So I have been playing

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I tend to do a little freelance work and just built this site so I actually have something to show people... Any thoughts? I plan on focusing it more toward an industrial angle as far as content is concerned... i.e. lose the portraits and such.

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God, somethimes I think I am an idiot. www.luthervondude.com

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I'm going to bump this over to critiques. What do you mean by "industrial angle?"

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A couple of a quick things - at first I thought that the row of text under the logo was a navigation menu, which it's not. The actual navigation menu is much smaller and very easy to miss. That could even be mistaken for text advertising.

I am also a little confused about whether Luther Von Dude is a real person or a character. I gather he must be the character, but it doesn't say anywhere on the site who the actual people are behind this.

I do like the clean and simple look and feel. To give it even more impact, try increasing the padding on the main content box by about 20-30 pixels or so. I feel like the content is a little too close to the edges of the box.

On the portfolio content pages I expected to find links to more information and larger scale examples. Even the website on the website design page doesn't link to an actual site. I'm also noticing that the page titles dont' change properly for each page - I went to find the tab to go back and it's just "Luther Von Dude".

Type-o on the front page: today;s

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The site looks good all the way.Some links are just static and it not works.
The logo is very cute.

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Like Megan I thought that top row was the nvigation,

also there isn't much content one website example 1 video which was slow to load.

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It's a nice looking site, but it needs some work. The top menu text and menu graphics are the same, but the graphics don't work - and the same menu is at the bottom and doesn't work.

You will need to spend some time checking for spelling problems, for example I saw :

fiv instead of five, filed instead of field, consessions instead of concessions, solftware instead of software, illutsration instead of illustration, conent instead of content, there instead of their. And alot is 2 words...

I think there were probably more errors, those were just the most obvious. Running the text through a spelling checker won't fix everything, since 'there' and 'filed' are both spelled correctly - just not in that context.

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I most like the format of the text. I like the fact that it doesn't look all "messed up" as does happen on many websites-including my own. I appreciate the simple approach as well.

I have no opinion good or bad really about the colors of your site. I also like the little guy that says "Will Work for Bandwidth". I think that would be especially cute in a relevant spot on your site, I am not really sure exactly where you would move it though.

You present yourself overall in a fairly professional manner, and I like the font of your title bar. That is very simple, yet contemporary.

Please refer to the following phrase:

"taking SEM very seriously."What is SEM? This is not supposed to be SEO is it? If so, that would be changed, if not, I apologize. I never heard of SEM.

Also...one small grammatical error in this paragraph located in the lower right hand corner of the "Video Production Page" Please refer to the following quote from your page...

[indent]In manufacturing it is critical to deliver an accurate representation of the products and services that you offer. For this company, we produced a short clip and web page that displayed a taste of there equipment installations. (view here)[/indent]

I bold-ed the word "there" which should be "their". Thank you for being receptive to this feedback, and now I suppose it is my turn. I have a newsletter style site at the following URL on which I would like feedback (I just changed this entire site):

http://www.shoppingfishtnet.com/Home_Page.html

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Oh, one more thing... I really like the media (flash is it?) video on the "Video Production" Page. I like that awesome demo! I didn't notice it when I was first critiquing your site.

Julie

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I just got back from vacation... sorry I have been absent from the post I started... I agree that it needs some work I was just hoping to get enough of a response to feel like I was on the right track.

SEM by the way is Search Engine Marketing. Considered a bit of a broader umbrella than SEO.

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robbluther wrote:
SEM by the way is Search Engine Marketing. Considered a bit of a broader umbrella than SEO.

You should say that on the site.

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Good point.

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