Site Design for Coupon Site

I really like it! Just a few adjustments

Just one thing, I see that you are using orange&green for the color scheme, but I see on the home page 4 different orange, not one orange lighten up or darker, you know, even if is orange, it's kind of "trow away" you have to pay attention to the details! Use some really smooth gradient for your nav background (see attach draft), just an idea, I'm sure you can come up with lots of other :)

Also those banners (green and the yellow) work on the details (see the attach draft for it, maybe you find it usefull)

I'll say you just need to pay a little attention to the details!!

The content is very well organized, it make's sense

I think you have hit the nail on the head with the overall look and feel for a coupon website aimed at your target market.

Your alignment is way off however and it feels a little disjointed. I have attached an image below to show it. The top tab doesn't line up with the sidebar, and the discuss deal doesn't align with the content to the right, so when scanning from left to right it feels odd. With these addressed I think you'll be on to something nice.

Really like this design in many ways.

It's clean, clear with good hierarchy and clear engaging calls to action. The colours are nicely carried through the design.

Three things which jump out at me are:

1. In your top right banner which says 'EVERYDAY' etc - because there are a different number of weights and sizes already I'd keep the changes to the lines and not within the same line so I'd put NEW AND INCREDIBLE DEAL into the same weight and size - at the moment the 'and' is smaller, lighter and lower case.

2. The Buy Now button Green I'd keep to the more limey green to match the others on the site.

3. The Discuss the Deal box would be nice to see it have the same kind of treatment with a bit of illustration and space below the sub head as the boxes below it rather than the plain black type used right now.

Other than this, I really like it. Be interested to see the whole site when it's finished.

A video which is explaining the purpose and features of the website would be helpful to the end users.

Hey this is a really cool looking design and a great start. Overall this is well put together. However, my first impression of th site was that it was fora food service. This is probably down to the stock photo with the HUGE restaurant - it just took overand detracted from the rest of this wonderful design. If I were goning to show this to a client I would probably:

a) change the main image b) manipulate the main image or ovelay it with a opaque layer with text over the top of that.

The image is just for example.

Hope this helps

I like... The page looks exciting, inviting and packed with information. I like most of the colour scheme and I think the dotted lines are a fun touch.

I don't like... That yellow box, I quite like the colour on it's own but I don't think it really fits here. Also the layout seems a little busy I would consider re-working to create some more breathing room between elements.

I am being nit-picky here however, overall I like the page

I like it, seriously

Clean, practical, and can be easily be associated w/ coupons just be the design. Great job on the color scheme.

Overall this is a great design, but there is a lot of information. When you have a great deal of content on a page the eye needs somewhere to go.

Right now you have about 7 different oranges and yellows and 5 different greens. Is the "Buy Now" button the most important aspect? "The Deal is On!" and "How Can We Help" blend in with it.

Love the coupon clipping border, and the "city name" tag, it screams coupon site immediately.

Just give it a little room to breathe and pick a thing or two to be emphasized. It's one of the toughest things to do with a high-content site, but it certainly is always still one of the most important. A lot of times, if the audience doesn't know where to look, they look nowhere.

i kinda see this whole graphic work being very widely spread online.. therefore i think the subject will highly improve if you try to go for the "unexpected" ... good work overall :D

I like it but something seems to be making it look all over the place, maybe the color. I can't tell just yet, really nice though but for a restaurant website it's not making me want to eat there.

Hi Steve,

I like your idea & design. There are few usability issues I would like to raise:

1. I suggest you get rid of local tweet box This will be distracting from your product especially that this is not the reason people will visit your site.

2. Maybe expand Discussion box instead - see attachment

3. The village deal at city name. This 'at' or arrow would make it more obvious

There is one more thing - the most important one. This homepage is a homepage for a registered user.

How the homepage for new user will look like?

I see 2 issues:

1. explaining how it works on the homepage?

2. choosing city on the homepage?

Cheers!

Mike

Personally, I like it. Its bright and clear, and the message is delivered effectively.

However, I'd suggest a less gloss and glow. The Buy Now button is the element that sticks out the most in this regard.

Observe the contrast between that button and the actual logo. The logo gives the feel of personableness: A village market. However, the glossy elements on the page detract from this message.

I would suggest using elements with real world textures. If you can avoid swapping one set of design cliche's with another, I would suggest using elements like used paper.

If you haven't already seen it, the video at this link gives a great perspective on avoiding design cliches, with a focus on what has become known as the "web 2.0 look". http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/destroy-the-web-20-look-future-of-web-design-new-york/

I think it is a good design, i'm not sure I would change anything. I like how clean and simple it is but still has good a use of colors.

Wow! great straight forwarded website. The colors and designs are very smooth. I love the modern touch you have on this UI.

The colors are very warm and buttons are well detailed. I'm loving the iphone | twitter feels on the comment section.

Keep up the good work.

I like it, nothing to say.

The only thing that makes me wonder is not about the design but about the business itself. This is probably not the right place to post business reviewes, but since your objective at the end is "Coupon / Voucher Sales", IMHO it makes me wonder who will ever buy a coupon.

Don't you think people expects a coupon to be free and inlcude a discount, people are not very willing to pay for coupons even for a greater discount. Remember: selling something for 1 cent it's different than selling it for FREE. In the same way selling a 60$ coupon for $125 discount on the bill does not sound the same as selling a FREE coupon for 65$ discount (125 - 60 = 65). :)

I really like the color scheme. Nice, fresh. I feel the logo gets a little lost in the mix. maybe use a different color for the rollover text (today's deals) to pop more

Like the design nice:) but i feel its too conjusted need more space

Thanks

Great concept and great idea. I also love the whole coupon design concept.

The CITY NAME part could do with being larger, as i can imagine some places won't fit on that small area you have there.

The 'discuss the deal' part, I'm not sure about, I actually thought that was a twitter feed, until i seen the actual twitter feed. I would look to incorporate that part into the main item on the content.

Maybe have a box of past deals down the right?

Maybe widen the website a little? I say this as the menu seems very cramped and could do with that little extra room to breathe? You could maybe incorporate a 2nd right column?

I think its a good design. its simple and more or less an original piece. If i would change one thing, it would be to remove the dashed line. Other than that. its good.

too much going on...I prefer something simple like teamsave.com

I like it, nice use of colors, content management, typography, logo.

Few of my suggestion:

• Give some spacing between the logo and village symbol

• Navigation design not going well with the rest of elements may be avoid the use of dark orange and keep it only one color. Menu selected/hover style looks lost in the navigation, please lighten up.

• Social networking icons can go to the top right

• Need some supporting color or may be a gradient in header

• Need some serious work on the top right “everyday… neighborhood” section

• Header and body content should have more spacing

• Dotted link could be a bit more thin and close to each others

• I don’t understand what is the point arrow trying to sow in “discuss the deal section”, also spacing form the top box should be equal to the rest of box's

Its a nice work..i like the thing are kept, One thing the yellow box..(buy it for..) its not outstaning..try give little more orange.

and using the green color for showing link..in CITY NAME BOX..not looking cool.. by the way other things are nicely done.

No idea how the other reviewer gave you straight 2 star ratings, an unfair evaluation for sure. Here are 3 quick suggestions:

• I love the start you've made. It really makes sense. The logo is good, the typography makes sense. There are a few too many colors in the body... Are you using a triad scheme? I think the yellow is too much. You've already got orange and green going introducing the yellow is a bit stressful.

• The company statement in the top right is a little difficult to get to... you draw the eye so well with the nav menu and "Today's Deal" I feel you're going to get very low readership with the muted oranges. If you think the vast majority of your users know what they are getting into, that's fine -- but if you expect some confused traffic coming through you need to get your value proposition more front and center.

• Last small suggestion would be to invert the small white 'active' arrow that currently points to Today's Deal so that it was the same color as the background-color of the body and went through the darker brown separator. This indicates ownership which signals to users they are in the 'today's deal section'.

Other than those small points, awesome design. I LOVE the coupon surrounding on the central body, that's a great concept and graphical element.

Overall I don't like this layout. This is so 90's and this style is very much outdated.