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ok, thanks! but if I've more than one "specific" question about my website, should I've make those questions independent, or can I ask them all in one post?
I think it's better if I ask my questions here because I guess they would lead maybe to subjective answers
because I just need to have a feeling if it's really bad or good, I need an opinion of a graphic designer
the website I needed to create is a website for monitoring other websites, i.e. my website should visualize the state of the servers that are hosting those websites, i.e. it should display if those servers (and consequently websites) are up or down (plus other info)
I was requested to create a grid of squares for each website
I was also requested to create a search box to search for a specific website
keeping this in mind, I created the following
this is the top part of the website:
this is the top part with the search area:
basically the search area collapses whenever I click the search button in the navigation bar
this is a bunch of boxes
and this is the footer
now, whenever a website goes down, this is what happens (with a simple transition) to one of the boxes
my questions are:
1. Are the overall combinations of colors ok/good? By overall I mean, do for example the background color of the boxes match with the background color of the footer and navbar? Another example would be, does the red and green of the thumb match with the background color of the box?
of course I've looked around a little bit to understand if they match or not
but I would like to listen to a human opinion
for now I leave just this question, also because I've already posted too much, sorry
ah well I was also doing actual work when you posted the rest so I missed it. Colors seem fine enough. Its not some amazing design or anything but the colors are legible
@Vincent I see... In reality I had before more info in a single box, but then I decided to make a flipping box, and put the secondary info in the back of the box... (actually I still was not able to implement it, lol)
@Vincent Also my idea was to make the website as simple as possible and not too "fat"
scratches back of head This is also a great question to ask in the UX.SE chat room. I see UX issues with it, like having to read small, hardly distinctive urls in big boxes to find mine among a sea of others
are you able to, for example, fetch the site's favicon to display it in the box? That way, I'd be able to pinpoint my site way, way faster.
Why is it that people think graphic designers are good at the math behind color? I mean most of you just set the editor to do it its not like you ever calculate the color values yourself?
@joojaa I have no clue. I leave the color calculation questions open cause we haven't explicitly made them off topic but I sure don't know why people ask here
@joojaa I guess you must be... having a good eye for colours is fundamental... and I'm sure you took at least one course (or tutorial or read something) about theory of the color
@joojaa I see, but this is a different course of what I was talking about.. I was talking about a more practical course where you apply your eye to observe and critique things... I'm not talking about matrices or transformations
@Ryan btw, you said there's a lot to improve, and also that there's always something to improve (I agree), but could you tell me in your opinion what's really not good and should be changed?
@Ryan mmh... I know it's not that exciting because of these greys, but it should be simple... I will look around a little bit more but I would like not to make it a circus
@Vincent :P Yes that is what i mean that's fine for a designer. Ask how to get HSB from RGB and bang your outside the scope of Graphic Designers. Im not saying you can not, im saying its not really the thing you need.
@JohnB think it was you that mentioned the face liquify feature before? have you tried it? just reading about features for CC before i upgrade...it's bizarre!
I'm running into issues with my current laptop (an old Macbook Pro Retina) while trying to screen record graphic design tutorials so its time for an upgrade.
I don't do much video work beyond the screen recording but might want to and even Photoshop and Illustrator now has some features that uti...
Just got CC in the end :P hopefully for only a few months unless I win the lottery or something lol
mainly print stuff, I guess. I will probably do some crash study with web and possibly UX once I graduate but I'm more interested in photography/illustration....the dodgy stuff :P
CC really isn't that expensive and they've been doing a decent job updating it. I wish they would update more in the direction I want to see it go but meh
think of it this way, a single banner for a company you can charge like $400 for pretty easily. If you do 2 banners in an entire year you've turned a profit (not including all other costs though). That's an entire year
but you know ALL the things! I know you said you're doing it for free, but with workflows demonstrated on ur tutorials you could charge for that level of knowledge
I need to do more in LinkedIn, for a while I was keeping up with some of the Photoshop groups over there even though I don't like the platform. Now that I have my site up I'll have to probably resume a little cross marketing to those people too