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- freshmode
Greetings,
Just finished these comps for a client in the MPEG-4 software industry.
Wanted some feedback on the site before I finalize anything. Please take a look and let me know your thoughts. I have 100% creative control on this so please send me some good feedback if you have some.
http://www.sublinemedia.com/mind…
Thanks in advance
REACT!
- freshmode0
A little inside on the project.
The middle image area is flash. The white dotted lines will animate representing wind and they will "awaken" the little circles which become buttons. Once you click on a button, the area on the far right will come out and present text.
The company is very new and young and has nothing for content. That is why everything is so open and spaced out.
The flash area will serve as a presentation of the companies service. They are trying to raise money right now and are working with Sun and Microsoft.
P.S. We didn't do the logo.
I guess that about covers it...
- skape0
Looks pretty clean and corporate to me. The only suggestion is to not center the option1, etc. on the bottom area. Maybe put the site map and legal on the blue strip below??
- kodap0
I like the third layout, maybe you should drop the dark gray in the bottom and expand the content area on a table to fit all ~screen sizes.. you probably thought on doing that (because it's just an image and I'm on 1280x1024...) also you can decrease the text size a bit more on the adress area.
just my point of view.
anyway, good work.
- freshmode0
Thanks,
The contact area is a bit out of wack because we are going to have an admin panel where they can decide on having content within that area or just the contact info. So I made it bigger to fit and not look so empty. Plus, if I make it smaller, I know they will ask for it larger. So if they don't like it large, they can ask for it smaller and we all win.
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- mitsu0
id say decrase the blur size on the outerglow for the 'we create mpeg-4...." text
and i'm not too crazy about the comp on index2 cause the color scheme reminds me too much of a pharmaceutical site that sells allergy medicine...
- driftlab0
Ooo, that's nice work there. I think I like #3 best. Very pretty. Well done.
- freshmode0
::: bump :::
- ********0
Heirarchy, Heirarchy, Heirarchy, I cant't stress this enough.
you need to make decisions about what you want the user to see 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc... then design for it.
Although there is transparency present and multiple colored backdrops, there is little depth actually being effective. The shadows under theimage and outside the window both are not helping, the look contrived and not dimensional.
you are also in need of a grid here. Not much references a grid and as such, adds to overall disparity.
My choice would be the "blue" colored bottom, though I don't think it is there yet.
Nice work, keep cracking at it.
The rules used in the bottom portion serve no purpose and only add to overall visual noise.
- Bluejam0
It's a good design but it's lacking an element that identifies the site as 'Mindego'.
Take away the logo and the site could be for any company out there and for any type of business.
It's a difficult problem to solve but one which benefit the overal site design...
- freshmode0
Bluejam,
Actually, the hills in the picture are to be replaced by another picture of the mindego hills in northern california. So you can't just drop another logo in. The hills are for that purpose.
I agree with the grid issue, but not to much with the lack of attention going to the right places. The image is to be done in flash with animation that brings in items one at a time. I guess you have to see the flash in order to understand what I mean.
Thanks for the crit, I will consider a grid for this.
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