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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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but i love it lol
great~
The first thing I noticed is your text on the left hand side. It looks alright, but it's a lot of text for a front page. I'm sure you know that most people don't read text on a web page unless it's specific information they were looking for. Usually they just skim for key words. I'd go with the usual rule of "take the text you have, cut in in half, then cut it in half again." Make those two parts brief summaries and then link to a page for each that has more detailed information. If someone wants to know "what you expect," they can read that elsewhere.
Secondly, your date at the top. It seems to be floating there with no real anchor. Now, I do like the white space you have at the top. I think it adds to the total layout. However, I'd probably anchor the date to the right and bottom of that section. I see that you've lined it up with the "Impakt Models" text, but it just doesn't work. The line of sight doesn't follow well with all that space.
For the footer, some tiny changes might help. The email address is a bit too big if you ask me. It demands too much attention. I'd make it as small as the footer text and add a little mail icon that doesn't stick out too much, but makes it clear what that text is. I'd also line that up with the bottom and add some text just above it saying "For more information, contact us at:" or something like that to fill that space. The actual copyright line would probably look better aligned to the left I think, instead of with the Cassandra text.
I know I just pointed out a lot of things I feel are wrong, but overall this site is very well designed. It's clean and pretty with some great organization of text and images. Great lines really give it a solid feel as well. I like some of your use of blank space, though I think alignment needs to be played with a little.
Excellent work regardless of my critique. One of the better website layouts I've seen at deviantART, that's for sure.
other than that!... this is really slick, proffessional, and great!
keep it up..
About "other colors," you're right not to use them. Only tones of grey should be used, as you're doing.
The date is the wrong element to be solely occupying that large space. Because that location will naturally draw the eye, you'd want something more "rewarding" once the eye gets there. I'm not sure what that should be, but to my eye, it's the most certain flaw in the whole design (whereas anything else would be pretty subjective.) Better blank than the date, I think. But a single italicized "catchphrase" for the company might fit there superbly.
Just a little more space around the logo? However, I really like the correspondence between the overt upper left corner of the buttons and the "negative space" corner inset into the logo, so be careful not to dispel that.
Mostly, though, I think it's a very smart and tasteful design, and that your client should certainly be pleased. It's classy, and the single transparency effect you've used is judicious and elegant.
Here's one more thought, a possibility, not a certainty. It might be positive for the logoname to extend rightward beyond that first vertical threshold, so that the line of logoname copy right-justified with the word Home below. It might help unify the composition, and reinforce that corner parallelism I mentioned above. It wouldn't hurt if the logo itself were a little further out from the left, and then with a little modest headroom too.
Is their logo already set in stone? I might see some benefit to adding character space to the word Impakt, to increase contrast between the two words. So "Impakt" would gain by spacing, and then "Models" by the bolding. But that might be backward - the word Impakt might benefit from a more "immediate" concise spacing, and Models by spacing out, which might require a reversal of the bolding. But this is all just food-for-thought - consider playing with this dynamic a little and seeing what works, if you've still got flexibility on the logo to play with.
If necessary (but not for its own sake), the leftward horizontal divider could bisect the photo/image bar's left border, rather than lead under the buttons. Your current method looks fine and good here - I only offer that in case you need more room to play upper-left.
In any case, hope you don't mind the backseat driving, and hope you'll share the end result, either here or via a link to the live product when it happens. I've been involved in OMP (which I think has pretty marginal site design - too cluttered), so I'm intrigued to see this venture in motion. And, by exactly that comparison, you're way ahead of the curve here, overall. Elegant design from commercial sites is frightenly rare.