Website Review and Suggestions

**ggo4th** · 10-11-2010, 12:06 PM

I think that everyone else has pretty much said it... but, I would include a small critique on your h1 tag. That floating over the main content kind of blinds me. Maybe it's just me, but it's kind of blurry and it floats around a bit (almost like a bright red?) It's probably just me being old, ha!

Let me say though, you guys rock! I went through your portfolio and I've gotta tell ya, great work! Your designs look great, keep it up!

**Whathadiv** · 10-11-2010, 08:55 PM

The h1 tag uses a text-shadow in CSS which makes it seem blurry to some people.

Thank you for the compliments on our designs, I'm happy you like them. We're always available to take on more projects.

**ggo4th** · 10-11-2010, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Whathadiv

The h1 tag uses a text-shadow in CSS which makes it seem blurry to some people.

Thank you for the compliments on our designs, I'm happy you like them. We're always available to take on more projects.

Well, that's interesting too. We tend to keep design in-house, but I may be willing to sub some stuff out when the need arises. If you'd be interested, feel free to send me a rate sheet via my site. Thanks!

**Whathadiv** · 10-13-2010, 04:05 PM

Bump, I made some changes, see what you think.

**tahoecale** · 10-13-2010, 04:26 PM

site is down for maintenance guess

**davidwillson** · 10-14-2010, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Martin977

There is far too much going on in the header (and by header, I mean the top 600px of the site). It looks more like a gaming site than a site offering web design services, in my opinion.

It would look better if the fuzzy line underneath the navigation were removed, for starters. Next, your site has 231 validation errors in its HTML which is not going to give people confidence in your statement that you build sites with valid code.

Thanks for the kind advice, I'll take that into consideration. That is the first response I have had about the header being too busy. Most people do think it's a gaming site, which is probably why some of our current clients are in the gaming, poker and other related industries.

After some 100 reviews or more from here and elsewhere, we will make adjustments. Again thanks for the kind words.

**TWD** · 10-14-2010, 10:59 AM

You could at least replace the Joomla logo on the "down for service" page with something more original.

**Whathadiv** · 10-16-2010, 12:58 AM

Bump*

Ya, I'm gonna change that maintenance page before we go into maintenance mode next time. Thanks for reminding me.

I made some changes to the design and added some more professional elements, plus replaced lots of images with CSS (I found that apparently the W3C has issues with validating CSS3 after some research)

XHTML and non-CSS3 (-moz-border-radius, -web-kit, etc) properties are valid.

Check out the changes. If you've been to the site before you may need to press F5 a few times to get all the changes downloaded or clear your cache (even thought I cleared all caches).

Reviews and suggestions on the SEO, Design, etc are all appreciated. Also, I have a feedback tab on every page except the home page fixed at the bottom left. Click on that and participate in the poll (1 question is all) please, this will help a lot.

Thanks again for the kind critiques, keep'em comin'.

**newbie2010** · 10-16-2010, 05:44 AM

Good one, but top image does not load so quickly.

**Whathadiv** · 10-18-2010, 11:59 AM

bump, still looking for some help

**mlovet1** · 10-18-2010, 12:50 PM

Layout is getting much better as far as ease on the eyes. The "Complete Branding" tab in the slider could use some work tho. Also, maybe some color gradient would work better then just white for the content.

**ustings** · 10-18-2010, 02:20 PM

Site takes long to load. Not professional for webdesign company

**dorramide7** · 10-19-2010, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Whathadiv

Use firebug, take out the bg and make it black, then tell me what you think. Some colleagues have just told me that it changes the perception of the site large enough to not make it a distraction anymore.

Looks a lot better. I'm not saying you need a complete removal of the background, perhaps use one that not so abrasive and distracting. Also, your Contact Us and Client Area text are spilling out of the button area. Did that in firefox and safari.

**Whathadiv** · 05:58 PM

Thank you everyone for the comments, they're really helpful.

mlovet1: What kind of fine-tuning to the complete branding tab do you mean?

ustings: We have been working hard to try to get the site to load faster, although it's at 3 seconds which isn't bad considering the javascript usage.

dorramide7: We took out the abrasive background and the contact, client buttons have been moved to make them less prominent at the top because there are a million way to contact us on our site.

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