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My site with Minimal Design


ChrisHPZ

ChrisHPZ

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Hi everyone, how we doing. So I re-entered college two months ago in pursuit of a bachelors degree in multimedia design and once again I'm being bombarded with the concept of minimal design, what it is, and why it's the standard that websites are built around today.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/17/showcase-of-minimalist-and-clean-designs/ <--article here for those interested.

So in this time, I've convinced myself that what I call "boring bland websites" can still be made elegant, simple, and captivating. In doing so, I used my own website as a testing ground. I know my opinion of it, now it's anyone else's turn. There are no purposeless graphics, and plenty of negative space. Of course I appreciate everyone's comments.

http://www.cdemarco.com
 
How did you create the comments bit on the comments page? I think that you should change the font size because it makes the website look over crowded and it has made the navigation bar too thick. Keep up the good work tho :)
 
Actually, the code for the comments page is embedded from my account with Disqus. When I saw it on my end, I thought the text was simply an issues with my monitor settings. But now that you're telling me basically the same thing I know it affects other monitors as well. What I will do in this case is make a new css rule to target all the text in the appropriate div tag.
 
if the css file were on my computer, this would be no problem. but what's going on with the comments page is that it has its own css file that is located on a remote server. without it being on my computer, i can't really alter it. however since I hate to throw in the towel i'll see if there's a way around this. maybe i can find a script that communicates with remote files and play with the font sizes that way. somehow PHP programming seems like it could do this. glad you like though. did the videos and images load fairly quickly?
 
Looks good but I think it would look better if you had all the page links on one line. Also it says you are an aspiring artist. People want to hire artists not aspiring ones. Besides, you designed that site didn't you? That means you ARE an artist. Aspiring means you want to be something but you are already past that stage. These are just my thoughts.
 
yeah i did design my site, and everything in it. i guess i could reword that aspiring line to something like "I am a student of web design aspiring to become a professional in the industry." The subject of that sentence is what I am right now, and the predicate is what I want to be.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aspire
 
Call me obsessive but if that's what it takes to get something to work then so be it. I managed to get ahold of the css that applies to the comments page. Made a native css file out of it and saved it to my computer. This is done by simply doing the "view source" thing that applies to websites. Once I had the code that controls the formatting of the comments page as it is rendered on Disqus.com I can pretty much do what I want with it on my site. So I searched for the properties that most people disagreed with and altered them. Let me know what you guys think. Leave a comment, whatever. Thanks to everyone for the detailed analysis of this page and my site in general.

http://www.cdemarco.com/comments.html
 
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