[Tom Lovick]

Hi-

I've just designed this site - www.berkshire-discos.co.uk

Can you please tell me what you like/don't like please?

Constructive criticism please!

[Malyo]

Hello

Site is great overall, solid and estetic, i find the site lacking mostly little things, that won't affect the overall result much:

• The main slider should slide through whole page, not cut in a place that makes it look bad
  
• The billboard graphic isn't too encouraging tbh
  
• Book your event now, i think that if you follow the grid rules, you should apply it basicaly everywhere (technicaly this image should take 2x size of blocks below, could include margins ofcourse)
  
• Content blocks look too spammy and discouraging for reading, same as icons that are far away from self explanatory
  
• Footer headings could use some subtle icons
  
• Client Logon - blocks seem to high, plus last block shouldn't have border, and forgot password is flying around the site
  
• Lack of consistency: compare Horizon Events - Professional Event Services to Latest Events (vertical align, line spacing)
  
• One last note: Don't make user think The pages main message isn't too clear about what you're actually doing, and 1/3 of display size sign: PAY BY CARD isn't gonna bring you customers , so once again - i would Redesign the Billboards

These were mostly high detailed suggestions, altho keep in mind i find this site really nice, hope you can get some use of my advices.

[robbydesigns]

I was confused right away, it's berkshire-discos.co.uk yet when I land I see all this stuff about Horizon Events so I would personally use the slider to explain what this site is about which still gives you another 2 slides to play with and heighten the excitement/call to action.

The nice big fat button should be a call to action too, something attention grabbing with keywords, for example 'The best Discos in Berkshire Book Now'..you get the idea.


As for the actual design, it is bold and attention grabbing but I feel you're not making the most of it. It looks like an edited ThemeForest theme and I think you'd do better by making it more bespoke to your business, make it exciting with cool colours and save that banner for last, some of the stuff in your FAQ would make great selling points so get them on the About page and lose the About page's contact form since people will click the Contact tab to contact you anyway.

[WBD]

Malyo, on 28 January 2012 - 09:52 PM, said:

[*]One last note: Don't make user think The pages main message isn't too clear about what you're actually doing, and 1/3 of display size sign: PAY BY CARD isn't gonna bring you customers , so once again - i would Redesign the Billboards

I like the design overall but have to agree with this point - the billboard is too large and distracts from the more interesting content that a user might be searching for. Overall, nice though.