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- emecks
This is why I've not been here much for the past 7 weeks:
- flavorful0
I don't know why, but this made my bust out into hysterics:
Sweep your 'wee lassie' off her feet with a romantic Edinburgh escape!
- emecks0
anyone?
- ismith0
Who are you?
- gramme0
you designed it?
It's pretty heavy-handed, if opinions are what you're after. Sorry friend...
- alla0
there are a lot of + signs on that homepage!
I would remove the ons in the navigation or at least make them less visible, a little more refined maybe?
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- Concrete0
Looks good to me, MX.
Only thing I'd say is it needs to be a bit more balanced. The bottom right needs to be occupied.
- neue75_bold0
I don't know what to think...
- gramme0
I see so many plus signs, I think Switzerland, or hospital.
Doesn't look particularly Scottish to me, but then again I may be about as ignorant as a bat in a blizzard.
The type in general is waaay too big.
- 'as ignorant as a bat in a blizzard'
*steals*detritus - that will cost you £2,000 +++gramme
- Perhaps we can come up with some sort of usage royalty scheme? In-Print, in-digi - shouted in the street costs?detritus
- You forgot written in blood.gramme
- bu..bu..bu.. you're a Christian! I'd never think of suggesting that! Or do you mean wine?detritus
- wine would workgramme
- Is chicken wine ok?detritus
- the possible danger of salmonella will only get you temporary RF rights.gramme
- 'as ignorant as a bat in a blizzard'
- creative-0
The phone number breaks onto 2 lines in Safari 3 (Mac) like this:
BOOK NOW 0044(0)131 240
0080I'd remove the '00' at the beginning and replace it with a '+' which will probably bring it up on 1 line.
Also I'd try and align the form fields in the booking form (in the red box) to neaten them up a bit.
- Jnr_Madison0
I think it's fine for what their market is and it's pretty easy to use... what was your role mx? CSS/XHTML Hoor?
- kinross0
bugs me that you have to fill in an enqiry form to get prices - especially as you have already input stay details.
- TheBlueOne0
Well done on a code level, layout is functional, but just kinda blah aesthetically I gotta say...(kill me for saying this but..) it doesn't "pop"...but then again, maybe an apartment services website doesn't need to. And I missed the section on hookers...
- creative-0
Shouldn't you be using 'X's for Scotland, not '+'s for England?
- Jnr_Madison0
I noticed a 'TEST' apartment when I searched, then an 'you are not authorised to view this page' when clicked.
- it is only for you. We all can access that page. :)alla
- ...story of my life.Jnr_Madison
- emecks0
Thanks everyone!!
My role was the functional architecture of the site - what it looks like and the content is the client's choice. Basically their old site relied on tables for layout and ended up having "little bits" added all over the front page.
The concept I came up with restructured all of the content on the site into very clear content types: Apartments | Unique Services | Packages | Marketing Pages | Promotion Banners and interlinked them according to target markets. By doing this any "little bits" that need to be added now fit into the structure of the site.
Anyway, it's also the first time I have undertaken a project of this magnitude and I'm pretty chuffed at the results :)
- gramme0
In that case, well done.
Tell them to find a new front-end designer(s).
- to be fair, the designer had a LOT of client "input" and is from a print background.emecks
- That's too bad...however what does a "print background" have to do with it?gramme
- typography and spatial relationships are design principles that transcend medium.gramme
- I know what you mean gramme, but I've seen a lot of print designers struggle for a good while to "get" designing siteskelpie
- the comment on print simply means that paper doesn't move around and resize etc...emecks
- neue75_bold0
+ 100
- detritus0
I think it'd look really good if you left it for a few days then went back with fresh eyes and messed with the spacing a bit - some elements are too tight - header nav, intro blurb, search box, etc - where others are too loose, or maligned (is that a correct contraction? I think not) - Main shout, latest & greatest, etc. I'd also consider 'another shade of white' to break up the content blocks.
Once past the front page though, your efforts really begin to pay off - though there are a couple of elements that annoy me
- 'pages and next > last > nav' isn't prominent enough
- lack of dot above i in unique services (WHY? WHY? WHY? :)
- no obvious 'which page am i on?' shout for 'unique services'
- I'd probably have the content for stories expandedAlso, after quite a lot of browsing, I agree with the above comments about the rotation of your cross mechanic - it's just not Scottish. I mean, it wouldn't matter if it where anywhere else... but it just doesn't look right. Looks Swiss. And God how we loathe those Swi... oh.. sorry, mx. No, I love the Swiss.
One more thing - does this = gay?
- Fariska0
I like it. It works well and has a clear content disposition.
More on the aesthetic side it has a sort of injuried feeling:
- The logo looks injuried and patched (i know that is the scottish flag but well.. seems that the house had an injury)
- all those thick + on the page looks like patches.