New company website, thoughts?

Dj_Jestar · 31 Jan 2011 at 10:47

Here's what the page looks like when removing most of the "width:" declarations. Not too bad considering that was all.

http://i51.tinypic.com/4rw17t.png

I also notice that the naming of your css classes is "breaking the rules". Lots of "margin-bottom20px" type naming. I think the oddest was "span-18" which only had "width: 560px".

8t10 · 31 Jan 2011 at 11:14

I like it, looks sleek. A few minor clipping issues on the nav bar in Chrome.

visibleman · 31 Jan 2011 at 15:15

Agree with the service buttons being out of place, it'd look a lot, lot neater if they were in line with the horizontal bar. Other than that, I really like the site!

UncleRuckus · 31 Jan 2011 at 15:57

Looks really good!

Although I dislike the Three service buttons.

Quite a few errors with validation but I think it's probably one or two which are then causing a cascade.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

slylittlefox · 31 Jan 2011 at 16:00

I really like the top segment of the page (top nav, and full width scroller - some of the graphics used are really nice), but I can't say I'm a fan of the rest. There's a fair few bugs too from a quick click around, most noticeably the gradients on the 'roll down' elements (Web Design, Graphic Design, Branding) don't match with the rest of the bar, and also jut out (though I don't know if the 'jut' is intentional). The main page is far too busy IMO, and the carousel rotates/switches far too quickly - there's no time to digest what it's showing.

As I say, some really nice elements (particularly like the tractor image as silly as that sounds

) - but some other things let it down.

reflux · 31 Jan 2011 at 16:03

Mammalian said:
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i mean by that is this design 2 years ago was really great and fresh, now to me it's getting old and will soon be an out of date style.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.

Yeah, I'd agree with this. There are a lot of sites that use this layout.

Mort · 31 Jan 2011 at 17:31

UncleRuckus said:
Looks really good!

Although I dislike the Three service buttons.

Quite a few errors with validation but I think it's probably one or two which are then causing a cascade.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

hehe I knew someone would spot this

couple of bits we are still working on and wanted to hit the validation all in one go

slylittlefox said:
I really like the top segment of the page (top nav, and full width scroller - some of the graphics used are really nice), but I can't say I'm a fan of the rest. There's a fair few bugs too from a quick click around, most noticeably the gradients on the 'roll down' elements (Web Design, Graphic Design, Branding) don't match with the rest of the bar, and also jut out (though I don't know if the 'jut' is intentional). The main page is far too busy IMO, and the carousel rotates/switches far too quickly - there's no time to digest what it's showing.

As I say, some really nice elements (particularly like the tractor image as silly as that sounds ) - but some other things let it down.

Apart from the gradients on the buttons (which as above was intended, though due to the reception they have got I might see what the design team reckons about redoing them

), what else is buggy?

The carousel can be paused by hovering the mouse over, and can be navigated by the bullets at the bottom or the arrows on either side

zetec452 · 31 Jan 2011 at 19:20

I love the red monster dude.

Mort · 3 Feb 2011 at 12:20

Due to the feedback regarding the 3 main buttons on the homepage, we have altered the design a bit

unwashed potato! · 3 Feb 2011 at 12:38

much better

Russinating · 3 Feb 2011 at 12:45

Better, but I still think their gradient should match that of the background bar, OR be significantly different for it to not look like a mistake.

unwashed potato! · 3 Feb 2011 at 12:46

they do match don't they? might need to update your cache russ

Russinating · 3 Feb 2011 at 12:48

Ah, there we go. Much much better

.

Mort · 3 Feb 2011 at 13:14

hehe

also validates now too

adding some polls and more social media'ey interaction on blogs too at some point

tsinc80697 · 3 Feb 2011 at 15:06

Looks good but I did prefer the previous design! Much more unique and less blog like. Congrats though as it looks much much better than a lot of the tripe out there.