new website for professional services

The design is nicely structured but it looks pretty similar to many of the free business templates you see being given away at the moment. It would benice to see something a bit more creative.

That said, it does work so maybe it's not that important. My points are below:

• As people have mentioned, the fonts are non standard so won't display as you have them.

• Might be nicer with a bit more margin around the icons.

• There's no call to action. What should people be doing when they come to this site? Stick a button in the top section to give them somewhere to go.

• Is that your real phone number? I'd add a country code as I have no idea where you're based - and since we're online you want as many people to contact you as possible.

• You say the objective is to start a meeting/ conversation with the new client, but that's not mentioned once on the homepage. If that's what you want to do then tell people how as simply and clearly as possible.

• It looks like you help people launch businesses, so maybe add some proof of this on the homepage?

• In the menu you have an "examples" option. I think portfolio or clients are better recognised... but that may be my personal experience

• The lines between the menu items are rather overpowering, I would make the colour lighter - or maybe even remove them entirely.

• As others have mentioned, that header font isn't great. It looks a bit odd in the smaller font sizes with the anti-aliasing on it. Also unless you are doing the headings as images, or using TypeKit, and users without that font installed won't see it.

• Where are your links? I'm guessing they exist, but there's nothing on them to show it. They need an underline, bold type, or generally something that makes people know they can click it.

• The 'Richard Miles - Planning Marketing...' title at the top should maybe line up with the vertical center of the logo to it's left.

• The phone number looks a bit lost just sat there on it's own. Maybe something more wordy 'Call 510-823-8040 for a FREE consultation'.

• The spacing between the boxes of content is inconsistent. Try keeping the same widths on the right and bottom margins of the boxes. At the moment there's more space to the right than there is underneath.

• Same positioning note applies to the text in that big heading image. Keep it consistent. Vertically center the text so there's not a big gap underneath and small gap at the top (this applies to the first one only, on the second and third I'd say the positioning is ok).

• Add a title to the country flags explaining what it is (different languages? different offices for different countries?). Something like 'Choose your language', or 'Select your country'.

• Why are two of the most important things hidden away down in that footer? Schedule an Appointment and Testimonials are two things that you should really push to get new clients in. If it was me I'd have a nice big 'Schedule an Appointment' button underneath the 'Launch a new product...' header text in that image.

• The footer text on the left doesn't look right to me. The biggest problem here goes back to the lack of link highlighting, but maybe try putting the Copyright notice in a lighter shade to the links, as it's not that important. Something in between each link such as a vertical line, as in the top nav, would also help.

Hope you find some useful points in these thoughts :)

Hi Richard,

This Design is cool - I like where it is going, only a few points on this one:

1. I think the colour scheme can be a bit more adventurous, grey/blue kind of die on the top of the page and then you have a bronze title under the main image which doesn't work for me.

2. The main images are great but I feel they are too big height wise which creates too much space before the information.

3. The padding/margins between the three columns at the bottom section of the page could be less to bring the information closer together.

4. As Shawn Johnston pointed out the font choice is not the best, but i guess as long as you have the backup fonts in place and it looks good with those fonts too you should be fine, although most people will probably not see this font.

5. I dont quite know what to do on this page. The Read more at the bottom of the blocks of text do not stand out as a link or clickable object as they are exactly the same style as the static text on the page.

6. Label the random number at the top of the page.... It looks a bit random and odd - i assume it is a telephone number...

7. Along the lines of call to action points, the Schedule an appointment is useless at the bottom of the page and I assume you want people to Schedule an appointment, so make it clear and bring it up to the top of the page and make it more visible as a clickable item, button or link.

Hope that helps.....

So there is not much to change on this design. Here is a quick list:

Font, the font you are using is not a standard font, so the layout will look different.

I like the design, I like the images used. The only thing that's not 'right' for me is the navigation. The font is too heavy or the fonttype is just not right.

I recommend using the fontsquirrels font-facekits (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface). They are easy to use and have a large diversity of fonts.

On the page of 'Increase sales, donations, revenues and profits' I'd change the arrow, now it looks a bit cartoonish. Maybe the line should have a constant width?

You've got a lot of image based text here it seems unless you're going to use TypeKit and I'm not familiar with this font. If you're not using TypeKit and are going to render this text as images, I'd rethink it.

Check out the Google Font API. Some good fonts that will render as live text, always the best choice.

Couple of tweaks but all around it's nice clean and simple. The hero image is a bit tall, I'd reduce by 30%.

Try the feature headlines to the right of the icon above the text. Having the icons embedded in the text like you have it is making them feel squished. Let them breathe, even upsize them a bit.

That Quickly Grow headline is fluff and is throwing off the balance with that feature grid. Consider deleting it.

I'm not too fan of the colors you're using but the layout is great --- great reflection of the purpose of the company.

i really like it :)