I'm looking to improve my website as I am now working as Freelance here in Deutschland rather than via my Uk Ltd.
Criteria/considerations
- It needs to be professional looking but at the same time being different from the crowd but not too glitzy
- I am a freelance IT consultant and not a small company looking to give an image of a larger co./global empire
- I am not a website developer/flash guru and so no I cannot build it myself, therefore i'll get professionals to do it
- Text/Colours/Logos will all be changed so example content is not so important (plus for those who doesn't recognise, it's Latin)
- Animation adjustment is limited to either having the animation or disabling it making this the key consideration when comparing the sites, as stated above I am not a web dev or flash guru
- My personal preference is simple, clean, clutter free websites that age well
- IMPORTANT *** ALL of the sites contain sound so turn off your speakers if in work *** I will definately not have any sound effects on my site, I hate almost all sites the have sound
- I'm not looking to pay the unique buyout price, I'll take the risk that no-one in my small niche market of contractors/agents are likely to have any of the above websites and pay regular price only.
- the point of having this website is that i have bought some fairly prominent work related .net and .com websites and believe with a simple google search of "<area of expertise> contractor" these sites by their domain names would likely appear highly on possible clients results list and therefore may attract small co.'s looking for someone of my experience (i.e direct work).
So with the above criteria in mind I've narrowed down choices to the following 6 with my own site opinions included:
1) Hand & Mouse
Good points: professional looking
bad points: i'm not so sure of the shimmering arcade machine style menu choices
2) Laptop
I like the inital simple clean menu but wonder if the laptop idea is a bit too cheesey?
3) Business Card
I like the idea of changing the first pages text to effectively be my business card details but find the shaking biz card when a menu is selected a bit annoying so would look to disable it
4) Desk
I like the first page as it looks like a meeting desk to me, I also like the way the scroll bar drags at an angle for each page, i think I'll disable the exploding money animation. I think it’s an interesting site to play with (moving the chairs at the start around with the mouse) but possibly a bit too over the top?
5) Stationery
Hmm this is the outside choice. I’m not sure about the black feel to the site, a bit too 80's non timeless I think? and maybe there’s a bit too much movement in the intro and glitz with the sparkling menu icons. a bit too over the top?
6) Boxes
A think this is a clean, simple site and I like the inbetween animations when a menu is selected on the main page but would have to change the black/white stripe animation on the initial page for menu selection.
So what does the panel think?
Let the "oh my god, are you blind?", "jeezuz you have bad taste", "what kind of web dev cowboys made these awful sites" remarks begin..
Criteria/considerations
- It needs to be professional looking but at the same time being different from the crowd but not too glitzy
- I am a freelance IT consultant and not a small company looking to give an image of a larger co./global empire
- I am not a website developer/flash guru and so no I cannot build it myself, therefore i'll get professionals to do it
- Text/Colours/Logos will all be changed so example content is not so important (plus for those who doesn't recognise, it's Latin)
- Animation adjustment is limited to either having the animation or disabling it making this the key consideration when comparing the sites, as stated above I am not a web dev or flash guru
- My personal preference is simple, clean, clutter free websites that age well
- IMPORTANT *** ALL of the sites contain sound so turn off your speakers if in work *** I will definately not have any sound effects on my site, I hate almost all sites the have sound
- I'm not looking to pay the unique buyout price, I'll take the risk that no-one in my small niche market of contractors/agents are likely to have any of the above websites and pay regular price only.
- the point of having this website is that i have bought some fairly prominent work related .net and .com websites and believe with a simple google search of "<area of expertise> contractor" these sites by their domain names would likely appear highly on possible clients results list and therefore may attract small co.'s looking for someone of my experience (i.e direct work).
So with the above criteria in mind I've narrowed down choices to the following 6 with my own site opinions included:
1) Hand & Mouse
Good points: professional looking
bad points: i'm not so sure of the shimmering arcade machine style menu choices
2) Laptop
I like the inital simple clean menu but wonder if the laptop idea is a bit too cheesey?
3) Business Card
I like the idea of changing the first pages text to effectively be my business card details but find the shaking biz card when a menu is selected a bit annoying so would look to disable it
4) Desk
I like the first page as it looks like a meeting desk to me, I also like the way the scroll bar drags at an angle for each page, i think I'll disable the exploding money animation. I think it’s an interesting site to play with (moving the chairs at the start around with the mouse) but possibly a bit too over the top?
5) Stationery
Hmm this is the outside choice. I’m not sure about the black feel to the site, a bit too 80's non timeless I think? and maybe there’s a bit too much movement in the intro and glitz with the sparkling menu icons. a bit too over the top?
6) Boxes
A think this is a clean, simple site and I like the inbetween animations when a menu is selected on the main page but would have to change the black/white stripe animation on the initial page for menu selection.
So what does the panel think?
Let the "oh my god, are you blind?", "jeezuz you have bad taste", "what kind of web dev cowboys made these awful sites" remarks begin..
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