Http://www.jeanstar.com/

a site for a jeans company i did this year. it’s been done for quite some time, but i thought i’d see what you guys thought.

i concepted, designed, and developed this piece.

http://www.jeanstar.com/

Nice work. I thought you overdid the image effects with some of the chicks and a couple of small nitpicks.

Great job!

Only thing I don’t like about the site, is that I have a horizontal scroll bar.

My favorite part is on the fit guide is how when you mouse over a chicks but, it zooms it.

amazing work!

hmm, just like the overlays and blurs or animation? graphically or dev? :eye:

you did? weird. does the jagged edge of the wood background go off the right side of your screen? what’s your screen size and resolution? unless the width of the entire sizez is wider than you res you should get a scrollbar cause the wallpaper tile in the BG is dynamic and grows/shrinks with your browser window.

thanks for the encouragement and crits fellows…

Hey Haam, good work. It’s a solid, well performing site.

I’m just nitpicking here, and most of it is due to personal preference than anything else so take it with a pinch of salt;

  • Not crazy about how the content is TL aligned in this case. If anything, I expected the content to at least be vertically centered. I realize you made a point out of keeping it L-A for the sake of the visuals, but it felt really malplaced to me with Top versus middle. Just a thought.

  • The “be the first to know” tag results in back-looping onmouseover/onmouseout if you put it on the edge of the tag so it jumps back and forth. Just a matter of putting a conditional statement to stop it. : ) (I know, I’m nitpicking, but that’s what this forum is here for nay?)

  • Loaders are great, intuitive and easy on the eyes :wink:

  • Under “bottoms”, the description text is a little bit hard to read in 1600x as well as 1920x… it smears out in the background.

  • The “fit guide” is blocking the menu which was a little bit annoying, maybe make the hit surface only go up to the neck of the chickies so it can’t block the navigation which should always be accessible.

All in all, two thumbs up. Very nice.
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  • Not crazy about how the content is TL aligned in this case. If anything, I expected the content to at least be vertically centered. I realize you made a point out of keeping it L-A for the sake of the visuals, but it felt really malplaced to me with Top versus middle. Just a thought.
    The entire layout of the website is left top. The wall paper background only tiles infinitely Right and Down for those lucky enough to have gigantic monitors. For the consumer/demographic of this site we’re aiming for 1024 at best which i’m already exceeding. Why would i center align ANYTHING on a website who’s whole layout is based on Top Left? Tacking this one up to your “taste”.
  • The “be the first to know” tag results in back-looping onmouseover/onmouseout if you put it on the edge of the tag so it jumps back and forth. Just a matter of putting a conditional statement to stop it. : ) (I know, I’m nitpicking, but that’s what this forum is here for nay?)
    haha, i’m actually okay with the playful nature of the tag. usually i’m not.
  • Under “bottoms”, the description text is a little bit hard to read in 1600x as well as 1920x… it smears out in the background.
    which page are we talking about here? home page where it says “click here” or the descriptions of the bottoms on the bottoms page? a screen shot would be awesome.
  • The “fit guide” is blocking the menu which was a little bit annoying, maybe make the hit surface only go up to the neck of the chickies so it can’t block the navigation which should always be accessible.

yea, i was sure this wasn’t going to be for everyone. i love how the site breaks it’s barrier for just a second on this page. puts the brand and the fit right in your face. there are only 5 buttons, none of which are EVER covered enough to EVER make them hard to click.

at Most, the Fit Guide and Bottoms buttons are semi covered. since you’re IN the fit guide there’s never a need to click that button and when you need to get to the Bottoms button the natural motion of the “chickies” moves the center girl out of the way to make even more click-able surface of the button available. i spent alot of time deving and placing the images so that they’d both look great AND get out of a user’s way when they are ready to navigate.

in the end the client was really excited about this part and that’s what counted to me. :party:

Thanks for being so detailed and taking the time to pick the site apart. i appreciate your time!

@haam: the overlay effects of the images :slight_smile:

out-standing design… :slight_smile:

@ digital - ah ok, too soft and blurry for you? i have a habit of doing this, i guess i consider it a part of my style, but maybe it’s being taken to far. thanks for pointing it out, i’ll keep the look in mind in the future.

@ ff123 - thanks duder i appreciate the kind words, glad you like it.