Website design feedback
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beerForo
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Everything is horizontal and full screen width.
Top nav
Logo
Slogan
Pic
You need a nice logo that does not look like an advertising banner and a better layout.
The colors are pretty good for vehicle adventures.
Maybe with the logo you can play with the two Ws somehow.
What is the purpose of the navigation widget bottom right?
It should have a homemade/personal feel to some degree, and it does. But clean it up with a nice logo and don't stretch everything full page.
Top nav
Logo
Slogan
Pic
You need a nice logo that does not look like an advertising banner and a better layout.
The colors are pretty good for vehicle adventures.
Maybe with the logo you can play with the two Ws somehow.
What is the purpose of the navigation widget bottom right?
It should have a homemade/personal feel to some degree, and it does. But clean it up with a nice logo and don't stretch everything full page.
alternadiv
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It's actually not full screen width, I think it's 980 pixels -- I just cropped that screenshot:
I agree that the name at the top doesn't look very professional. The little red logo truck is supposed to be extremely basic as part of the style. But I'd like to change "The Wandering Winterfields" part and maybe incorporate them into the two WW's, like you said.
Bottom nav is just because I see most other sites have one, and because the pages will end up being longer than this one is, so maybe it will have some use after a visitor reads through a page?
... "Pugs Across America" The theme song of course should be "Me and you and a dog named Boo" by Lobo. 
alternadiv
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The top is very busy, yeah. Hmm.
beerForo
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Here's some layout inspiration, with also a "wordy" site name, but clean/small logo.
www.gonewiththewynns.com
Gone With The Wynns
A couple of explorers, modern-day documentarians, and cultivators of curiosity.
www.gonewiththewynns.com
alternadiv
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That’s way better. Thanks for showing it.Here's some layout inspiration, with also a "wordy" site name, but clean/small logo.
Gone With The Wynns
A couple of explorers, modern-day documentarians, and cultivators of curiosity.
beerForo
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alternadiv
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Thank you very much for putting in the effort to help me. I’ll be checking these out.Blog
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Someone elsewhere suggested I add more padding/white space to everything to make it look more modern. I’m going to try that as well.
alternadiv
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Also, thank you for showing me ones that are in my niche. How do you find them?Blog
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RobinHood
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It's got potential, and some nice character already.
I think it feels dated because it's so cramped and in a fixed width boxy format.
If you declutter it a bit, make the header and footer 100% width and adjust the layout and spacing, I think you can make the design feel a lot more modern and easy to reads, but still retain the feel you've created.
I think the sktetchy logo is cool, and fine in concept. But you've got a very busy logo type already what with the custom font and custom colours within the font, in which case that could probably stand on it's own for the header as a logo type, even if you still want to use the actual logo elsewhere.
Here's a little remix for you:
I think it feels dated because it's so cramped and in a fixed width boxy format.
If you declutter it a bit, make the header and footer 100% width and adjust the layout and spacing, I think you can make the design feel a lot more modern and easy to reads, but still retain the feel you've created.
I think the sktetchy logo is cool, and fine in concept. But you've got a very busy logo type already what with the custom font and custom colours within the font, in which case that could probably stand on it's own for the header as a logo type, even if you still want to use the actual logo elsewhere.
Here's a little remix for you:
alternadiv
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Wow, that’s a huge improvement, thank you! I’m definitely going to add all that extra space.
I see what you mean about the extra logo, too. Maybe I can put it somewhere else real small, like next to the who are we text.
@beerForo - that’s a great point that I never would’ve thought of. My YouTube banner already looks like that. For the site I can probably crop the bottom like this but allow the mountain to still show.
RobinHood
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Glad you like it
You could photoshop it onto your truck if you want to use that as a hero image?
You could get a magnetic logo printed up and whack it on there and then it will be in all your tacoma pics
You could have the picture logo on the door, and the domain url text on the side of the bed before the TRD text
alternadiv
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That’s so cool! You guys have been really helpful. I have no idea how you were able to move around my mock-up and still have it look like the background didn’t get messed with, lol.Glad you like it
You could photoshop it onto your truck if you want to use that as a hero image?
You could get a magnetic logo printed up and whack it on there and then it will be in all your tacoma pics
You could have the picture logo on the door, and the domain url text on the side of the bed before the TRD text
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