This assignment was for a single page responsive web site. In my inexperience, I attempted a design for which the responsiveness is what computer people call "not robust." That means that it's all stuck together with improvised adjustments, and if anything changes, unless it's a replacement for something the same size and shape, the responsiveness will stop working right. Fortunately, prospective employers and clients won't need to know that if they don't specifically ask for something similar.
www.ecarr-gid.com/julia-corenzwit/Fauvism/
Should I make all the paintings links to bigger versions? Didn't think of bringing this up during peer review.
Julie – the website has some great imagery, background texture and content. Some thoughts:
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2. Am thinking that the body copy blocks seem a bit dense. I wonder what reducing the pt size a bit would do? Make it more inviting to read?
3. Captions: do you think the “by” should sit on same line as artists’ names?
4. The Green Line… unless we get all the way through your body text, we don’t really know who painted this… so maybe add a “by line” here, like the others?
5. Lastly – and here is the big one – I love parallax scrolling. However, do you not think that the ghosted text frames (that are translucent rectangles behind each and every frame holding type) are making this busier than needed, especially as they all move up or down over the background? I’m thinking that a cleaner approach, using the ghosted framing, would be to allow one large translucent rectangle to sit behind each section. Merging all those little boxes into 1, and simplifying the chaotic nature of the page. Currently you have colored horizontal lines separating the section… so this tinted background could “hang” from each rule and end before reaching the next section below. It would help to reinforce the organization of the sections, and simplify the page. All while allowing the movement of parallax to be beautiful, smooth transitions as we scroll.
This would be the most complicated change, I think, to be made here - but if you are interested in including this in your skill set – it’s the most important next design step to refine.
And yes, after all of this... then adding an enlargement link that opens in new window would be nice.