Without blowing my own horn, I have quite a good sense of what looks good when it comes to page layouts in a magazine. I'm not bad with the typography, I can use the software well
and I'm a dab hand when it comes to structuring columns and manipulating images to make rather spiffing page furniture.
Websites, however, are nothing like an A4 magazine page, and boy don't I know it now! I spent three hours in last week's class mocking up two basic webpages for our group project - only to be told rather bluntly by my egotistical lecturer that they looked "too simplistic", "infantile" and "like somebody had just sat at home sticking things randomly in the space". So I was not best pleased, as you can imagine.
I'm trying to design a retro - maybe even kitch - inspired website for our fake fashion event entitled "The Indie Cindy Show", but so far all I've managed to do is mutilate some Cindy dolls and plonk random Photoshoped images on a page.
What I'd really like to do is pull something out of the bag that wipes that smug, "I walked out of uni and set up my own highly successful, well-paying design business" smile, right off my tutor's face. So please, if anyone can throw some ideas my way it would be much appreciated?
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