Printing.ie - Website for B2B in Ireland

Colours are great, the nice gradients and space given to the top bar is great.

Things I would change to help your customers:

1. make what you do bigger in size and prominence
2. the main navigation seems lost
3. the gradient on the nav bar is harsh, suggest only using one colour tones.
4. grid it out a bit better and give padding to the sections in the middle.

There is a lot on the page but no headings. Other than that it's engaging and friendly. Like it!

It's a big improvement from the previous one. But here some small things you could try to change to make it even better:

1. Menu bar: The first reviewer, Joe, was right about the Gradient on the menu bar. It's too strong, I would suggest you to change it with one color gradient with glossy look., and play around a bit with the text for the menu bar. Try all caps, then try to give some separation lines. See which one make the best look.
2. Content alignment: The tittle of your print services and the subtext, and price are clutter. I would suggest you to place the price on top, followed by the tittle of your service, i.e: Business Card, under it. Then you can put the subtext and more info. I'm pretty sure it will help to make the content alignment looks more organized.
3. Style consistency: I really like how you make the prints sticking out at the first line of your content. But it seems like you don't apply it in other services. Try to make them all in the same style, including the Logo service. I noticed that you have a shout box on the right. But I think if you place the service name and price like the above it will work better too.

From what i see, this is almost done. Just need bit of polishing. :) Good luck.

The overall design looks good, couple of suggestions to make it better:

1. The design looks really messy, too much information.

2. Your gradient below the logo isn't nice. Change it to something more clean and elegant.

3. There are way too much links below the logo.. (the buttons, reduce them..)

4. The gray background is too strong. Try to reduce the opacity.

it looks wayyy better than the old one. i'm writing from a netbook so i didn't quite read the other comments but: 1. i really liked the logo

1. the caption next to the logo belongs elsewhere, write something to describe the company instead of a deal or a sale or whatever.

2. the the main menu needs to be emphasized, i think it will look much better if you'll make it like a tab-system when every choise in the main menu wil open a tab and the rest of the page beneath it

3. read "read more" needs to be bigger, it's almost invisible.

4. try adding a footer, every site need a footer

good luck :) it looks great

i think it's too crowded. and you should get rid of the gradient in the menu bar

1. Top banner area looks "empty" while the main content area looks quite full, resulting in a unbalanced layout.

2. There's hardly any "implicit" alignment of all the visual elements, especially the products in the main area. It might be better to somehow let the product title, price box, etc. to be aligned in one way or another.

3. (Actually still the layout balance issue) all the visual elements of the top area are relatively small while all the product elements are relatively BIG, thus it seems that the product area outweighs the top area -- it might not be good for the first time visitor 'cos we always want to push the message of "what we do (in one line)" and then navigate the focus of the visitors to the product area.

Unfortunately the design just isn't working:

1. The site in general feel far too busy and cluttered. All of your products are splattered throughout the design and overlapping each other. I think you may need to confine them.
2. The navigation looks way too simple and is REALLY spaced out far. Also, which is you main nav, the one in the pink or the one above it? Which one do I use first? It just isn't very clear...
3. The logo header is really unengaging. it looks really empty and unplanned. I would start over on the logo header.
4. You need a footer to ground things.

Stephen, huge improvement on the old version but it's still very problematic from usability point of view.

1. too distracting and too messy. The less distracting site the easier it will be for users to 'understand' where to go.

2. One promotion is enough - you will loose credibility if you have more things screaming from the homepage.

3. I suggest a traditional simple menu showing all product categories (see picture). This way users will have a fast route to the thing they are interested in and also will see all your offering.

4. I suggest you don't use 'on mouse over' menus opening from the main menu bar. Things should work 'on click'

5. You loose a lot of real-estate in the header. I think you should cut it down because it's a good practice to keep the most important stuff above the fold. Only 20% of users scroll below it.

6. I would suggest also starting from wire-framing first to get user experience right and when it's finished start with graphical design.

Good luck

Love the revisions, this looks far far better.

My only issue is your menu, it seems you got stuck and just slapped in a basic gradient background. I would look at jazzing that up and lose the gradient on it, it just doesn't fit for me, a solid menu with a texture would work better.

Also the sub-menu above the main menu doesn't work for me, or is that the main menu?

I would really sit down and decide exactly what you want on your main menu, then use the rest of the options on a sub-menu at the foot of your page. Things like 'about', 'delivery', 'FAQ' and 'contact' could all go down the bottom. Especially the contact section, as you have the main details at the top of the page anyway.

Other than that good work, love the layout in the main area.

Hi Stephen,

you are really good creating good visual and visual are really nice and compel me to stay on the page, however, the way you have laid out the elements are not working for me.

Few of my suggestion:

• navigation taking too much vertical space and it seems asking for love and attention from you :-), I think you can get some inspiring stuff and usability things from the following link: http://uk.moo.com/en/ http://www.zoomin.com/

• try to make the navigation a bit subtle and highlight the secondary links i.e. home, about us... view cart etc.

I think you should use the rounded corner as it will give more smoother look to your layout and will go with your log as well

• I think you have done awesome job the way you have highlighted your products, however, I think if you try to give more gap then it will be much better... I think try reducing the size of the products so that there could be more space for eyes which will give a clear separation and will be more clear

• I think you could take the inspiration on the usability and header from the moo website

I hope this will help you to make it more punching

The content styling looks cool. But, the header seems rather dull and no call of actions to the navigation bar. May be , a vertical white background going over and a change in header arrangement may make the site even cool.