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MKL Media Design #2
http://www.mklmediadesign.com

Category:
Graphics & Web Design > Personal Sites

Created by:
Michael K. Lemmon in 2003

See also:
MKL Media Design

Rating:
6.9 (2 votes)

Date added:
Mar 1st, 2003

Last updated:
Mar 1st, 2003

Suggested by:
Mike (2)

Our comments:
This refreshing design uses orange and blue hues just like its predecessor, but has a more coherent layout. A train station silhouette superimposed with a big transparent arc is used as the background image. The interface is straight-forward: just point-and-click; there is definitely no annoying pixel hunting here. One gripe though: there is no space between thumbnails, so they all look like one single image.

--Aycan

stelzner (10) - Mar 15th, 2003 Presentation  4 Graphics  7 Usability  4 Technical  6 Personal Slant  5 Overall 5.2 This site resizes poorly on Explorer for Mac OS X (your images do not line up). When you resize the Flash nav aksi disappears. This is enough to make a good design look not so good. Consider putting this into a table and right justify to prevent your body from shifting right. Navigation is not intuitive at all. Also, you need to fill your background images with a solid color or pattern past the logo design as the pattern repeats and does not look good. Just my thoughts - Mike zephyr (41) - Mar 1st, 2003 Presentation  9 Graphics  8 Usability  9 Technical  8 Personal Slant  9 Overall 8.6 Though using one very small forced flash plug-in this site is excellent. Congratulations to Michael Lemmon. The colour scheme (blue/grey/black/orange) introduces the website as being a cool and tranquil personal portfolio, with a watermark-blue/grey background image which only adds to the richness of this design. Michael Lemmon has a clever use of iFrames and JavaScript functions. And, as though the portfolio presentation weren't enough, every piece of artwork and design shouts out quality, sticking up for the site in that respect. A very good design, though it doesn't seem too compatible with low screen-resolutions.