Lealea Design

Man, what's up with this rampant nepotism!? Just kidding. Having been able to see this site in development, I must say it turned out far better than I'd anticipated (and I expected it to be good). Nice job Lea.

You got to it before me Simon. Great Job Lea and you deserve the recognition.

This truly is a great website. Extremely simple and elegant, and I love the color scheme as well. Nice navigation too. why's the screenshot so screwed up? at first I thought the whole site would look like that

Zeerus: No idea why the screenshot looks so bad. It's a jpeg saved for web at 100 percent. A gif would be better, but I can't upload gifs.

Oh gosh. SG reviewer writes SG review about an SG reviewer's site.

Sounds a lot like the Bush regime... err.. administration to me. ;-)

Oh, and nice looking site. :-)

This is simple visual but great navigation.

I love u'r color

God job Lea.

ps : Did Lea Indonesian girl ??

Lea was born in the Philippines but is a Canadian citizen. :-)

Also: thanks for everyone's supportive comments! I greatly appreciate the plug and the praise. I blush.

You should be blushing, Lea. Great job.

I really like the implementation of SlideShow (at least I think that's what you're using) in the Projects section. My only beef is that you've misspelled "images" here: " ~ Wait for imagse to load. Hover over the image to read further details. ~ "

Great catch, Greg! I swear, I've visited the site over and over and just when you think there are no mistakes... oops! And yes, that is SlideShowPro. :-)

I love Lea.

PS: The G in "Join the Mailing List" is allmost hidden under the form.

Hmm - Nice site, bold use of colors. Good job on that.

I just think the overall design is a bit "loose" feeling. The typography doesnt look and feel crisp.

Overall though, I like it. Reminds me a bit of quo consulting too.

Tor -- are you sure? The lowercase "g" of Target Book, the typeface I'm using, is supposed to be a bit unique, so it could LOOK like something's missing, but it's not... a screenshot of what you see may be nice, too!

You're right, Mike -- I was influenced a bit by Quo's design. I liked their main navigation and footer styles so I made my own twist on them. :-) Also, we both have bits of brown and pink (mine reminds you of wine and grapes, they remind you of chocolate), and utilize SlideShowPro for our porfolios -- but I believe the overall direction of my website is very different from theirs.

Can you explain more about what you mean by "loose"?

I will definitely go deeper in depth with my process for my new identity and website under an article I'm writing called The Art of Self-Branding. :-) That will explain more where I'm coming from.

Great site, i like the colour combination and all the tiny details the site consists of. Did you set the background to transparent in the image replaced headlines? I think there is a misbehaviour on Linux (i tested it in Konqueror and Firefox), the image replaced headlines have a different background than their containers.

http://temp.designchuchi.ch/lealea.net.png

Besides this, great job!

Greetings from Switzerland,

Peter.

Its a great design, all the little details just make it one hell of a site!

The color scheme is beautiful, as are the small touches throughout the site. I would have thought that white text on not-so-black background would hurt my eyes, but it didn't (my eyes are bad, and I'm on a LCD).

And of course, it's great to see female designers being featured! ;)

Nice use of colour and the layout is simple yet original.

Refreshing.

I love the color scheme. Fantastic work!

i seem to remeber a conversation about

Oh yes, and "she" is obviously a woman, so that also counts in this male-dominated world of beards and beer bellies.

on somebodies site a while back :) wonder if this has anything connection.

It's good to see some new blood in here, I totally agree with Simon, and made the same agrument on flash99%good.com that as developers hone their design skills and as designs hone their developer skill, all blood will mix and something wonderful will come out in the wash.

All this bickering back and forth with each other ( designers-who are more oft conserned with looks vs developers-who more otf are conserned with code) just acts a diversion from what we should be working on which is creating a stable and enriching community from which all levels, areas, and walks of life can come together and revel in the fact that we provide a meaningful contribution to our clients and their clients and thus the world.

hmm...over the

Another compliment for this site, with two caveats:

First off, the (very nice) sIFR font is looking a bit rough on some of the pages - probably just an unfortunate result of sIFR's automatic scaling.

And secondly, the word "spunk", used rather prominently on the home page, has a somewhat different meaning in the UK, which made me giggle like a schoolboy. Or maybe that's just me.

All in all, very nicely done ;)

What does spunk mean in the UK?

I like the site. It's always refreshing to see female designers.

Good work Lea.

With regard to the question from Robert about 'what does spunk mean in the uk?'... Well without being too crude, it's a colloquial for ejaculate. Sorry.

I caught this redesign just before it was featured here and am glad to see it's listed. Great job!

re: spunk! LOL! Goodness, me... Well, I just changed that little ditty to "sass and class." It rhymes, anyway. :-)

Silly brits and their slang... :-)

Some browser peculiarities in Opera 8.5 for me. The main background isn't fixed it seems.

Also, some text renders extremly small. Like, under the blogroll. So small that it does the neat little blurry thing.

Personally, I like this design. Could use some more space, feels a bit cramped as is. Walking the extra mile for a fluid layout often pays off, and with min-width and max-width you can still maintain readability. But it might not be priority.

Also, I have to say that I'm always glad to see more female designers on the field. Most female designers I have been in contact with has a great feeling for the artistic part of design and they are often more aware that the end-user doesn't really care how it works, just that it works. You seem rather aware of that as well.

Also you kind of strengthened the misconception that I'm still having that "girls like pink" ;).

Frederik, the Opera background image is a browser bug that's also apparent in FF 1.5. Yes, it's quite strange. Are you on a Mac? I just increased the blogroll type by one measure.. I hope that de-blurs it.

Thanks for your feedback and comments! :-)

I'm not sure why so many seem to like this site. I personally think the whole site is hard to read and the color scheme makes me think maybe I'm colorblind.

The site isn't ugly or anything, but there's just nothing noteworthy about it.

The logo is good...

I made the background fixed -- FF 1.5, Opera and Mozilla users, does that fix the weird background oddness?

Tim, to each their own, right? :-)

Really great work Lea. All facets of this site are full of wonderful attention to detail, and nothing has been too under or over done, a difficult thing to achieve IMHO on personal portfolio sites. Not only that, but the copy is impressive too.

Lea, I really enjoyed your site. Great job! Both colors and the logo are lovely :)

All the best

I have really enjoyed of a wonderful design, an explendid use of color, shapes, and dynamic paths. Wonderful indeed. My congratulations.