I'm making this website, and I'm struggling with the layout graphics a little. The owner left me go free with the design, and I came up with this.
I'm not satisfied, and I hope you guys can guide me a little

[edit] oh yeah, The logo is choppy because I had to scan it from a business card. I'm waiting for the original files..
[edit 2] Crap, it's esthetics

This post has been edited by delusion: Mar 12 2008, 04:00 PM

I think the menu font color is a bit too soft. Not very good to read. At least, when i look at my screen correctly. When i look from the side, it looks ok.

Oh and my gf is saying that it's a bit too girly girl looking. Maybe it is indeed leaning a bit too much toward the salon and not so much to the gym. I agree with her that the combination of the background AND the purple thingy on the topleft together, make it all very nice and sweet, which wouldn't give the gym credit.

Like the design in general though.

Ohyeah... what are those gastanks (aka weights?) doing in the text?

Well, I think it's supposed to be a little girly, looking at the customers they have. Not too much of course, but every time I'm there there are only women there. They have a nail studio, all the personnel is female.

The gastanks (or dumbells) is a random picture I took from the photoset I've made then I was there..

Thanks for the critique sweety

I like the background, the logo and the design in general.

The two things that I don't quite like. The image on the right, what is it? The navigation is a bit plain and nondescript.

With the damask background, ribbon and light colors, the page feels very soft and old fashioned. The logo on the upper right is very hard and contemporary. It just doesn't go and leaves me feeling unsettled.

If the logo was changed to a bouquet of flowers and the navigation spruced up a little bit, it would be a beautiful site for a florist shop.

That's the thing.. The image on the right is their logo (together with the letters "Impressions"). It's a logo another (web)designer made for them, and now it's on business cards..

ejg: It's not a florist shop though

The photo of the weights needs to go! It has the feeling of a gym in a dark and dingy prison. I think you need to make the logo and tagline stand out a bit more; with the textured background, it doesn't seem to pop out enough. Maybe you could put the tagline on the ribbon? I think the ribbon needs to be a bit brighter as well.

When I think of a women's gym, I think of Curves, and this would be a good site for you to review and take ideas from.

To be honest I don't like anything about the design. It looks cheesy and it lacks emphasis to the content. I'd suggest a design where you can have 2 color schemes that compliment each other. One color scheme for the gym portion, and one for the salon portion. But make sure you can tie them together to make them look as one.

Women's spa's and salons are about luxury and pampering. The Curves site is not the right look.

I don't think delusion's site is far off. I think it needs to be softeror maybe the word is more feminine. Dressup the navigation a bit, tone down the black font, and tone down the background so the logo shows up more.
To me the mockup just looks a bit unfinished. A few more details would be nice.

Hi Delusion,

I don't think it is a bad design, but in my opinion, I absolutely dispise the background image, looks way to old fashioned and out-dated.

I no its just a mock up, but I would definately use a different font with more letter spacing, and more line height making it easier to read, I would 'jazz' up the navigation, because at the moment, it is a little bare and boring.

But other than that it's not a bad start, then the real work starts with the coding

Cracka