jonjo

I personally much prefer the new site. The old one looked a little like the old postnuke themes that used to exist circa 2004. The new one is very comfortable on the eye and easy to navigate. It's one of the nicest catalogue sites i've seen. Very impressive.

OK - thanks for the advice! 1) We need the site to engage school leavers looking to either go into further education or straight in careers. 2) The content needs to retain visitors to view other sources of similar content or funnel them into our main area of career guides for various disciplines but primarily to match the landing page content. 3) The main focus of the site are the career guides - under the menu item 'Find your Career' 4) We need to heavily promote our career events within the site and also our emagazines 5) We need a way to build return visitors and for the students to share our services with their friends using the tools they already use They were the main criteria of what we needed and what we need in the future. I'm not sure the new site will facilitate this. Or am I wrong? Do we need to start from scratch again?

Just after a critical view on the site. Contract questions have nothing to do with it. Our business will succeed or fail on this relaunch and I want to know what web professionals think about it. Is it a no-goer? should we go back to the drawing board? What advice could be offered for the next time we do this? You guys do this all the time and your expertise is really helpful.

Sorry it doesn't say anything in the rules about the site feedback request having to come from the designer. It's our site and I really need feedback so that the next time we engage with a website professional we will know how to approach it. Really just need some pointers. A critical view on this sites design will really help. Thanks.

Would it matter? Not that that is the case. This is the website feedback section. I'm just after feedback. If people want to offer constructive criticism then that's really what I'm after. We're going to have to do this all again and I want to get it right next time. Thanks.

The CMS would cost us an additional £3k

Thanks for your feedback. There have been no revisions to the design of this site - the site you see is the first, and last, version anyone has seen and bears no resemblance to the 'mock up' we saw at the outset. I really haven't posted this thread to quibble about prices or use it as ammunition against the agency, it's tool late for that. I'm just after impartial feedback because I know my viewpoint is clouded. I think the post stands on it's own merits. I'm after feedback, from web professionals who know far more than me, on this site as a site that has cost £19,000. If nothing else your feedback and the feedback of others will really help us in future dealings with web professionals (we know we haven't got it right this time!)

Hi guys, I need your help. We've just had a redesign of our website and the final work has been submitted along with a bill for approx £19k. We were promised a dazzling, awesome site with all the bells and whistles which would engage young people and massively increase our traffic. I feel sick to the stomach with what we've got and need some impartial thoughts about it. We provided all the copy and images for the articles on the site. I don't know what to do next. Here is the dev site Am I just being silly and the site is well worth the cost?