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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Actually, I did read the front page. The part about "Our organization is dedicated to bringing back Aggie Bonfire" sounds like you'er trying to bring back some person to me, and Aggie sounds like a female name. As for me being snide and or snobbish, I don't mean to come across that way. If I do than I apologise and I'll try and keep a close eye on how I transfer my thoughts to my keyboard in the future. When I said, "I got fed up with trying to figure it out and in turn, didn' really feel like reviewing it." I was simply being honest. That and I do tend to get a little anal during the last few weeks of the university semester. Coming here helps me get away from the real world for a bit but I'm likely not in the most happy happy joy joy mood if you know what I mean. Although I do believe that everyone should live up to the highest standards possible at all times, if you don?t then you run the risk of getting contempt with being mediocre ? which is one of my biggest fears. Anyways, having finished my blastared phyc paper, I'm in a much better mood tonight... So, the site huh. Well, yellow and red is usually a colour scheme I'd avoid like the plague as it's so darn difficult to get working well, but things aren't looking too bad at the moment. Uniform: You have a definable colours scheme and an identifiable image to tie up the visual imagery of your site (fire), but I think more can be done to help establish unity and a sense of order within these elements. For example, the header image uses different fonts to the little icon under the "message from out chair" logo/icon; it also uses different colours and a different fire image. Try and unify these as much as possible. Find a really yummy fire image, or create/draw out a nice vector shape that you can use to tie everything back to being "bonfire". Logo: I like the font choices for the most part, but I'm not sure about the inverse italics you've got going in the main header image. I think such bold words would fell better if they were standing strong and straight. The big bold font works well, epically seeing as you have "Coalition" in your name, and I think the cursive font (for students) helps to represent activity and ties back into the "fire" concept well. However, I do not like the colours used in the header image. The grey text with a white stroke and the white text with a black stroke is my first problem. Three shades for two elements, with no apparent order, makes things look messy to me. How about butting the main title type in white and the "for students" in yellow like the sub headings you have in the columns. This would also help create a little more unity. However, if you?re going to have overlapping type in different fonts, maybe something extra like a slight drop shadow would help to separate the two. Colour: I like the colours; I also like the white background as I think anything other then white would cause major headaches trying to make the red/yellow work well. Although, I think the red could be a little more saturated (just a little). Lines & borders: I think this is the part that really pulls things down for me. The lines in this design don't seem to make much sense and really seem to make it look overly messy and dated IMHO. For starters, I don't see where the "scan lines" fit into any of this (in the little profile pics and the main header). I'm getting images of fire, seeing a graphical treatment coined in tech related interfaces seems out of place. It's a cheap effect, yet it works very well in certain situations but I honestly think it'd be better left out of the design all together here. This goes for the big vertical white lines on either side of the header image, too much and too out of place IMHO. Anyways, onto the borders. You have many different colour borders/strokes. Line is a very powerful tool and as such can be overused very easily. I suggest you remove every single line and border and start over, approaching things with a "only seperate where absolutely needed" frame of mind. On thing that often kills sites with white background is that people hack them up too much. Simple 1px light grey lines are all you need to represent a division. You?re presenting a page of information, not boxing it up to be sent through the mail. There are also places where you probably don't need any lines as a simple bold heading and a paragraph break is enough to represent division in content. Additionally, with a white background you don't need the text to be full black to be readable, often greys work better for this, epically in screen based media. One final thing regarding colour and hierarchy, if you have a light coloured background, dark colours will appear as if they are in the foreground and the opposite will happen with a dark coloured background. Something you might want to keep in mind when tweaking your colours if you?re using that dark read header and a white background for the site. Loading...
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