ANOTHER website thread!

[Jamie Smith]

Geeze, I know its annoying! After much development, I have come up with my site, However, I am stuggling to sort out how to properly show off my work...
Should I have Full-Res photos? I have made a downloadable PDF that I am redesigning (to fit the site)

I am not a massive fan of my XML slideshow, but its there until i come up with something better (maybe on flash...)

www.tcnl.co.uk

Please feel free to tell me your views on the design and usability of my site too or comment on anything you think would be better changed!

The subdomain is there because my hosting had issues a while ago and I had to upload it onto another site i made to keep it online!

Many Thanks,

Jamie

 

[KIPAX]

Two in one night


Anyone visiting your site.. from anywhere in the world... how do they know what part of the planet you are based. let alone country, area, county...... theres nothing to even indicate your in england... thats presuming you are?

 

[Jamesbuk]

Ok well first of all Im not quite sure where your photos are? Theres a few in a pdf file but other than that very little.

The wording on the videography page is poor. Its not that clear what the customer has to do. You refer to the client by using "you, your" most the time and then say "I sell the company the ordered..".

The media design page needs to explain your media design a bit more, rather than just having an image to another website.

Try not to have the contact us as a "mailto" link, the majority of people will still use webmail not use a mail client therefore clicking the link will make their computer go a bit loopy for a minute. Which will annoy your potential customer before they speak to you.

If I'm honest, the structure of the site is incredibly confusing also I think you are limiting yourself too much by keeping your content within an imaginary box. Especially when 1/4-1/3 is taken up by a menu.

I hope that wasn't too harsh but you did ask for views/opinions.

James

 

[Jamie Smith]

Ok well first of all Im not quite sure where your photos are? Theres a few in a pdf file but other than that very little.

The wording on the videography page is poor. Its not that clear what the customer has to do. You refer to the client by using "you, your" most the time and then say "I sell the company the ordered..".

The media design page needs to explain your media design a bit more, rather than just having an image to another website.

Try not to have the contact us as a "mailto" link, the majority of people will still use webmail not use a mail client therefore clicking the link will make their computer go a bit loopy for a minute. Which will annoy your potential customer before they speak to you.

If I'm honest, the structure of the site is incredibly confusing also I think you are limiting yourself too much by keeping your content within an imaginary box. Especially when 1/4-1/3 is taken up by a menu.

I hope that wasn't too harsh but you did ask for views/opinions.

James

First off, the media was a mistake by me, I accidentally saved a new page as the media and over-writed the file and uploaded it!

Good idea on the mailto:, il change that!

I did explain that my problem was finding a way to display my work, with main images only on the slideshow on the home page

''If I'm honest, the structure of the site is incredibly confusing''
Confusing in what way? To navigate? Or understand?

Good call on the wording, I didn't realise I had made the mistake until pointed out!

 

[Jamie Smith]

Two in one night


Anyone visiting your site.. from anywhere in the world... how do they know what part of the planet you are based. let alone country, area, county...... theres nothing to even indicate your in england... thats presuming you are?

I did read the other one! and i am adding it

 

[KIPAX]

I did read the other one! and i am adding it

just a general location.. doesnt need the whole address.... county would do for example... gives people an idea of your catchment area.

 

[Jamie Smith]

just a general location.. doesnt need the whole address.... county would do for example... gives people an idea of your catchment area.

Adding ''Based in Northampton and London areas.''



Anything else?

 

[Jamesbuk]

Mainly find the site hard to 'understand'. Theres not really anything about you, or what you do - it seems the site just presumes the visitors know what you do.

If your having a problem displaying your images, which is what this site is mainly for right? then you need to rethink the design - because its the images that will sell you.

Again I think you are limiting yourself way too much, having the small box for your content to go into. I think you would benefit a lot from opening the box up and putting nice big pictures in, with a clear description of what you do and who you are.

James

 

[rockfall]

The menu doesnt show up particulary well, light grey on dark grey bg. The white text on hover is more readable.

Also I've never been a fan of websites that you have to click to enter.

One final note, i wouldn't put my email address on the site as bots can harvest and spam it. I would do a contact form instead which then forwards to your email address.

Just my opinions.

 

[Animal]

looked good on front page, once I figured out how to get to the next page [being a dognut and not seeing the word enter]
I was impressed, but it did seem to take a while to load. but that could be my broadband...
My only thought was not sure about having words on as pictures.. but very impressive - well done.. makes me think I seriously need to improve our site

 

[Craikeybaby]

Ditto about the splash page, pointless and isn't good for SEO either (neither is having the same URL for each page). I couldn't download the pdf to look at your pictures and didn't like that the slideshow had the link for anyone to download the free slide show still there. On the client list the links in grey are difficult to see, unless they are hovered over, they also look messy being a different colour to the rest of the text, this could be fixed with a few teaks to the CSS, for instance, maybe keeping them all the same colour but underlining the links?

The concept of the design is good, but could do with taking up a bit more of the screen.

Sorry if this critique is a bit harsh, but if you are advertising yourself as a web designer your page should be at a really high standard.

 

[agompert]

I would have to agree with pretty much everything everyone is saying just want to add that the navigation takes too much time for me to get to whatever you are wanting to show me, and as for the pdf download, I don't think I would click on it to view pictures.