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Old 03-10-2008, 07:21 PM   #1
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Hi everyone,

Heres the layout I'm working on for my design & development company. It's not finished, theres still probably a lot of room for improvement. Would love to hear some of your thoughts!

http://upload3.net//uploads/54site3.jpg

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Old 03-10-2008, 09:15 PM   #2
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I think it looks great! Colorful, uplifting, well-composed. Beautiful. It's stylish (some might say overly so, but I like it a lot).

I especially like the "Don't hire us if . . ." It's playfully begging me to click it, and I'm huge on the concept of disqualifying prospects; of an outright statement of "this is who we are . . . if you don't like that, don't work with us." Very interested to see what that links to . . .

Great job from where I'm standing!
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Old 03-10-2008, 09:33 PM   #3
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Wow, thanks Distill, that really means a lot. I'll be sure to post the progress of the design!
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Old 03-10-2008, 09:53 PM   #4
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great feel to the over all design. Nothing that stand out to me that should be changed. But i love the look and feel great work.
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Old 03-11-2008, 03:17 AM   #5
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Colorful and playful, to me this design says "hi, we're two guys who love what we do, we're good at it, and we don't take ourselves very serious. We like it that way".

And everything the guys above me said ^^
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Old 03-11-2008, 12:14 PM   #6
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Oh, cute! Airbaloons!!

I think they are a tad too distracting though, although I'm not one hundrer per cent shure what you should do about it, some blur maaaybe. And also, how will this look in a 1280 resolution? will there be more balloons on the sides or will it just be blue?
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Old 03-11-2008, 12:40 PM   #7
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Thanks for the input everyone!

@AlyCe - yea the idea is that there will be more balloons scattered around, not to many tho. Hopefully can achieve something cool with some CSS
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As long as you don't animate it in flash so that they are drifting upwards it's awesome!
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Old 03-11-2008, 02:07 PM   #9
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Haha god no, that would be awful!
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Old 03-11-2008, 02:19 PM   #10
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Or have little men in them saying "hey man, ya dig the site" in squeaky voices on a 0.3 second loop?

No, seriously cool site. The only things I don't personally like so much are the brackets and the black border on the circle things next to the page titles seem a bit jaggy, would be nice if they were more crisp.
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