31Three

Creative services for the design-challenged developer



eWedding Redesign

eWedding Redesign

There’s been a bunch of projects that I’ve done over the last year that I’d love to post here, but haven’t been able to because they’re still under a NDA. One of those projects just launched yesterday (congrats Matthew!).

If you’re planning on getting married anytime soon, head on over to eWedding.com and sign yourself up. The launch is still in the early “honeymoon” stage, so there might still be some bits and pieces that need tweaking.


Looks great. However, the Safari screenshot’s buttons look a little fuzzy.

Good work, Jesse!
One question: The icons under “website features” are hand-made or bought?

Good eye Christopher… and if anyone knows how to make screenshots on an angle not look all weird… please let me know.

You can get those icons at IconDrawer.com.

Hey Jesse,
There are some Photoshop templates (free to download) here:
http://www.webdesignerstoolkit.com/

I guess you could paste in your own screenshot of the website into this PSD.

There is probably a much easier way, but the PSDs from that site look good when rotated.

Looks great, Jesse. Very gorgeous site!

I would try doing it again (the screenshot), I’ve never had anything nearly as choppy when I tried to rotate my screenshots. In fact, I just tried it with the eWedding site at the same angle as you used and same image size and it turned out pretty good. I usually rotate first and then change the image size, seems to produce slightly better results.

Do it whitout using Smart Object and transform it in 2 steps. First Scale down and commit transformation and then rotate

Tight and classy – excellent work as usual! I’m really feeling that Features page in particular.

Top notch as usual. I agree features page is great.

Btw small nitpicky bug for the developer: On features page, clicked full feature list, clicked downloads. Title Downloads becomes Downlaods.

Jesse, I like your application of a gradient over the dots in the body background image (top of page).

That’s one of those subtle finishing details that always catch my eye and yet which elude me when I attempt to do something fresh.

I also appreciate your choice of type face in the navigational elements on your designs.

It’s in the details. Great work.

Great Work Jesse!

I honestly get excited whenever you do something new. I always try and dig in and learn from the best.

I was wondering… Could you please share how long you spend on each phase of a/this design…? Initial mock up in Photoshop? Revisions? Translating PSD to xhtml/css?

It would be a great help!

Thanks!

nice, hope you didn’t have to all of those themes as well!

sorry, missed create in there

Superb, Jesse. Can’t wait to see more projects as they launch!

Hi Jesse,
First of all I would like so say that I big fan of your work, specially your layouts for the elis lab.
I really have to say that this site isn’t one my favourite, I currently chick your site for updates…and I really expect better form you.I’m not saying that its not a good site, just that you already made much better. I think that (aesthetically speaking) design or web design is about detail and and consistency and this site definitely have issues concerning to these tree points.

Detail
-Starting by the header, yes the print of the browser window is a little bit strange,but its not what bothers me the most.
-in the home page, the brown strip doesn’t end in a perfect way,(and I have seen your article about the redesign of the expression engine, and you use to be more careful with this kind of details)

Consistency
All the people love the “features” section, but i have to say that its the section the I like less, not because of the design in it self, but because it doesn’t fit in the all site. In the hone page you have a more…traditional layout, with the ornaments and brown colours, and then, in the features page, you have an Itunes effect, and this 2.0 icons. for me this is not the best example of consistency.

I will finish whit the thing that i really like in this site :)

I really like the colour palette, the logo, and the typography choice.

congrats for the “elis lab” sites and the “mobile web design” site. it really inspires me a lot!!

Other thing, sorry for my English…but I’m Portuguese.

AW WOW. As usual, a fantastic work. Love the colors, typography everything..

An update after a long long time since MobileWeb.. but worth the wait.

Thanks

Once again, great work! I love the colors, type choices and how concisely the information is put together. The work of a talented designer. I’m currently looking for just such a service so I was ecstatic that you made such a site.

The site itself is great, BUT the themes fall way short of great. They’re ok, but nothing I’d look fwd to pay for. I wish they also hired you to make at least a theme or two for them.

I normally check out your work and admire from a far and use a lot of your sites for inspiration for my own but today I am compelled to post to your blog and say I love your work!

Your eye for detail and aesthetically pleasing design is amazing!

Have you ever thought of doing online classes? Not webexs or webinars but something like this: cartoonsmart.com

I would love to see your thought process and be a fly on the wall when you design one of your sites. Just an idea.

Keep up the great work!

Good feedback guys… I made some minor tweaks to the site this morning to address the browser fuzziness.

Hi Jesse,

another solid piece of work. The colour palette, typography (is that Gotham and good old Clarendon I see there?) and layout hint at what’s next in the world of information delivery and user interface for CSS/XHTML. Sounds like a hefty statement to make, I know. Your fresh use of typography, minimalist design to complete the idea, and wide-open, airy interfacing layout make surfing the web truly an “experience”, which has been hard fought for in design for the web over the years.

You’ve successfully merged traditional, organic, or otherwise tangible colours, textures, and presentation and made it digital in a contemporary web format.

Coming from a designer-art director, my experience landing on the eWedding page involved being taken by the colour, engaging layout, typography and content. Quite frankly, browsing over the site for the first time as a “user”, nothing glarlingly jumped out at me that provoked any notice of visual tension or layout issues.

You’re definitely breaking some new ground with this project.

Congrats.
Mike

Great Work Jesse!

Everything is superb about this site – colors, layout, fonts and various themes.

However I feel pink would have also looked good in the background. Anyhow like all your work, this is also a masterpiece.

Congratulations!!!

Hi Jesse,

Think you should start trying something new as this to me looks identical to the expression engine sites etc and the other designs you have done. Same buttons, fonts, style. Its technically good but same same same.

Ash

This is so hot. Alot of the time designers will mock up a home page, a basic content page and that’s it. Each page here is a masterpiece. Great work.

Great site Jesse.
Nice colors, fonts and layout.
I really like your work.

Wow, I actually saw this awhile back and I thought you might be behind it, but i ahve been slacking on my visits to your blog seeing as how your updates are pretty few and far between.

Looks great!

Great work (as usual). I agree with Abdul Abdulbarr: how about some online classes? I’d love to learn something from one of the best designers out there.

Jesse
Thank you for inspiring us and teaching other web designers!!!!!!

Please keep it up!

Thanks,
Derek (Dotcom Labs)

hey jesse, the site looks great! did you do the actual wedding websites or was that someone else?

Comment Preview:

Your Comment

Have Your Say…

Please keep the comments clean and on topic.

me Hello, my name is…
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain, a stay at home designer from Grimsby ON, Canada. To get in touch use the contact form.

“If Mom were on the payroll, she’d earn $126,593”. Seems a bit low to me. Happy Mothers Day.

MyFamily.com is looking for a Sr. Interaction Designer. I had an excellent experience working with these guys… definitely a gig worth checking out.

Cash Flow Management for small business – Pulse

Authentic Jobs Affiliates – “Partner with Authentic Jobs in helping employers find top-notch web professionals.”

Authentic Jobs API – “Team up with Authentic Jobs in helping employers and job seekers find each other on the interwebs.”

View Archives →

Authentic Jobs

authentic jobs signHelp Wanted
Recent openings posted at Authentic Jobs.

Post your own job opening.


idologic hosting Idologic Hosting
I've been with Idologic since January 2006, and can vouch for their amazing support and reliablity.

ref_ee ExpressionEngine
A feature-rich content management system that allows PHP illiterate folks like myself to create dynamic sites.

ref_basecamp Basecamp Project Management
Basecamp is the smarter, easier, more elegant way to collaborate on your internal and client projects.