VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

cyclometh · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:16 pm Post subject:

It's all good- I don't feel beat up, Mike. Smile

I was going to work on it this evening but I still have an audition to do and I'm frankly worn out after the commute... we'll see if I can summon the energy. Ninja

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cyclometh · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject:

OK, overhaul largely completed. I think this is a good direction- I made the contact information larger, changed the content of the "Contact" page, got a more visually appealing banner using some muted colors and used more saturated versions of those colors in the rest of the theme's palette.

New and improved with YOUR feedback: http://voxman.net
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Scott Pollak · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:37 am Post subject:

Yeah, Corey. MUCH better. The changes are subtle, but you've taken what was essentially a page devoid of any personality at all, and injected just a touch of 'something'. I like the grunge type font of "VoxMan" (I can't recall if that was on the original or not), and just the addition of a bit of color makes a big difference.

To me, even if you do nothing else on the site, this works pretty well.

BTW, I never commented on the 'caricature' (though I know it's not, literally a caricature), but it's fine. It beats the heck out of just another mike on a page, or worse yet, dogs and wine! Smile

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cyclometh · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:40 am Post subject:

Thanks, Scott. The original logo/icon was done by a good friend of mine who is also a professional artist- even does articles for Photoshop Magazine, etc. She did a vector trace of a photo of me, and I liked the effect a lot.

We spent a few hours last night going over ideas via chat and she came up with the "sine wave cable" concept, and added the VU meters in the back, but they were in grey. I suggested tweaking them to look more like real VU meters, but highly desaturated, and then took the same colors and adjusted the font palette with darker versions of them.

The distressed font on the logo is just something she did, I think because she felt it fit my personality in some way. Wink

Thank you again for the time you've been taking to look at the site. I kind of like where it is; the colors are subtle but make a lot of difference as you noted.
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Bruce · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:08 am Post subject:

Yep, much better now.

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Mike Sommer · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:50 am Post subject:

You're moving in the right direction.

I do like the distressed font, now i would distress the image a little bit to add balance and symmetry. If you do that you'll be on the money.

You need a little constancy with the headers i.e.

"Corey Snow, Professional Voiceover Artist" Seems a little wordy. Any one that's been paid for it even once is technically a "Professional."
"Voiceover Artist" sound like a pretentious bohemian-- Just be a "Voice Actor"--- Corey Snow- Voice Actor.... Yes. Has a nice ring to it, does it not??

Also keep all your headers the all the same color or make the top header the dominate color, or all the same color.
Example:
Corey Snow- Voice Actor
Commercials
Technical Narration
Audiobooks

Corey Snow- Voice Actor
Commercials
Technical Narration
Audiobooks
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cyclometh · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:18 pm Post subject:

All right, updated the header graphic and changed the header font colors for consistency. Thoughts?

http://www.voxman.net
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Mike Sommer · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:24 pm Post subject:

Looks and feels much better. It's getting a flow to it.

I've mentioned this before but I would just have all the social network links strictly on the contact page. I don't mind the phone number, but then again most people seem to rather email before they will call.
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Bruce · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:40 am Post subject:

Tiny, tiny thing...it reads "Corey Snow- Voice Actor" with the hyphen up against the W.....maybe a space between the W and the hyphen, or replace it with a comma?

I hear Mike on the social media links on the front page, but, it's 2011 and that's the coming wave of things (I guess) so I see no problem with it, especially down at the bottom.

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cyclometh · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:45 am Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback. Smile

I think I'll leave the social media stuff where it is, I kind of like the fact that there's a little splash of color there anyway.

And I'll adjust the headline with a comma, that does make sense and I had considered it already, so we were thinking alike.

Just about ready, I think. Just need the demos now.
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