Printing.ie - Website for B2B in Ireland

Just a few thoughts, some may be repetitive of what others have said.

I think the designer has a great feel for color & general layout aesthetic. This particular design needs to be simplified however to make it more marketable & user friendly from a consumer's perspective.

If I've reached this site via a link, I don't know the name of the company because the logo & company name are lost in this design.

My opinion on printing services sites is that the work should be the flair on the page. More specifically, as others have suggested, find 2-3 colors to work with & use them as visual cues for the site user instead of filling the whole page with color.

As a user, I don't know where & in what order I should be looking at this page, I don't know what's important.

There are 4 navigation panels alone, 5 if you include the dual path at the bottom.

The page should lead with what I can get & for what price right away, this gets lost in the current layout.

Make me, the user answer why I'm on this page to begin with & then lead me in that direction quickly.

I'm seeing 5 different icon treatment types (glow vs no glow, cartoonish vs flat, etc.). Iconography is valuable when used sparingly & with purpose. Here it ends up making the page look like a Disney website. Stick with one icon treatment type & use them to break up the monotony of text or as a visual cue.

I am also seeing multiple colors associated with clickable text. I would simplify this & train the user from the beginning on what text is clickable.

Why the prominent linkedin link? Is this to lend credibility to the site? Why is it given equal weighting to the phone number at the top?

Well way to many colors in this design and also a lot of images so looking that this i get lost from the being. I say pick 2 or 3 colors and go with that.

next the image don't look great all over the place try cleaning it up a little.

Initially I thought that this wasn't too bad but there was something about it that wasn't quite right - and in the end I think it comes down to clutter.

The site seems to be trying to do too much at once. I would consider what the core message is and try to get that across more clearly. At the moment there are lots of bold colours, and colourful icons and they're all fighting for attention.

Keep the bold colours (some of them at least), but use them more sparingly. Make the less important elements more subdued and only give the important stuff the colours.

Also try to focus the calls to action. More than 2 or 3 per page and people get lost.

One quick win would be to tone down the contrast and colours on the background and then the rest of the site will stand out more.

Too many colors and the scatter image thing really annoys me. Try to have at least 2-3 main colors then organize the scattered image thing.

Hi Stephen,

I like the way you laid out the things on the page, however, I didn’t like the use of the colors. You need to work on the use of colors to make it subtle and shiny.

Over all it’s a average job and need rework to make it good/better/best

There is to many colors and to many details. if I would visit your site I wouldn't know where to start. The purpose of your site isn't really clear as well. Yes it's about business cards but the design should tell the user that it's about business cards, the user should not be reading it from the text.

there is also to many words in what I think appears to be the navigation.

I think the design is nice and colorful, however you might want to make your graphics more focused and less cluttered, especially the business cards page, it's too busy I don't know where to look first.

Overall a good attempt that can be polished up.

When I look at this design, I can't really figured where to set my eyes first. You have too many things going on.

1. There's too many different colors around the website.
2. The design images and the service banner (special prices and else) look messy and unprofessional.
3. You don't have to stuff the website with many different icons here and there. Choose where to put them in certain place(s), like the ones on the home page (this week's great offer,...) is a good start.
4. Pick a professional images of people in printing. The image you use at the last page looks really unprofessional.

Try looking at some clean website like these: http://www.kre8iveminds.com/images/websites/website-1 http://www.websitetemplates.bz/images/0634m.jpg

But if you insist on the full color concept, see this example: http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/f/2010/090/1/6/FlexbyColl3ctive.jpg

Good luck :)

Sorry mate, but I dont like this site much. the colours dont go together and the boxes look a little square and out of place. I would suggest seperating the navbar, and rounding the corners on it. Also, go for an enitrely blue colour scheme. I thing that would work much better. Hope you can do it!

sorry dude, there is WAY to much going on in this. Too many colors, no place to focus the eyes one. Need to make it more simple and take out a lot of the flair. Just too busy..

Use less colors, less elements and align all to a grid.

There's much to be improved. The layout is fine but your use of too many colors and distracting gradients is killing the design.

Less colors, use subtle gradients instead, and and simplify.

it looks really colourful but it's far too much take out colours and content the blue background is good but concider making it light blue to teal instead to dark blue to white to the first photo add the frame from the second and the third photos because the white frame just look a bit dull

second photo as was said take out photos in the main thingy, it's far too crowded

and concider using less text as well.. i see that and the first thing i think is "ho god i can't be bothered with reading that!"

stars are: 2,4,3,1 (why can't i do that stars thingy?!)

Good Luck :)

This is great - very dynamic, good colors - but, I do somehow feel that I am not able to focus on the ONE thing you want me to focos on as there is a lot going on at one time. Maybe try and weed out unneccesary content and focus on the 1 or 2 things you want me to do on the site.

The good thing first: i like the colors! But i don't know where to look first, it's confusing me - lead the eye of the user by trying to reduce the elements of less importance!

Overall your site is very colorful - which I think is nice for a printing site.

But your logo needs some big time help - it just doesn't feel prominent enough. Perhaps if you changed the green droplet to magenta?

I like the functionality of your main content region, however the actual banners feel a bit cluttered.

Kudos on your navigational structure. You've done a good job of making a VERY complex structure seem very accessible.

I do like your large footer, but I also think you may have too much content on your home page.

Like the layout for subpages, although again, the main content image feels very intense and cluttered.

There is too much imagery, too many details, too many colors and to many containers. It is all just really making this busy and cumbersome to look at. I can tell you have some knack for design, but this just really needs to simplified in a big way.

too colorful