Company Site Idea

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Ian

Welcome to CB.
The colour scheme is a good mix for a simple website. The black bar however is quite overpowering upon first glance. The marker image integrating the logo is your strongest element on the page and that should take precedence.
Perhaps introducing a mock transparency effect with the black bar where it appears to be overlaid on top of the existing page at about 40% opacity. This would also help make the colours to the left of the bar not so isolated.

The navigation is simple and clear which is exactly what any nav should be. It's a bugbear of mine but I always want to see a scaled version of the overall artwork rather than a preview slice of one part of the overall piece.

All in all, a nice design and only a few small tweaks needed.

www.afterglow.ie

First of all the positives to make you feel good.

1. Love the colour balance, all of the colours are working nicely together
2. Structure is very nice and hierarchy seems about right to me
3. Love the way the marker pen is included in the blue logo, very nicely done
4. The logo itself is very nice

Now for the crushing blows to bring you back down to earth ;)

1. Tyography all looks a bit ‘default’, I think the over use of Arial makes it look a bit unconsidered. Try mixing it up with a serif like Georgia
2. The menus all look a bit floaty
3. The menu at the top needs to have more substance to give it a top level nav feel
4. Maybe try the odd soft edge? all feels a bit right angly for me.

Hope that was constructive enough and not too negative ;)

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Thanks for the great input so far, what detailed crits... AWSOME! I adjusted a few things in regards to your posts. I toned down the black a bit, let some of the 'marker' image bleed into the black bar, worked on the type a bit, brought up the body a bit to make the menu less 'floaty'. Again thanx for the response, the advice is much appreciated thus far.

I will try to post the updated version in my original post up top.

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Ian

You can also embed the enhanced version in the later replies down, so that we get an idea of how far it has improved.

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