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Old 07-08-2004, 04:14 PM
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Please review my site!
Thanks!
Giancarlo G.
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Old 07-09-2004, 10:01 AM
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The site looks okay. The moving panel on the front is a little jagged around the edges.

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A good website is far more than a few clever effects and technical wizardry - it's about keeping things simple but strongly focused, stylized but with a clear 'message'
What is the message of the tree. This has a lot of symbolism, some of which is carried over to computer work. However, this is not done. The graphic is not translated into a style, a theme, or anything else I can see. This reduces the graphic to just a graphic placed on the page. ...And not to forget the moving panel is quite a feat of technical wizardry.

Perhaps I'm not getting the message.

The sites which use a concept without demonstrating the concept are going to create a certain amount of cognitive friction. GFX in this case stands for graphic effects; not a clear message but the one which comes through.
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Old 07-09-2004, 12:53 PM
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Giancarlo,

I have to agree with DCrux: for a company that pushes the virtues of clear message (a concept I happen to highly agree with), you're not doing much to achieve it in your own site:

1. Your copy needs to be edited by someone who knows what they're doing. Sentence fragments, punctuation problems, grammar problems, capitalization problems.. your written copy seems thrown together, written with very little attention to detail. It doesn't project a good image. (I mean, really - under "Make extra money" you misspell your own domain name.)

2. Your top-page headline should lead with the core emotional need that you're meeting: the primary benefit and the reason your best clients will come to you. You're leading with "We are located in Miami Florida". Uh.. no. You have unique qualities that most other designers don't have (international support is one of them).. niche yourself and hit that niche hard.

3. I'd steer away from lines like "Your web site is your best employee".. come on, you know that's not true for most small businesses. Watch your exaggerations - they damage your credibility almost as bad as your sentence fragments do.

4. Using a yahoo.com contact email address immediately brands you as an amateur. You have your own domain; why aren't you using it to receive email?

You really need to sit down and figure out what makes you unique, what clients you're most qualified (and most inclined) to serve, and what emotional needs bind the two. Then rewrite all your copy with a sharp focus on those needs, without resorting to hyperbole.
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