Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

**aperson** · 07-20-2005, 05:57 PM

RE: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

My stuff: http://zastari.acunett.com/shutyourhole.html
Start to finish was around 6 hours. I went for simple and to the point. Typography and color scheme reflect the feeling of the name 'shut your hole'

**soccr743** · 07-20-2005, 06:00 PM

RE: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

[[[REPOSTED BY ME FOR SENATE]]]

OK here is my submission. I too, am tired of waiting. the deadline is NLT than midnight EST (3am PST)...so Its 705 by my watch. Heres what I got. I chose to do the site as a professional site. The colors black and yellow are used as the universal colors of CAUTION or WARNING. Since the site talks about how a lot of companies say things to divert your attention to things that dont matter, and how celebrities use their status to make you serve their purpose. It serves as an opinionated expose` of such stupid things out there. I made a log in page because, due to content, the last thing any site moderator or web master wants is hate mail from some whiney mom becuae her kid stumbles on the site at 4am while looking for porn, there actually IS an age verification code embedded into the sign up and email verification. There is no rule stating you need to show HTML, but know that its there.

The RULES page is my rebuttal to the "WORRY" pic that APERSON posted and in turn soe of the pieces that I've done. I did one of them JUST FOR the rules page, so illustrate a point. Throughout the site here and there you'll pick up on bits of low brow humor and sarcastic remarks that play off of actual things in society (not many but they are there). Total time taken 2 days (including the 3d work). The mock site is JUST that, a mock site. There is no way I'm actually going to host this. Itsone thing t trounce each others work in a forum that its somewhat acceptable to do in. Its another to make a website dedicated to it. Its just series of images that I pieced together by taking of each "page". Yes they are actual pages ( I have the HTML and such on my HDD if you need the proof), three seperate HTML pages, a CSS script and a bit of JS, just to say it was done right, meaning the tables, divs, everything is there. I didnt feel simply making a layout in PS and leaving it empty was really worth doing, as anyone can fdo that. The challenege was web design, and that means DESIGN a whole site, code, laoyout, function, content...every aspect of it.

With that heres my submission. Please take the time to read it through as the HOME page is supposed to be somewhat comical, and the RULES page is, as I stated...smack talk, but not hateful

I wish APERSON luck and would liek to say that regardless of the attitude of the content in the site, I have no hard feelings or bear him or her any ill will.

**talisman** · 07-20-2005, 06:17 PM

RE: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

gotta go with aperson on this one...

his colors are better and the simplicity of the font as well as the size variation (rant and serv'd) both act to convey the sort of no-nonsense take-no-prisoners attitude that shut your hole implies. And I will never write another sentence that gay on the internet ever again. Jesus.

senate's works if you consider that the site creators are more sarcastic and cynical than just flat out angry, but I guess I see the site as coming from someone angrier than cynical.

interesting that you both used the yellow stripe.

and my only complaint about ap's is the connection between the shutyourhole title and the the subtitle (between the H and the t). It isn't necessary and looks lame.

**senate7377** · 07-20-2005, 07:41 PM

RE: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

yeah , the yellwo line is uncanny... hmmmm... mine was posted first... hmmm... j/k. Im sure thats not hte case, as aperson said that he had chosen colrs taht were in your face. I will say that Im surprised as to how his site looks, its better than I though, but... Im still biased... but then I understand my own content. I think we underestimated one another here.

Im a cynical guy, so thats where I took mine, his colors do work (especially the duo tone reds), and if it werent for the understanding that every monitor gamma is slightly different, Id say his colors bleed into each other too much; but gama is different and I cant really use that becuase it might justbe me. It IS an angry look, I'll give it that. I was leary on being as graphic as ap in the site, as I've seen some people ask us to refrain from the language and since mine isnt a link. I felt the need to adhere to that request. Its not an excuse, but just a reason.

As I may have said before, my design is that of a ironcically professional site. I almsot did one that was as loud and BAM!, but I chose the other route.

If I had to pick the thing on my site I like the best, its my tag line on the footer and in the header. One thing I really dont like in hind site on mine, is maybe my font it too small, should increase it by 1px to 11px. Im a fan of Arial 10px and Lucida Sans (aside from in web design having to make sure that you are using a font that EVERYONE has... the forced font face to oter client end users is flakey at best), and use them often. They are both highly readable and recognizable.

On aps site I like the colors (even though they are almost TOO loud and kind of "flash"). Its funny and to the point. What I like least is... the text justification in his body and how the titles look like some of it has a 1px space between characters and others dont (it could also be my gamma screwing that up too I dunno, all I know is I see it and it bugs me a bit).

I would encourage others to comment on what they find good and bad about either site concpet as "talisman"has. That was good constructive crit.

**tnyhwk900** · 07-21-2005, 06:47 AM

RE: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

Senate's has a lot of cool content in it, and that's about it. Since we're not going by content, this killed him. AP's color scheme is perfect, and it's more pleasing to the eye (as pleasing as a shutyourhole.com could be).

AP wins my vote.

**senate7377** · 07-21-2005, 08:56 AM

Re: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

Originally posted by aperson

HTML, PHP or CSS is to be used to create the site, aside from just Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator. This is not a contest of JUST art, but web based design as a whole.

The site may cantain anything as far as content and images.

Judging will be based upon:

1. OVERALL LOOK AND FEEL
2. CONCEPT

3. PROPOSED FUNCTION
4. VALIDITY OF CONTENT
5. QUALITY OF WORK
6. USE OF COLOR (not number of colors, but how well the colors work togehter)
7. ATTENTION TO DETAIL
8. SITE APPEAL (based on home page alone - would you visit this site)

LAYOUT and DESIGN are different things. When an architect designs a building, he diesnt design just a shell, he gos in and designs the rooms and their strusture as well, whats inside the building.... but yeah, his colors are better. Hes even got an example of a site that is successful on content alone - Maddox - its UGLY as sin, butthe content is what makes the site

**flypie743** · 07-21-2005, 10:18 AM

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I'd have to go with aperson on this one. He had great colors that really gave the feel of "shut your hole". Gray and creme really doesn't give me that angry feeling of "shut your hole". The fonts aperson used were great. Especially the variety on the side (big font for rant and serv'd). Senate, I really didn't like the font you used for the "SHUT YOUR HOLE.COM"..it's just kind ugly =X. Also, senate, your splashscreen could use some work. That white part shouldn't be there (I think this was pointed out earlier?). Both sites had good content that made me laugh, but ap's colors and typography were amazing. I think it senate's splash screen were fixed and the colors were different it would've been a closer round.

**banditcom** · 07-21-2005, 10:49 AM

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1. OVERALL LOOK AND FEEL: Senate
I feel like I'm looking at a McDonald's site when I see it. Senate's is much more appealing to look at in my opinion.

2. CONCEPT: tie
Bitch site vs. Sarcastic site

3. PROPOSED FUNCTION: Senate

4. VALIDITY OF CONTENT: Senate
Rather obvious...

5. QUALITY OF WORK : Senate
Rather obvious...

6. USE OF COLOR (not number of colors, but how well the colors work together): Senate
Again, aperson's looks like a McDonald's site.

7. ATTENTION TO DETAIL : Senate
Rather obvious...

8. SITE APPEAL (based on home page alone - would you visit this site): aperson
Senate's is just a login screen... Not very welcoming.

Originally posted by tnyhwk900

Since we're not going by content, this killed him..

I like how everyone who said they voted for aperson was pretty much based on which colors or font they liked more. Great way to ignore the rest of the categories, dumbasses.

6 for senate, 1 for aperson, 1 tie... My vote: senate.

**Omeganitros** · 07-21-2005, 10:51 AM

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My vote Senate as well.

**The_Q** · 07-21-2005, 10:58 AM

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I'm afraid Senate wins this round.

Q

**Bahamut-X** · 07-21-2005, 11:27 AM

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I really liked senate's. It had an excellent layout and appearance, and used good colors. It seems much higher quality than Ap's.

EDIT: Lol I tied the votes.

**Moogy** · 07-21-2005, 09:46 PM

RE: Re: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

aperson all the way.

**Jello** · 07-21-2005, 09:55 PM

RE: Re: Aperson vs. Senate voting thread

senate just tried to fucking hard.

aperson gets my vote.

his colours were WAY better. gets your attention. K.I.S.S doesnt just apply to music holmes.

aperson = winnar.

**BCLR** · 07-21-2005, 10:03 PM

Senate gets my vote. His looks like it is more professional and everything and Aperson's (no offence) looks like it was thrown together.

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