Elias Haase

New design for binaerwelt.com

By Elias Haase

   on Nov 26, 2010
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  • Lukasz Gladki

    Lukasz Gladki

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    Message, call to action

    Posted on Nov 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM

    Wow, you got me really excited with that website. My initial feeling? It’s modern and very refreshing. I think you’ve created great experience for a website with only written content. Unfortunately what I find fine experience as a web designer - because is new and refreshing doesn’t mean it will do its job at getting you more customers. I know you said is not about the content at this stage, but I’ll still point out all I find problematic.

    1. The home page doesn’t say anything about the company and their offer. I need to click on the offer button to see it. Remember about 5 seconds rule!
    2. A picture is worth a thousand words. Web design company not showing their portfolio? Not a good idea.
    3. No call to action. After landing on a page user should instantly know what is the next step, what can he do and spend next few minutes deciding if he want to do it. This page is a bit enigmatic it doesn’t tell what it is or what you need to do to get it. It may be nice marketing experiment and it may work, after all I’m not an expert in marketing. But it’s not how majority of successful websites is doing it.
    4. Logotype. Yes you should change it. It doesn’t go with the image you are trying to create with this website. It should be simpler and more modern. I would’ stylize it in brush strokes.
    5. Menu – I personally find the menu block and text too big. Also although I understand why you have separated about and contact I find it inconvenient and on some resolution off the fold. I would put all the menu options on top. You can still separate them visually by placing on slightly different background colour. Also I find animation times too long.
    6. Footer. Include contact information on the place of menu items. Having phone number on home page always help.
    • Elias Haase
      Elias Haase commented:
      Posted: on Dec 01, 2010 at 4:17 AM

      Hi Łukasz, thanks for your thoughts. I will include the offer/call to action, thanks for the reminder.

      We are working on the showcase of the portfolio, obviously :)

      Again, thanks for your time and effort. I'll upload some updates soon. Regards, Elias

  • Rosalind Wills

    Rosalind Wills

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    Balance the design

    Posted on Nov 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    Your color scheme is very strong and smooth here which is a great asset; the minimalism and bold colors make it very eye-catching. However, I'm finding the balance kind of off-putting.

    Your two bottom-left tabs, in particular, are stuck down there without any particular reason given for their existence in that particular spot, and they make the site left-heavy given that your top tabs are not nearly so far off to the right. There's also an excess of open space between your content and footer on your front page which at least on my screen makes the footer fall off the screen and makes the user scroll when they shouldn't have to.

    Your footer itself could benefit from a bit closer attention to spacing, as the distribution of elements there feels a bit off as well.

    I really love the general feel of the site, however. I hope this helps in your revisions.

  • Eloy Munoz

    Eloy Munoz

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    The font you chose is not the easiest to read.

    Posted on Dec 07, 2010 at 6:02 PM

    Hello Elias, a few comments: - I know I am boring but I would rather have a more standard font face on the design. The one you chose becomes to messy in some areas, it needs more linespacing so that the text don't overlap.

    • When I click on "Services", the drop down overlaps with the text.

    • I have to agree with most people, you need to explain what the company is about in the first screen. Also you need to add pictures of recent work.

    • I guess the two tabs on the lower end corner are your last two tweets. I would add some twitter icon or something so that people would understand what it is visually.

    • Align the headings on the different sections. In webdesign.png the title webdesign is lower than online marketing in online_marketing.png.

    • About and contact are a little bit lost down there, I would probably just move them to the right of the icons and reduce the font size a bit.

    It is an original site but it needs some fine tuning.

  • Bianca Allara

    Bianca Allara

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    • Originality: 2
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    Find a balance between upper and lower part

    Posted on Dec 22, 2010 at 10:19 AM

    Personally I find the palette not much effective (a bit of claustrophobia)

    I would like to see "about" and "contact" move on the top and see the social network icons more spaced.

    Is nice, is strange, is intriguing, but it doesn't seems balance (sorry)

  • David St

    David St

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    Button Behaviours / CSS3

    Posted on Dec 25, 2010 at 9:19 PM

    First I really like the colors, and the overall design, the only thing that i change in it is that you should add an stop(). assuming you're using jQuery so the buttons don't bounce like crazy when you hover over the social icons nor navigation/ besides that i think you should use CSS3 properties to add a little bit of depth to your fonts, text-shadow will do the trick and a big improve in the overall design!.

  • Amber Turner

    Amber Turner

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    Draft

    Posted on Jan 07, 2011 at 5:30 PM

    Overall interesting design. Definitely new that is for sure. I am afraid though that at first viewing, most people won't know what you are. You should look to find a way to explain who you are on the home page. Even though this page looks good, it doesn't really entice me to go further than that.

  • Web Atelje Studio Design

    Web Atelje Studio Design

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    Draft

    Posted on Aug 23, 2011 at 4:37 AM

    good idea for design, but not finished.

  • Oksana

    Oksana

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    about, contact

    Posted on Nov 27, 2010 at 12:15 PM

    Hi there. Very first impression? Its simple, bold and blue :) I like your idea. But move ABOUT and CONTACT! Don't like it on the bottom... Your "Press" and "the team" is the same thing (+ - photos). And I could not find your portfolio/work/projects to look at :( . Good luck! :)

  • Brian Wangila

    Brian Wangila

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    FOnt

    Posted on Nov 30, 2010 at 6:30 AM

    You got me at first view, am impressed. I would suggest you:

    1. Increase the font on the homepage and use a more imposing font to make good use of the whitespace
    2. Remove the about and contact links from the bottom as they are below the fold. Somewhere to the top.
  • Johan Albertsson

    Johan Albertsson

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    To strange?

    Posted on Dec 07, 2010 at 2:59 AM

    Hi

    I really really like this. This is in my opinion perfect. But one question: Is it to avant garde? Are the customers ready for this? I hope they are! Because I love it.

    Cheers, Johan