Francesco Guietti

web site design

By Francesco Guietti

   on May 19, 2010
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  • Patrick Niebrzydowski

    Patrick Niebrzydowski

    Rank: 2 Titan

    3890

    • Design: 2
    • Purpose: 1
    • Originality: 3
    • Engagement: 2
    0 Votes
    why?

    Posted on May 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM

    I see no reason to have this random landing page with nothing but a photo that links you to the home page. You are making your users jump through more hoops to get to the information you want to present to them. It's like a flash intro, which people generally hate, except it's even more distracting because there isn't any information presented and you HAVE to click to get through.

    For the site itself, the navigation and image at the top are a little bit conflicting, and the image might be a little too big. Titling a page "Home Page" is somewhat pointless as it provides no real information. You should indicate using your navigation somehow (change background color, text color, etc) which page you are on in the site.

    I would separate the footer away from the content area and just make it white text on the red background. It doesn't really look like a footer right now, but the content in it is all footer. The division between content and footer also is awkward with the gradients.

    Also, I don't know what is causing it, but the load times on your site are extremely slow for me. It looks like you are using a single file with PHP queries, but this is probably not the best method for optimization on the web.

    • Francesco Guietti
      Posted: on May 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM

      Hello Patrick, thanks so much for your comment. Concerning the homepage, I thought putting some photo editing company and setting up a redirect to the website automatically without waiting or click the visitor.

      Regarding the navigation and header do not agree entirely with your point of view because I think the image is well proportioned and pleasing the effect of transparency of the menu. It could change color when the rollover.

      Regarding the footer I fully agree with you .. but I did not have much time to separate from the rest of the site.

      Regarding the access time is too slow at first logon. Navigation within the individual pages I do not seem so slow.

      Thanks a lot for your advice!

    • Francesco Guietti
      Posted: on May 19, 2010 at 10:50 AM

      A question .... because I have given a vote in order. It seems to me that the site has a purpose that is understandable and the presentation of a company and a description of a foodstuff and the precise site there are all indications of the case. This I did not understand ...

    • Patrick Niebrzydowski
      Posted: on May 19, 2010 at 10:55 AM

      I think the site itself does a pretty good job of getting the information that people are looking for out there, the reason i rated purpose low is because I think having that landing page can easily scare users away or confuse them, thus they are not even making it to the home page. I probably could have given a 2 for this because the other parts of the site are ok when it comes to purpose, but I did want to be harsh because if the user never even makes it to the home page then the site has no purpose at all. Hope that helps!

    • Francesco Guietti
      Posted: on May 20, 2010 at 2:33 AM

      Perfect, now I understand what you mean. And it's just that your opinion is so severe that I understand and give me advice. I appreciate very much your help - comment. Thanks a lot

  • Paul De Morsella

    Paul De Morsella

    Rank: 5 Advanced

    190

    • Design: 2
    • Purpose: 3
    • Originality: 2
    • Engagement: 4
    0 Votes
    Get rid of landing page

    Posted on May 19, 2010 at 1:47 PM

    The landing page is ugly, sorry. The site itself is rich in information and photos and I like it very much!

    If you must have a landing page I'd consider getting rid of the frame and inner white background... also a variety of photos from the many images in the site might introduce the company more effectively than various different shots of the entry.

    I think the background color is a bit jarring...

    You have a very fun logo shape to work with, rather than fighting it I think you should incorporate it into your design more - as a logo shape as well as in photographs of the entry.

    The design has potential - my main gripe is the landing page.

    • Francesco Guietti
      Posted: on May 20, 2010 at 2:41 AM

      Regarding the home actually ... What do you think if I put a simple welcome page with a redirect to the homepage after 3 seconds?

      Regarding the background color, what would you put yourself? You know me the logo of this company absolutely do not like and tried to put a header picture making the logo a bit 'nicer. Here I think a logo is too funny, but more fun to say that with a very old style. What do you think of this reflection?

      I swear the very short take off landing page ;-)

    • Paul De Morsella
      Paul De Morsella commented:
      Posted: on May 20, 2010 at 1:23 PM

      That still doesn't answer why have it in the first place? What purpose does it serve that the home page itself can't/doesn't do?

      Me, as a visitor to the website, if I am presented a page I want it to offer me something. A unique page should do something unique - a contact page let's me contact you, a gallery page lets me browse photo's etc. A landing page that simply shows me a few photos for 3 seconds is really just a pause in my browsing experience. There are photos throughout the site, what's so special about these ones that I am forced to/would want to look at them for 3 seconds?

      Plus, an overlay seems to be the way that kind of thing is done now - I thought these people did it really well:

      http://www.seashepherd.org/

      If you use the landing page to present short, personal or current information on the company (new batch of aged cheese is ready, wine and cheese tasting event, join us at such and such event, new Dairy Farm joins our collective, this employee just got married - we wish them the best!... or whatever) then I'd skim through it and feel like the company is trying to reach out to me and that's good. But showing me a few photos is more like telling me to wait in the reception room till the Doctor is ready. I don't want to do that in order to visit a website.

      Pleasing color is very flexible - I did a quick search at colourlovers.com for "cheese" and like these, sort of:

      http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/104245/PortabellaandBrie

      E0D4BA for the background

      As far as the logo - it might be a bit old fashioned but I have no problems with it. It's not ugly. I looked for an image of the brand stamped on a drum of cheese but did not see any. My gut feeling is that is where the logo looks best. An image using that (a drum of cheese set on its edge so you see the logo), some cold cuts, bread and wine would be a very appealing way to present the brand.

      Or you could use the same logo that they use on their packaging - I don't see why not.

    • Eloy Munoz
      Eloy Munoz commented:
      Posted: on May 24, 2010 at 5:41 PM

      A few things I would do:

      • I have to agree with hat Patrick said, having a button named "HOME PAGE" does not help at all. Take it off.
      • In my opinion, logo is too big, and it doesn't work very well with the semi-transparent menu. Make the logo smaller and put it on top of the many. If you use only the logo itself ("la grande", with the red/ blue line) might even work better.
      • Put the link to the home page on the logo.
      • As a general comment I would say that the content looks too raw to me, too basic html. I would add some CSS to shape up the tables, the H1s and H2, the footer, contact form etc. Add some CSS love and you will be rewarded.
      • On the right column, give some more space between the text and the borders of the column, like in "Il vostro carrello è vuoto".
      • Something happens towards the end, before the footer, it looks like there is a block that moves one pixel to the right.

      As others said:

      • It takes too long to load. It might be a problem with your <script> tags. I don't think you need the original landing page, it doesn't give me any valuable information and in exchange it adds one more click to see the home page. I would like to see where I am at, highlighting on the top menu the current page will add good feedback to the user.

      The site is starting shape up, keep up the good work, I am looking forward where do you take it.

      Cheers.

  • Rebecca

    Rebecca

    Rank: 10 Newbie

    145

    • Design: 3
    • Purpose: 1
    • Originality: 3
    • Engagement: 2
    0 Votes
    clean

    Posted on May 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM

    clean design nice colours not so sure of the point need more of a description

    • Francesco Guietti
      Posted: on May 20, 2010 at 2:44 AM

      Hello Rebecca, I ask you kindly to better motivate your opinion especially at the "not so sure of the points need more of a description. Definitely help me to ask me more questions. Thanks a lot for your contribution

  • Gergely MunkáCsy

    Gergely MunkáCsy

    Rank: 10 Newbie

    10

    • Design: 3
    • Purpose: 2
    • Originality: 2
    • Engagement: 3
    0 Votes
    Draft

    Posted on Sep 01, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    The logo on first page is horrible, sorry. One big image will be better than this "photo montage" The idea is not bad but the text in menu buttons will be better vertically centered