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Jun 15, 2001, 09:40 AM
 
I am in charge of a web site for my band, and I wanted feedback from some "real" web designers. Some parts of the site are not yet implemented, but any design-related feedback you have would be greatly appreciated.

The Annie Moses Band

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Jun 18, 2001, 07:38 PM
 
Technically, it's fine, afaics. Works great in Omniweb. A few of your links don't work, but I guess you'll get thom up soon, right?

The design is intuitive and effective in it's simplicity. The left navigation bar model is often used, but to me that makes it more effective as that's what people know.

The black background looks kinda overpowering. I typically browse in separate windows, not full screen, and my desktop pattern is a MacOSX blue pattern. The black is a harsh contrast to the white and blue interface. This depends on what effect you want - to me it comes over as slightly forboding and sinister because of the colours. That's not necessarily bad, but maybe something to think about?

On your photos page, the location of the scrollbar makes you think the left two frames are one. Kudos for using a whole lot of vertical frames - that's something people tend to avoid (and I can never understand why.) Possibly have the thumbnails to the right, or left align your left frame and right align your thumbnails? If I were you, I'd also have the Photo Gallery heading over the two righthand frames, not just the rightmost one (do the horizontal split before you do the vertical one).

Your title at the top of your left navbar looks similar to the links - maybe a different colour? Or a separator between it and the links?

Other than that, I can't find much wrong with it (and I'm usually VERY critical of websites). The simple layout that is consistent is your strength - unless your site gets way too big, try to keep it that way.

Amorya
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