Hi,
If any of you busy people have a spare 15 minutes, can you give me an honest evaluation on our new corporate web site.
http://www.createwith.com
Hi Laurie,
Others have cracked down on the Flash thing, so I'll focus on some other issues. Basically, it's a clean, neat site, but it has some problems:
- The site doesn't show the usual 'hand' cursor when hovering a link. While this may look cool at first, it is a serious usability problem. The hand cursor is the single most effective way to say: 'this is a link'.
- The scrollbar on the Press page is a bit 'under designed'. :-) If you choose to use Flash, make the scrollbars blend in with the overall design; a standard Windows bar just is out of place, so it seems.
- Why the arrow in the top right? Why not maximize the width of the Flashmovie in the first place? Bonus: it looks better, too.
- The small type in the portfolio sections (the text under the images) is pretty hard to read; I'd suggest to (a) increase the font size, or to (b) take a lighter weight _and_ to make the type pitch black, or to (c) disable anti-aliassing for that type.
- The placement of the submenu is not really logical. I understand the design choice to place the menus on top of each other, but I'm a graphic designer, so that doesn't really count. ;-) My guess would be that the feedback (I click on Work and there's a submenu for this 'Work' section) would be much stronger if the menus would be next to eachother, or if a line or other visual clue would connect the highlighted menu-item with its submenu in the bottom half.
The portfolio is pretty neat, so it's a pity the rest of the puzzle doesn't really fall in place to convince people to stay and click around (and that's what this site needs, right?).
Jeroen
-- vizi fotografie & grafisch ontwerp - http://www.vizi.nl/
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