website design for you to critique

coppercoins

I will preface this by explaining what stage this is in:

When I get a job to develop a website one of the first things I do is sit down at photoshop and design a scheme for the site. I don't start plugging at the scripting code until I have enough information to go on. Given that, I create a large JPG of the design I have in mind. Be mindful that the design linked below is one of those large JPG files...it is NOT an interactive web page with links, and it IS a HUGE file for dialed-in folks. Please skip this thread if you don't want to view a rather large JPG file.

With that having been said, this is the initial design concept for what will be a site dedicated to collecting tax tokens. Let me know what you think of the design...

http://www.taxtoken.org - 272K image.

LucyBop

Looks pretty good, but it could use a Buddy Holly or Little Richard picture.....

XpipedreamR

I think it looks great.

mgoodm3

I like the look. Nice pic.

JMOORE

Very Nice

RiffRaff1967

I like the colors, the font are great, and the overall design is very inviting. My only critique would be the unused space on the left that requires me to scroll to the right to see the entire page - I do realize that this would depend on screen size and settings - I am using a 16" and my settings are 800 x 600. The right side cut-off is your "tax token-news" column (I can only see "tax" when it first comes up.

Not trying to be critical, just helpful. God knows if I created a webpage....well, I just would hire someone like yourself!

kranky

Obviously you have a lot of talent in this area, so I don't think you'll mind a couple of comments .

How do you determine how long to make the page (vertically)? Since it's a JPG I can't see how it looks at different IE text sizes. Looking at your link it seems like it could fit on a single screen without having to scroll down, except that the text is kind of large.

I think the background is really nice, but the Superman at the top looks a bit strange because it's hard to tell that it's part of a comic book cover. The background also seems a bit wide on the sides.

On the main menu, I would remove the words "tax token" from the links for the FAQ and news.

I wish I could do web pages half as well.

dorkkarl

i like it!

K S

ScarsdaleCoin

Overall very nice....might I suggest the main menu box breaking out the different topics a bit more....they were a little too together...hope that makes sense...

coppercoins

Thank you for the comments to date...

The general majority have to do with the fact that this is an unscalable image, not a 'real' web page. Once the formatting is done for a real web page, it will not cut off at the edges, have to be scrolled, etc...it will all fit into an 800x600 screen all the while still having good balance in a 1024x768 screen.

As for the main menu items, good thought...I will indeed change that.

flaminio

I hate it -- because when it goes live, it will provide a wealth of information on an area of numismatics that I know very little, and therefore inspire me to collect them, further depleting my already bone-dry bank account.

That said, your design is very nice!

coppercoins

Thanks for the comments - TTT for the evening crew

DragonAzz

CC,
I'm running a 20" monitor at 1024 x 768. It all fit on the screen with the links all easily indentified. It looks like it will be easy to navigate without being cluttered. I think you've got a great start.

BigE

Something strange happened when it loaded on my comp. The article was written in what I think was latin and the picture kind of broke up and shrank in size. Maybe you are working on it?------BigE

coppercoins

No, you have picture resizing turned on in your browser - and since I don't know much of anything about tax tokens, the pig-latin was all I could type for the article.

To turn off automatic picture resizing, you have to click 'tools>internet options' then the advanced tab. Look under multimedia and uncheck the box next to 'Enable Automatic Image Resizing'.

Of course like I said before, once the 'look and feel' have been okayed and I'm happy with it, I will be creating the actual HTML layout which won't present all these minor problems you guys are reporting. Remember, this is a picture, not a web page.

BigE

Oh, ok, it figures it was me, I thought some Italian guy found a rare variety---------------BigE

RGL

I like it very much, CD ...