Clearpage Interactive- MVC website

This is the Missouri Valley college website. Clearpage interactive designed this website. They make interactive websites, they do traditional advertising, and corporate identity. One of their featured projects was designing the Missouri Valley College Website. I like the header. I like how the logo is on the left side and the search bar is on the right side. The navigation is very easy to read. I like how the body area is laid out. I really like the Calendar & Events on the left side. I think college students and other people will find the calendar section useful. I like how "Academics," "Admissions," and "About MVC" is laid out into 3 columns with links underneath. The home page is easy to read and follow. I also like the colors.  

The Green House

This is The Green House website. I like how a piece of weatherstrip is coming out from the side (at least that's what it looks like). I think the green and black work well for this website. This is a green website so they pretty much have to use the color green. I like the picture in the body area. I also like that they added a low opacity white curve going from the words to the green curved. This website is a little dark with the black background. The home page is very simple and clean. I like the text on the front. I think the typography works. I like how "weatherstrip," "home," and "energy" are in a bigger font and bold. Those words stand out from the rest. I think this is a simple, but effective website.  

CINIVA Design firm

CINIVA founded in 1998, is one of the Mid-Atlantic region's leading website design, business development, and Internet marketing organizations. While the majority of our clients are based in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area, we have worked with businesses and organizations throughout the state and all over the US.    http://www.ciniva.com/about.cfm 
They designed the Currituck County (NC) Department of Tourism and Travel website. This is the official website of Currituck Outer Banks tourism. This website has a peaceful feel. I like the colors they chose, but I'm not sure if other people will like it. I like the blue sailboat in the header. I think they chose these colors to match the colors of the little icons above Currituck. This is a basic 3 column website. The text is easy to follow since it's in 3 columns. I like how they have pictures in each of the columns. I think the typography works well on this website. This is a simple, but to the point website. I also love the picture of the horses at the top.
 

KMW Studio

http://kmwstudio.com/website_design_development.html
KMW studio is a graphic and website design firm located in New York. This website is called "The Artist Garden." The project was a landscape design website and the service was art direction, graphic design, and website design and development. I really like this website. I love the colors. The home page has a peaceful feel to it. I like the brown and the blue in the title box. They put the title in all lowercase letters, which you don't see much. The navigation is easy to read and I like it being brown. I think the thumbnail pictures work well on the left side. I like how if you click on a picture it will blow up to a bigger picture on the right side. I have designed 2 working websites and both of my websites have pictures on the side that blow up on the right. I like the feel and look to this website. I think KMW studio did a good job designing this website.

Ultimate Walleye Fishing

http://www.ultimatewalleyefishing.com/services/

 This is the Ultimate Walleye Fishing website. They also provide services such as website and print design. It says that they can design logos, custom web design and hosting, brochures, business cars, DVD packaging, and postcards. I really like the background of this website. I also like the colors and textured background. It fits with the fish and outdoor theme.  I like the header picture and the logo. The text below the picture is a little hard to read, but I don't think that text is that important. The centered-aligned navigation is not working. It would look so much better if it was left-aligned.  I like the body layout on the right side. The font is working and I like how the picture separates the body text. I think this is a pretty well designed website.

HindSite Interactive Design Firm_Bare Bites Website

http://www.hindsiteinteractive.com/portfolio/web-design/

HindSite Interactive is graphic design and web development firm. They are located in Frederick, MD.
  This is the Bare Bites website that they redesigned. The services were css and html. I think this a cute website. I really like the font choice. It has like a playful feeling to it and also a natural feeling. I think the colors work really well. I like how the Facebook and twitter logos are white and they fit with the website. I think the lines not being straight and has a textured edge to them work because this is a dog and cat treat website. It also gives it a natural feel. I like how the type is laid out next to the picture. It is easy to read and the text is different colors, but still in the same color family. The colors are duller, but I think they work. Again thinking about that natural look. I also love the dog and the cat at the bottom. They are simple, cute, and it adds a touch to the page. I like the design of this website. http://barebites.com/

Tourim Australia website

 This is the Wildlife Tourism Australia website. I like the header picture and the curve. I like the pictures at the top. It gives viewers a preview of what Australia has to offer. I also like the curve between the header and the navigation. The navigation is easy to read and I think it works being in a orange brown color. The 3 column body area works pretty well. I like that there is a picture on the left and then a description beside it. They kept the contact and subscribe information on the far right, which I think is a good idea. It's not in your face, but it's easy to find if you wanted to find that information. Overall, I like the layout of this website.

Fresno City College

 This is Fresno City College website. I'm not sure if I like the colors. I like the colors red and black, but they are very hard to work with. I'm working with those colors now for a magazine that I'm designing. I think this website has too much red and black. I think it would be better if the background was a different color like white. Right now it's too much red and black. Red is hard to read on black and vice versa. I like the header. I like the hidden city/bridge in the background. It doesn't stand out right away, but it's a cool touch. I like the curve below the navigation, but I don't think the amount of space on each side is the same. It looks like the right side has a little more space between the word and the end of the curve than the left side. This website has a top and side navigation. I think for a college website that works because there is a lot of information on college websites and a lot of links that people like to go to. I like the big picture in the body area. They should get rid of the red underline text in the footer because it's hard to read against the black.

Mums Who Bake website

http://www.designpix.co.uk/website-mums-who-bake.html
This was designed by DesignPix
Completion date: May 2009.
Details: Vicki at Mums Who Bake needed an identity for her idea of an online shop and baking community for all those frustrated bakers out there. She wanted the brand not only to identify with the personal gratification of baking, but also with the memories of baking with mum as a child; the smell, the taste and the warm feelings inside. The website needed a bespoke forum, a photo gallery that Vicki herself could add to, and an online shop.

I really like the colors of this website. I think the target audience is definitely women. I like the play on words and I also like the header. I think their logo fits who they are. I like that their logo has a flow to it. I also like the curve that separates the navigation from the header. I think they could have gone with a slightly bigger font since they have extra room in the header. I like how the body is laid out. I really like the 3 pink boxes and I like how they alternate as far as what side the words are on. It gives it a diagonal movement. This website feels homey and cheerful. The pink text in the body area works because it relates to the pink on the page. I like how they chose a few words in the second paragraph to be in pink so they can stand out. Those words catch my attention more than the other words do. I like the design of this website.    

Saye Gbatu

CTE creative does print, web, and photography. I can't find the person's name who created this website, but I think he created his company "CTE creative." He designed this website for his friend Saye Gbatu who is an illustration artist. I don't like how the artist's name is reflected. It's hard to read and it doesn't go along with the header. I feel like something else should be in the header because it's a lot of white space, but maybe not because there is a lot going on at the bottom. I still feel like the header is missing something. This website clearly focuses on the artist's work because there isn't any information on the home page. I feel like there should be a bio about the artist somewhere on the home page. There are a lot of thumbnails at the bottom. I like it and don't like it at the same time. It's bugging me that there is an extra thumbnail on the top line. I would like to see a caption with each blown up picture on the side. The information could include how he made it, the materials, and a possible title. This website is heavily based on pictures. I think this website still needs some tweaking.    

Aqaba Website

I'm not crazy about the design of this website. There are some things I like about it, but not much. I really like the logo. I love how the letters are made out of fish. I don't like the little white pictures going across that header. I think it's too distracting and you can see the header picture better without the white pictures. This website doesn't seem that organized. The navigation seems to get lost on the side because it doesn't stand out. I like the pictures on the front, but I think they need to be laid out differently. They should separate the pictures and then put a caption underneath. The type next to the jet ski picture at the bottom looks weird and it's not working.  It looks like it's justify aligned. I don't like the extra space between the words. There is no reason to do that for body text. The footer isn't that exciting looking. The footer takes up a lot of space when it shouldn't. It looks like they were  trying to fill in the space. This website needs some work and organization.

Interactive Website_Pennsylvania Tourism

This is an interesting website. I like websites that are interactive, the only problem with them are that they can have a slow download time. It looks like you can click on the pictures or the tabs. I like how bright and colorful the tabs are, but I don't think it matches with the colors in the background. The tabs are bright colors, but the background isn't. I think they should change the tab colors to a dark red or green. It would be cool if the background of this website changed with the seasons.

Chocolate Clothing

  This is the Chocolate Clothing website. I like the colors of it. Most people probably think of the color brown when they think of chocolate, but in this case they chose pink and a light brown for the colors. From the looks of this website it looks like it is targeting to women. I think this is women's clothing boutique. I like that they are show casing some of their products on models on the homepage. It gives viewers a taste of what the boutique style is. I like how the social media icons are pink instead of the traditional colors. Their footer seems a little large. I might make that a little smaller. It looks like they have 2 search boxes. The most important one is the one on the top. I also like the textured background in the header. The pink line divides the main picture with the 4 ads below and I think that works. For the most part, I like the overall look.

Nomad website

Yammayap created this website for Nomad. Yammayap is located in London. They design websites and print publications. I don't like the lines going through the picture. I don't get why they would want the picture to be cut up like that. They are bringing the gutters between the tabs all the way down the page in white and I don't think it looks good. There is no reason to do that. I think the picture and the tabs would benefit from not having any lines. I like the colors that they used. It looks like they pulled the green from the fruit in the background. This looks like a 3 column layout, which I think works. I like how they put the contact information on the front page, so it would be easy to find. I think the typography works because it's simple and has a calm feeling

Morgan's American Grill Website

http://www.morgansamericangrill.com/

This is Morgan's American Grill website. Almost all of the text is in papyrus typeface. This font is hard to read for the main body type. I can understand if someone used this font for a title or header, but it should not be use for the main type. It's weird that they used papyrus when it's an "American Grill" restaurant. When I think of papyrus I think of Egypt and nature places. There website is small. It doesn't fill the whole page and it's aligned to the left side. I like the red and yellow lines on the left side. I think the colors match the colors of the food in the pictures. I think the information in the header like the restaurant hours are hard to read. The text is in a white-gray color against black and the font they used is hard to read. I think it might be better if the navigation was below the header instead of next to it. They need to make some changes to the website and get rid of papyrus for the main text!