CookiE Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Didnt design it, just made all the content digiViz What do yas think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 To be honest...dreadful! First off, it takes too long to load at the start. Then as I looked at the visuals, which aren't so good by today's standards to be brutally honest. But the worst thing is the copy- Poor grammar, incomplete sentences, and sentences that don't make sense. That's my first impression, but then I'm not going to commission you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Quote: 'This was 3D modelled up after the build was complete to add to there marketing information to use and a house for inspiration. And as it was already modeled it was easy to make' What on earth are you blabbing on about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFK_Matrix Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Can't really add to what Iain has said. You really need to read through the text and eliminate all the spelling and grammer mistakes. If English isn't your first language you need to get someone to go through it for you. Also you have a lot of imcomplete........ Sentences lol. Oh and the loading is far too long, I would have quite it after the first 10secs tbh. EDIT: Oh and what the hell is the L3 menu?? And you shouldn't have any pics on the animation page imo as its misleading seeing as you seem to have no animations at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horhe Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 You need to make more preloaders in places that need loading, and not just load the whole content at the beggining. Load the navigation as a seperate entity and load the images seperatly as well, once someone has actually clicked on one to view it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Took about 4 minutes to load the page here and I have a 25Mbps connection. You will have lost 95% of your potential customers on that fact alone. While the design of the site looks reasonably nice, it was poorly programmed. I would contact the person who did create the site and ask them to optimize the site to stream properly. I think right now the entire flash file has to download before anything works. There are a few other things that could be happening as well so without seeing the code, it would be hard to tell. It's also possible that all of the images are embedded into the flash document, rather than referring them from the file system and calling them into a player on demand. As Iain has pointed out the grammar and web copy is really poor. I would recommend having someone proof the copy for you. There were a lot of run-on sentences, grammatical and sentence structure issues throughout. This is just a draft, so no harm done. Once you get those issues addressed, the major site problems should be mostly addressed I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwana Kahawa Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 A typo on every single page I looked at. I even tried to find an exception but couldn't. I'd also make sure the text for each image changes, even if it's describing the same project, just to keep interest up. You seemed to be repeating the same (poorly written) paragraphs over and over for some projects. And the crazy electricity bolts? Looks clever, but what's it got to do with arch vis?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Yes I'd also like to say the load time was too long...perhaps if I had a slide show of images to watch while all that was happening, I wouldn't have minded so much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookiE Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Cheers for the input, Grammer is being worked on before it is advertised to clients, as I am very bad at grammer. There has been talk by the guy who made the site to load external files as you have mentioned above the full file does have to be downloaded The file is 2.7mb which if your in New Zealand downloads very fast as you dont have to go across the world to servers. Animations are going up in the next day or 2 (rendering atm) I realise my visualizations are not to the level of other poeple here infact far from it, but im learning and in a country that does very little visualizations and if they do dont want to pay stuff all so the job has to be done fast and then is lower quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Not to judge my Kiwi Cousin across the waves, but why does the quality have to be lower? Why not set a new standard for others to be judged by. And to be honest, it looks like the emphasis is on the website and not the content. And the whiz-bang is eye candy and I think becomes a chore to view after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookiE Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Not to judge my Kiwi Cousin across the waves, but why does the quality have to be lower? Why not set a new standard for others to be judged by. And to be honest, it looks like the emphasis is on the website and not the content. And the whiz-bang is eye candy and I think becomes a chore to view after a while. Im trying to up the content but as I dont have as much time to do it I dont have much time to learn new ways, alot of the stuff on the website I have improved from but havent had the chance to put that into action. There are a few places in NZ that are high quality but have the time to spend as they get the money to do so. Ill get there though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieLeon Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I'm in Miami and the site loads quick for me. I guess you must have fixed something cause I'm nowhere near as fast as Jeff. Regarding the design of the site, I have seen it already on TemplateMonster.com. It's actually one of the better ones so good choice Grammar and rendering quality aside, I will give you a lot of credit for the effort and for staying positive through the critiques. The important thing here is that you created the website and you are trying to improve/refine it. The next step is to get prospective clients to visit your site. SEO and and a little Google Ads should help a bit. You'll get there soon enough. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 We live in a world where perception seems to be greater than reality, but one of my personal pet hates is when the visuals on websites don't match the claims made. Such as claiming they produce 'photo-real' or 'photo-simulation' when they clearly don't! I think in many cases it's just lazy - writing what they think clients want to hear. All it does is bullshit potential clients at the front door! I would remove those kind of claims from your site. I appologise for being blunt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ky Lane Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Cheers for the input, Grammer is being worked on before it is advertised to clients, as I am very bad at grammer. There has been talk by the guy who made the site to load external files as you have mentioned above the full file does have to be downloaded The file is 2.7mb which if your in New Zealand downloads very fast as you dont have to go across the world to servers. Animations are going up in the next day or 2 (rendering atm) I realise my visualizations are not to the level of other poeple here infact far from it, but im learning and in a country that does very little visualizations and if they do dont want to pay stuff all so the job has to be done fast and then is lower quality. "Long after the invoice has been paid, and the deadline has passed... the quality of the work will be on show." -Ky Lane Thats my ethos when it comes to my work. I ALWAYS spend alot more time than quoted to settle my own perfectionism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Branch Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 The site has a "gimicky" feel to me. It seems that more work went into the dazzling image transitions than into making the images dazzling. Some of the images were very badly done photomatches. These should be removed and/or redone. The spelling/grammar issue has already been brought up. You would be much better off with a stripped down, bare-bones site. Make it about the IMAGES and make your images STRONGER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookiE Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 I understand where you are coming from but dudes ya got to start somewhere, when you first started 3D modeling were you awesome and did ppl say you suck lol Wording has been fixed. I didnt say that all my images are photo simulations but some are therefore I can say that the company can do so. Think although your comments are most likely correct you guys need to try and lighten up a bit lol Cheers anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieLeon Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I understand where you are coming from but dudes ya got to start somewhere, when you first started 3D modeling were you awesome and did ppl say you suck lol I think I would be too embarrassed to show you my first website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookiE Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 I think I would be too embarrassed to show you my first website lol yeah but ya got to start somewhere so it doesnt matter how the fact is ya started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieLeon Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 That's true. And you have definitely started. Good luck with everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Grammer is being worked on before it is advertised to clients, as I am very bad at grammer. Not to be a Nazi but.... grammar not grammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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