Re: A Weird Appearance for a Weird Site
 

In article <Xns9E73C70DBBF5Fjavawizardaolcom@208.90.168.18> ,
Jeff <javawizard@aol.com> wrote:

> People are telling me my site is a bit amateurish - I'm not sure I get it.
> I'll admit that it looks rather wild, but in what way does it look, well,
> less than professional? It's www.odd50.com

The word professional is bullshit in some ways, I have seen some
terrible garish sites by professionals meaning they do it for a
living and have no taste.

* There is too much fussy distracting background. If you don't
sigh with relief by making it a plain colour in contrat to now,
you will not "get" these things of taste. But there is an aspect
that you might get: you can simply accept that some other people
find it distracting, too much fussy stuff and this affects
usability and irritability.

* There is too much blue and purple

* There are too many borders

* It is very boxy but it is not interestingly *wild* with boxes.
To be interesting you need the boxes to somehow not just sit
there as boxes with information in them but to somehow
aesthetically interact, not necessarily cross, but somehow click
together. You might "get it" more by joining art classes, going
to galleries with knowledgeable people who are full of
conversation.

--
dorayme

Re: A Weird Appearance for a Weird Site
 

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:07:24 +1100, dorayme wrote:

> In article <Xns9E73C70DBBF5Fjavawizardaolcom@208.90.168.18> ,
> Jeff <javawizard@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> People are telling me my site is a bit amateurish - I'm not sure I get it.
>> I'll admit that it looks rather wild, but in what way does it look, well,
>> less than professional? It's www.odd50.com
>
> The word professional is bullshit in some ways, I have seen some
> terrible garish sites by professionals meaning they do it for a
> living and have no taste.

Ain't it the truth.
I was somewhere out touring the countryside and was checking out the local
pizza places on the net. I found this one, it had to be the grossest
looking site I'd ever seen and it was done in flash no less.

And why is it that the more "professional" the designer is, the gawdier the
site becomes?