Web design

[stiltman]

Here's a picture of a website I'm doing for a friend/customer.

They found a site they liked and wanted me to copy it. BUT they wanted to change the colors. The burnt red color matches their biz card logo with a marble background


What do you think?

[bazooka]

Looks good stilt.

[SLICK RICK]

Looks good stilt.

Agreed.

[Conquest10]

You may want to use a sans serif font for the body text.

[stiltman]

Looks good stilt.

Agreed.

REALLY????

dang I think it looks like crap

sans serif, Thanks, I'll take a look


Here's the original site.
The rest of their pages are white text black background
I hate white text on black

[stiltman]

I did some more refining

What do you think, Dang I hate the red though

[jimmalenko]

REALLY????

dang I think it looks like crap

I tend to agree that the first one (the red background) looks a bit "simplistic", but if that's what they're aiming for, well .....

They are paying, don't forget

[housepig]

"I thought I'd never see colors worse than the original vcd colors. But I have now."

just kidding - it's okay, I'm not crazy about the "big block" design, but that's just me... is the client happy with it?

[stiltman]

"I thought I'd never see colors worse than the original vcd colors. But I have now."

just kidding - it's okay, I'm not crazy about the "big block" design, but that's just me... is the client happy with it?

Tell me about it, but they wanted to match the color of the logo on their biz cards

They chose the site for me to copy.

I'm waiting to hear back if they like it or what they want changed. I hope the colors

[housepig]

they wanted to match the color of the logo on their biz cards

I hate shit like that - working in a print shop, people wanting digital prints on a color laser, and it has to match exactly the printing on their business cards that were offset-printed with Pantone colors...

...ahoy... it's a different system - it's never going to exactly match - especially with this crappy blue shade!

doing the same on the web is doubly silly - I could blow my brains out trying to match a print color, and it's only going to "match" if every viewer's monitor is set exactly like mine...

anyway, rant over - I hope they like your work.

[thecoalman]

They found a site they liked and wanted me to copy it. BUT they wanted to change the colors.

So copying DVD's is a no-no but copying someones code and layout is OK? I know there is a limited amount of ways to set up a site but........

[stiltman]

They found a site they liked and wanted me to copy it. BUT they wanted to change the colors.

So copying DVD's is a no-no but copying someones code and layout is OK? I know there is a limited amount of ways to set up a site but........

If the site has a copyright notice, I don't copy their code.
If a site doesn't have a copyright notice, why not?

All my sites have copyright notices, I also get credit to any free code I get from websites that publish code for people to use