Site Crit - Laser Pointers
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- jaylarson
Here is the site for the company I work for. I mostly populated the content, but I would really love to see what you all thought about the design.
Thanks in advance.
- PETER_POPOFF0
can you hook up a green laser that burns/cuts stuff?
- who0
IMHO.... Sorry... I don’t like it...
The upper part it’s too dark. (gray, purple and black)I don’t like also the colors combination. The position of the submenu is not good. When you do over the submenu is becoming orange and I can see the word clear.
You have 7 different colors for the letters (white, green, light purple, dark purple, gray, blue, orange).
Try to make your page height = “100%”
- Nairn0
You seriously need to check your code for other browser compatibility - it steadily breaks up in firefox.
I initially read 'Follow the Deam', as your tagline, thought - "he's missed the 'R'.. what a cheesy statement!...oh.. 'Beam'" etc
Not sure how it looks in IE, but the 3-column leader in your homepage.. doesn't quite fit, and needs some tinkering.
I feel it certainly fits its target demographic and the general structure seems sound.. but it all feels like it needs just a bit more tightening with a wrench or just a jeweller's phillips.
and yeah, where are the fuck-off huge James Bond villain lasers??? :)
good luck!
- spongebob0
pt 1: Lime green + that shade of purple you chose reminds me of a popular brand called speedos.
pt 2: those torches look like them frigging light sabres. misrepresentation of product.
pt 3: i was hoping for a flash site where your mouse pointer is the laser light and you'd select items by circling them and all that shittake mushrooms.
- jaylarson0
for lasers that mess shit(take mushrooms) up... go to:
thanks for the comments thus-far!
- spendogg0
Friends dont let Friends design with day-glow.
- kyl30
bigger drop shadows!
- jevad0
omg
a website that needs no further cowbell
I am in shock
- Snowblinded0
purple.....yuk
- MX_OnD0
I'd have to agree with the 3 column header, when you click on "Products" for example it looks like you're on a different site almost. with the middle section looking completely different.
In Firefox win2K.I'd consider a horizontal menu too perhaps the "PRODUCTS"
"LASER INFO" and "CLEARANCE" buttons seem out of place.It reminds me of the collapsable panels in Flash, but doesn't behave like them.
tuppence from a dilettant
- jevad0
im telling your boss
- Nairn0
omg.. jay - do you know if that wickedlasers.com site is legit??
they sell lasers which can melt plastic! *drooool*
- MX_OnD0
im telling your boss
jevad
(Nov 28 05, 10:20)je suis a la maison, sans Billy Big Boss.
*snitch
- jevad0
I'm still telling him
- seed0
Those devices look like mini light sabers. The site looks like a generic template. Maybe it is according to the path to the CSS. Clean up the text on the logo.
- jaylarson0
Nairn, as for Wicked Lasers legitimency, we refused to sell to them. They are probably ok, but we didn't want to get into legal squables. We had the FBI call us once... probably because people were shining their green laser pointers into commercial airplanes . Since then, the gov. has limited them (to
- ukit0
Cool - lasers. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any reason why half the nav items are in the header (horizontally) and half along the left side? Normally that kind of design would be used to indicate that the items in the left hand nav were subsets of one of the global nav options, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Why not simplify things and move everything to the left hand nav? It'll be more extensible if you ever need to add subsections to any of those other items.
Another thing - at the top of the screen where it says "home > Welcome, Guest," it's kind of confusing because the arrow makes it look almost like a breadcrumb trail. I would just remove the home since you already have a breadcrumb at the top of the content area.
- Mimio0
I think you should have "Kyrie Eleison" by Mr.Mister playing in the background.
- uberdesigner0
aren't those the things with which people were blinding airline pilots