Yesterday I launched the redesign of my business site, Pop Stalin Design. Gone is the “Illustrated” look and in place is, in my opinion, a better organized site. If you find any links on the blog not working, please let me know.
The site isn’t completely finished at this point, I still need to complete the portfolio page but other than that, it was an exercise in patience. I’m sure I’m also going to lose some of my SEO ranking but I figured what potential clients needed to know was going to be placed on the front page.
My name’s Jen; I’m a cynical, sarcastic, ex-drummer who is fond of dark humor. I've held way too many factory & retail jobs but finally found my calling one Christmas holiday in a dark, musty basement. I am now a CSS & XHTML web standards looney and can be found daily—when I’m not at my Mac—at the local fair-trade coffee shop buying an iced-soy mocha no matter the temperature.
I am also the owner of Pop Stalin Design specializing in CSS & XHTML web design as well as custom WordPress themes.
I’m excited to see the new design! I think it looks great so far. (Definitely a lot more professional than the former) I usually check your blog at least every few days since I discovered your interesting posts on Web Design Proposals and such.
Anyways, I also wanted to let you know that the two columns on the front page of the site below the Featured Projects are a little off in IE 6. (That column seems to be like that for some other pages too) (Internet Explorer can’t get much right anyway
) I’m usually working on a Mac, but I happen to be at school right now with some Dell computers. I took a little screenshot for you just in case you wanted to check it out. (http://phail.net/popstalin.png)
Keep up the good work!
Thanks Michael! See what happens when I forget to test in IE? Oops!
Hey Jen,
I think I liked your former design better than the new one. While I think the new one is beter from an usability standpoint it somehow lacks the personality that your older design had.
It’s not a bad design but it can be better
The first thing that striked me at the new design is that it doesn’t have a clear focus. I would try to make the “web design with standards” stand out more as that area is the first thing a user would probably look at.
I also think that “Providing Creative Services for the World” isn’t as strong as a display type should be.
Just my 2 cents.
Hey Razvan, thanks for the comments and suggestions. Though the former design was more ‘original’ I wanted something that was slightly more professional looking. I’ll certainly take your suggestions into consideration and thank you for taking the time to offer some very useful constructive criticism. Cheers!
Pretty Spiffy Jen!