What do you think about this design? It is targeted for a floral company, or gift company and it is supposed to exhibit e-commerce styled behavior. It is only in its draft stages, so waht do you think?



Just in case you turned off images, here's the link:

http://www.rendervault.com/storage/images/preview.jpg

This post has been edited by soggie: Oct 14 2005, 02:05 PM

I would greatly appreciate comments, both positive or negative are equally welcomed. Thanks!

haha is it just me or what... i think pink + yellow would make it look sweeter and much more captivating.

Well its supposed to be for a floral selling site, or gift site like memory lane or something like that.

What u think?

Guys, I skimped through all your comments, and as expected, you guys give extremely useful comments. Thanks for spending the time to explain the fallacies of my design. Tomorrow I'll read thru it again in more detail... thanks again!

Yes I agree that the color scheme needs better work. Originally I used blue shades because the requirements for this web design states that no red, no pink, and only blue, white, gray and silver. Now taht this template has been on hold for approval, maybe I'll mod the color scheme and release it as a free tempalte with much more girly and sweeter colors.

Haha now brain not working... partay too much. Will continue tomorrow. Thanks guys (and girls)!

manson, it IS for a florist shop

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you meant by "pls la dun use templet"... can you elaborate more on that?

EDIT:

I think you misunderstood that I'm ripping off another person's template and just putting in some flowers and that's it? Well to clarify, every single pixel on that image I posted up here, is 100% conceived from my own photoshop, on my own computer. The flowers come from google images, which I believe are copyrighted, in which I will have to discard sooner or later in favor for original flower images, but the other things you see such as the layout, the ribbon, the wording and every single thing is my own work, not a work of others where i copied. I have the PSD file if you want to look at it.

On second thought, I think that's a compliment from you. To be able to fool people into thinking "this looks like a pro template... can't possibly come from a malaysian. he must've ripped it off somewhere", I think that pretty much gives me an extra boost of confidence

Thanks!

This post has been edited by soggie: Oct 24 2005, 09:37 AM

Yeah i always start with sketches... but what i noe is my sketches always differ from my final product by a huge degree...

I'm more of being a photoshop freestyle person. What I do is, launch a 800x600 or bigger canvas, then draw a draft from there. That way I get my stuff quicker.

Allow me one final civilized reply before we close this case. Firstly, yes, I know what Photoshop is, and I know what Ctrl+U, gradients, levels, layer effects, and so on means, so thanks for the reminders, but they were unnecessary.

Secondly, the lorem ipsum is a standard dummy text, which in case you don't know, appears in most draft-stages designs. Its not called standard for no reasons - it has been widely used all around the world, and I'm just surprised that you don't know that yet. Go wiki for it, or better still, here's a link for your further inquiry:

http://www.lipsum.com/

As for the "weaponized" words, what's wrong with that? I can replace them with doreamons and pokemons and still I ask, what's the big problem here? If writing these proofs that my template is a rip off, then I question your deduction and inferencing skills.

Thirdly, I am offended not because you gave your criticism regarding my skills, design and everything. I am offended because you assumed and accused that my template is not of an original work, yet you do not have enough evidence to clearly proof it. Go do this - go into the internet, and show me where I ripped the template from. I double dare you, to use your own words back against you. However, I believe that with your mentality that malaysians can only be lazy and only knows how to rip off people's work, it might be futile to argue with you the originality of my work.

Finally, if after my vindication you would still hold onto the fallacious belief that I ripped somebody's template off, then do humanity a favor and give proof that I did it. You can't just go around accusing people without proof, but if that is how your mentality works, then I have nothing more to say, but to bid you good luck in life.

To reiterate I welcome criticism, but if you want to challenge me on the originality of my work, I'm fully prepared to defend my own grounds. However, please do this in PM. Please do keep this thread civilized, and focused on criticism regarding the design, usability, layout, and others.

Well here's an update of the color scheme, in response to the popular comment of colors not matching. Will reply to all criticism in the next post.