Re-Design Opinions?

[JackMaurer]

Just had the site redone, your opinions would be appreciated, if you didn't see the old one still input

Thanks

http://www.maurer-marketing.co.uk

[bcmedia]

Hiya,
If I'm being critical then I would suggest the following:
1. The banners a bit rough round the edges. The outer glow used on the logo etc is too high and could do with being more subtle. The banner itself is also bright but bland. All in all, just not quite there yet.
2. The green used on the left hand menus is to garish and bright IMO
3. The image on the right has been manipulated out of proportion and to the trained eye looks wrong. Its also no a very inspiring image.
4. The tag cloud is not centred correctly and the text in it is to small.

I would tone down the bright greens so the site settles more pleasantly with the back drop (which I find quite soothing). I'd then use a better image on the right and do something with the banner (what I couldn't say until I seen it done correctly ;) )

There are a few other small things but I would say visually that your not far off.

Regards
Craig

[jadexsoln]

In addition to what bcmedia has said, which on the whole agree with (especially the right hand image); and the glow tends to make the images look slightly out of focus (could just be my eyes! :D).

Quickly I've spotted a couple of functional things:

1. The contact us link in the footer doesn't work - just links back to the current page. In fact none of the links in the footer work???

2. If you increase the font size by 1 the main menu breaks across 2 lines and the whole site goes linear. Normally I try to get a site to cope with at least text size changes +/- 2 before the layout breaks.

But on the whole like the layout and look and feel.

Hope this helps
Neil

[JackMaurer]

Thanks for your initial thoughts guys, I know it's not quite finished but if you saw our old site its a massive improvement - I'll forward the comments on to the web designer and update you when its been tweaked

[bdw]

I would say that the moving words Flash content at the bottom left of your home page serves only to irritate, annoy and distract people from the rest of the content. I would get rid of that.

[domainguy]

I don't like the look of the site at all tbh. Not a fan of that wordpress template. Should really go for a white backgroung imho. Sorry.
Love the flash cloud though very touchy feely.

[bcmedia]

If anything I think the changes are for the worse - the outerglow look awful now (its became a thick stroke instead) & the tag cloud just doesn't sit well in the page IMO.

[richardmyers]

To echo some of the sentiments above - The outer glow has to go, completely in my view. The flash box and the customer reviews box are a bit close in my view, and I agree regarding the flash being annoying; I think these need to be moved apart somewhat, so that the flash isn't as distracting.

[ukperson1]

I would personally go for something custom made (http://www.naxtech.com) rather than Wordpress and its templates. It gives a completely different feel to the visitor and potential customer.

[kozrak]

moving words makes my eyes go funny
but looks a fair site not brilliant