Design Critque

[surfingbirdy]

Please take a look at this site and give me your design critique.

Kupenda for the Children

Thanks!

[Toon]

It looks ok I quite like the layout the only things I spot that may let you down is.

1. You have no meta keywords or description

2. I would change the default blue colour for a link and make it a colour that matches the rest of the site.

(Welcome aboard)

[ianm]

Toon must be running a drop in advice session - he didn't say, you know it'd be nice if people made an introduction first so we know who you are, as for the site, well looks fine to me

[surfingbirdy]

OoOoO sorry - I am a professional web designer at Embarc Inc. in Massachusettes, USA. I am by no means a coder - my fiance does the coding - so I will let him know to add the meta keywords and description for SEO purposes.

Thanks for the suggestions for the links - we were thinking of making them all a brown link color like they on the sub-pages for consitency.

[Toon]

Yep I was thinking brown or green

[Carrotnapper]

the site took a while to load up on my laptop, but it's probably just going slow lol

[Zaoris]

I'll talk about the site design.
First: I don't like the colour scheme. The colours are all just too bland, nothing special on the site. When I first open your site, there are just too many colours, I don't know which part is the most important one. The way your site looks now..it's 1.0. Imo you should focus on some clean-stylish design for that kind of site.
Good luck!

[SatanicPenguins]

Nothing is wrong with 1.0. In fact, 2.0 is complete made up garbage.

The only reason people seem to think 2.0 is a set of design rules, Is because at the time all these social, user driven sites began springing up, Designers were using these types of tricks (glossy/glassy bars/buttons, Simplistic designs)

nevermind... lol

In bulletin "toon" style critique...

1. I like the general idea of the site, but i don't like the edging of the paper? if thats what it is.

2. Dont like the make a donation button, Doesn't match anything else on the site.

I don't hate your site, just giving constructive criticism

[Zaoris]

Originally Posted by SatanicPenguins

Nothing is wrong with 1.0. In fact, 2.0 is complete made up garbage.

The only reason people seem to think 2.0 is a set of design rules, Is because at the time all these social, user driven sites began springing up, Designers were using these types of tricks (glossy/glassy bars/buttons, Simplistic designs)

I can't really agree with you 100%, Penguin. That of course, it's because my tastes differ from yours, I stated my opinion about the site in the way I think it's correct.
Your opinion is yours and I can't take it :P

[SatanicPenguins]

Originally Posted by Zaoris

I can't really agree with you 100%, Penguin.

Fair enough, As long as you agree with me atleast 1% :batman: