Feedback on site launch
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- mjbauer
The design team at Novell just launched a new site. We are looking for some feedback (both positive and negative) from designers. Let us know what you think. Thanks.
- flashbender0
Not design feedback, but regardless of language selected the news ticker is always in english for me.
http://www.novell.com/fr-fr/VE/h…
- harlequino0
Nice site overall. The big black menu is a been gloomy and oppressive.
- stupidresponse0
that + menu/close menu thing drives me insane. either make it a click or a rollover, and don't let it slide back out if i just clicked close but i accidentally roll over it while closing. also, the flash stuff shows thru on the text hovers in safari
- heavyt0
My experience workign with large companies, like Novell, is that there are usually 20 marketing guys/ execs that are ready to mangle your design, force you to add a bunch of marketing crap, or otherwise make your job much harder. So, I would say kudos on overcoming many challenges and coming up with something so nice.
- Concur.TheBlueOne
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- Thanks. That's exactly what we've been through.mjbauer
- Llyod0
the images should not be selectable
- creative-0
On the dot map the UK looks nothing at all like the UK. Doesn't really matter, but things like that really bug me.
- Llyod0
the milk's gone bad
- dirtydesign0
I agree. The first page is a pain in the ass.
The drop down menu was a little jumpy in safari.
- stewart0
• the persons in the video's are keyed too rough
• i selected the dutch language but when i click some menu items from the top nav i'm directed to pages in english
• the navigation and video transitions are not smooth
• the tails of the g, j, y, q, p are cut off in some parts of the top banner
- robotron3k0
Who the hell is the guy being thrown up in the air?? and who is that worker not noticing the dials going crazy on the power systems??? and what's with the goldfish in the tiny bowl? Do you guys SELL fish??? I'm confused - but overall VERY nice looking confusion.
- detritus0
Completely agree with creative - maybe I've just got a post-empire chip on my shoulder, but it really irks me that you'd not bother to get a country with 60-odd million people right. Especially when, by comparison, Iceland's so frickin' big! Also, what's the point of making me answer all those questions when you don't display your telephone number correctly? I'm in Britain - I don't need my country code, but I do need that initial 0! Nnnnngh *assplodes*
Parochial angst aside, it's a really nice site - a lot flashier than I would've expected appropriate for your target demographic - I can hear a thousand techies screaming into the cold of the night with this one - especially the overly deep header graphic (which i personally quite like, even on my not too deep laptop screen here).
I'm getting some 404 errors when clicking for the menu on certain pages (http://www.novell.com/systemsma... , notably)
- detritus0
Actually - what projection are you basing that global dot map on? Australasia is all over the place, whilst far too much emphasis is placed on the relatively unpopulated polar regions. Odd.
- *Laughs at petty concerns of a non-entity 'designer' in the face of a huge multinational corporate project*detritus
- seed0
Black menu is overwhelming and the items are not easiliy discernable. There should be an easier way to select your country. I see the first page as an over complicated barrier.
- threadpost0
Site looks pretty good, it's for a corporate software company so I think it does a good job of making information uniform and easy to find. I wouldn't expect some crazy groundbreaking design or navigation for a software company.
My question is more a personal one: I grew up in Utah valley and worked there for a year or two during and just after college. I found the design jobs there to be GROSSLY underpaid and wonder if that is still the case? I think because you have 60,000 college kids in that small area and because of the unique mormon culture there, they are able to get hard working, talented employees for very cheap.
So then, as a barometer let me try to set up a comparable scenario. Let's say you work at another corporate software company but instead it's located in the Bay Area, Oracle for example. I would expect an Art Director at Oracle would probably make somewhere around 100k, does a similar position in Provo make less than half that?
Sometimes I think I would like to move back to Utah to be close to my family but I would probably make half or less what I make now. Utah just pays SHIITE. Agree? Disagree?- The average designer in Utah does make less than other areas but it depends a lot on who you work for. Cost of living is quite a bit less here than in other areas too. I can't speak for everyone but I work for Axis 41 and they are great when it comes to pay and benefits. True in-house designers may get less, but the firms here seem to pay fairly well.mjbauer
- I know they make less in Utah, but would you say they make half? Not sure what your title is, have you compared it to someplace else?threadpost