Oh, and some more helpful advice...
I did a quick survey from everyone in my art department
and they all agree on two things that would improve
your next web design art project:
a) Keep the site "above the fold" meaning stay within
a 640 x 480 screen rather than a long scroll because
scrolling IS A DRAG! Sorry, it's true!
Does that mean you will have less space to work with? Yes,
but the miracle of web page design is that you can hide alot
of info within a small amount of space. Good designers for instance
learn web saavy devices like rollovers and popups for informational
purposes as well as getting the viewer involved. Since your site is
informational as well as artistic, it should be interactive as possible.
Visually, its a little flat: do you have any 3-d design, or animated gifs, or
what about some sound effects?
b) Work within a grid. Yeah, even in web design, grids count
to keep a visual unity or gestalt. You simply don't layout a web
page like you layout a scrapbook page. Space and memory is
everything on the Web. Plus, for practical reasons, grids makes it alot
easier to apply a template to secondary pages and all
you would do is change the artwork when you go to your
next topic.( Moz's influences, Moz's Albums, Moz's Interests, etc.)
I know grid design is a pain in the ass to create for the web so keep
it as simple as possible. Did you use Dreamweaver to create this?
Well anyway, aren't you glad you asked? I hope this helps if not for
this project, the next project.
Mozmic
> Hello.
> I enjoyed your project. Your choice of photos were very nice.
> One helpful hint regarding homepage design is that file size is
> everything and if there is alot of artwork on a web page, it may
> take some folks some time to eventually see the site.
> I suggest for practical reasons if you use alot of artwork,
> make one piece the central focus and downsize the
> other photos to save download time.
> Other than that, very nice.
