~www.dots.com:
This is a girly site but the colors are not solely pink. The light soft color scheme on this website is very comfortable to look at, nothing is overwhelming or drastic. I like the way things move when you roll over them so that not everything has to be clicked on. The layout has a good use of white space so that it is not too cluttered but they are still getting all the information across.
When you click on the looks link, it takes you to a page where you can scroll left and right through the different looks and each item has the accessory and shoes that go with it. All the information for the look is shown on the left and things once again, are not cluttered but well laid out so that the information is easy to read and the viewers eyes flow smoothly across the page.
~www.loworks-store.org:
I like that the design of the site is 2D. I am more of an illustration person so these things tend to catch my eye more so than the flashy pretty pictures. I like the earth tones being the color scheme. The layout has things moving around and is interactive which is interesting in itself. Then you move to the navigation bar and the rollover state makes it move.
This site is very easy on the eyes and there are not a lot of contrasting colors. Everything blends well together and its easy to navigate through. There also is a link where you can go back to the actual Loworks page and see the portfolio and other things that have been made.
~www.meomi.com:
I freaking love this site. The design of it is all interactive, everything you roll over does something. I like the colors and the treehouse design. The characters all play there own part of the sites home page. This page has so much going on that you never want to leave the home page. I think i ran the mouse over almost every inch of the page just to make sure I didn't miss anything that may possibly move.
I would love to learn more about using animation on a webpage so that I could incorporate it into my personal website once I work on it some more. I think that when a website has parts that are interactive it helps keep the viewer interested and also keep them from getting bored. It is easy to get lost in some pages but in this one they use the inside of the tree as a container for everything. I think that it was a very creative way to design the page all based on a treehouse.
What I would do to improve the LOOK and FEEL of my own site:
I would love to put more interactive animation in my site so that viewers will want to move around the page a little bit before moving on to the next link. Too many times I see people just glance over a page then click on a link and move on. I want to use a repeated color scheme or distinct characters that tell a story so that people actually stop to think about the "design" of the page.
My portfolio page right now does reflect my personal and professional sides, but I would love to work on it a little more so that I can incorporate my designs into the borders and background images or characters so that everything included in the page is mine. I want every piece to be created by me. I don't want to have to borrow images or just use simple layout steps for borders. I plan to keep working on my personal portfolio page even when this class is over and make different pieces so that I can one by one incorporate them into the page and make a larger portfolio than what I have now and more updated pieces as well.
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