Critique of panic.com

Panic.com has a very friendly and fun UI.  The colors are playful and the whole look of the site seems fun.  Navigation is a bit different because there isn’t really a navigation bar. Instead there are buttons on the home page for each individual product panic deals with.  The problem with that is it becomes slow to navigate from the various pages outside of home.  Instead of one click to every page, you might have to do two.  The serial numbers app near the bottom of the page was very interesting.  Might make things very easy for users of their products.  

Company Introduction

    At Studio Limitless we strive to recreate happiness in the form of a photo or video.  Life’s moments are precious.  Your babies first birthday, your son/daughters graduation,  or even your own wedding are all things that one wants to remember.  

    At Studio Limitless we have at the least 2 photographers and cameras capturing every angle creating a natural scene of happiness.  With our pictures every smile is natural and every kiss is magical.  Our best quality is a touch of humanity.  We will work with you to create the best package that fits your budget.  No one should have to settle for less, so let us give you more.  

3 Unix text editors

Although I typically work in OSX I do often use Windows and Linux platforms.  Right now I will focus on the Unix based editors. I will focus on 3 and will try to convince you on why I think the one I use is best.  

emacs – This is one editor that I HATE.  I know some people who will swear by it.  They will say that once you get used to it, it is very handy.  I’m not saying that this isn’t true, but for me it definitely wasn’t.  It just makes everything hard by straying away from what your used to.  Simple tasks like copying and pasting are harder than they need to be.  I would not recommend emacs.  

 

TextEdit:  This is the default editor that comes with OSX.  It does everything you need and behaves as you would expect.  If you don’t want to download anything new and just want a simple text editor TextEdit will be fine for you. 

 

Kate – Kate in my opinion is the best text editor.  It does everything that you want.  It color coordinates things so coding in C++ is made easier.  There is a built in terminal which makes running code a breeze.  On the side you can see all the files that you are working with as well.  Thanks to great organization and functionality Kate is one of the best text editors.  

Week 1 Writing Design Critique for http://jasonsantamaria.com/

http://jasonsantamaria.com/ is a simple looking site at first glance.  The colors white black and red are used in great contrast with each other.  Everything seems good, except for the site organization.  At one point you realize that there is just too much going on at one time.  Especially in the articles page.  This however isn’t too big of a problem and one can easily get used to the site layout.  Overall the site isn’t bad.  The colors are nice on the eyes and once you get used the layout, navigation is pretty easy.