Daina Reed

Chiropractor's Website

By Daina Reed

   on Nov 30, 2009
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  • Robert Tipping

    Robert Tipping

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    Ooooo Goody a challenge(Client not design)

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    "In my opinion in this industry you have to come across sort of clinical people expect and trust it! " Agreed - but he may not know how to say what he means

    I design straight xhtml css no photoshop slices no image text and occasionally no image logo (Pure text css tweaked)

    I often here "He keeps saying how he wants more color than his brochure,car,wife vacation" and what they really mean is they cant handle the white space or sparseness of the container(Which you can imagine for me is prolific) So in your situation I would frame your container (wrapper)with some kind of discreet border (css) lines I guess on a mock up and see if he feels better with some boundaries.

    If he insists on taking the crayons to the box's blend in gradients until he feels comfortable(make your own don't use the machine that way you can control opaque level better) At the risk of repeating myself(but I will anyway) human ui requires obvious architecture and boundaries the further you are from art the more obvious the architecture has to become -Doctors-Accountants -physicists and alike want to see the door where there is supposed to be a door.

    In this case I believe he wants walls god bless him. Warmth level is good more could be added if he twists your arm with #D8513D and friends pinched from the smiley face picture. The design and colors are not to clinical and you are not going crazy, I see he is Canadian we like red on our sites and at least one flag. Good lord you have colored the leaf blue ...there it is that will never do (Kiddin)

    • Daina Reed
      Daina Reed commented:
      Posted: on Nov 30, 2009 at 5:18 PM

      haha i really enjoyed your comment! I didn't do the logo. Geez all this time maybe i just had to present comps in a border...genius idea really!

  • Miro

    Miro

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    Red

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM

    Just an idea... leave the green out and use a little bit of red with the blue. Check this site that I once made: www.xylitol.net (and www.leaf.fi )

    • Daina Reed
      Daina Reed commented:
      Posted: on Nov 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM

      those are really amazing sites! red is something i didn't even think of and i see that it really goes with blue. thank you

    • Corinne Ducusin
      Corinne Ducusin commented:
      Posted: on Dec 06, 2009 at 10:17 PM

      I think red might be too strong for a medical site. Try a red-orange but closer to orange because it is complementary to blue and I think it'll be a lot warmer. Red, to me, is connected to strong emotions - like passion and anger.

  • Nate Hamilton

    Nate Hamilton

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    Great work

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 9:03 AM

    You have really good eye for layout. The layout on this site looks really good. I love the colors, hierarchy, text treatments and organization. Very well done!

  • Julio Rivera

    Julio Rivera

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    Look great.

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM

    I feel you did a great job for a medical website must of them are boring.

  • Jenn Tatti

    Jenn Tatti

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    Nothing!

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 3:31 PM

    The grouping of information is very well done, and everything seems very organized. Easy to navigate and read, which is a must for websites in this demographic.

    The use of images and icons throughout the site make it much more engaging and fun to browse.

    The colors are very calming, which is also great for clinical websites.

    Overall, fantastic job.

  • Mike Goignan

    Mike Goignan

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    No-thing

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM

    hi,

    Very nice, readable, clear, good colors, useful footer. All I like ! Bravo

    Bye

  • Gia Josie

    Gia Josie

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    no comment.

    Posted on Dec 02, 2009 at 4:33 AM

    Niceeeeeeeeeee....

  • Juraj Hríb

    Juraj Hríb

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    i think i wouldnt change anything, its pretty

    Posted on Dec 02, 2009 at 5:40 PM

    very good job - simple yet orginal and useful. keep it up.

  • Brenda Valadez

    Brenda Valadez

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    Really nice!

    Posted on Dec 04, 2009 at 3:03 PM

    Wow this is really nice, i love the colors and the well use of the round text boxes. I also like that its not overloaded with information, has the right amount of images!! Love it!

  • Michael Hagstrom

    Michael Hagstrom

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    Lighten up the info

    Posted on Dec 05, 2009 at 10:33 PM

    Way to much information you can definitely tell that you got this from print media. The fact of the internet is people don't want to look at all of this stuff.

  • Jon Humberstone

    Jon Humberstone

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    Great Design...some ideas to try...

    Posted on Dec 08, 2009 at 9:17 AM

    I think it is beautiful and SO professional – obviously a lot of work and thought went into this design. Here are some ideas to help get what the client is after, IMHO…

    1) The most prominent visual element on this site are the many containers – there are a lot of strong-colored, solid containers that look great, but visually are a little cold in that they are essentially generic shapes that come could come across as big chunks of solid cool-toned color. Overall, a little less strong contrast everywhere would allow the eye to be drawn more to the faces and the spinal illustrations. 2) Perhaps try bringing his face (he has a great, warm, friendly face) into a higher position on the page (like on the ‘how it works’ page) 3) If his videos are shot inside an office, try using a screen shot or two that shows that instead of the wavy blue background – bring some of what he sees every day into the site. All the Photoshop generated backgrounds look very professional to me, but perhaps a little too commercial and generic. He might respond to seeing more ‘real’ images and less gradients, wavy lines, etc. You know, a lot of people are a bit hesitant to go to a chiropractor (at least in the U.S., because they have heard that some of them are strange and/or that a treatment will hurt. It would probably benefit both the client and his website visitors to see some images of human interaction, skin tones, smiles – relaxed, normal people. Get him to invest in either a photo shoot, or some better quality images that are less like generic stock images. 4) Make the ‘what patients are saying’ images less ‘glossy’ (you know how stock images sometimes look to slick?) and larger – I.e. in the ‘success stories’ feature area have one real person as opposed to small stock images. The ‘patients are saying’ face is better – more warm and real. 5) I suppose you could try swapping that more greenish blue at the bottom with the cool blue in the header. It is warmer than the current header and might help him get a warmer first impression?

    • Daina Reed
      Daina Reed commented:
      Posted: on Dec 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM

      thank you for such great insight and taking so much care to answer! those are some great suggestions!

      you have to see the print materials to understand my dilemma. He ordered me to use those stock images. When i tried not to he demanded that those where his branding b/c they are on his brochure and they MUST be on the site so people connect the two. well I don't really agree but I try to pick my battles u know. the brochure uses the wavy lines and he emphasized so many times to keep elements from the brochure so the wavy lines seemed like a no brainer to keep.

    • Jon Humberstone
      Jon Humberstone commented:
      Posted: on Dec 10, 2009 at 3:50 PM

      You are welcome. I would love to see what you end up trying to do to solve your dilemma and I certainly would be happy to offer additional feedback if you want it.

  • Swarat Ghosh

    Swarat Ghosh

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    looks neat

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 9:36 AM

    but i feel its very lengthy in height..hence try to show as much as possible with out scolling..

    second thing quickfacts is all of a sudden center align while other parts are left aligned.

  • Newbird Design

    Newbird Design

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    Very Nice

    Posted on Nov 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    one of the better designs that i have seen so far! id don't see anything i would change.