Redesign critiques needed
Hello, everyone!
We have finished redesign of our corporate site pdgroup.co and now it is very important to know your opinion about it. On the front page there is a picture of one of our office rooms and in the center of it we placed a red button. If you push it the room changes (mirror ball, jacuzzi and picture appear). It looks funny, but we don't want our clients to think that we have fun instead of working. Should we keep it, or better remove? And also there is a problem that visitor don't understand that the red button works. Could you advice on how to make it more obvious for them? And what do you think of the whole design of our site?
Thanks in advance.
Megan posted this at 01:34 — 22nd November 2011.
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Hello,
Sorry for the delay in releasing this post. I just didn't see it for some reason.
I wouldn't have realized that button did something until you pointed it out. You could try making it bigger or making it animate a little bit, like a pulse action.
There are a few things that I find disorienting about this site. The first is that you're advertising complete IT solutions but you seem to be mainly offering web design and development. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I would think it would be easier to target the clients your looking for by emphasizing web development instead (thinking of SEO). Or maybe this is just a regional terminology thing too - to me "IT solutions" means more hardware, networking, servers, things like that.
The other thing I find disorienting is that the words in the logo don't match the words in the domain (pdgroup.co vs. Prima DG in the logo). Even writing out the full company name in the logo might be better. What DG stands for might not be immediately obvious either.
Also, I find the font sized used for the body area to be very small and hard to read. The descriptions of the services you offer are very, very, brief and quite vague. I would expect ot see more there, including samples of previous work.
I hope that helps. Overall the site looks really good. I like the drawing, it gives a lot of character and unqiueness to the site. And I think it gives the impression that there are 6 people busy working away on my project
Megan
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oreniko posted this at 17:31 — 24th January 2012.
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This is a agreat lookin website . Pleasent to look at and very straight forwad . the room idea is great and adds a different approach . Most people who are successful at what they do have fun doing it ...
Blastdan posted this at 20:06 — 31st March 2012.
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Hey
The look and feel of the website is really great!
There was two things i noticed right away however.
Your menu is very pretty, however on the text acts like a link. the entire "Mouse-over" selection should be the link, not just the text.
Also there isn't a home link in the menu bar. I know you can click on the Logo to get back home, but it just isn't the most intuitive. You feel like you have been locked from the landing page.
I really like your landing page. Its cute, clever and easy on the eyes.
Because of the dynamic content you use you should really stick your footer to the bottom of the page. CSS will allow this to happen really easily.
Your search box is really hard to see. Id like the text to be a lot bigger, especially given then space you give to allow searches.
Just some small thing would make a big impact.
poundj posted this at 18:51 — 1st April 2012.
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Hi Pavel,
I think you have a great site. The colour scheme and design has a clean feel and a great contrast.
As for the red button, I agree with Megan that the button is a little obtuse. I don't know if anyone would see it as a call to action. Perhaps if it changed colour or glowed to grab the user's attention?
While the grey area at the bottom of your landing page provides a bit of a divide for the three areas of interest: Our Projects, Our Clients, What they say, but I'm not sure on if there's a call to action for that part. Should these parts maybe link to pages with more information?
The rest of the site looks great. I think you have some great content in the blog, but it's unfortunate that the format doesn't show any images for the entries until you click into them. The list of entries doesn't feel nearly as vibrant and fun as the entries themselves.
Overall you have a great user experience there, but a few changes can make a big impact.
thnong posted this at 17:51 — 3rd April 2012.
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The site looks very professionally design and easy to navigate. The use of different font size makes it to read and to scan for important information.
The description for software development was very confusing. I not sure what is the relationship between ERP and software development. You should rephrase to indicate you can build a team that use ERP to reduce the cost of software development for the client.
It was distracting to have the search bar expand to the left of the page when you click on it. I am not sure why the text ‘is_search’ also appeared before I start to type. This is happening on the Careers and Blog page.
You should allow the user to click on a client when displaying them in order to see the work done by your company. The user should have to Google the company in order to get a link to their page. I also agreed with the other reviewers that there you be a button to get back to the home page instead of guessing that clicking on the company logo will perform this action.
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