The Grey Ghost

I always liked the 90s batman cartoon. I remembered the episode with the grey ghost in it but it had been a long time since I saw it so I looked it up and watched it again and yeah it is still an awesome episode! So I made this poster out of a screen shot I found as a tribute to bruce waynes childhood hero.

Great color combo

This is another one of those all on one page sites. I'm gonna call 'em scroll sites till i find out if there is a conventional name for them cause you do scrolling and alost they are like those big long scrolls messengers had back in castle times. Anyways this site:

http://wickedpalate.com/

Is definitely a scroll page. It is relatively flat but I think thats just cause I just went through a bunch of pages that felt like they had good depth to them. THe color choice was awesome though. The three colors of the witch hat cakes in the above picture are used throughout the  entire site and with that egg shell 'ish color in the back it felt like a really artsy bakery the entire time which is what the site is advertising so good job designer of this site. I can also tell it was well colored because I now find myself wanting a bakery good with marzipan on it. The one thing I did want to point out and actually wanted to use this site to show a the importance of a seemingly small thing is that nave bar location. When you land on the page it works out fine as you can see in the screen shot it is right there and ready. but if you hit any of those nav buttons you get sent toward the bottom of the scroll and have to scroll back to the top of the page to find that nav bar again. Of course you can still access the info by just scrolling to it yourself but then that produces the problem of you aren not sure which section of the page you are on because there were few headings on this page. It is ok there weren't headings in a way because some of it is self explanatory but  when designing a site the designer must design so that even the most computer illiterate person can still at least know where they are. Overall I liked the sites look the colors worked with the crafty photos near the bottom. It gave a very friendly personable feel. really that navigation is the only thing that is a hold back.

More Parallax!

Sweet candy corn this site does it too! here is the url if you want to check it out yourself:

http://www.yurbuds.com/#/features

So just like the other site they use the parallax effect to be able to post big things that might not need as much attention as other things but thanks to the depth they go down in the ladder of hierarchy. This designer however used great repetition in with the branding these headphones already had. The navigation bar at the top (which follows you where ever you go) uses white and yellow, the colors used in the word mark of the logo, to show where you are and where you can go. They then use those same colors to establish headings and sub headings through out the page. with in the first second of looking at the page you can already pick up that white and yellow is what you are looking for any kind of navigation from finding out where you are to finding out how to get to where you want to be. Notice that the head phones them selves are red and black which are the two dominate colors of the entire site reinforcing the "awesome dominating power" of these head phones. I am also becoming some what of a fan of these pages that have all of their content on really just one super long page and then the navigation doesn't take you to another page it just scrolls you to the section on this long page that you want to view. I'm sure there is a word for it but i have yet to learn what it is. 

Cool Websites I found & Why they are cool

So I was given the assignment in my Graphics Interface Design class to find some cool websites and critique them. Pretty sweet gig if you ask me cause for me that means I get to get some inspiration. I'm starting with this site:

http://www.vivascom.com.br/

This is a site that seems to be a design firm site in Brasil But I don't know Portugese so I can't promise you thats what it is. As you can see from the screen shot above it has so cool imagery that was given plenty of room to breathe which is something I personally like in websites landing page because it really sets the mood for the whole site. If the landing page is designed well it helps the whole site feel a little more designed which helps make up for those pages that have a lot of content and is sometimes harder to design. BUt that isn't really the thing that got me pumped on this page. What got me here was the use of animation in scrolling. THey had 2 layers of background that moved separately from each other giving it a parallax view which gives your screen a 3d feel almost. If designers give a good sense of depth to a web page it makes a ton of difference the content seems more organized and gives you the ability to have huge colorful things that dont steal or mess up your hierarchy.