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	<title>Comments on: SuavvyInvites.com Launched. Thoughts?</title>
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		<title>By: amyoliver85</title>
		<link>http://ugaf.org/2009/03/27/suavvyinvitescom-launched-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-820</link>
		<dc:creator>amyoliver85</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, I would have to agree with wade. The site is a tad too pastel--and I am a girl. It doesn&#039;t feel to me like it really screams &quot;WEDDING INVITATIONS&quot; when I get there.

I might also suggest a bounding box...I&#039;m reading wade&#039;s comments about things &quot;sliding off the page&quot; and I think have a distinct boundary for your site rather than leaving it wide open and white might help with that.

I like the overall design...although I&#039;m not sure how well your logo fits in with what you&#039;re trying to accomplish. It seems a tad &quot;messy&quot;--check that and realize that what I mean is that it&#039;s color splashes and not an actual mess-- for a company that is going to be making a person&#039;s wedding invitations. Despite the ever changing tide of the times, women still expect a certain level of elegance to a wedding invitation and if the first thing they see is that logo, they might not go much further. Perhaps a different font???

Also, continuing with the pastels...the pastels are hard on the eyes, plain and simple...especially with some white text and that white background. It&#039;s a headache waiting to happen. I would suggest a darker blue--maybe more midnight bluish and keep the pink.

I agree that you need more information about your business, your creds and how to contact you. I don&#039;t know a single woman who would &quot;ask for more information&quot; about wedding invites through an online form...if we can&#039;t talk to someone over the phone about our invites or meet in person, then the deal is broken. I know for us designers that it&#039;s much easier to be able to just deal over email...but this is the most important day in a woman&#039;s life.

I would also suggest using a different font family for the entire site overall. What you&#039;re currently using is too difficult to read.

But again...I do think that overall it&#039;s clean well organized.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, I would have to agree with wade. The site is a tad too pastel&#8211;and I am a girl. It doesn&#8217;t feel to me like it really screams &#8220;WEDDING INVITATIONS&#8221; when I get there.</p>
<p>I might also suggest a bounding box&#8230;I&#8217;m reading wade&#8217;s comments about things &#8220;sliding off the page&#8221; and I think have a distinct boundary for your site rather than leaving it wide open and white might help with that.</p>
<p>I like the overall design&#8230;although I&#8217;m not sure how well your logo fits in with what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish. It seems a tad &#8220;messy&#8221;&#8211;check that and realize that what I mean is that it&#8217;s color splashes and not an actual mess&#8211; for a company that is going to be making a person&#8217;s wedding invitations. Despite the ever changing tide of the times, women still expect a certain level of elegance to a wedding invitation and if the first thing they see is that logo, they might not go much further. Perhaps a different font???</p>
<p>Also, continuing with the pastels&#8230;the pastels are hard on the eyes, plain and simple&#8230;especially with some white text and that white background. It&#8217;s a headache waiting to happen. I would suggest a darker blue&#8211;maybe more midnight bluish and keep the pink.</p>
<p>I agree that you need more information about your business, your creds and how to contact you. I don&#8217;t know a single woman who would &#8220;ask for more information&#8221; about wedding invites through an online form&#8230;if we can&#8217;t talk to someone over the phone about our invites or meet in person, then the deal is broken. I know for us designers that it&#8217;s much easier to be able to just deal over email&#8230;but this is the most important day in a woman&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>I would also suggest using a different font family for the entire site overall. What you&#8217;re currently using is too difficult to read.</p>
<p>But again&#8230;I do think that overall it&#8217;s clean well organized.</p>
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		<title>By: wade</title>
		<link>http://ugaf.org/2009/03/27/suavvyinvitescom-launched-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-806</link>
		<dc:creator>wade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great work and thanks for sharing it with us. The site is well designed, both graphical and from a marketing perspective.

The site is a pinch too pastel for my taste, but it&#039;s probably well designed for it&#039;s primary audience, which isn&#039;t my gender. As a designer I did care about my wedding invitations (I designed them), but most men don&#039;t. I would come up with a few alternate page designs. The same table and ribbon get old to me with it on every page. Your link hover state is too light of a blue. It&#039;d be great if the map on the free engagement website were real so that you could zoom and pan.

I like that you have added an active state to your buttons, but something isn&#039;t right about the shadow. They seem to get lost. There are also some buttons on the site that are shorter and do not have an active state. Most people won&#039;t notice that, but little things like that will help polish it up. I&#039;d include an address and a phone number on your contact page. People are a lot more comfortable putting in their credit card when they know you&#039;re not being run from a Russian internet cafe. I&#039;d love to hear more about your company on the about page as well. Right now there&#039;s just half a sentence about the company and the rest o the page is full of more marketing. The stock icons also don&#039;t seem to match the illustration style of the rest of the site. The gray &quot;form box&quot; that appears atop the table on a few pages is also awkward. It feels like it&#039;s going to slide off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great work and thanks for sharing it with us. The site is well designed, both graphical and from a marketing perspective.</p>
<p>The site is a pinch too pastel for my taste, but it&#8217;s probably well designed for it&#8217;s primary audience, which isn&#8217;t my gender. As a designer I did care about my wedding invitations (I designed them), but most men don&#8217;t. I would come up with a few alternate page designs. The same table and ribbon get old to me with it on every page. Your link hover state is too light of a blue. It&#8217;d be great if the map on the free engagement website were real so that you could zoom and pan.</p>
<p>I like that you have added an active state to your buttons, but something isn&#8217;t right about the shadow. They seem to get lost. There are also some buttons on the site that are shorter and do not have an active state. Most people won&#8217;t notice that, but little things like that will help polish it up. I&#8217;d include an address and a phone number on your contact page. People are a lot more comfortable putting in their credit card when they know you&#8217;re not being run from a Russian internet cafe. I&#8217;d love to hear more about your company on the about page as well. Right now there&#8217;s just half a sentence about the company and the rest o the page is full of more marketing. The stock icons also don&#8217;t seem to match the illustration style of the rest of the site. The gray &#8220;form box&#8221; that appears atop the table on a few pages is also awkward. It feels like it&#8217;s going to slide off.</p>
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