New Design

Subject: New Design Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:10 am

Here is site I've been building for a personal trainer, the idea of the site is that it's very simple owing to the fact that being one person there won't be a logo to work with or any kind of colour scheme, it's a has to look personal but professional.

http://www.taylorsprint.com/MM/Sort%20C/
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I like it, the Blue and Green are great together, it is very simple but it works very well, you can see you've spent alot of time planning the SEO into the text. Smile

Subject: Re: New Design Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:47 am

IMHO it looks too "bloggish" - if it is wished by your client it might be allright.

I really like the images and the way you integrated them!
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I think the 'bloggish' look comes exactly from the laid out design brief:

• There wasn't a logo to work in - most blogs just have someone's name or a title at the top.

• Simple layout - Blogs are all about the text not the design around it.

• It has to be personal.

I think the reason blogs sites look the way are they are is because most of the points above count. So a blog style layout fits the design brief and does sit somewhere between personal and professional without running the risk of looking too corporate.

It works. Very Happy

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I really like it, espes the ads on the right, nice and clean looking Cool

Joined : 27 Nov 2006 Posts : 13

It's a very clean site. Everything seems to work really well and I like the color scheme.

A couple of things just going on my personal thoughts..

I don't understand what this header info means:

"DIP PT IIST Member of Rep's"

Possibly this info needs an anchor link to an area of the page that provides explanation. Also I wouldn't use a contractive word (rep's) unless it were something extremely well known to the general public at large.

The drop down header links flow smoothly - but the pipe-like buttons seem to just cut off on left or right. Possibly extend the 'pipe' to expand across the page the full width just as the gradient header does.

The images are lovely on the right - but the page needs a bit of balance on the left side as they are large and 'weight' the page. I would make them a bit smaller and possibly (and this would help on SEO as well) repeat the header links on a left side bar going down the page.
It looks like it is shaping up to be a very nice site.

Subject: Re: New Design Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:55 pm

hi everybody, i've just joined. Nice wee forum you have here. As a matter of fact I have just finished a website for a personal trainer friend of mine. Here it is:

http://www.mensanafitness.co.uk

It turned into a bit of a rush job as you may notice especially the heading images and the services page but i thought it was quite similar to your site.

and if you can think of any constructive critisism for mine also that would be great, thanks

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Toon Good Job! cheers

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Age : 27 Joined : 04 Dec 2006 Posts : 22 Location : bedford

Toon the design is great mate i really like the clean sites, one thing I would do is make the blue grad in the header little bit higher then would sit the navigation perhaps as tabs on the blue as at the moment the navigation looks
like it should have something each side if that makes any sense...

its 8:30 am and the office lights are very bright PLUS no red bull in tesco this morning so I had to get Tropical Juice Drink that is made with a blend of fruit juices from concentrate...

Subject: Re: New Design Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:53 am

Age : 27 Joined : 04 Dec 2006 Posts : 22 Location : bedford

No it has stuff i have never heard of before such as Vitamin C, Fibre, Protein and so on... must be unhealthy stuff that!

Age : 28 Joined : 01 Aug 2007 Posts : 17

Is looking good but can still make it more professional.
At the bottom where you have mentioned the telephone nos & email address, just put some good looking design work either to right or left end of the page.
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