daveroller
Well-Known Member
Damn, I like it already. I love the tabs layout. I also like the fact that it's all very clean, stylish and easy on the eyes without trying too hard to be designy or overly dynamic. I wouldn't change a thing except like adding one more category as a blue header button. Like "Notes from the Dam" could be a blue tile. But since you went with a really direct one word title for each tile (which I agree with), the blue tile should just say Dam.
I love it. Excellent work. I'm really glad you have a sensible design outlook geared towards user friendliness. I was afraid you would make something crazy looking. The motif says, "This is a fun, easy, friendly place... Come often." But the clean angles, edges, fades, and fonts say it's also a classy place. It's perfect. Note: did you know that supermarkets have all these visual cues and color and lighting techniques they use to try to make the shopper feel comfortable and come back? It's exactly like that. It looks like a soothing website.
I love the way it looks, too. But I have one critique that you can either take or leave (same disclaimer for all my opinions). It almost looks "too classy" for some of the subject matter in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Jin, your lady photos are VERY classy looking, so that part fits the look and feel well, but otherwise it looks a little clinical, like the web site for a hospital or something. For pot and games I would personally prefer an edgier look and feel.
Anyways, the beauty of CSS is that you can get a web site up and running functionally and later go back and drastically change the look and feel without changing content or structure too much, so you and Slivers should be able to change the overall look later if you decide to.
For a web site about pot, I would envision something that looks a little more counterculture. When I was a kid, counterculture was Frank Zappa, the National Lampoon, Mad Magazine, Rolling Stone, Fritz the Cat cartoons, etc. (Shows how old I am.) A little bit messy and earthy would let the viewer know right away what the content is about and would make a stoner like me feel right at home, like a comfy old couch.
On the other hand, I really love that first Feminized Culture "advertisement" that you whipped up, Jin. That does look very classy, which I like a lot in nudie pics.
About the name, Feminized Culture, it does sound a bit to me like it's either about feminism or gay men or pussy-whipped men. Not too bad... I'm just not sure that I want to tell people that I read Feminized Culture. Hmmmmm...
Jin, have you thought of starting a new thread for suggestions on this so that we don't clutter up your grow journal?