A Review of Re-branded Web Design Firm homepage by Rick Battle

minor changes

  • Rick Battle

    Rick Battle

    Rank: 3 Superior

    179

    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 4
    • Originality: 4
    • Engagement: 4
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    minor changes

    Posted on Jul 31, 2010 at 1:34 PM

    two quick thoughts:

    1) the 5 examples you have as the main graphic all appear to be from the same site, but that took looking at them closely to determine. it may be better to choose vastly different sites to show off so that it doesn't give the appearance that all of your designs for clients look the same.

    2) due to the shadow extending bellow them, the "see our work" and "learn more" buttons look like they're about to fall over. shadows tend to do better when only behind the elements they're meant to accent.

    • Chris Ramaglia
      Chris Ramaglia commented:
      Posted: on Aug 05, 2010 at 10:57 AM

      Rick- Great points, we were concerned about the screens we selected too, they're all from one client (one of our largest and most well-known regionally) and showcase several different sites we built for them so your comment makes sense. We're going to re-consider how we treat this, we like the design but the specific screens will need to be finalized.

      Pretty much every reviewer has mentioned the buttons as well and we've changed them as a result, we really appreciate you taking the time to critique our work.

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  • 1

    Alignment

    Hard to read, try a grid.

  • 2

    too dark

    Shadwos are a bit too dark

  • 3

    structure/highlighting

    I would increae the highlight effect or put some structure on the black background.

  • 4

    darkness

    .... imprisoning me (Metallica, you know ;-)). It is getting very dark down here, perhaps try some other colors.