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I like the header and the footer but I think your content areas need some work. The text looks a bit hap hazard and an after thought. I like the colors and the feel of the site. You're on the way to a great design here.
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green really...
I realise that's this is theme of the site... but to be honest it's a little over powering..
You need to introduce some other colours.
I like the background image that's really clean, maybe make it a little more detailed witrh a bit more depth.
Get rid of that header image it's a bit dull, and just under that move the logo up in the corner, and the logo text under the logo and smaller.
On the right track!
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Sabrina Heath commented:Thanks! I've been trying to work on color, but I'm not too great at it, any suggestions? But I'll definitely look to work around with adding more colors. I might try some designs without the header, I haven't found the 'right' ones for the website and the ones I do use just end up feeling like it's more of a "nature" website than for a consulting business.
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Try looking for some free images at http://www.sxc.hu/ but I would never steretch an image, I guess it's here only as a placeholder image. The main logo is a bit cramped and would benefit from some white space. But you are on a good track!
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Sabrina Heath commented:
Thanks for the link! I'm still trying to find good stock photo and I've been left with having to use small example photos to resize for the design, I am going to get larger and better resolution photos for the final design.
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I think there should be a panoramic image above the main text on the home page.
The images of the leaves on the top of both pages look skewed. It's also taking up a lot of real estate.
I kind of wish you could cut the home page in half so it fits a standard screen...
There needs to a be a new logo. And the name of the company looks like it was just thrown on there - it's too far away from the logo and the font is blah.
But I do like the colours and the feeling of the site.
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Sabrina Heath commented:
I've considered taking the image above the header out entirely, but the clients like it too much. What I might do is give more space to the name and logo and less to the picture. Any suggestions for the font for the company name?
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I like this webdesign ! The boxes are light, readable and clear. I like the way you put the baseline in front.
Just a thing : I seems the tree photo's is a little bit deformed/ warpped, specially the leafes.
That's all !
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Sabrina Heath commented:
Thanks! I just seem to be having too much trouble with the images, I may just remove them.
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Liked the design and loved the bottom of the site! Only one more thing: maybe the green select box could be more lightfull, windows vista like ;D
congratulations, it´s really nice! keep working on this!
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Sabrina Heath commented:
Thank you! That's something I didn't think about, I might try that :)
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Nice design. I got the 'Forest' part, but I didn't get the 'conflict resolution, leadership development, etc' part. Maybe this could be more obvious somewhere.
Also that's a lot of text for an intro paragraph.
You've set a great foundation, though!
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Sabrina Heath commented:
Trying to work in the whole concept of conflict resolution, etc part, I realize it looks a little too much like a nature website.
I realize it's a lot of text for the intro paragraph, that's what I was given but I think I will want to cut it down a bit. Thanks for the suggestions!
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hey ur header is not going with the rest of the page..so think somethng which will go properly..:)
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Sabrina Heath commented:
Will do, finding the right kind of picture for this design is harder than I though!
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Very nice in general. Clean, simple.
Only issues I can find with it are that the menu buttons are obvious textually that they are buttons but not graphically. Also, there's a discrepancy between the amount of space between the content and the menu on the two pages.
I like changing the header background image from page to page. Solid grid layout. I love the color scheme, though the red image under "The Team" does draw a large amount of attention.
Overall, well done.
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I think this concept doesn't fit to what the company does at all. I got your point with using leaves in the background. But, though the logo is all about trees and forests, don't go for such a concept when the company deals with business management, conflict resolution, etc.
Therefore, drop the concept and then do some research about what sort of concept will best reflect the companies such businesses.
btw, one thing you might keep it is the footer.
well, sorry for being pessimistic. but, this is what I really think.
good luck.
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Sabrina Heath commented:
While you think your review a bit 'pessimistic', thanks for the review.
I have done research into their business and what they do, along with similar businesses. While large consulting companies have well designed websites, unfortunately there aren't many and the smaller ones have poorly designed or outdated designs. I don't have much to go on. I was technically given free reign on this design by the client, so I went with what would be best.
Their main concept is conflict resolutions, a part of that you can get with the play on words with their business name, Forest Through the Trees. I don't know if you understand (from what I understand what you said) that the name is not 'all about trees and forests'. It's about "not seeing the forest for the trees". I wanted to give it a bright feel and some relation to the 'forest' theme of the name, but I do feel I may be overdoing it. Any 'concept' I can get from my research on other business designs are plain graphic-less table based layouts, and my clients do not want that. They wanted to be different from everything else out there and give it more images and color, not have a bland design that portrays the business.
I also find it a bit contradictory in the suggestion to drop the whole concept yet keep the nature-esque footer. Would that now give a better concept of what the design is for? -
Metin Ucar commented:Hello there Sabrina,
Whoa! I didn't except such a long response. Well my intention was to look at the design from a different perspective and tell truly what I think.
I know the meaning of "Forest Through the Trees". I just emphasised that such a layout won't be suitable for a company with such a business philosophy. Yet, you can implement what the message delivers to the layout of website. As I understood from your message, the client wants something different. In this case, this would work for your client.
Regarding my comment on the footer image, what I meant was basically that there is such a nice footer, which, with some improvements (such as adding more trees and depth to create the impression of what the message intends to deliver), could be used.
Please, no hard feelings.
Good luck!
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Sabrina Heath commented:
Got no hard feelings here :) They like the concept as it is right now, and unfortunately I don't have time to scrap the whole thing and redo a whole new concept.
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Thanks, I've had trouble trying to figure out what to put in the content, since I have no direction here from the client. But thanks for the point out, I do need to improve on that.