i seriously want opinions on the new design.
OK.
What do you do? Are you a website design company? I don't know. I went to your site's home page and the first thing I see is a message telling me that I should fear you. Why? Are you going to hack my site? Sic a virus on me? What?
Who are your perspective clients?
Are you limiting your design work to just a certain few? Are you rebelling against the establishment and going after just the young hip hop or semi-techie crowd?
[Fear, Lamp, Brick] What is this? Are you saying that I should fear you because you may come throw a brick through my window and break my lamp?
Yes, I'm speaking to the content at the moment because this is what websites do - they provide information. As a 46 year old business owner with money in the bank, you aren't speaking to me with your website. The impression I get is that you're around 21 years old still living at home and you're a part of this pop-culture that believes everything should be free. Everything... EXCEPT YOUR services of course.
If you're going after kids who still get their money from mom and dad then you're right on target. But if you want to go after businesses with money, then you need to elevate your presentation to their level. You want my business right? Then why should - I - come down to your level?
This isn't personal, I'm trying to give you an honest impression of what your website is telling me. Again, this is all contingent on the predication that you are not limiting your services to only a select few. (Sorry, that was for RPD's benefit, he likes big words
OK, now for the design.
I'm not totally against the design. I beginning to understand you and where you're coming from. You know, the world has just gone too capitalistic man, and we need to just get back to the basics man, back to what's real man. Right? Yeah, I'm hip man. I get where your coming from, where your at, where you're going man... Black and white, basic, simple man. I dig it.
Really, I'm not totally opposed to it. But you need to work on letting visitors know where in your site they are. Include page title headings on your pages and add a breadcrumb trail.
When I click on a link I like to know that the page that came up is the page I ordered. For instance, when I click on your "Who We Are" link I want to see THOSE words on the page, and not "We Love Lamp". As a potential client I'm not interested in your personal sex life. I don't care who you love be it Lamp, Post, or Elmer Fudd. I thought I was going to find out "Who we Are" not "Who We Love".
Why did you provide a definition for the word "Fear"? You must have know that it could be confusing to some people. If so, then why did you purposefully put it on your website, and in the heading of all places? Is that what you're trying to do - confuse people?
You have a link that takes me off your site, but you did not tell me that it would take me off your site. What if I didn't want to go off of your site? Are you trying to get rid of your visitors? Why are you helping that other site? Why don't you put the Blog on your site and get the other guy to help drive traffic to your site?