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Web design by committee...input requested please.

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Entity

Lifer
After working on the backend to my department's new website for quite a while, I just got dealt a bit of crappy news. It's being requested (well, basically mandated) that I use this logo (link) somewhere in my design. Here's the old site design: www.pcthike.com/newbiostat/. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to incorporate it into that...so I'm going back to the drawing board. Literally, I guess.

Here's the new design. What do you guys think? Does it suck? How bad? 😉

Oh yeah, here's the current design. Try not to laugh too hard. 😀

I need genuine opinions, here. I have a fairly easy time coming up with designs that I like, but this has to be a professional looking site, and this logo (which must remain red and black) is really constraining my creativity. Any advice is appreciated. 😀

Rob
 
New design isn't so bad - the logo blows chunks, but it could be worse - I think you've done a good job. But maybe integrate the logo somehow into the actual "Biostatistics" text?
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
New design isn't so bad - the logo blows chunks, but it could be worse - I think you've done a good job. But maybe integrate the logo somehow into the actual "Biostatistics" text?
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Thought about that, but I can't figure out how for the life of me. Ideas?

Rob
 
Originally posted by: BennyD
are you allowed to change the logo at all (like colours or whatnot)?
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Nope. :|

I could always change the rest of the colors from blues to reds, but I think that looks ass-ugly.

Rob
 
looks nice....

i would remove the > from the menu links or at least replace them with something else... that's just my personal preference of course.

also maybe move the picture to the center to fill up more space... the bottom looks really blank....

and perhaps normalize the caps for the subtitle and menu links... would be more professional that way, i think
 
Originally posted by: gopunk
looks nice....

i would remove the > from the menu links or at least replace them with something else... that's just my personal preference of course.

also maybe move the picture to the center to fill up more space... the bottom looks really blank....

and perhaps normalize the caps for the subtitle and menu links... would be more professional that way, i think
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Cool. I'm going to be using flyout menus (like the UW used to have, before they switched to their stupid new design), so the > was a character I thought might be useful in indicating the fact that the menu will pop up. What other chars might you consider?

I'll see what it looks like with less caps, too.

Rob
 
Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: gopunk
looks nice....

i would remove the > from the menu links or at least replace them with something else... that's just my personal preference of course.

also maybe move the picture to the center to fill up more space... the bottom looks really blank....

and perhaps normalize the caps for the subtitle and menu links... would be more professional that way, i think
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Cool. I'm going to be using flyout menus (like the UW used to have, before they switched to their stupid new design), so the > was a character I thought might be useful in indicating the fact that the menu will pop up. What other chars might you consider?

I'll see what it looks like with less caps, too.

Rob
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well the old design is still up under uwin 😛 anyways yea i think it is nice to have an indicator... perhaps a small gif of a triangle? like here: http://www.washington.edu/uwin/. i think the main thing for me is that the > is slightly misaligned with the other text, and also looks kind of skinny 😛
 
what about tucking it away somewhere?

and i don't think matching the colours to the logo would be any better.

bright colours = so 1998
 
If you black out the text on the old design, you can neutralize your color palette, then fade the logo as much as you think you can get away with and slap in on the background. It can be one of those things that people can ask, wtf is that?

i feel for you, I hate red-black.
 
Originally posted by: gopunk
Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: gopunk
looks nice....

i would remove the > from the menu links or at least replace them with something else... that's just my personal preference of course.

also maybe move the picture to the center to fill up more space... the bottom looks really blank....

and perhaps normalize the caps for the subtitle and menu links... would be more professional that way, i think
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Cool. I'm going to be using flyout menus (like the UW used to have, before they switched to their stupid new design), so the > was a character I thought might be useful in indicating the fact that the menu will pop up. What other chars might you consider?

I'll see what it looks like with less caps, too.

Rob
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well the old design is still up under uwin 😛 anyways yea i think it is nice to have an indicator... perhaps a small gif of a triangle? like here: http://www.washington.edu/uwin/. i think the main thing for me is that the > is slightly misaligned with the other text, and also looks kind of skinny 😛
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Thanks. I'll go with a triangle. 😀

Rob
 
Originally posted by: yoda291
If you black out the text on the old design, you can neutralize your color palette, then fade the logo as much as you think you can get away with and slap in on the background. It can be one of those things that people can ask, wtf is that?

i feel for you, I hate red-black.
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No fades either. That would be considered "modifying the colors." :|

Rob
 
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