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Great layout and totally excellent typographical choices. Clean and clear, as what a homepage should be.
Only thing I'd really like to change is the text alignment of the footer links (the keywords in the very bottom panel next to the newsletter signup). Left aligning them would be easier to scan. In addition, besides your main content area for the homepage, I assume everything else including the inner pages would be left aligned.
Other minor and totally non-critical stuff:
- Screenshots (ok, somewhat critical): kind of comes across as very "templatish"
- Footer logo: full color and looks the same size as the main site logo, could "down" it a little (smaller or 2 tone)
- Repeated navigation at the bottom: I get what you're trying to do here for ease of use, but when you scroll to the bottom, it may seem like the header is repeating itself again. Could be less similar to the top nav, or less prominent.
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Mark Ong commented:Hi Chris,
Any chance of posting a screenshot revision? Would really love to see how the final site pans out. Loads of potential, that's for sure!
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Alignment
Hard to read, try a grid.
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too dark
Shadwos are a bit too dark
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structure/highlighting
I would increae the highlight effect or put some structure on the black background.
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darkness
.... imprisoning me (Metallica, you know ;-)). It is getting very dark down here, perhaps try some other colors.
Mark- Thanks for the kind words, the type was a huge brainstorming point for us and I'm glad to hear you liked our choice (Georgia). We've re-aligned the footer links based on your comment and they look much better, thanks for that. I addressed the screenshots in my reply to another review, thanks for your honesty there because that's the only graphical element on this entire page so it's imperative we get it right.
We also changed up the nav in the footer based on what you wrote, that was a great catch. Thanks again for writing all this up, it really helped us out.