Website Review and Suggestions

**AdBirds Design** · 07-06-2009, 02:34 PM

Hello all! We are AdBirds Design based out of Austin, Texas. We are a full serviced web design, and development company. We finished our final website tweaks and designs and would enjoy anyones opinion.

Warm regards.

Main page: http://www.austinwebdesignservice.com
Process Page: http://austinwebdesignservice.com/process.php

**Branden Thomas** · 07-06-2009, 03:00 PM

I think the website looks good, only one suggestion would be to maybe try another font for the content. Other than that it looks great!

**LadynRed** · 07-06-2009, 03:16 PM

I would leave the font alone - it's clean and it's readable.

Overall I'd say it looks pretty good. I don't really 'get' the whole 'Play the game' thing, it didn't make a lot of sense at first as being your 'process'.

Other than that, nice job.

**Kaigan** · 07-06-2009, 03:59 PM

I love it. You've added some creative, whimsical touches that showcase your design ability while still clearly spelling out who you are and what you offer. Great job.

**AdBirds Design** · 07-07-2009, 11:27 PM

Thank you so much for all the kind words. We tried to let first comers to the site see what we can do technically and design-wise right off the bat.

Hope it worked!

**Joshy D** · 07-08-2009, 04:48 AM

Absolutely love this, is b- e- a -utiful!

As it appears most others do too.

However, there is one thing that im not tooo keen on, that is the slide show on your home page.
The box just doesnt seem to fit in, its not very subtle, its very kind of, distracting, my eyes keep looking at the fancy border around the slide show instead of whats actually on the slide show.

Other than that, brilliant

**EJK** · 07-08-2009, 12:40 PM

Just a quick pointer, when I go to the profile page, and click "who works here", the popups that appear after I hover over a picture are not arranged properly in flash. They end up underneath some of hte other pictures, making the text in the popup unreadable.

Really good looking site as far as design goes. Great job.

**emofree** · 07-09-2009, 03:04 AM

aah I love the design the colors really blends it well I would agree with the font's that was being used it needs to have a better font to use as well.

**ikitshop** · 07-09-2009, 03:15 AM

Hi,

your site looks awesome but some quick thoghts from me is that you waste lots of space by putting to much big flash on the home page as well as you have to put some text so people can read it. and put that " Austin Web Design, Web Development, and Online Marketing" at left hand side top wide some what like in punch line..that all i think otherwise this is good site.

**bige2533** · 07-09-2009, 06:51 PM

I'm using IE6 and most of the pages render very poorly (obviously its IE6). For the portfolio, how about linking to the actual sites?

I wasn't too keen on the play the game either. It is something creative instead of a services link but customers could overlook items or not find what they are interested in.

**eshieh** · 07-09-2009, 07:25 PM

i love the colors and also the big typographic logo! However, I think the footer is a little too thick...

**edg227** · 07-10-2009, 02:18 AM

very cool but is there a reason there is so much space in between the content and the footer?? Looks nice anyways.

**mark165** · 07-12-2009, 09:54 PM

The good:
I like the design and layout. The colours work really well together!

The Bad:
For a webdesign service, your site is not W3C valid. If i was coming to your company for a website, i would be expecting you to create me a valid website, and if yours isn't, i would be put off. Looking at the errors however, they do seem easily corrected.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...om%2Findex.php

**AdBirds Design** · 07-17-2009, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mark165

The good:
I like the design and layout. The colours work really well together!

The Bad:
For a webdesign service, your site is not W3C valid. If i was coming to your company for a website, i would be expecting you to create me a valid website, and if yours isn't, i would be put off. Looking at the errors however, they do seem easily corrected.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...om%2Findex.php

wow, thank you, i will bring that up to the developers.

**TWD** · 07-19-2009, 03:14 AM

Overall I think nice site guys.
Nice clear "call to action" bang in the middle! Great.

Funny how a lot of the other posters here are complaining
about Flash this and that..haa ha.
Obviously the effects are done with JavaScript not Flash.
(I got 3 words for them - Firefox, Webmaster, Toolbars)

The main nav menu on the left should be just a bit more prominent.
I didn't spot it right away.

Also, I would drop the whole "play the game" thing.
Its what Dave Flanders calls "Mystery Meat Navigation".
As a web designer you should NEVER let artistry interfere
with usability.

The contact us form is seriously poor *sigh* *my pet peeve*
Try sending the form without entering a CAPTCHA and see what you get?
Pretty ugly isn' it?
Seriously guys, drop the CAPTCHA. Your developers must know
there are smarter ways to catch spam.
BTW what is the button "Ready to Request a Proposal?" supposed to do?

On the profile page you should be preloading the CSS background images
so you don't get that ugly unreadability effect (again its JS not Flash boys).

Is the logo tagline "Market inc" or "Market ing"?
Sorry my eyes don't read that small.

And it goes without saying the a professional website firm should not
have XHTML validation errors throughout the site.

Also, why aren't you using UTF-8 as your character encoding and
where is your IE8 meta tag?

**tulip4heaven** · 07-19-2009, 03:51 AM

Website design is very good and professional for design company , You just need to reduce the bottom area