Reading Salvial_Ten's journal

My good friends Travis and Travis have opened up their own ISP, and nobody likes their current site, including them. Last Thursday they heard me discussing web design with another friend of mine, and asked me if I'd build a brand spankin' new site for them. I of course hopped onto the opportunity, even before they gave me a free year of service for building it for them.

My current page is a bit of an embarrassement when it comes to being a testamony to my abilities of building a good website, however, that was done just because I was bored and wanted to muck around with something.

For anyone interested this is their current site. Please tell me if there are any specific features you think I should keep.

--Jami

You fail it.

I would honestly start from scratch. I don't see any real value to keeping (or rather, trying to keep) any of the existing site. It looks like a mish-mash of unneccesary code, distracting visuals.. and a load time that needs to be cut in half.

Do you have an idea of who their target audience is? (This might allow for further commentary, if interested ;)

(Be sure to give them a pat on the back for me. I wish them the best of luck!)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work"

This post was edited by dres on Oct 14, 2003.

I know you asked for the things you ought to keep, but make sure to completely remove the flash splash screen. The animation isn't really nice to look at, and there is no way to navigate around it if you haven't the flash plugin installed. I'm sure they don't want to lock out potential customers!

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Ah.. yes.. I forgot to mention that one. 95% may like it.. but it's the 5% that will kill you... I can say that from experience :)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work"

It was decided off the bat to get rid of the flash thing. Good to see that no one wants me to keep any of the current crap that's on there. I think however I'm going to reuse the parallelagram button shape, I like it and haven't really found anything else I'd want to use in it's place.

The target audiance is currently anyone in the US and Canada that wants to buy from them. They're hoping to be able to offer DSL by next year, then go global.

--Jami

You fail it.