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Posted by John Hosking on 10/12/06 00:45
Peter Olcott wrote (regarding http://www.seescreen.com/):
>
> I am looking for suggestions pertaining to style, not functionality. What are
> the kinds of things that can be done to a site like mine that look good.
>
Okay, I'll bite (my websites do, so why not?).
I'm no designer, but I would point out:
The text sizes are too small. (And specifying them in px isn't too
cool. Thank &deity; I have Firefox.) (Ooh, this just in: the text in the
middle of the Unique page is even tiiinier. Are you afraid someone might
read this stuff?)
The page requires that my browser viewport be 820 px wide. Any more than
that and I have wasted browser real estate left and right; any less and
I get a horiz. scrollbar because of the logo image (and I can't see all
the text). Fluid design would be friendlier.
The logo image is all you have to capture the visitor's imagination, and
mine, for one, got away. It doesn't do too much for me (*yawn*. Oh
sorry.). What do you mean to communicate with it?
The bodytext itself could be better formatted; it's heavy and dull, with
nothing breaking it up or inciting any interest. The closest it gets is
at the bottom with a two-item list. If this is really the exciting part
of your product, put it in a box, up higher, with maybe a slightly
different coloring or something, up *next* to the boring technical
explanation.
The nav links up top look almost like register tabs, but they don't
quite go all the way, and they look cheap. Like an imitation leather
wallet you got at the dime store. See other websites for comparison.
Your links to "Home" in the nav doesn't do anything useful. Is your
index.html a pure white page? (Hint: yes.)
I have the feeling something is missing in the blue, uh, area in the
upper-right corner. Is there supposed to be text there? A linky?
Apart from all of that, I have other criticisms regarding the
construction of the site (HTML & CSS). Things like:
<font style="font-size:18px; color:black" face="arial"><b>
SeeScreen Provides Two Unique Capabilities:<br>
</b></font>
and the entire table-based design tell me the site should be recoded
from scratch as part of the redesign. But you didn't ask about that, I
think, so I'll just hope I've helped a little with my paltry suggestions
concerning the look. Good luck.
--
John
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