Review request: my new company

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There isn't much there. The design is very square, the yellow is bold, but that's not a bad thing. The squareness and lack of content is a bad thing, though.

Sorry, couldn't understand the language. Would probably look nice with a few curves and maybe some different colours. Like the graphics!

I'd a little flair to the site attract the visitors, like they said, a rounded rectangle would make it more interesting. It's a bit too plain for my likings.

Thanks for replies! It seems like I really have to do something for squareness. It will be a technical challenge for me because I have never done rounded pages. But I guess I will survive. More contents coming, probably today.

-Teemu

I like the graphics but as theres more content coming up your site gonna be even better

No, I don't think that metaphor is appropriate. Maybe you could stylize it and do some crazy things to it, maybe combine with some other things.. then you might have something. Or zoom in to one section of it really, really close. So you can barely tell what it is. Then stylize.

Otherwise this is really nice. Original colour scheme, nice simple layout. Simple yet not boring. Very close to being boring, but a slight deviation from the norm makes it interesting. I like the background wheat shaft.

Try changing your font from the default. I'm not sure what would be best here. Possibly helvetica or tahoma.

Howdy

Well not understanding the language. If I had wondered onto this site by accedant. I would of thought it was a farmer site telling about his new Wheat seeds or braging about his new combine. I do know you said it was a design site.

I liked the colors. Even thought the text was on the small side. The contrast was so good it was not a problem reading it at all.

The design is very clean and simple. Possibly to simple. If you want people to believe that you can design them a web site that will make them look good and make them money. Then you have to show case your abilities in your site to at least some degree.

From looking at your site. Why should I believe you could design me a site that is inovative and catchy so as to help me make sales of my Products? I am not saying that to be mean. I am asking that question from a business stand point. If you don't sell yourself and you don't sell your abilities, then why does anyone want to buy. Your web site is your sales pitch when you are a web designer. I would try to show case myself a bit more is all I am saying.

You have a good one.

It's nice that many of you have liked my graphics and colors, at least to some degree. I admit there's still room for some sophisticated things to make it look better. Maybe that main picture could be animated with Flash. And less squareness as many of you told.

-Teemu

In mozilla there is a gap at the end of the top image and the table border, your image is 692 but your html tag is 700 - it's not stretching.

I can't really get the image, combined - combine ... maybe its just late (is my bedtime) but i'm missing the true connection to your service. The image is a good one thou.

One of the biggest problems with coloured backgrounds is going back to a plain white one. very hard on the eyes (maybe just ne getting old lol)

overall i think it's pretty good, although I do think the mouseover (hover) colour on your links has let you down, its to blah where the rest of the site has oomph and impact.

Oh and I like the squareness, I think with the wheat background and curves in the image (wheels etc) if gives a nice overall balance (wouldn't add anymore boxs thou)

Looking at the code, you really don't need all that javascript/dhtml to achieve your top menu effect. You can create an effect that looks just as good using only css and it'll cut your code down loads.

BTW... do you have to use Times New Roman? It's sooo old! Try Georgia instead... most people have it nowadays.

>its to blah where the rest of the site has oomph and impact.

Ha ha. Now there is little more oomph on the main page. I made a little Flash animation there and would aprreciate if you looked it and tell what you think. The text says: "We help you to get the best harvest on the Internet - no matter what is your branch".

I think I can't cure the gap that appears on Mozilla. I guess IE and other browsers treat double borders different way and that causes the problem.

Andy, hover effect is actually made with CSS. I don't know why Dreamweaver has put that Java there. And I think I really should try Georgia, some other person also recommended it.

-Teemu

Hi,

The javascript/css combo is DHTML. You can create the same effect by using regular tags and using CSS to make them change on hover. See: this article at alistapart.com for more info...

I can't see flash, dont have or want the plugin
"We help you to get the best harvest on the Internet - no matter what is your branch" isn't quite right, remove the 'is' to make it make more sense, or move the 'is' to the end, "... - no matter what your branch is"
Don't quite get what branch has to do with harvest, but ok.

Hi, I'm kind of running around looking at all kinds of web sites and I find it hard not to be critical. I would never have guessed you're site was promoting a web design company. You're metaphora is way too deep. I think I would be more direct and display a bunch of exciting graphic designs and images you might expect a wide group of buyers to catch on to. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of content and I found the whole thing a little univiting. Personally I don't like the yellow and the text is a little monotonous. I like to see variations from the standard from page to page. I would have made the animated header sweep horizontally rather than vertically, the scene seems to go up into nothing, it doesn't take you anywhere. If you want to see what really not to do check out my site and it will make you feel much better Best of luck and Finnish hockey players rock!

I love the wheat background! There is a big gap at the top in Opera too. Have you used margin padding?

Looking at the top Flash I too never would have guessed this is a web design site, but then I can't read the content to know if you've somehow tied in that theme either.

While I think it looks 'good', I think it could use something to punch it up a bit to make it look 'better'.

OK, now I made revisioned version of my Flash bar. I hope it's now fitting better. I put some binary code to field which hopefully makes metaphora clearer. The text is still same: "We help you to get the best harvest on the Internet - no matter what your branch is". I'm hoping to get some feedback on this new version.

-Teemu

You had a different one yesterday that I thought was better actually (with the white screen in between). It was more eye catching. Except the problem with the logo being on black.

With this one, it would be better if the text was at the bottom of the image, in white, and bigger.

I still think you should experiment with that photo more.... In general, I don't think it should be necessary to explain the metaphor to people. If you have to do that then you have the wrong metaphor.

Thank you Megan, I appreciate your comments. I removed yesterday version because I was afraid it lasts too long and somehow breaks overall feeling of a page. But if you liked it I still have to reconsider.

I tried to put white text to bottom of flash but it wasn't very easy to read and my bloody flash 5 doesn't want to put black edges on letters, no matter how hard I try.

Yes yes, combine is not very clear metaphora. But on the other hand, what is a good metafora for company that makes web pages? Many sites have a pictures of smiling people using computers. I guess it's OK. But do you have examples of different kind of themes?

-Teemu

Yeah, flash isn't the greatest with text. You can do a fake drop shadow just by dupicating the text...

I thought yesterday's version was just long enough. The one today is almost too short. It takes a second to realize that that picture is animating. Especially with the fade in of the digits on there. So, the brain has to realize that it's animating first. Then it can watch the animation. With today's version the animation is almost over by the time you realize that it's animating.

Your alt tags especially on the cm-racing for the race car thumbnail should have more text. Tell the user that they want to click here and throw in relevant keywords to that page.

I like it. I personally don't have a problem with the squareness. I think that it has a professional look to it... I didn't get much farther than the hompage because the finnish anoyed me...

It seems like nobody finds any connection between combine and web design. So, I am probably going to change the name of the company. I made a thread there http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=25359 where you can vote for a new name. I hope you participate!

-Teemu