Robert you'll be wishing you hadn't stuck your head up now <g> But I think it looks definitely like an advertising agency site.
I was looking at you team bios page, out of sheer noseyparker-ness, and there's no way to find a particular person. For example suppose I'm a potential client and i'd been talking to you on the phone, so I thought i'd check up to see what your background is. To find Robert Harrison in the bios, i have to open all the bios at random or systematically open them one by one until i find yours. I suggest you put the name as alt text on the images so it comes up as a tooltip, or perhaps a line somewhere with the person's name and title that changes with the mouseover or make the icons relate to their job function or something. Just some way to find the person i might be looking for. After all, if i came to your office as a prospective client, I wouldnt just walk about your office at random, stopping people saying 'who are you, what's your background, what do you do here?" I can see that the icon graphics you use are related to their personal interests, but to be really honest, if i'm looking for an ad agency, I'm not going to be saying to myself "i want to use an agency where the account exec likes ice skating". Unless you have pretty dumbass clients. i'd want to have an account exec who knows advertising and likes the business, and with some luck has some understanding of MY business, and to hell with their personal interests. I also see that the subnav at the bottom leads to a more easy-to-follow subdivision, reducing the number of icons to a smaller group, with the names listed on the right, which is better, but it's not obvious when you arrive at the bios page, that's what that area does. I like that you figure your staff personal interests are important for clients to relate to, but if your site is intended to provide prospective clients the answer to the question "should i use these guys as my ad agency?" this section isnt really pulling its weight. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:07 AM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site >> >> We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL >> DB. >> >> If you want to see it, it's at: http://www.austin-williams.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314676 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
