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- Fleaguru
Mornin all! Site's almost finished so I thought I'd go for some completely fresh feedback in the form of NT regulars!
It's a site for a company called Handrail Design, the "company" and "site map" sections aren't in, but the rest of it is there pending some tweaks and adjustments.
http://demo.netsite.co.uk/handra…
Cheers guy and gals
- abizzyman0
gorgeous work in my opinion... my only issue is tha aliasing on some of the smaller text - paticularly on the sublinks in certain sections...
.. other than that - very slick - efficient on the processor etc... nice images.. they seem to hold up (no pixeling)....
... and of course... very clean design.
It feels cluttered from time to time... but you've done well to manage alot of content.
- Fleaguru0
Cheers "abizzyman" much appreciated. any advice on the aliasing of the text - tried looking into this before, and didn't get far with it.
- ********0
Quite like it - agree about the text.
Perhaps aliased text would give you a cleaner look, fitting in with the fairly clinical look of the products.
- Fleaguru0
When I farked around with the aliasing on flash before - it looked really pixelated and rough. It HAS to be in Helvetica Neue, so I think that's the problemo right there. Any ideas?
- ********0
Fucken nice! 'cept the text lookin' a wee bit pissed...
- Terminal270
Hello,
Nice looking site and the content is managed well, considering how much there is.
There are some images on the left that cycle when the site loads. Some of them look ever so slightly jpeg'd. I'd lessen the compression a little. With products like these. ultra high quality it's worth letting the file size go up a little to ensure that the products look Fab.
Also one other small thing. When I go into products and choose one eg. Icontube and then browse the options... The scrolling window races past some other images , which look interesting. You would imagine that you would be able to see them if you get to the right section, but you cant.
It sounds petty as if you saw something you liked and then could'nt find it.. yo uwould be sad.
Maybe the images that scroll past could be the images from each section.
Anyway... way to long now... nuff said.. very nice site
- ********0
"It HAS to be in Helvetica Neue"
Aye, that would be a bit of a problem aliased. Why does is HAVE to be helvetica? Could you not sell them another font for the body copy buy showing them how it could look.
- Fleaguru0
Thanks guys for the comments sofar. Keep it all coming anyone else.
Terminal27 - cheers mate, if you click the arrows under the right section, you can see everything. The content scrolls in as an indication that there is more content. Sort of educating the user to use the arrows. Is that what you're talking about? Also - you're right, went a bit mad with the comressing of images in flash - must look at that I think.
skt - I think it does have to be, but I see where you're going with the trial idea. Might be worth changing one section and showing him. what would you recomment I try - font-wise?
Thanks everyone.
Tits & Beans
- Terminal270
Right you are Flea.. just found the arrows.... Cool
- Fleaguru0
anyone else??
- Terminal270
bump
Common guys... throw the guy a frikin bone....
- ********0
super nice
site map didn't come up when I clicked on it
- _smk0
lurvrly site.
On the text thing, I know it's ultra boring, but 11px verdana aliased? I find clients don't come back with "that's too small" at that size...
other than that thier's a really nice pixel font called Supernatural that works solidly at 10px.
just my tuppence worth..
- stewart0
really nice.
and i'd love to take a peek at the source codes and backend.
did you made it so that the client can upload content like text and images?
or do you have to edit the files if they want an extra product or chapter added?two things:
the colorscheme is a little depressing/boring to methe dline logo is a dissonant
and i see three main catagories Tube Cube and Vieu but it is still totally unclear to me what the main differences are because the products look very similar. i think i need an image on the button of every Tube Cube and Vieu so it is clear what's behind it.
oh and i also see an arrow to the right or left - also when there isn't anything to click.
but i like the structure products/technical/projects
- kbags0
Great site!
As a recovering engineer, i LOVE the way you put the "Technical" section together with the .DWGs available for download and everything.
Far f*cking out, maaan.
- Fleaguru0
Terminal27 - Thank you for voice there mate! Got me a few more valuable opinions! Respect my friend!
Rand - watch this space for site map and company section - got something a little tasty brewing for these!
smk - thanks for the text thought there - gonna have a look at it.
stewert - No mate, this isn't content managed. The company is our neighbor and the changes are going to be few and far between, so we steered away from that. Colour scheme goes along with the brochures and other marketing bits that Handrail has produced. It's good that you've identified that there are 3 products within ICON. When you roll over the icons on the home page, the changing image shows the essence of each product. To you and me they look the same, but to the interior architects, I'm sure it's very much different.
kbags - cheers mate, good to feel the love from the sort of person this will be useful for.
Thanks all again!
- caseyc0
Flea,
Execution and design are all well done but I think the site is lacking some solid information architecture.
IMHO, you went the wrong way with the navigation. The entire site is really just a showcase for the product lines so they should have been the focus rather than "Products | Techincal | Projects | Brochures"
So your main nav would be:
Tube | Cube | Vieu | DLineAnd a secondary nav for the rest
And to answer your earlier question about antialiasing in flash, I've developed a few tricks to make text render a lot better. I usually increment the font size by 0.1 until it looks good and do the same with _x and _y, you can actually get text looking really good (for flash) that way.
Cheers!
- phirschybar0
really nice presentation of that product.. well done. My only advice would be to make the horizontal nav (which shows secondary images) a bit more obvious. I wasnt sure where to look for it.
- Fleaguru0
caseyc - thanks for the comments mate, very interesting. We took some time on the whole navigation, as the site and it's architecture was originally designed by someone else, and when I got my hands on it to rebuild - we then had to redsign it. Myself and the client decided that the site was going to be useful for the technical and sales department by having technical and case studies in the top nav. We grouped the products together under it's own nav, and made the home page a gateway directly to the products. It seems to have worked out well. Having said this I do see where you're coming from, and would probably have gone in a similar direction if I'd have started the design from scratch. Still, we're pretty happy with it. I'll be putting it up here for final crits when the last ttwo sections are done - would love your final opinion when Ive done this!!
Love your city mate, been there loads, and wanna go back! Ghost bar is a fookin cool bar!! Do you work in a design agency there?? What's it called - I'd love to work out there!!
Cheers.
- tkmeister0
i love the design and how it flows.
not so sure about IA though, as it's been mentioned. the info that's most important is sort of lost. not sure about the home page and company separation. maybe you can combine them together?
it just seems a bit crowed at the top nav level.