New company website, thoughts?

Mort

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Hi all

Finally got around to launching our new website, wondered if you guys would take a look.

Theres a few tweaks we need to make, couple of small features we want to add, but apart from that its mostly there :)

http://www.meloncreative.co.uk

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Really like it. Homepage and portfolio section with the tagging works great.

Only thing is the three service buttons on the homepage don't fit within the horizontal black bar. I'm not sure if that's intended but if it is then I don't think it looks right. Using Chrome here btw.
 
really like it, but imo it's a very nearly out of style. what i mean by that is this design 2 years ago was really great and fresh, now to me it's getting old and will soon be an out of date style. still a good design just no longer unique.
 
thanks guys :)

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Only thing is the three service buttons on the homepage don't fit within the horizontal black bar. I'm not sure if that's intended but if it is then I don't think it looks right. Using Chrome here btw.
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yeah thats intended, although you are not the first person to say that lol
 
I'll agree that the 3 menu buttons look out of place.

Looks like they weren't designed properly, or that the horizontal bar was mis-sized.
 
Very nice indeed, liking it lots.

But I thought forum rules prohibited the promotion of websites that members had a financial interest in?.

I don't want to sound like a stick-in-the-mud, no offence Mort, but that forum rule really doesn't seem to apply any more?. I assume it isn't the case now.
 
Ah, okay. I was just wondering. So it's ok to post links to websites in which you offer web design services?. Serious question, not being sarcastic!!.

As I said, no offence intended, Mort.
 
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The only thing I can contribute further to this thread, is that there is a LOT of wasted screen space on this monitor. (2048x1152). :)
 
It's difficult, I know, but something more fluid to fill the screen. I think a lot is ignored when sites are only designed with vertical in mind (i.e. the don't care how tall a page is, but are always concious of how wide a page is.)

If I flip the monitor onto it's side, I can almost fit the entire page in, which is just so much more accessible. When landscape oriented, I have to scroll scroll scroll.
 
A fluid design, by which I mean (in its simplest form) lots of floaty bits :p

Instead of "stacking" everything on a page, let them float side by side, and let the actual width of the page dictate how things stack. :)

Granted, there will always be some wasted space, but when more than half of the page is "wasted", I think something could be done. :)
 
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It's not easy, and I'm not expecting any great change. It really was just an observation, and Mort has every right to not consider it important. :)
 
I will pass the comment about the gradient buttons onto the design team, think its a fair point and something we may not have noticed being so close to the project. As I said here is not the first place its come up.

Yeah, not trying to promote the business here, just wanted some people in similar industries opinions on the new site.

Problem with fluid layouts is on some peoples screens it will look awesome, and on other peoples screens it will look weird. On massively text heavy pages it works I guess, but on pages that aren't that heavy they tend to look a bit odd.

At least with fixed width, apart from the wasted space at the edges, it will tend to look the same regardless, and lets face it, people with that kind of res are in the minority, so have to design for the masses and all that :)

Thanks for all the comments people :)
 
for the larger (and smaller res'), have you used media queries? I was reading about them the other day and they sound pretty sweet. You can set up styles dependant on the screen size of the user i think...mainly useful for mobile detection I would think.
 
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