Navigation

Elektra recommended http://www.maccosemetics.com for lots of info and activity that is easily accessible. Flashy black background, columnar information, artist videos, easy purchasing. Grey font perhaps hard to see. I started checking out local businesses, both using horizontal nav bars: http://www.clairesvt.com and http://www.perennialpleasures.net . The latter is text heavy and could use more imagery since the place is beautiful. Nothing gut wrenchingly great, but fairly easy access.

BLOG HEADER

First person to send me a great image for our new blog header wins!

Create a Designer Font

Some of you wanted to create your own fonts; this link should help. I would focus on getting your site's interface/navigation working, then perhaps use this to design your own logo. Also, check out the below post—Wolda—there are some really great ideas here for logos.
Click here to create a font!

Wolda—the worldwide logo design annual

http://wolda.org/

This site has tons of great stuff!

Many a links from jim

I stumbled across these for my site and they have been extremely useful on building my site. Im sure many of you can uses these sites for whatever you seem fit. I found the images an extra boost to my online repertoire.

Click the links below

Java script drop down menu


30,000 FREE images to uses as you please

thumbnails and book pages

Yes, I forgot to post. When items are posted late on Monday I don't get a chance to see them before class, very frustrating. http://www.tenneson.com and http://wwwseankernan.com for lots of thumbnails. Joyce's site seems redundant or not quite smooth, mainly because there is so much work. The Secret Books of Sean Kernan are great. Although his site has all sorts of options: classic, flash, mega-flash.

http://www.nagaoka-id.ac.jp/gallery/gallery.html

I like the navigation of this site. You just scroll the mouse and the wheels turn and click the x to view bigger image. Simple, clean. I didn't care too much for the sound effects, however or the contents of the images.

http://www.house-of-dracula.com/

I was exploring different websites and came across this one. I think the homepage is cool, it definitely drew my attention. I like the effects when navigating over the links. The navigation is really simple.

Blue Moose Studio

I was browsing different sites, and came across this artist's web page: http://bluemoosestudio.us/index.html

Her watercolor art is beautiful, and I really like her simplistic site layout. It's very easy to navigate through, and the black background really lets the color contrasts in her work pop out.

Site

http://spadilauf.com/spadilauf.html
Here is a interesting site i found.

http://www.calebkenna.com/

My last post didnt add my link, i'll try again!

I chose this website more for the content. I really enjoyed the birght photographs. It was also a nice simple website. Everything seems to happen on the same page, and navigation is easy.

Flash website

Here are two favorite flash web pages
http://www.longtrail.com/home.html http://www.jkrowling.com/en/index.cfm

usable_information_technology

hi gang!

here is an interesting resource on web page usability that addresses fundamental web page design do's and don'ts by web designer jakob nielsen: 

http://useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

 there are also some good articles jakob authored on home_page redesign priorities, home-page usability, and past web design mistakes. 

jakob's page is a no-nonsense 2_color blog_style long page. nielsen's type layout is structured in the F_shaped pattern for reading on the web that optimizes the eye_tracking visualization ability of web_users. 

                                   

                                   http://useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

this is interesting gang, basically a study has been done that records eye_tracking in web_users and reveals that people track in an "F_shape". 

nielson's site useit.com has a crisp no-frills design that considers, communicates, and utilizes good design sense for optimum usability.

read his site and consider how the F_shaped type layout pattern makes reading the page any easier or exerts less strain on the eyes. 

^^

links

Hey all—
Please make sure your links are all actually links; you can do this while creating a new post as we went through on Monday, and you can fix your posts by editing them and going into the html...
Just makes us checking out your sites easier!
Thanks!
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Gogol Flash site

Gogol bordello, awesome band, cool flash site.
http://www.gogolbordello.com/

Flash for fun

I like this because it is very interactive.

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

http://blackflycollection.com/

Ollie lang is a professional paintball player earning $100,000 to play professionally. Hes someone i look up to, and i thought the style and design of his page is quite impressive and gets his message and needs across

http://www.ollielang.com/

romesnowboards.com

always have loved this site for the rome snowboard design syndicate, located in beautiful waterbury, vt. lots of content and an awesome layout, always updated.

http://www.romesnowboards.com

re:DESIGN of the 21st Century

re:DESIGN of the 21st Century...."yeah right?" coming to mind? Maybe. That will entirely depend on our actions (or lack there of). These sites are simple in structure, easy to navigate, and highly informative...

www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

www.thevenusproject.com

p.s. If you are unfamiliar with the Zeitgeist movies you can watch them for free right here

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

I only ask that the length of these movies not be the reason you don't watch them.

Site's

I have been a little bit slow in getting these up haha... but here are my 2 sites and the one for today.

1. Interesting site i found on architect. On this Web site, you can design a house, walk through it in 3D, and then share it with the world. You can also learn more about architecture, past and present, and explore Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work. The site was pretty easy to navigate and i liked the lay out of it.
http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/home.html

2. I really like that the site makes use of cutting-edge animation plug-ins. This site is colorful, fun, very interactive, (more for the kid audience) but it still gave me some great ideas.
http://www.haringkids.com/

And my third site. I thought this site was the most interesting and creative. This website will invite you to click only once as it then takes you in to a clickless world where interfaces are reached in a variety of different and experimental ways. With a history lesson to boot (we have only had the click since the mouse and that isn't long!) this site will make you wonder about what the future really holds for the ways in which we access and use the internet.
http://dontclick.it/

Sites

Here are some websites that I think have a very goo layout and overall composition. http://www.greatbiggraphics.net/ http://failedskateboards.com/index.html

long pages^^

I've been appreciating the "looooong" page lately. If the Book's "double-spread" has defined modern graphic design habitually since the advent of the printing press, then the long page is becoming the digital double-spread format for the "post-paper" digital age. The long page is the blog format, the most volatile and immediate form of communication next to email. I love how intuitive it is to scan those long pages, slipping past embedded images and hyperlinks to www.youtube.com, www.veoh.com, artists pages, whole cultural movements I never knew existed. I've found that visually surfing blogs has become the predominant way I interface with the internet. I have a few blog-style long pages that I check regularly including www.woostercollective.com, a great culture jamming jump-off point, www.rojo-magazine.com, an interesting Japanese magazine and design-heavy site, and although it's not a long page, ya gotta check out www.etsy.com. The long page is interesting and I want to play around with that format this semester. Anyone have a favorite blog site or looooong page they wanna share? 

Freeman Stevens

Freeman is a friend of mine from high school. He is an amazing photographer with a very slick website. I really like his navigation controls; simple yet sophisticated. You can hide or reveal the navigation dialog box by clicking any where on the website. This is a nice feature to decrease distractions from his photography. I like the background color for this website. I'm not really a fan of animations that interact with movement of the cursor but I like how on Freeman's website how it fades away when the cursor stops moving.

http://www.freemanstevens.com

more photo sites

Check out http://www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org for nice thumbnails. Also, http://photography-now.net for posh photo portfolios. They have joined up with Gallery Book to make sites for artists. http://gallerybook.info/index.php Brian and I saw downloadable sample pages, but I can't find them again!

http://jenniferlynnmorse.com/
My friend recommended this site to me. The home page is simple and easy to navigate around. "Into Powder and Dust" is my favorite series. I also really liked how she had her gallery set up. I liked how when i scrolled to the end of the group of pictures by clicking on the pictures, a new GROUP of pictures would automatically slide in without me having to click on the next button. She also had a nice color theme.

Since I didn't post last week, I also liked http://www.beingcaribou.com
It's set up like a newsletter but I like the home page. It's interesting.

http://www.kurtbudligerphotography.com

I like Kurt's work and website. It's simple, easy to navigate, comfortable.

I have so many diffrent ideas for my site and im really not too finalized about all the details, but i know id like to include a css dropdown menu, which will take some work. I also like the simple design, but i wish find a way to spruce it up a little

brian's mockup- homepage

this is the idea i have for my mainpage on my website. easy to navigate, not much to it. simple, possibly with some hints of refinement.

Kelly's Website

$100 million

Interesting piece by celebrity artist Damien Hirst comprised of 8,700 diamonds.  Sold for 100 million dollars.... ? 

Mutated Veggies Web Page

I like the design of this page displaying hundreds of fotos of mutated vegetables. Looks like the designer used a lot of javascript, for example to do the scrolling navigation. I love how simple the design is though. Beautiful fotos too. Check it out.

^^

http://uliwestphal.de/mutatocollection/

Denis Peterson Hyper realist painter

Check out these acrylic paintings, obscenely realistic........... 

Peterson addresses global poverty through painting. Check out his techniques. 

This hyper-realistic style underscores the dichotomy of actual and perceived realities. Caravaggio eat your heart out....

http://denispeterson.com

Oh yeah, nice little web page design as well, no frills, easy to navigate and stylistically unified. The white background lets Peterson's work stand out without distraction. 

Ioan Sabau

A long way to go...

Rosa's mock up

Here is my mock up. My first image is the entry page upon clicking on the enter you will then be navigated to main page (image 2). Then the third image is how I want my layout (so far). I want navigation through my site to be easy. I added a panel at the top to show off my work. For the layout I wanted simple which I'm still working on so this is all I have thus far.

Shadow_bushido.com

My web page concept revolves around zero navigation meaning that when the viewer gets to my page all navigation occurs on one screen. Basically, once you land on my page you can navigate through the images with arrow keys located at the bottom of the page. Each image that is loaded will have accompanying title, medium and other written data relevant to the image. I want my page to be a simple, straightforward, and attractive portfolio of my work that will augment my resume. One web-design aspect that bothers me is having many windows or pages load me away from the main page. I like pages that I can navigate through without having to get lost in the page. 

Attempt #1

I always feel like the last horse out of the gate. Iwas just overwhelmed, but the collage sites inspired me. I need to add the word photography. I have some free fonts from the web, but don't know how to access them. I'm getting excited about this, wanting my site to be effective, but very individual.

Katie's Mock-up

So, this is my Photoshop Mock-up. I'm still experimenting with colors and layout, and I really like this one (the layout) because it's pretty simple, and doesn't have a whole lot of potential for confusing people or muddling things up. I know that I will probably be making more sections, such as subdivisions for the artwork itself (like digital, photography, so on..) and was thinking maybe a drop-down menu would be a highly organized way to do that. I still have a lot of experimenting to do before I feel I will be satisfied with the look and operation of my site.

Jerry Uelsmann

I have always been a huge fan of Jerry Uelsmann photography. I really like this website because it has easy navigation with a simple yet professional design.
http://www.uelsmann.net/

Three pages from Ken

I've posted three images. The first is the Entry Page, which will open at the start--the word "Enter" appearing only as a roll-over. Clicking will open the Main Page, with Ken Leslie Header and three options--Professional, Professorial and Personal. Again, those words will only appear as roll-overs.

The third page is the Home Page for Ruby's weaving website.

Brian's photoshop mock up

This my idea thus far...it has a long way to go. I want my web site to be simple, easy to navigate, and have an professional appearance. For the portfolio button I want to have a scroll down roll over feature, so that the viewer can navigate to different genres of my photography without clicking the back button.

the grass is green on this side too

Check out what our neighbors are getting into!

http://www.greatbiggraphics.net/

http://simplenation.com/

Window for displaying artwork_NOAH

This is what I'm thinking for a way to display my of my panel pieces that I have photographed. I plan to create a slide show window that you can zoom into individual panels by running the cursor over it, or selecting it to view the texture. Kinda like how new mac computers zoom into the icons when selecting a program... How would you display panel artwork?

Click here to check out how I them displayed now