Been reading the blog for ages now, just signed up for the forum today.
Anyways, I'd like to have some other designers eyes on my website. I've been messing with typekit for a bit and think I'm going to change the heading font since it is just a bit too blocky and hard to read.
I've tried hard to find something to critique. As such, here are my thoughts:
1. You still have the Wordpress favicon which you should customize for your company to something new. 2. On the main page, the "featured projects" only shows one project and it looks a little bland. The current project that you're featuring has a black background which gets washed out on my display against the header background. Maybe add a slider and include other projects or put a light colored frame around it or something. 3. On the blog page: the widget background color doesn't look great against the blog background color.
I've tried hard to find something to critique. As such, here are my thoughts:
1. You still have the Wordpress favicon which you should customize for your company to something new. 2. On the main page, the "featured projects" only shows one project and it looks a little bland. The current project that you're featuring has a black background which gets washed out on my display against the header background. Maybe add a slider and include other projects or put a light colored frame around it or something. 3. On the blog page: the widget background color doesn't look great against the blog background color.
Thanks for the time to look at it and give your thoughts.
I forgot about my favicon, so thanks for the reminder on that. I also see where you're coming from with the featured projects section. I've been meaning to add a jquery slider there, but I've been procrastinating that because I want it to work with wordpress enough to where I can just add those posts (and use the post thumbs) to a category and have it then be added into the slider. I'm sure its not too hard I just haven't buckled down and attempted it yet. I'll have to give it a shot this week sometime.
I also really like the look and feel of the site, but a couple of things I noticed too (since you are asking for feedback!):
1) The white text with the image behind it can be a bit difficult to read. Not impossible, but could be easier.
2) I feel the information in the contact form could be laid out easier. If it was a bit clearer I think you might find you'd get more enquiries. Also I think you should have your email address displayed on this page somewhere here in case people don't want to use the contact form. Lastly, you give three price ranges for people to choose from. This might artificially affect peoples budgets. You could make this a field where any numeric value could be entered.
3) The 'About Us' page - if you just want to list one person, maybe change the text from 'Our Team' - maybe it's just me but it feels a little funny when I see our team only has one person listed. Maybe could use some text like 'Founding Partner' or something like that?
Anyway, that's just nitpicking, it really is a nice design. Good luck with the site. And keep us in mind if you ever have questions about usability! Hehe.
I also really like the look and feel of the site, but a couple of things I noticed too (since you are asking for feedback!):
1) The white text with the image behind it can be a bit difficult to read. Not impossible, but could be easier.
2) I feel the information in the contact form could be laid out easier. If it was a bit clearer I think you might find you'd get more enquiries. Also I think you should have your email address displayed on this page somewhere here in case people don't want to use the contact form. Lastly, you give three price ranges for people to choose from. This might artificially affect peoples budgets. You could make this a field where any numeric value could be entered.
3) The 'About Us' page - if you just want to list one person, maybe change the text from 'Our Team' - maybe it's just me but it feels a little funny when I see our team only has one person listed. Maybe could use some text like 'Founding Partner' or something like that?
Anyway, that's just nitpicking, it really is a nice design. Good luck with the site. And keep us in mind if you ever have questions about usability! Hehe.
All the best!
Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely take them into account.
Been reading the blog for ages now, just signed up for the forum today.
Anyways, I'd like to have some other designers eyes on my website. I've been messing with typekit for a bit and think I'm going to change the heading font since it is just a bit too blocky and hard to read.
http://www.staplewebdesign.com
Constructive Criticism is encouraged. :D
I've tried hard to find something to critique. As such, here are my thoughts:
1. You still have the Wordpress favicon which you should customize for your company to something new.
2. On the main page, the "featured projects" only shows one project and it looks a little bland. The current project that you're featuring has a black background which gets washed out on my display against the header background. Maybe add a slider and include other projects or put a light colored frame around it or something.
3. On the blog page: the widget background color doesn't look great against the blog background color.
Thanks for the time to look at it and give your thoughts.
I forgot about my favicon, so thanks for the reminder on that. I also see where you're coming from with the featured projects section. I've been meaning to add a jquery slider there, but I've been procrastinating that because I want it to work with wordpress enough to where I can just add those posts (and use the post thumbs) to a category and have it then be added into the slider. I'm sure its not too hard I just haven't buckled down and attempted it yet. I'll have to give it a shot this week sometime.
1) The white text with the image behind it can be a bit difficult to read. Not impossible, but could be easier.
2) I feel the information in the contact form could be laid out easier. If it was a bit clearer I think you might find you'd get more enquiries. Also I think you should have your email address displayed on this page somewhere here in case people don't want to use the contact form. Lastly, you give three price ranges for people to choose from. This might artificially affect peoples budgets. You could make this a field where any numeric value could be entered.
3) The 'About Us' page - if you just want to list one person, maybe change the text from 'Our Team' - maybe it's just me but it feels a little funny when I see our team only has one person listed. Maybe could use some text like 'Founding Partner' or something like that?
Anyway, that's just nitpicking, it really is a nice design. Good luck with the site. And keep us in mind if you ever have questions about usability! Hehe.
All the best!
Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely take them into account.