A Review of CF Public & Expert Pitch Pages by Joel Glovier

h1, tagline and h2's all need some UMPH

  • Joel Glovier

    Joel Glovier

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    h1, tagline and h2's all need some UMPH

    Posted on Aug 18, 2010 at 8:55 PM

    Ok Andrew, here's the deal. The page is not bad. In fact, most of it is very sharp and very well designed.

    But here's the kicker - it almost seems like the most important part was forgotten! Your h1's, tagline and h2's are all the weakest part of the page, when they should be the strongest.

    The font is practically unstyled. There is nothing to really draw the eye there, just extra white space. The call to action buttons are WAY more styled than the actual item titles, which is bad.

    So my biggest suggestion is style those top title areas. Make them stand out. And use different colors. That's honestly the best tip I can give for the design of this page. The very best pricing pages I've ever seen make use of multiple colors for multiple price plans. I don't even think you have to go the whole color theory route and say well this color should be the strongest action - just pick some pretty colors, and make sure they're all pretty strong.

    Or, maybe what would be a suitable alternative to using multiple colors (since you don't seem to use mulitple colors on the site elsewhere) is that you could get away with doing the backgrounds in varying shades of your main color (see attachment).

    So I'll leave you with this incredible resource which you may have seen before - a wonderful post on abduzeedo about some of the nicest looking pricing plan pages on the web. Not all use multi-color, but they ALL make good use of graphical elements for the plan/item title that is very strong and attractive.

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    • Andrew Follett
      Andrew Follett commented:
      Posted: on Aug 18, 2010 at 11:52 PM

      Thanks for the link and the mock-up ideas Joel, great stuff! Aurimas and I are working on it now and hope to have something new by the end of the week.

    • Emma Simpson
      Emma Simpson commented:
      Posted: on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:39 PM

      Really like the top mock up with the multi coloured clouds. Looks fantastic

    • Michael + Webcardinals
      Posted: on Aug 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM

      Joel, good review.

      BTW have you noticed that all price plans examples on abduzeedo are for monthly payments. Not a single one is designed for one off transaction.

    • Joel Glovier
      Joel Glovier commented:
      Posted: on Aug 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM

      Thanks Andrew, Emma and Michael.

      Michael, no - I hadn't noticed that. Interesting observation.

    • Joel Glovier
      Joel Glovier commented:
      Posted: on Aug 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM

      BTW Andrew, we need you guys to release the logo in vector format for us to create social media icons with to link to our CF profile!! Maybe a page like this one: http://dribbble.com/site/brand

      I'm making a few extra icons for Nik at IconDock's free social media vector icon pack anyway, and I'd love to include an icon for conceptfeedback.com in there to send him too. (the set - http://icondock.com/free/vector-social-media-icons)

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    $ / Credits

    Like others have said... these are credits or $'s I'm confused as I would prefer Professional feedback, but I nor my boss will be paying $50 per concept I post...

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    Ampersand

    remove it or make it darker

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    font size

    maybe it's just me but this font size looks smaller then the reviews on the left hand side... probably just the kerning

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    Columns

    Maybe make these different shades of grey / green to differentiate the importance of each of the sections

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    This scares me

    If I can indeed use my credits, then it may be best to state that here.

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