Built a Website, w/ WP Created 9 years ago2015-03-11 04:48:57 UTC by zeeba-G

Ok I hate promotions but I've hopefully been around this community long enough to promote my new website at least once. And, i'm proud to present my first completed product and it's relevance to TWHL.

My site is arcmanfab.com Check it out!

My first product is actually inspired by a chair prop I made in my entry for the competition to map a dream. "Somewhere In Time".

It is the chair I mapped in a haste, so much so that I hardly remember mapping it. It's in the entrance of the main house, map name "home".Welp, there you go. Let me know what you think of my site and any recommendations. Oh, and so far I don't ship out of the US just because my products are so heavy. But that could probably be arranged if ever needed.

The chair weighs in at 80lbs!

The chair looks real nice, maybe a bit small though. Is it comfortable? Because the model sitting on it doesn't look like it is.

80lbs... without looking it up, some 35kg? It's a lot for mail

The website looks bland, generic and slightly disorganised to me. In a prefab way. It kind of looks like it's missing something, there's a lot of empty space around the logo that makes it look incomplete. The nav bar looks like it doesn't follow any rules, so "cart" and "checkout" are between "about" and "contact" and then "my account" is after that, etc. there is no grouping by purpose. And the fact that it's JUST slightly wider than my resolution and "shop" wraps around and falls alone in the next line is weird.

The logo by the way sucks. There's too much going on in it. It's like you tried to put everything in it and everything competes for attention. It definitely needs to be simpler.

Okay start, needs refinement.

For how flat the design is it actually is semi comfortable. The bent wood back is really comfortable. Scale wise, it is actually really big, much bigger than I thought it would be. It looks bigger in real life. The only possible scaling issue is that the arm rests are a little low.

Thanks for the input, I agree that I need to fix the ordering. And thanks, I didn't know the logo looked too cluttered. I have another version I was going to use for laser cut business cards that I might be able to work with.

The shopping woocomerce functionality I added cluttered the home page a little but I will try and fix by consolidating tabs or something.

Oh by the way, do you at least like the concept of the logo? Compass for a in arc representing architecture and Mig Welding gun for F in fab for fabricating with welding. Maybe i'll remove the circle grid and flame and reduce colors.

Here's the logo for my business card I am going to laser cut and engrave. What do you think of it so far?

I don't know, I don't mind that logo. If anything, I just think the lettering needs a touch more contrast against the details.

And I'd suggest filling in the text on the bwees-ness card, seems a mite hard to read.

The card logo is only marginally better. I still think there's too much going on in it. Maybe the compass needs to be a simpler, stylised version of one, and the welding gun looks like from a different logo to me. I'd probably go with stylised versions of both, they are too different otherwise (there's a lot of detail in the compass and very little in the welding gun). The spark also adds clutter.

I'd suggest you design an alternative, simpler logo.

I'm aware I sound like a total arse saying these things. But they're meant with the bestest friendliest intentions

Thanks Disco, I will begin work on the new logo this week. I appreciate the input.

@Jessie, the lettering will merge into single lines as it is laser cut.