Angie

I am surprised to see another concept! I hope your clients approve one soon, you have been working very hard on this project! This one looks very good. Here are my notes:

I think you've made some good updates to this design. I still think it's got some work to make it on par with your other designs.

I'm not sure why you've moved to a brand new concept. I'm guessing your client is asking for more? I think your other concepts were much stronger than this one.

I really like this page of the archives site, maybe you could pull some of this if you have to have another concept? http://www.archives.gov/nae/

I really like this design, and the art that you've included is quite nice. I'm not sure the prices in the current site are "affordable" for the masses. There are sites like deviantart and individual artists websites where the art is much MUCH more affordable. It took a little bit of navigating for me to realize your printing method is what is unique about your site. Perhaps you should feature an image of your printing method in the feature rotation. And highlight that these purchases are ready to hang, unlike many other prints available elsewhere.

In the section of each piece "The Artist XX about His Work" - I think this area needs a little look at. In some pieces the artist has described the individual piece. medium, size, etc. But in others the artist has given a bio. And in others it has been left blank. I think this area needs to be defined "The Artist XX about This Piece" and there should be a profile page for the artist. People will be more likely to become loyal to artists they can relate to and know a little bit.

In the homepage - where you have the 3 links under the main image - only the Online Store has an icon to go with it. I think it would help to have an icon for each. Especially the first one "fine art reproductions" -- because again I think your production of the pieces is actually a more important link than the link to the art itself.

Finally, I'm not sure purple is your best choice for your accent color. It seems to blend into the gray too much. I'd be interested to see a red or green instead. Or maybe a brighter shade of purple.

Good work. This is going to be a tough site to succeed with all the competition out there. The design is great and I wish you good luck!

I think this is a really great layout. The video is very well done.

I would play a little more with the home page and static image for the video. Using the heatmap in this place where a potential client might not have any idea what your product is would be confusing. It screams medical to me. I would try a screengrab with a heatmap to make it a little more obvious.

The areas of the homepage don't seem to have enough separation yet. Product Tour/35000 customers/resources etc. are all blending together. Perhaps make the headings a tad heavier. Or try other elements to pull out hte most important areas a little more.

For the pricing page - I think this works very well. I only have two comments:

Is the annual plan a special offer because you have a discount for paying a full year or because you have a limited time discount? I think you want to give a discount for paying by the year instead of month. In that case I would change the text "special offer" to "annual discount" or something along that line. Easily spell out what you mean.

I think you need to add more to the "need an enterprise solution" area. Either graphics or content to fill up that space.

Looks great so far!

I think this is tough to read and definitely can't be skimmed, which is what most users will want to do. Here are my thoughts:

-- Go horizontal with the directions. Instead of three columns of two I would do 7 rows with the numbers being green and no black background. Put the text to the right of the icon and simplify the text and make it larger.

Switch the accumulation date and logo. Make the Accumulation start date #1 and put the heading in Green.

In step One - lose "save shipping box to return full container" and put this on the opening of the box. If your users are anything like me they will have already tossed the box before reading this.

it's not clear if the liner comes in the box or the container? I think it's the container. If it is, I would say "Place the provided liner in the bucket"

Step Two - Record Accumulation Start date should be removed -- if you move that box like I recommended it would have already been completed. Now you can just say "Fill container with all your Appropriate Waste!"

Step 3 - I would say "When Container is full, seal liner with the provided cable"

Step 4 - I would say "Properly seal box and affix the prepaid shipping label. Be sure to save the tracking number!"

Step 5 - I would format it like so: LampRecycling.com/Pickup -- Schedule a Pickup LampRecycling.com/Certificates - Download your Recycling Certificate.

If you try the horizontal alignment I recommend you'll now have space to break "attention" "acceptable waste" and "not acceptable" into three columns and it won't seem so crowded. I would put an exclamation in a triangle next to attention.

Good start with the illustrations. Just simplify and play with your layout. Too much black right now.

Gotta love clients.

I would leave the logo as is.

I would leave the half and half background. Maybe try pulling the red down so it cuts off at the same place as the main image. I know that would cause some disharmony -- but see if that is their issue. Or -- perhaps try a light shadow to break up the foreground and background.

As far as the categories - do they have content to support this? I like the way the categories are lined up in the second screen shot. But prefer the header in the first screen shot. Also - are they willing to lose the category headers that you have in the first screen shot?

Overall the detail in the site is great. I like the highlight at the very top - the one pixel white line separating the background, the space left for the cart at the top, and the categories we serve at the bottom.

Nice design.

I would go with the first one. You don't need any other effects to make it work - - works on its own.

Nice job!

I think the illustration is an interesting and nice logo. I would work on they typeface - maybe a blockier one to match the illuatration? And perhaps play with making the illustration stand on its own without the round background. I think it can stand on its own if you play with it a little more. Good start!

This is a fantastic design. it's very clean and easy to navigate. I had a few notes based on your screenshots - but they were no problem when I went to your site!

I would only think about three things (and it took me awhile to find them!)

1 - i found the little paragraph symbols that showed up when I hovered over headings in the documents page to be confusing. I clicked on them and honestly still don't know what they did - besides jump me down a little. I would consider taking those out or writing where they move you when you roll over.

2- for you promote mediacore button - I love it! However, I think you should put just a little tag line of sorts so somebody had some kind of idea what it is when they see it on someones website.

3 - In your demo page - that big black area that houses the videos. i would make the "header" and "footer" of that less tall. Make those buttons smaller as well. they just take up too much real estate on a page that should be focused on the videos.

Great job! I really like it!

The screen shot looks busy, but the site itself look really good. I would recommend finding a way to add "print page" functionality - especially with the code.

I also didn't notice an obvious "subscribe" or "rss" link. That might be useful.

Nicely done!

This looks really wonderful! Fresh yet clean!

I think you should play with the tacks, they don't seem to match the rest of the page.

Great job!

This is a great design, but I agree with everyone else. For this purpose it might be a bit better a little lighter.

What a lucky family you have!

I think you've done a great job with this! I still think you need to add more options for people styles wise in the contend area. I like what you've done so far, but you'll have to address pictures (will they have borders? styles for captions?) Sub titles, quotes, text styles (bold, italic). Things to help the content stand out.

I'm not sure if this will be fixed later, but you have "read the rest here" but you don't have enough space for the second article under this one. I think you should show the full article or fewer lines of this article so you can have at least two showing and no blank space under this one.

I really like what you've done and the progress you've made! You should be really proud of this design!

This is great, I really like the concept of using brail. The colors work really well together.

I would also recommend simplifying the business card to match the letterhead. try to only put the absolute necessary information on the card. The design alone will pique their interest!

especially with time constraints.

My favorite picture is the old lady looking into the eyes of the man. That reinforces your statement the best. The tired worn out women looked depressed and in need of medication for their head not libido. The one with the N for nuetral under her - that arrow looks like it could be giving her pleasure very soon :)

Overall, great stuff!

I would consider breaking some of this up and putting it on big blocks of color. Or separating things into their own blocks where there is a stroke around the box and a color header with white text. (I'm sure that makes no sense!)

Right now it's hard to know where to look.

The main heading blue isn't anywhere else on the page. I would at least start there and make everything above that medical tool one color to match one of the four main colors. Then put your heading in white. See if that helps separate it a little better.

The pictures arent adding anything if you find you need space as you break up the design a little. You could put them as small icons behind a title strip if you decide to try that.

It's a great start, but still needs some playing!

This site looks great.

I would consider changing "featured work" to Visit my Portfolio (or something with an action) and same with the recent blog. It reads as if you do web development and content creation.

I would also see how it looks without the translucent stroke around your first box. It sticks out a little to me. But, it could just be me!

Great job!

This looks very good. I really like the colors you've used. They compliment each other and really make each other stand out.

I'm wondering if you should have veins in the red areas - maybe making them pulse as part of the animation. That would pull "nervepainresearch" more than just generic pain.

Nice Job!

Peter,

To be honest I am not real excited about any of them. I see that there are elements you've been having fun with and they look creative and fun. But, they aren't quite there yet.

The glasses actually look kinda like a bra to me. Even though it keeps the curves of the M it's not readable as an m anymore.

If you keep text only, I would make the i more similar to the smart art. It stands out too much and you end up losing the fun little accents to the s and a. I would consider grabbing the part of the m in smart that is extended in and pulling it down even more so curve visually continues to the P in Peter. I would also play with making peter's portfolio and blog in all caps or all smalls and see how that looks. I like the tagline that extends to the end of art more than the shorter tagline, but i'm not sold on either font face.

I think you should be concerned about getting the logo the way you want it, then enhance it later with the black. Or enhance that element depending on it's location...to match the accent color...

Hope that helps!

Have you ever seen those Urination Jackets. I can't remember if I saw that on a "get your product patented" or something show or if it was in Wooster but this reminds me of that.

I would love these when my kids are having to go potty and there isn't one anywhere. Similar to those inflatable potties!

Cute.

I looked up their current site and this is a great improvement. It looks like the branding was created for this site, since the current one is green and boxy. Is this the logo you were provided, or was this part of your project as well?

I think this font works well for your design purposes but not your audience. It is a small serif font, which might be difficult for those who have sight disabilities. I would consider at least trying something different in the main pink navigation.

Have you addressed accessibility concerns? I'd imagine this site would need to be compliant to all current accessibility regulations.

I would also consider making all the buttons rounded or all squared. You have two types here.

Overall a really good site and a VAST improvement to their current site.

The site looks great, you have a very high contrast, high impact style going on.

Just a few things I noticed (note - you have slightly different screen shots than the site. I'm commenting on both!)

The looping animation is distracting to me. I think the animation is good -- but I think you should stop it at content you want to stay there once it's played once.

On the same homepage you have little illustrations to represent the different packages -- I think you should put the little red triangle on the last one too. It looks like you're getting a different and not as good a package with that guy. But I don't know what it says...so maybe it's ok!

On the interior pages I feel like there needs to be more space in the text columns. Padding within the box itself. Play with that, I think you will like how much of a difference that will make for the page.

Once you get to pages with some of your illustrations X'd out -- that looks a little odd. I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but I'm sure you'll offend some people when you leave Design with no X but X out Artist!

Good site! Hope some of my comments help.

I think you have a good design here.

I think you lost something when you took out the big feature image -- but it might just be the size of your crop.

The background image seems a little distracting and takes away from your content. I might try some other options there.

I think you could use some separation between the 3 upcoming events. Maybe an HR or a border around the images. Something subtle, not glaring.

Nice Job!

Very nice concept and logo! I like how you have the exclamation point down a little to line up with the tag line.

I think you need a touch more space between the i and r.

Can't wait to see the first issue!