From: Fachrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> > Web saya : http://www.geocities.com/antoniusxyz/  <== termasuk salah
satu web terburuk yg
> > pernah dapet penghargaan "Worst Homepage Ever" di coolhomepages.com. ="D
> punya kriteria tersendiri utk web personal. Web anda sendiri terlalu
banyak bermain dgn warna

Saya baru lihat urlnya, jangan terlalu dimasukkin ke hatilah si
coolhomepages atau penilaian dari orang manapun. Apalagi kalau homepage
pribadi, sifatnya ya pribadi sekali, kalau menurut anda sudah baik ya sudah
toh? yang penting ya usaha teruslah.

Dulu memang saya hormat sekali sama si coolhomepages itu pengeeeen deh masuk
:D, karena memang site-site yang masuk  ya bagus-bagus. Sampai kira-kira
seminggu terakhir, saya lihat beberapa site dan ada satu site yang menurut
saya pribadi sangat kurang

Saya kebetulan ada temen yang kenal sama si pengelolanya si coolhomepages,
dia kasih penjelasan [kritik] site yang saya buat, kenapa dan mengapa, jadi
kalau ada yang mau masuk ke coolhomepages bisa belajar dari kritiknya dia.

Surat dibawah masuk ke saya sekitar 3 bulanan yang lalu, sekarang si
http://www.nr10.com nya kebetulan sudah berubah, jadi kurang pas sama
kritiknya.

+tolong dong, kalau sempet tolong dilihatin ada beberapa site yang lagi
tahap konstruksi masih bisa dirobah-robah gitu.
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HTML
http://www.imagecyber.com
http://argokilo.arantan.com --> duh ini emang nggak asik nih, cuman bingung
mau benerinnya gimana
Flash
http://www.bambang20.com
http://www.nr10.com/demo klik panah kanan tiga kali terus, klik highlights.
http://www.lioncitycup.com
http://www.nr10.com/demo/darcy
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Oke deng! dibawah adalah kritiknya si coolhomepages :P

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Hi Saranto:

The guy who runs CoolHomePages.com had asked me a while ago to help review
sites for CoolHomePages.  A couple of my friends had submitted my site and
later, I submitted your NR10 because I think it is really cool!  When he
didn't approve either site, I thought I would write and ask him why since he
seems like a nice enough guy.  I also just mentioned that he featured
Network Solutions site (which I think is one of the ugliest sites in the
world) and yet mine didn't make the cut .. so I was curious.  Here's what he
said.  I thought you might be interested.

I don't agree with him at all .. not one bit.  I couldn't begin to tell you
the amount of compliments I have received on the opening you did for me.
People go crazy about it.  As a matter of fact, a reporter just called me
today from a magazine called PCWeek (a huge magazine here) and he might be
doing an article about my work .. and guess why he called and what he liked?
Right, the Flash opening!  I guess different people have different taste!

Anyway, have a good laugh about it!

-----Original Message-----

HI Siobhan -

Thanks for not being afraid to ask. This is tough, because you've asked me
to critique the work. Some people take the critique well, others don't -
one problem with design work is that it's somewhat subjective. So my
opinions are not necessarily facts - but I guess that's why designers are a
special breed - we all have our own sensibilities for things and that's what
makes us different, and thus gives us our own value.

So I risk losing you as a surfer by telling you how I feel about about your
your site and www.nr10.com - the two I just looked at. But you've helped me
out for sure, so I owe you this much at the very least. I just ohope you
don't hate me or think I'm a pompous ass. If you knew me you'd know that's
far from true.

So here's my honest opinion, as you've asked for:

The evolvedsites Flash animation has a few things that dont' work well for
me, and combined, they don't add up to what I think is a CoolHomepages sites
-

The color palette is basically black, white and light brown. Just not a
compelling or interesting color palette.

The message is a little lackluster  - the message is essentially "do you
want a prehistoric type site, or a modern one?" - it's not a question that
needs to be asked, because nobody would pick prehistoric.

The typography across both evolvedsites and www.nr10.com is lackluster. It
uses Arial or Helvetica almost exclusively, which is the most common font in
the world. It's be nice to use a font that says more about your piece than
Arial. I don't mean to suggest a weird or really out there font -- but just
something with a ncie feel other than Arial. Frutiger? Univers? Helvetica
Neue? Interstate? Meta? MAaybe something less "standard" would be good
actually. All the ones I just listed are pretty standard.

The part of the animation where the man paints or produces the horse was
confusing. At first I thought the horse was a dog. But then after watching
it a few times I figured that you were trying to bring to mind that man
painted horses in cave drawings (part of our evolution). If I'm correct,
then it's confusing, because modern man didnt' do cave drawigns, - that was
prehistoric man -- and the prehistoric men in the animation have already
faded away. So I was confused.

The blueish image of the man at right holding a computer makes me thing you
might be able to fix my computer. So that's a little confusing.

I have a personal pet peeve - it's lower case type with lots of
tracking/kerning/space in between. Traditional typographers will tell you
that's a no-no. It's OK to do that kind of spacing on CAPS here and there -
but lower case letterforms are really meant to work more closely together,
so that the empty space between them can interact.

The www.nr10.com site on my G3 and G4 just blows past me - you may be
looking at it on a slower machine, but it takes 4-5 seconds to play the
whole thing. I have a feeling that will be a surprise to you, because I'm
not thinking it's intended to go that fast.  it's not compelling because I
can't absorb any of it.

So that's it. I hope you don't hate me. I don't know what else to do but
give you my honest opinion. I hope none of this sounds rude - I've tried
hard to be honest, but not rude.

As far Network Solution, the reason that site is there is because of their
layout. The two column ting with the little icons is something I can imagein
alot of companies may want to 'borrow'. Additionally, the fact that they
have their number one most important item (the domain searching box) right
up there in bold gold, front and center, impossible to miss, is smart.  it's
not a beautiful site at all....but that layout could work well for a lot of
businesses who want to punch up their 6 most important products or features.
That's why NetSol is there, just to let you know what I was thinking.

Thanks so much for all your help,

hoe this was more helpful than painful


Tim






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