S. Preston

Hey before I start getting into my rant about structure and form, I have to say...

I love the mood and feel. Gorgeous art and beautifully playful! You've truly have an artistic mind!

Now the bad news, I don't know how you plan to execute this (and I hope you don't say FLASH). I can appreciate the non-linear icons, but you'll have a heck of a time to make it work (image maps? Flash? ) And when you finally accomplish it, it will destroy your SEO value of your site.

Next biggy is that your design is a landscape graphic that would look great in powerpoint or print. But websites are actually portrait layout. People now view websites on iphones and ipads. Even if you look on this website, all the website submissions are portrait.

Again, I first saw your submission here using my artist eyes and I really love it. But through my web designer eyes, it's a nightmare.

Really love this design. Very clean and corporate but also very unique. Hard mixture to accomplish.

The woman and man are absolutely perfect photo choices. Appeals to all!

I see you're using green as your links, but I don't think it matches. Good for the CTA buttons but for ream more, and get updates, I'd just use another blue color.

All in all great job.

The texture is very good on the background. Too many people (like me) use flat colors, and this gives it that industrial look.

The orange bars...great idea. So nice and simple accents.

GJ

Blue, Yellow and white aren't working together. It's got too much flair, for a corporate site.

Yellow sidebar with blue border isn't right. Try something more solid like the title... that is very strong!

Just awesome. Fantastic photography.

The only thing I can add is that there's no space for promotionals which can help drive traffic. And a little more copy in the bottom could help the seo.
But really, that doesn't matter; it's good as is.

I thin your footer is the only thing that seems to not maintain the flair and glare of the rest of the site. Maybe it's the rainbow-ish bird that doesn't do it for me.

Oh oh, actually it's the blank spot on the footer right. You used up everything but that spot... looks empty.

Very kewl. Vivid and engaging!

I think the brown is to dominant. I like that blue in the logo. You should use it more for accent and to help draw you're eye.

Nicely done with the purple. Hard to pull off that color well.

Love the cleanliness and the clear content section. Extra points for the retro apple logo!

Just great. The wave is really nice. Icons are great.

You've clearly done this before ;)

Cheers

I actually like the first one, but the stars are quite nice too.

It might be just me, but the bottom make the name read "norths park" for some reason. The spark image takes away from the two font colors. Pretty minor optical issue though...splitting hairs.

Ditto on everyone elses comments.

Maybe try a perspective with block font. Give it that "Superman" look. Typography doesn't seem to be your strength. My suggestion is do not use a fun, comic book style font. Your target market is adults. Something bold, strong, yet feminine would better.

Lastly, I think pink is a better color for SuperMom. Light blue is a masculine and non-action color.

Good Luck

candycandy look nice. Great gradient, great border. Very fun.

The "clothes & accessories: is where you fall apart. The paint spray doesn't have meaning, and makes the words un-readable.

My personal preference when I use tilted words, to not use a serif font... the askew text should give it randomness and the font should reflect that... either with distress or font style.

Love the colors!

I agree with most of the other comments, so I won't reiterate

Your landing page is a little "texty". Users should be able to 'see' what you do, not 'read' what you do. Especially as a designer.

Always to the walkby test. Look away, and look quickly at your design. What impression do you get? I don't get designer... I actually see hearts...

Keep at it. I think you're on to something ...

Love it. Way cool! Totally engaging. Totally unique. Not sure you plan on CSS all the opaques on this site though ;P

Also curious how you plan on attacking a page with a lot of content (the one-pager).

Good job.

Great colors. I like the light blue. Makes a good sky color.

I really like the layout. very intuitive.

If you stand back and glance, I saw an artist palette and read ARTS. I don't know if that matters.

On a closer look, I really like it. It doesn't say 'train' but it does say environment. If it's on a train, it's a strong logo!

Plus it passes the grey scale test too.

Cheers

Very corporate indeed. The design is fine, but there's absolutely no catchiness at all. The message is that the webdev agency can only make plain corporate sites.

Part of the reason for this is that the 'autumn' colors you use emotes passiveness.

I get it. But here's the issues that need to be addressed in the header:

1. To many elements that don't support each other... grass/sky/rainbow, hearts, flower, clouds. Pick just a couple and run with it.

2. Use Kuler.com! Pick your red color, and find complimenting colors that work. RIght now, light blue+green+blood red doesn't work.

3. My suggestion, is to kill the hearts, and kill the red background. Maybe just use white/off-white with a texture with hearts in it. The kids kissing is enough for emotion; the hearts are just way to on-the-nose.

Cheers.

Great choices on fonts. Great mood. Love the birds to add balance and foreground texture.

Not a big fan of the face. If that represents you, then it doens't represent you well. Remember that it's the only human element on the page, so people tend to connect with the human and it's emotions. Your website is dark, but not depressive, which is what your face emotes.

All and all really love it.

Over all I like the design. No need to be edgy, and crazy! Like you said, it's corporate.

Couple quick suggestions. The rainbow colors in the top nav is a little 'fruity'. Especially for a steel company.

Logo is somewhat small. I always have problems wiht images that are anchored into a photo, cause if the photo changes, do you have to PS the image into the new photo? Will it look good in the other photos?

Not much to add. Clearly u hit a home run here.

Nice. you've created a sweet looking website.

Pros: Colors are great, very simple and clean/ Decoration is all the right places.

Cons: Not much. You might want to reduce the number of featured pages. Remember pre-scoll (or in the industry called above-the-fold). User has to scroll a long way to get to your skills, and about, which is important too!

Cheers

As to previous points, shrink and you'll see it disappear.

Your color tones are not complimentary. Yellow bordering light grey are close in luminance so they blend.

Generally I don't like monochromatic sites like this, but in your case it works pretty well. Love the logo!

Hot.

Ignore everyone and listen to me. Don't change anything.

LOL

Great job.