Design for Web - Crit

Strengths

• Vector art over images is strong visually. Focuses viewer on action and looks like you could be viewing on it? (Didn't really understand this comment)
• Gold, Silver & Bronze chairs all well made
• The first image on your blog is the most effective / both relevant / do-able in the time frame.
• It's clear and simple which makes it useable & more understandable
• Contents page would follow nicely from the initial homepage
• Really like the logo & font choices, fits content, although intricate the white and black colour scheme balances it out
• Mix of heart and red cross is clever for the subject & relevant

Areas for Improvement

• The headers should be separated in a clever way e.g. horizontally so they look like individual links rather than a sentence
• On homepage with hexagons, colourful men are a nice image so could be used more effectively on a different page?

Considerations

• The homepage/ navigation reads as a title rather than separate options.
• The hexagons are nice shapes but is there a specific relevance to the Paralympics?
• Homepage with hexagons doesn't seem as relevant to audience
• Consider who exactly your audience is, this will help with considerations for imagery, Children? Older generation?
• SHOW off the logo more, good detail could be lost!
• Visually and mechanically the site will be a great experience for the user, however it may need to be simplified a fair amount because of limitations in html & css.
• Second design logos just as strong - could the page headers be larger/ more noticeable?

This crit provided more useful factors than the previous because I was able to discuss my ideas with Lorraine and gain a perspective of what's actually possible in the time frames, I really need to discuss my design direction with Simon in order for it to work! 

As a secondary measure I've thought about discarding the hexagons as links! and include them as a visual display and just have the category list as a rollover link, however I still want to proceed with my final idea (IF IT'S POSSIBLE).


A swell as reading through literature such as 'HTML & CSS' by Jon Duckett I also thought it would be worth looking through alternative books, I wanted to understand Javascript and different elements of web in greater detail so I began looking over the following book...