Site Review 2

[leoney]

Before you rip me too bad, let me start with telling you I'm a self admitted hack. The page started as a personal site and thanks to some friends I was able to make a little money off my hobby.

I'm starting a redesign and am more or less looking at some ideas on how to improve upon what I already have.

Be gentle... but honest!

Here is the site url:

http://www.powerlinedesign.com

Thanks,

Leoney

 

[cian]

Hi,
few comments::

in IE6, 1024 res

The top nav, maybe needs a greater contrast but its not bad. On thing I would change is to keeo it the same level as the left hand column. So keep the top of the nav and the top of the left col level.

The mouseovers in the left column, i hate those colours! Use something simple like white, light grey etc. That mustard colour with the red border doesn't look so nice.

The main logo on top is quite small. I'd make "powerline design" bigger but leave "...get plu.." the size it's at now.

"to report design problems with this page, send comments to:"
There should be NO design problems! Shows lack of confidence in your design! Remove this!!

I didnt really have time to check the other pages but i'd remove the Logo from the content section of those pages. You only need it on top, not in two places.

Contact page, personally i'd put the emails first, then the form.

When you finish qwording your pages, go back and do it again. Then again. And once again. It needs to be very professional.

Good job though!!


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http://www.endamcg.com

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http://www.endamcg.com/finland-gaa

 

[onpnt]

1024 IE5.5

Big thing I see is you need to fill the screen up a little more. in 1024 the whole site seems to be the size of a side bar. if anything center it.
as cian said the colors in the nav really need to be diff. they remind me of a babies..well you know.
the top nav does need to be larger. the gray also needs to be lighter so you can see the lettering better when not in the page.
on your pricing page get the prices up to the top and make the text larger and easier to read plus spreading things out a little. everything is too scrunched up.
whatever the reason for this

http://www.powerlinedesign.com

WEB SITE DESIGN SERVICES
it doesn't work but really doesn't need to be there.

hope that helps A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

http://www.onpntwebdesigns.com

admin@onpntwebdesigns.com

 

[leoney]

Great advice guys! I've made some changes and if you are still around I would love some more feedback. Your tips were very helpful!

Here's the page link again:

http://www.powerlinedesign.com

 

[cian]

Hi,

One thing I should have spotted before but missed, the links in your top nav, packages, proces, portfolio are your most important links. There should ALSO be in the left column in my opinion. It's easy to miss the top nav and visitors have a tendency to migrate to the left of the page for links.

Looking much better though, nice job!


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http://www.endamcg.com

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http://www.endamcg.com/finland-gaa

 

[Tarwn]

Only a couple small comments to add, you may want to consider centering the text in the upper nav bar, it looks a bit off balance with the arrows due to the shorter and longer text, centering may not be the exact solution, but the extra whitespace on the short words...
Also, IE6 1024, that wonderful new feature of IE6 of providing a download link for pictures is catching your "get plugged in" image. Perhaps trying to make it the background image for that block would solve this (css attribute background-image).
Also the images for your mouseover in the top nav bar hang for a second before changing, you could consider using CSS again to make the entire think a link instead of images, just define your colors to be the same as your image colors for the standard back ground color and the background color for a:hover. This would speed up tha transition.

Just a few thoughts,
-Tarwn
"If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long." - California saying
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(The Wiz Biz - Ri

 

[cian]

Just on what Tarwin said about the IE6 download link, he's right of course but you can stop that easily by putting the following into the head of your page:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;imagetoolbar&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no&quot;>


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http://www.endamcg.com

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http://www.endamcg.com/finland-gaa

 

[SpecSys]

Definitely not what I was expacting when I read &quot;I am a self admitted hack&quot;! Looks very professional. If you have already made changes, it looks like they were good ones. The whole site has a very nice and clean look.

Although I don't really mind that its small and &quot;tight&quot; in the middle of the window, it can look a a little too small at high res.

Really not a lot to crit, looks very good. I'd love to take another look when you get all of your content up again.

 

[Kjonnnn]

I would suggest promoting your business first in the MENU on the side. Move the Suggested Links section further down.

Under the link MORE in the Web Services Section, move those things you have under MORE to the top menu. Those are the things your selling. Dont bury them.

Do you have an address or PO Box? If so I would post it somewhere. Its just a personal issue, but I'm leary about doing business with an internet company I can only get in contact with by email.

The first page needs something, but I'm not exactly sure what. But it needs something that would make me remember it and wanna come back again. Maybe another splash of color some where to offset the blue.

Otherwise the site is nice (to me)

 

[RISTMO]

I have one small suggestion from viewing only the homepage. The image links on the top should be text (in my opinion). The rollovers take awhile for me so things seem like they are delayed. You can change the background color to give the same effect with css and a little javascript. Other than that, it looks good!

Rick