Projekt19 Website

Hi Chad,

I will talk about usability - not about design :)

1. simple text is what sells. What is: 'streamlined remote studio based business'? :)

2. simple menu - what's 'work'? If it's portfolio call it portfolio. I don't think you need a link to blog in the main menu. People can access you blog from recent post.

3. Bigger Call to Action because right now you have 2 buttons with small font in the same colour. Use concept of Primary and secondary (smaller or below) CTA.

4. Visible scrolling - nobody will notice that there is a scrolling option under 'homepage portfolio' pictures.

5. less happy talk - nobody reads on the internet. On average users read 20% of content. I suggest you cut 60% from each paragraph. Try to write it in 'reverse pyramid' style with bolding for easier scanning.

6. wall of text - services and what do we have to offer will never be read.

7. clear position - so do you do websites or business cards??????

8. Desperate - Currently accepting projekts sounds desperate. I haven't heard about any company not accepting new business.

Keep with the good work :)

I like the way this site looks. On the home page, I would enlarge the call to action buttons "view our work" and "request a quote." This would fill in that awkward space to the right of these buttons. I wouldn't go past your text line, though. One more thing – you probably will do this even if I didn't say anything – I see your home page projekt spotlight will cycle through 5 images continuously. I suggest doing a similar thing for the dialog balloon for "What clients are saying." Instead of cycling through, however, I would make it randomly generate a testimonial from your database each time the page is loaded. Nice job.

It seems that your layout is not laid out according to any sort of standard grid from one page to the next. The front page has a 2 column layout that is an even 50% split. Services is 75%/25% work is 33%/33%/33%

Regarding the call to action buttons, even though they are placed in such a way as to be noticed and they are very high contrast to the rest of the page, they still don't draw much attention. I would consider several things. Potentially lighten the background for most of the general page content so that your dark blue gradient on the featured or highlighted areas is more prominent and I would give the request a quote a whole section of its own to give it real visual dominance.

Some of the elements in your concept do not seem to follow the grid system, this gives it a cheap look in my opinion. However i do like the site logo, that looks awesome

Really like this design. Nice use of fonts and colours.

The color chart is real pretty. I really like it. The global design seems nice included the other reviews.

But my main concern is about the message you're trying to deliver with it. Don't get me wrong, this layout could be just fine, but if you want a constructive review, I'd say that it took me too long to understand the purpose of projekt19 : sure they got a nice site, but what do they do ?!

Let's start by your navigation bar, what is work ? The dev knows it, people working knows, but what about the average client ? Maybe using a term like "portfolio" [or else] could be clearer ? It doesn't for me. The work is artist stuff, name it accordingly...

The same goes for the opening quote "Your business. ..." What part of it ? The whole is well written, but does it clearly pinpoint what is it you do ? (except from the flash gallery of sites images, I wouldn't know)

There is something that is itches me, it's the scale of your elements. The opening quote, the flash gallery, the Buttons Which is more important ? If people go on your website knowing what Projekt19 is, they just need the "Request a quote" button. If a potential client gets there by googling, he already see the work with the gallery, why add a button if he could simply click the gallery ? You should rescale those buttons You want people to click on the Request a quote one, make it visible, make it big !

Where are your affiliation with FB, Twit, Buzz, etc. ? If you are "keen on integrating social media strategies ..", it should be relevant at first sight, no ?

TLDR, text is too long, didn't read it. Client view: I don't care about your hosting plan, I want a website design, why show hosting stuff to me ? Why not make a tabbed layout "Design services" where you name all your offers ? Clicking on a tab gets you that short text + you'd have space for a little image to accompany it.

On your gallery page, when you click an image, you get to a specific page. That is not the behavior I was expecting. I thought I'd see a "lightbox" with a bigger view of the image. The specific page is really good, in fact, it should be used AS a lightbox. You should had a short notice "click to see detailed of site", as said, it's not a "gallery", it's a detailed portfolio.

I wish you the best. Hope this can help you and feel free to not care about my review if you dont feel ok with it.

First, good color choices and I like your typography for the most part.

I don't know if you've ever heard of the rule of thirds but you really need to apply it to this design. It is so cluttered to my braid because there are no global lines for my eyes to follow. Just some simple tweaking would improve the usability and and visual appearance of this site.

Bravo, very nice site I really like the integration os color and gradients, plus some of the graphics are great and I think they come together seamlessly.

The only thing is there seems to be a lack of vertical alignment. The first page for example the there are the top navigation then the picture of the O'Grady website set in then what clients said set in again... Then lastly the projekts header pumps back in but doesn't even align with the O'Grady picture. I think adding the horizontal grid is the only thing that this needs to be ready to go :)

While I think this is a good start, I don't think it's working as well as it could. Here are a few thoughts:

1. The logo is really big. I would reduct the size at least 25%
2. Your heading colors are really trippy. Switching back and forth is really pulling my eye all around.
3. The header image needs to be played with a bit. Try putting it on a different background color and putting a border around the portfolio project image.
4. The alignment within the content isn't bad, just try to keep the color palette simple.
5. Finally, the footer needs to be set apart more, it looks too much like it's part of the content.

In general, I enjoy this design. It has colors that pop and are engaging, I enjoy the logo and font, and I feel like things are laid out fairly well.

My issue with the dark blue is this: I think there is too much color going on and it becomes distracting. There are 5 colors in this work that I can see... dark blue, medium blue, sky blue, orange and white. Consider narrowing it down to 2 or 3 max. I think it will help you maintain a consistent and easily readable appearance. I also think a white background might be better in this circumstance. It would make your logo pop a lot better with its crisp and modern font.