Comments on: 30 Minute Redesign: Eric Vasquez

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:35:05 +0000

Great work on the redesign! I love the vibrant colors, and I loved the additional tutorial you did in colorizing the art. I would like to submit my Association’s website. I have been their IT guy for 2 months. They badly need a redesign, but I am not that artistic. The url is http://www.msrealtors.org. Thanks for the consideration, and the great tutorials!

By: Mohamad Salah

Mohamad Salah — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:40:01 +0000

The most amazing thing is how u come up with the redesign ideas! oh man I stuck at first at such redesigns!

I see that u made important improvements mostly, if not all, related to user experience! am I right?

anyway great job and I am bookmarking all your redesigns as its my inspiration in a lot of projects of mine

By: MarkT

MarkT — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:43:31 +0000

Thanks Tom, appreciate your thoughts. I’m going wrong because I’m trying to combine a bright logo with a light background, light pattern, then trying to add a highlight to the header. It was never going to work, really. X-D

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:32:33 +0000

Thanks Eric! It always seems to help to get an outsiders perspective, as you always miss stuff with your personal projects.

I’ll just email you the .psd now, and hope you get a chance to use it.

By: Eric Vasquez

Eric Vasquez — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:35:42 +0000

Thanks so much Mark! I appreciate your kind words and agree that Tom really knocked this one out of the park!

By: Eric Vasquez

Eric Vasquez — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:35:07 +0000

Wow! I think you did a fantastic job man! I absolutely love the redesign. I feel like I have been HGTV’d or something.

You really broke down the strengths and weaknesses of the site which is great, especially because when you are looking at your own site for so long you don’t always see the other options or different ways of laying things out.

I am very happy with the end result and have been a big fan of the 30 Minute Redesigns for some time now. I value your suggestions and your hard work! Thanks again Tom.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:20:37 +0000

That really means a lot, thanks so much . It’s great to know that some people have been reading right from the start. I definitely enjoying this redesign, and it’s nice to get into the swing of the redesign process over time. I hope that you’ll keep enjoying the series!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:19:38 +0000

Thanks so much Mark! It’s always great to get such in depth feedback. I was pretty happy with the background design and highlight header effect. What exactly are you struggling with for your design? Maybe I can help… For this design I simply had a black background, then used a really low opacity floral brush for the background details (masking off areas of this floral design to add variation), then adding a radial gradient (white to transparent) at ‘normal’ blend mode, really low opacity, for a subtle highlight effect.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:15:54 +0000

Thanks Kevin! I’ll be sure to include your site in this week’s poll.

By: Vimal Vanmali

Vimal Vanmali — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:49:06 +0000

Tom I’ve been following your 30 Min re-designs since you started this series over a year ago and I must say that your designs just keep getting better, What you achieve in 30 minutes is astounding. Good Technique of narrowing down the Strengths and weaknesses.
I really like colours and the background that you’ve used. Keep up the good Work Tom.