[Halpin13]

Hello everyone,

Over the past few months ive been creating a website for a section in work.

just wanting to know what you guys think ?

anything i can improve on etc ??

http://rubbmilitary.com

thank you all

[I335]

Fantastic! Very professional looking, great choice of colors. Looks like there's some sort of a symbol in the background after you click on "enter" but it's very hard to see. I'm assuming you want it to be subtle but it may be just a bit too subtle. Perhaps you could brighten it up just slightly so it could actually be seen and not completely overlooked would work a bit better. Very minor nit there - looks great overall. Well done!

[KadeSdad]

Good effort but drop the intro page.

[BGM]

Originally Posted by KadeSdad

Good effort but drop the intro page.

yes, fully agree

nice job

[Halpin13]

thanks for the comments...

the landing page i don't like also but its a message that the MD wanted to get across and he wanted it to be the first thing people saw.

never mind .....

i see what you mean by the background... ill take a look at that tomorrow.

thanks

[BGM]

Originally Posted by Halpin13

thanks for the comments...

the landing page i don't like also but its a message that the MD wanted to get across and he wanted it to be the first thing people saw.

never mind .....

i see what you mean by the background... ill take a look at that tomorrow.

thanks

ok, in that case i would either make it look like a note, or personalised message..

or (more likely) talk to your MD and explain why that design option is not a good idea, that 'landing pages' are very 1990s and website 'fashions' move with, if not faster than clothing etc.. etc..

mention that it reflects on the company to use a landing page in this manner as being non progressive or some such non sense

that ol' trick usually works with my MD

[Halpin13]

Originally Posted by BGM

ok, in that case i would either make it look like a note, or personalised message..

or (more likely) talk to your MD and explain why that design option is not a good idea, that 'landing pages' are very 1990s and website 'fashions' move with, if not faster than clothing etc.. etc..

mention that it reflects on the company to use a landing page in this manner as being non progressive or some such non sense

that ol' trick usually works with my MD

i see what you mean haha.... i like that one ill go and see him tomorrow and see what he think and ill say about people no bothering on entering and just boucing away.. that should do it lol

[BGM]

Originally Posted by Halpin13

i see what you mean haha.... i like that one ill go and see him tomorrow and see what he think and ill say about people no bothering on entering and just boucing away.. that should do it lol

if he won't budge, you could use google analytics to track the average time spent on the landing page..

for me, i immediately went "wtf is this", click.. never even read it

[PhilL]

I was watching the news yesterday showing the Tornadoes in Afganistan and wondered who made the temporary hangars - now I know!

[Halpin13]

Originally Posted by PhilL

I was watching the news yesterday showing the Tornadoes in Afganistan and wondered who made the temporary hangars - now I know!

thats us any high res pics you want just as check out our flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubbmilitary or email me mj.halpin@rubb.co.uk

[Halpin13]

Originally Posted by PhilL

I was watching the news yesterday showing the Tornadoes in Afganistan and wondered who made the temporary hangars - now I know!

I say to myself why would you read it lol.... but never mind lol

[MEGA]

You could perhaps investigate a JQuery popup onload for that message - but in front of the main site. That way users can see the main site in the background - know they are in the right place, but get to read the message as well. If you also trigger it based on the result of a check for a cookie FAILING, then it will only pop up for a visitor's first visit to the site in a given time period (until the cookie expires, etc).

...But it might just be easier to get the page removed I too agree that it needs to go..

A nice site overall anyway. Good effort.

[kdiz]

I actually come from a web design / development background so I hope I don't sound too harsh. I agree with other comments about removing intro page, if it's important information you should just include it on the main page.

Overall design not too bad, I see you are quite new to Photoshop and web development so it is a challenge. I would say the white outside glow looks a bit amature, if you wanted to keep that affect it should be more subtle perhaps a dark grey. The address and phone number should ideally be text and not part of the image, it allows users to copy and paste it into Google maps etc or if they use skype to call people it will show up as a button they can easily click.

Other than that the programming could be improved greatly but I assume it was made for you by some kind of application.

[Halpin13]

Originally Posted by kdiz

I actually come from a web design / development background so I hope I don't sound too harsh. I agree with other comments about removing intro page, if it's important information you should just include it on the main page.

Overall design not too bad, I see you are quite new to Photoshop and web development so it is a challenge. I would say the white outside glow looks a bit amature, if you wanted to keep that affect it should be more subtle perhaps a dark grey. The address and phone number should ideally be text and not part of the image, it allows users to copy and paste it into Google maps etc or if they use skype to call people it will show up as a button they can easily click.

Other than that the programming could be improved greatly but I assume it was made for you by some kind of application.

Thanks for the comments, the site is coded/designed by myself in Dreamweaver, you are right, im new and had a crash course with Dreamweaver but Photoshop is something ive been learning myself.

I do agree with the white halo remark... over the past months of creating this website, I would prefer box’s with a line grey line around but its something I can change. I noticed when starting out I felt like I needed to create an impact and try and use everything I could from Photoshop but after creating this site I much prefer the simple and minimalist look.

[Jeff123]

Originally Posted by KadeSdad

Good effort but drop the intro page.

I would also drop the intro page.

Also, on many of the the pages the navigation buttons linking to other pages on the site are hidden at the extreme bottom of the page. I know that some companies do this, but I would put them at the top of every page to make things easier.

Also, I would make them smaller so that they only span the top of the page and don't go onto a second line.

[Halpin13]

top four images changed

http://rubbmilitary.com/home.htm

[Halpin13]

Originally Posted by Jeff123

I would also drop the intro page.

Also, on many of the the pages the navigation buttons linking to other pages on the site are hidden at the extreme bottom of the page. I know that some companies do this, but I would put them at the top of every page to make things easier.

Also, I would make them smaller so that they only span the top of the page and don't go onto a second line.

ill see what the MD says but but i dont think he would want them at the top with him liking a simple clutter free site, but we will see, thanks