Website Review and Suggestions

**BDevil15** · 08-27-2009, 11:02 PM

Hi all,
I am just looking for some constructive criticism. Its just a home page at this point but I was hoping for some suggestions as far as the colors, layout, etc. Anything would be helpful Im sorta just staring at it at this point.

http://sierramasonryinc.com/

Thanks,

**IMR-Mike** · 08-28-2009, 01:29 AM

The site looks excellent!

**scapetist** · 08-28-2009, 12:17 PM

you might wanna remove the stroke that's in your coy's name. It tends to make the site look amateur.

The crediting line below should be small as well. preferbly with point size 10.

**RadianceRoad** · 08-28-2009, 12:24 PM

Well, as of today, your internal links don't work:

Certainly, this should be a top concern since nobody can view your pages. I'm using Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2
Lemme know when they work and I'd be happy to revisit....

**davemies** · 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RadianceRoad

Well, as of today, your internal links don't work:

Certainly, this should be a top concern since nobody can view your pages. I'm using Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2
Lemme know when they work and I'd be happy to revisit....

"Its just a home page at this point but I was hoping for some suggestions as far as the colors, layout, etc."

Jack, did you read this?

**arindra** · 08-29-2009, 12:15 PM

The design is quite apt to start with. But try to put your locality in the page title and body. I am building a site for a similar business , and i would like to show this site as example to the client - he is unsure if his business needs a website

Also may i recommend not using the term "whatever" .

**davemies** · 08-29-2009, 01:03 PM

looking good!
agree about the "whatever"

move the "building on a good foundation" to the left or right so that the 'F' doesn't fall over the descender of the 'y'

you have 2 h1s: the trowel (nice effect on that btw) and what actually is the main heading, Sierra Masonry Inc.

you forgot to close the </head>

a few other minor coding errors that you could fix

all in all, a nice little site

**Brian07002** · 08-29-2009, 11:14 PM

remove the outside borders off the sample images of our work thumbnails, and it would look great. So far...

**neonrhythm** · 08-30-2009, 02:59 AM

Nice use of colors, but the outside border is a bit distracting. the site would look interesting with a little more colorful and interesting pictures. since only the home page is active will come back with more points when the other links are ready

**senemedar** · 08-30-2009, 07:23 AM

...I can't load the page at all-- server's not responding :/

**thefandango** · 08-30-2009, 05:32 PM

Nice site, whats it about? Only joking.

Perhaps a little more colour in it, its a dull as some masonry at the mo in terms of colours hitting you.

**Frank01** · 08-31-2009, 03:06 AM

Hi
Nice site.colour combination & layout is really cool.

**markg100** · 08-31-2009, 06:29 AM

Clean site - Some of the links not working, such as latest projects

**Necrospasm** · 09-01-2009, 03:24 PM

Hi,

The site is clean and everything is well placed. I would remove the border however since its distracting and doesn't add anything of value.

Hope that helps

**BDevil15** · 09:53 PM

Thanks so much for all of the input. I am aware of the broken links as I mentioned in the first post. Im torn about the border but the owner likes it so although it isnt very popular I think that is the most important isnt it? Im curious (and I am not being facetious) if anyone ever does what they think is best and just tells the owner that they think its best or do you always do what the owner wants?

Thanks again for all of the input.

**davemies** · 09-04-2009, 06:00 AM

i do one of two things:
1) say it my opinion as a designer it's best to do this rather than that and explain why and show them the difference (e.g.a pic without borders on a page compared with one with) but if they persist and it's only a matter of opinion (a bit like in the case of your picture borders) then i would go with what they wanted if i couldn't change their mind

2) explain why one design aspect is better than another (theirs) and back it up with either similar examples of good practice, research (e.g. eye tracking reports done by the likes of Jakob Nielsen) and/or review by my peers/friends and offer their opinions in support of my arguement.

3) the third of the two things - in respsonse to simply outlandish requests merely laugh out loud and say "nah,that it would look crap!" this is only recommended if you have the sort of relationship with that particular client that will take rejection of their ideas.
sometimes it's better to blunt

**cch068** · 09-09-2009, 04:59 PM

Site looks really good. The only thing that I personal don't care for is the bold hover effect on the navigation. I would just do a hover background color change or font color change on hover. Other than that I think it looks good.

**dwhs** · 09-09-2009, 06:02 PM

Wow I like it but no call to action or main path of navigation. Also the bottom border section needs space before the side bar.

**thetoxicmind** · 09-10-2009, 04:03 AM

1. "Projects" & "Services" pages not found !
2. Maybe a different font colour for the text at the bottom ?

That apart, I like the rustic feel the site's design exhibits.