Love it, especially the mouseover logo effect Maybe on the contact page, put the "NDA" inside a span and give the span a title of "non-disclosure agreement", just to save some confusion :D
I gave it a +1
Also, because there's so many images I would either compress them and data URIs where possible to speed up the page load times
@karlpcrowley thanks for the feedback. I'll think about the NDA thing.
Was the site slow loading for you? I ran it through http://gtmetrix.com and got 89% with a page load time of 1.64 seconds which is pretty speedy. It can always be faster though, so I will look into that, as well.
@TheDoc...Same here. I thought I could sneak by without needing to use one since most of the pages are fairly long...but sounds like there's some pages where it edges up a bit?
Also, this is the first mobile-friendly site we've done using @media queries. Fun stuff!
@tobeeornot Actually still working on that quite a bit. As of now, its just a lot of display:none, which isn't ideal. But with 4G networks going to be the standard soon, not sure if it matters as much.
It was our first real attempt at a responsive design, so still strategizing what the best solution will be, short of re-directing to a completely separate but mobile site (which I'd rather not do).
@luminated - I'm still struggling with that issue which is why I asked. Even with 4G becoming available, I think it would be great to find a solution as it to some extent undermines the point of responsive design. What do you think?
@ChristopherBurton We wanted the double nav to emulate the curves of our logo (its as if its the curve of the edge of a zoomed in "chee" logo). Beyond that, most pages have a quite a bit of scrolling actually, like the Portfolio, About and Blog.
We played with texture a whole lot but this one still felt the most unique. We really love all the dots (rather than lines). I could see it being a bit lighter, but I'd be curious to see what others think.
As a suggestion - If you're strict on keeping the bottom one, I would take the information, remove the blue bar and apply it inside the curve. The second menu really serves no purpose.
My opinion on texture is that most use too much. You have a nice clean design without it and I think the background makes it look entirely dirty. I would lighten the color of the background and lower the opacity of the texture.
I hadn't actually noticed before that it was a duplication of the main nav. I would agree with @ChristopherBurton on that one, the menu being duplicated doesn't particularly serve a purpose to the user. Perhaps you could replace it with a more subtle tagline.
Thanks for all the feedback guys. I understand what you mean about the footer, but we feel it does provide a solid purpose on the more lengthy pages, and it does lean more towards decorative since we wanted the curves to be encapsulating either ends of the site.
I also did play with the texture and decided to lighten it a touch. We just came from an all white background site though and I didn't want to lean too much in that direction. I think this is a happy medium.
And finally, we were a nominee over at CSS Winner...it would be rad if you guys wanted to vote for us! :)
one thing i did notice, on the portfolio page when you click a thumbnail sometimes the pop up image is so large it covers the entire window. you might want to throw a max-width or height on that. otherwise, very impressive.
http://goodchee.com
Maybe on the contact page, put the "NDA" inside a span and give the span a title of "non-disclosure agreement", just to save some confusion :D
I gave it a +1
Also, because there's so many images I would either compress them and data URIs where possible to speed up the page load times
However, the site looks really bad in IE8, but i guess you already knew that? :)
Was the site slow loading for you? I ran it through http://gtmetrix.com and got 89% with a page load time of 1.64 seconds which is pretty speedy. It can always be faster though, so I will look into that, as well.
..i guess it's enough if any site loads at all on that one... :)
Also, this is the first mobile-friendly site we've done using @media queries. Fun stuff!
Just wondering what strategy you adopted for keeping the bandwidth low for images when decreasing the responsive design?
It was our first real attempt at a responsive design, so still strategizing what the best solution will be, short of re-directing to a completely separate but mobile site (which I'd rather not do).
Also, the textured background does not seem to fit the design very well. I would personally go with something lighter.
I really like what you've done with the services page. Very nicely done.
@Luminated why settle for 89% :) more than half of the world has slow Internet and that's not including mobile users
We played with texture a whole lot but this one still felt the most unique. We really love all the dots (rather than lines). I could see it being a bit lighter, but I'd be curious to see what others think.
My opinion on texture is that most use too much. You have a nice clean design without it and I think the background makes it look entirely dirty. I would lighten the color of the background and lower the opacity of the texture.
I also did play with the texture and decided to lighten it a touch. We just came from an all white background site though and I didn't want to lean too much in that direction. I think this is a happy medium.
And finally, we were a nominee over at CSS Winner...it would be rad if you guys wanted to vote for us! :)
http://www.csswinner.com/details/chee-studio/2073/
Thanks again, everyone.
http://www.cssawards.net/chee-studio/
one thing i did notice, on the portfolio page when you click a thumbnail sometimes the pop up image is so large it covers the entire window. you might want to throw a max-width or height on that. otherwise, very impressive.