Help me critique my website?

Diamond Member Joined: May 24 2007 Posts: 4658

I just redid my website.
If any of my imamother friends can critique for me and give me any suggestions you have.
Especially text. (I hate writing)

Thanks - the website is http://www.awebforyou.com/newsite/

Posted: Sun, Jun 28 2009, 3:32 am Post subject:

Under the scrolling video there is some code I can see. Also I think you should move the latest work away from the text, or put it under. It sort of looks sqiushed together to me. And maybe the Urgent work, etc. could be bullets instead? I think the writing is a bit cluttered.

I think you do great work though. I looked at some of the samples Smile

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Diamond Member Joined: May 24 2007 Posts: 4658

thanks - good suggestions - I will change those..

Platinum Member Joined: Jun 22 2008 Posts: 6468

I hate white text on a black background...

the white text looks crowded and the wrong size, what font is it supposed to be? maybe it itsnt showing up properly by me?

the text in the quote boxes are also too large.

Gold Member Joined: Oct 29 2005 Posts: 1016 Location: ny

I agree white on black is hard on the eyes. Also- establish a visual hiarchy- where do you want the eyes to start and what "path" should they follow- use size and color to do this- look at some professional websites to see examples of this.

Executive Member Joined: May 22 2007 Posts: 285

I echo the others. it look unorganized I do not know where to look first and the white text on black background for text is a big design mishap.

also the bottom navigation bar looks like its floating in space. the text size for the body text is way to large and the arrows for the slide show need to have the white background removed precisely

I would move the chat box to the right size (it looks like part of the logo.0

Diamond Member Joined: May 24 2007 Posts: 4658

I did the white on black as it seems to be the in colors

what would you suggest to make it more readable? should I put just the text on another color background? what do you think?

Silver Member Joined: Sep 02 2008 Posts: 908

sorry, gotta agree with the others-- the white on black gave me a headache-- but I am unoriginal so I have no better suggestions for you-- sorry, good luck

Diamond Member Joined: Jun 24 2008 Posts: 3345

I'm a bit confused--your created a website that offers services in designing websites. Why not have your web designer design your business's website?

I think your choice of fonts is wrong. You have one type of font for most of the site and then on the top right, you have a different type, and then the links seem different too. It's not uniform. You should bring the fonts together. The website should look harmonious.
I don't think the colors (at least as they are right now) are an issue.
Good luck.

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 20 2005 Posts: 5321

I don't go to websites (if I can help it) when its white on black. It doesn't make for easy reading.

Last edited by yy on Sun, Jun 28 2009, 4:22 pm; edited 2 times in total

I like the quotes on the right; those are easy to read.

The website doesn't "size" well. When you change the size of the browser window, all of the elements jump around in an unpredictable way. They don't seem to be "anchored" in place relative to one another.

I don't think you need so many options under the portfolio window. Just the forward and back arrows, with no text options at all, would probably be enough and would look much cleaner.

Ditto to everyone else about the white on black. I wouldn't do any reversed-out color at all. Choose a very DARK color on a LIGHT background. [I had this mixed up before by mistake -- now corrected.]

Also, does it all have to be white/black/gray? I understand that looks "tech" -- but it's not eye-catching or friendly. Your customers are not techies; they're regular people who need help with their websites. And regular people are drawn to COLOR! More color will make you seem more accessible and personal.

You need more "white space," and less going on all around. The person who mentioned the hierarchy has it right.

Choose one typeface and stick with it.

Take out half the graphic stuff happening on top.

On the page with the portfolio, you need to put the names of each client in bold or set them off in some other way from the text that comes after.

Those are my impressions after a quick look. If I have time to take a more detailed look, I'll post again.

Posted: Sun, Jun 28 2009, 4:17 pm Post subject:

It�s good industry practice to make a light background and standard font in black color. Also, the width should expand to 100% according to the users screen width. It takes skill, but is appreciated by the viewer.

TEXT: nobody reads more than 3 sentences (if!). So keep your text short, yet keyword rich.

Change the example links to buttons, not words or eliminate it completely, It�s confusing. Program the examples to shuffle to the next one onclick, not just the blue arrows which took me a moment to notice.

The <div> that contains the content should expand 99% allowing another 1% for the column on the right.

Header comments: put each button link into a <td></td> for itself with NOWRAP because on narrow screens they wrap to the next line.

Move the chat button up to the next <td> so it is after the logo instead of under it. This will give you a shorter header so people will have to scroll down less to see more. I like the logo and slogan and the free quote tab. Great placement.
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Active Poster Joined: May 31 2009 Posts: 65

on your homepage it shows neve website as one of your samples, but they are not listed in your portfolio of clients. I found that misleading. If you did the neve website, include it in your portfolio list, if not, take it off your homepage

Posted: Mon, Jun 29 2009, 6:08 am Post subject: re: help me critique my website?

What about adding contact info - phone # + e-mail address.

Posted: Mon, Jun 29 2009, 6:20 am Post subject:

The word recommend is misspelled in Shmuel Bassman's quote.

In 'Note sent by MW' - Any reason the 'e's in extra and effort are capitalized? And why is call in quotation marks?

IMO, you want things to be as uniform as possible. So either change this:
Urgent project?
Website Update ?
Complicated Programming?
Tight Budget ?

To either capitalizing the 'p' in project or lowercase the second word on the other lines.

(And to be technical, it's world wide web, not whole wide web. And you don't design the web. You design a webSITE).
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