aray2214 Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) I'm just starting out in web design, and am making a new website template for a local business (for really cheap). Here is the mockup I have so far. Any suggestions? http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq148/st1rn3r/mockup.png Edited January 18, 2009 by aray2214 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 The purpose of the spaces in URLs is to spam-proof links - in your case, that's not an issue so I zapped the spaces and made it a real URL - however, the link leads to a 'forbidden' page. Additionally, we largely promote clean, validating, accessible, and standard-compliant coding, so a link to an actual webpage would be much more productive to get you useful feedback than just a picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aray2214 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Weird, that link worked a second ago.. and I put in the spaces because everyone else seemed too. I figured that there was an anti-spam plugin or something that wouldn't let you post with URLs. As for the design, I am first a programmer, and this is one of my first journeys into design. For this reason, I am more worried about how it looks than how it is written. I can write compliant, validating xhtml/css in my sleep, it's the design issue that I have a tough time tackling. Usually I have someone else make the mockup, and then I code it.. But I want to try and learn design. http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq148/st1rn3r/mockup.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Seems to me that the primary area you could work on is typography... -- font sizes seem a bit off. The body text and right navigation could be larger to improve readability, and the main header "header" could be smaller -- If those are quotes around the "Eat, Enjoy, Tell a friend" text, perhaps you should change the font -- it's hard to tell whether those diagonal lines are quotes or not -- the logo seems fuzzy, and it would help to have a little more space below the "McGlades" text -- also, be aware that there is a lot more placeholder text than will actually be in the final site. It often works best to use the final copy or at least do a good approximation of the length. The design will seem to change if you have two lines of text, compared to 20 lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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