just a comp, but would like some feedback please :)

[Graft-Creative]

Hi everyone,

Now this is just a comp at the moment, a preliminary sketch if you will...

However if anyone could give me any feedback/ideas - good, bad, indifferent, I would really appreciate it (I'm doing this at my desk in the kitchen, and as usual I'm missing having some fellow designers to bounce off)

To me, there's still something not quite right, kind of like when you make a curry at home - it's ok, but nowhere near as good as the one from the takeaway :D

The link:

http://garyhartney.com/demo.html

Many thanks,

Gary

[harlequin2k5]

I thought it laid out quite nicely in ie6, ff1.0.7, and opera8.5

however, I did notice that there is a horizontal scroll bar, and the "Gorilla Watch" was not framed the same way that the "Poll" box was - also the white border along the bottom seemed to be a little bigger than the border at the top

[Ranger56]

I thought it laid out quite nicely in ie6, ff1.0.7, and opera8.5

however, I did notice that there is a horizontal scroll bar, and the "Gorilla Watch" was not framed the same way that the "Poll" box was - also the white border along the bottom seemed to be a little bigger than the border at the top

The scroll bar is because it's all one image, when it's coded, that will probably be the background image, and won't cause that scrolling.

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I like it alot.

[harlequin2k5]

The scroll bar is because it's all one image, when it's coded, that will probably be the background image, and won't cause that scrolling.
makes sense

[rmedek]

Looks good so far! I really like your work, man.

One thing, though… Mambo? Eyyyyyyew. :) That's more of a personal thing for me; I've been forced to use Mambo for a few things and I hate the way it throws every component/module in a table, not to mention the fact that if you use custom classes for sections you need to append it to every article you write.

Some small things I would suggest would be to use a sans-serif font if the type is going to stay that small, and maybe bring things a little tighter in the sidebar. Other than that I think it looks fantastic.

[Graft-Creative]

Thanks for the comments guys :thumbsup:

@ harlequin2k5: yeah, it's just an image at the moment - i.e. a comp, or composite/composition, a pre-sliced page I suppose. Thanks for the comments though.

Thanks to ranger56 too, cheers, very encouraging :)

Richard, thanks mate, as always your comments are very welcome.
The Mambo thing: I'm pretty much in the same situation as you were really - the client has decided on Mambo/Joomla, end of story - much fun lies ahead!

Like you say, the font for the content would have to be san-serif at that size, but I may up the size on the final site so I can use my beloved Georgia ;)

The sibebar needs tightening up a bit like you said, I'd also like to do something a bit more imagianitive with the nave buttons too.

Thanks again guys,

Gary

anyone else?

[rmedek]

Like you say, the font for the content would have to be san-serif at that size, but I may up the size on the final site so I can use my beloved Georgia ;)

The sibebar needs tightening up a bit like you said, I'd also like to do something a bit more imagianitive with the nave buttons too.
Georgia always troubles me a bit. I LOVE it on the Mac, and hate it on a jaggedy PC.

About that navigation… maybe you could use the diamond motif again (maybe kind of "interlocking"?) but that might be overkill.

[vasam]

The layout is fine. are you going to make some mouse overs in navigation menu? Will be fine if you make header in flash.