Jazajay
Active Member
Right I have taken on a friends site, pro-bono as TBH he needed help. :lol:
So he came round today and I did him a re-design while he hovered over my shoulder. Err....yeah, anyhoo he got quite annoying, quite fast, and rather than letting me finish the whole thing, then pass judgement on the finished product he was like I don't like that, yeah I don't like that and I was like yeah let me get rid of the crap you have done first and then see the finished thing then let me know, rather than seeing a 1/4 of the design with your crap still in their.
Anyhoo so we came to a final design, together {shudder}, at 1 point he wanted to add blue stars to the background and actually liked it when it was done, it looked pretty bad TBF and when he asked me what I thought I actually said well design is subjective, thanks for that line Greg, lol.
So here's what I cant change ~
1. The background, took about 30mins to convince him that was better than blue stars.
2. The logo,
3. The layout,
4. The main images.
5. The good dam colour scheme.
So surprise, surprise I'm not sure I'm that keen on the finished thing, he is and did leave happy so I guess it is not really my problem, that and I didn't charge for it, I honestly think I would feel bad if I did.
I probably would have liked it if he left me in peace TBH as I have learnt a lot from this community about design over the last few months, but I just cant seem to get the thought out of my head that it is not as good as it could be and I don't like leaving work that could be better.
So any ideas, with the very restrictive guidelines in mind, how I can improve it?
Here's his old site ~
Fancy dress costumes,
And here's my re-design ~
http://bedtimebliss.co.uk/rich.png
It may just be that I wasn't left in peace and I therefore didn't create what I had in my mind why this is bothering me so much.
Any comments good or bad?
All are appreciated and honestly none will be taken to heart.
Cheers
Jaz
PS ~ I did not code his site and I would honestly cry if I did, god knows how long it is going to take me to implement the changes TBH.
So he came round today and I did him a re-design while he hovered over my shoulder. Err....yeah, anyhoo he got quite annoying, quite fast, and rather than letting me finish the whole thing, then pass judgement on the finished product he was like I don't like that, yeah I don't like that and I was like yeah let me get rid of the crap you have done first and then see the finished thing then let me know, rather than seeing a 1/4 of the design with your crap still in their.
Anyhoo so we came to a final design, together {shudder}, at 1 point he wanted to add blue stars to the background and actually liked it when it was done, it looked pretty bad TBF and when he asked me what I thought I actually said well design is subjective, thanks for that line Greg, lol.
So here's what I cant change ~
1. The background, took about 30mins to convince him that was better than blue stars.
2. The logo,
3. The layout,
4. The main images.
5. The good dam colour scheme.
So surprise, surprise I'm not sure I'm that keen on the finished thing, he is and did leave happy so I guess it is not really my problem, that and I didn't charge for it, I honestly think I would feel bad if I did.
I probably would have liked it if he left me in peace TBH as I have learnt a lot from this community about design over the last few months, but I just cant seem to get the thought out of my head that it is not as good as it could be and I don't like leaving work that could be better.
So any ideas, with the very restrictive guidelines in mind, how I can improve it?
Here's his old site ~
Fancy dress costumes,
And here's my re-design ~
http://bedtimebliss.co.uk/rich.png
It may just be that I wasn't left in peace and I therefore didn't create what I had in my mind why this is bothering me so much.
Any comments good or bad?
All are appreciated and honestly none will be taken to heart.
Cheers
Jaz
PS ~ I did not code his site and I would honestly cry if I did, god knows how long it is going to take me to implement the changes TBH.