Lovely background. And nice design aswell. Colorscheme is a bit boring-beige, but it fits the purpose. But, you made the website in Photoshop? Or just drew how it is supposed to look? This looks more like something I would make in Illustrator. L
Looks nice I think the colour scheme is ok, it ties in well with the type of shop, maybe if you used a brighter and greener green. The simple layout works well, nice and easy on the eye. A combination of photoshop and illustrator might have made the job a bit quicker.
I'm still learning illustrator so photoshop is still a lot faster to use, as soon as i feel comfortable with it though i'll start doing most of the vector work in illustrator and importing into photoshop. I can see how that would make things a lot faster. I'll play arround with the greens, it was one of the things i wasn't happy with. Too lime for my liking at the moment.. I'll try a darker grass green i think.
Nice clean design, very fitting. I don't agree with the background however. It looks like teh wallpaper in an indian restaurant Other than that tho, it's very good Illustrator would be better for this.. learn how to use it and you'll see what I mean. For a start, unless you designed this at some insane resolution, it won't scale, as it's a bitmap. Do it in Illustrator, and it's a scalable vector, so it can be reproduced at any size you want.
Its not something i would scale tbh... Its going to be fixed width. For individual elements though i can see how it would be far easier stretching/shrinking/rotating things..
It's just makes more sense to do something like this in illustrator. But more respect because you did it in Photoshop I couldn't do this in photoshop.. L
I've got a bit of a problem... How do you explain to someone who thinks the internet is just for spotty nerds that, in fact, designing a website and then building and then maintaining it is a little bit more expensive than £100... It is an ex family member (complicated) so they get the usual "family" discount (but no so much because of the ex bit. But I'm thinking at least £300 here.... For a multi page website (3 main pages and up to 8 sub pages within the food section) with contact form and bespoke design. If this was for someone i didn't know I would be asking at least £500+ any advice?
Not on the web yet, but my portfolio is definately growing. I just need to design my own website properly. I keep getting to a point where I'm ready to build it and then i find myself not liking the design anymore.. Too much thinking on my part... It looks like this website will just become an example site though. someone that the client knows has apparently informed them that even £100 is too much and that I am being rediculous asking for £300.... meh... I think I can just put this down as a learning experience. Maybe I'll just keep an eye on their domain for my design to be ripped off and then send them an invoice for whatever the hell i feel like... I'm thinking £1,000 Leason learned: Never deal with family members... especially ex family members.
I was asked to do this for a small family company (my step-uncle's firm), and did the same kind of thing: did a basic design, and asked for £200 for the full site, plus whatever per month for hosting, and got the same response. I just told them (in a friendly manner) that's what my time costs these days! They declined, and now have something designed in Frontpage in 5 minutes from god only knows who. Utterly non-compliant, and a complete mess.
Well, they decided to not take up my offer. Too bad i guess. They are going back to the guy who did their current website ( http://www.freshfieldsfarmshop.co.uk )
I spent all of, oooh 5 seconds on their website! Is it just the one page? Fascinating stuff - they'll regret it further down the line...
Bit of a shame but you definately made the correct decision. A lot of people just don't understand what goes into this sort of thing and also don't understand what good design is.