Comments on: Brand new design, let me know what you think!

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Just a quick note, Dustin, to thank you for sticking up for me on Smashing Magazine. It seems there are a few of their readers who don’t appreciate my logo designer article.

Thanks also, for the ‘floats’ on Design Float. It’s an honour to have you spend time doing that.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Nice work, Dustin!

Clean, legible, easy to navigate. Onwards and upwards eh? Keep it up bud.

By: Mike Archibald

Mike Archibald — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Nice design, clean and informative. Good job. Your site also made http://www.css-design-yorkshire.com

By: Dustin Brewer

Dustin Brewer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Thanks Chad! I appreciate you adding me to CSS Burst, your css gallery.

I still have a saved draft to send to you for designer spotlight. I’m a slacker when it comes to talking about myself though. Haha.

By: Chad Jaggers

Chad Jaggers — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

I like the design. It is much improved. I know we will see another one soon though. That’s how you roll. Did you see your site even made it to http://www.cssburst.com? Congrats.

By: Dustin Brewer

Dustin Brewer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Dustin. The tiling of the background is a real problem for me, can\’t really decide how I want to approach that.

If I make it fade into a solid color the design loses a little. If I spent countless hours perfecting the transition of my tiled gradient into the tile itself I will lose a little of myself.

So yeah, not sure what I\’m going to do about that. I have a pretty simple solution for the header to be tiled. It mostly consists of me doing it right instead of trying to cheat and everyone calling me out on it. I knew it was a bad idea to try and get by with it last night, haha.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

I need to learn how to spell, do not critique me??

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Dustin,

Actually this was not my comment, but it does sound like something I would say Here are my true comments though, I noticed you resized the logo and it looks better. I do agree you will need fix the background, it will be hard to make the background tile with the curves becuase it will either have to fade or become straight at some point. I’m working on a new 24 iMac and it’s really obvious . The glossy screen makes it look real Web 2.0, LOL. I’m sure you’ll make it look better, keep up the good work Dustin.

Dustin, < Ha!

By: William

William — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

I like the site! Good job.

By: Dustin Brewer

Dustin Brewer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Yeah, that was one of the things that I need to work on. In the original comp I had the body area at only about 780px wide and then right before I made it live I decided I was going to widen the body to what it is now 968px wide.

When I went to widen the body I had to adjust the top header image, and when I cut it up I totally spaced the way I did the image at the top. Last minute design changes can throw off the whole process.

I\’ll probably fix that later on tonight as well as figure out what I\’m going to do with the tiling background, it doesn\’t tile the way I wanted it to and I was working on it late last night and was very ready to go to bed.