Robert Shaw Plumbing & Heating

Hi All,

I have been working on a design for my brothers Plumbing company and am at the concept phase.

Do you think I should go ahead with this design and make the site or work on it further (have any suggestions?)?

My main focus was to make it clean, simple and professional.

Anyway the link is http://www.griffinwebdesign.co.uk/portfolio.htmland then click on the 2nd image for the concept.

Cheers everyone

Hi,

Personally I like this design, although I think the logo is pretty bad.
Be Creative - You've got a program with so much tools - make the logo different, default fonts are boring if you don't use them right!

I have a degree in Graphic Design - although my html is pretty poor!


Nice Work,
Ed

I love it! The simplicity is great because the graphics are very well positioned and they are very clean!

I have to agree about the Logo... Too simple.

I recommend that you fix your 1 validation error. You cannot just simply type & into your HTML editor.. Encode it to `&`. (i know this isnt on the image i am suppost to be critiqueing its on your portfolio page!).

Overall it looks nice. Let us know when you code it!

Cheers marc al sort that validation error in a moment or two. Yeah I know its a simple logo al maybe change that, thanks anyway.

I Like it, although the design doens't really apply to the job Robert does. Maybe put in a few pipes or a wrench to visualize what he's doing for a living..

I love it and wouldn't change a thing. I think I'd ADD some photos of different boilers, probably, or a workman happily servicing a boiler!

OK guys good comments I'll make the changes you've suggested

I agree with the others ... it's simple but ... too simple.

I love the colors but it when I look at the site, I have to read to know what this site is about. With pictures I could instantly see that it's a plumbing site.

Keep up the good work.

Well I like the design but there's a typo on this page that I would change. In the first paragraph it says "...turning into strick css and html" instead of strict. Also in step 2 I would ditch the "etc." it sounds like you're not sure what you will do. Your clients want to know that you know what is going down, if that makes sense at all. on Step 5 the word "whilst" seems a little out of place with the rest of the somewhat "casual" dialog. The last thing I'm gonna say is that there might be too many steps...I mean they are all true but it might scare away clients to see that there is so much...on the flipside it might bring them in and make them feel like you know EXACTLY what you are doing. Anyway sorry I just critiqued your site haha. I do like the plumbing site, but I agree with karinne it doesn't quite feel like a plumbers site, and the colors don't feel quite right...maybe a brown no I'm just kidding, but I would maybe add a wrench or just make it feel more like plumbers site as suggested above.

Great advice catalystmediastudios, cheers.

Nevermind I take back the wrench idea. I just looked again and saw the placeholder image of a "plumber working" so that should give it away. Second the logo is fairly big and clearly says plumbing and heating so if you keep you find a good picture for that placeholder image it should be fine.

EDIT: the phone number is very hard to read in the top right. That is something that should be extremely important to a plumber and they're customers need quick acces to it. I realize you want it to look good but his customers probably wont notice or care. Maybe add a dot or just old fashioned dashes. Second I can't tell if that is their address or Gorgi's. That is very confusing and if I were a customer I would probably leave because I couldn't figure that out. Most customers will probably hardly even flip through the site they just go "they're a plumber, site looks good, how do I call 'em" So maybe add their number on the image of the plumber.

It needs images. pictures of boilers or something. at the moment if it didn't say Plumbing and Heating I'd have no idea what kind of site it was.

Ok catalystmediastudios will do thanks for your imput again

You should go ahead with the designs you make. I saw and it's fabulous. I have been working in a London plumbing agency in London for years and I'm really fascinated with your designs.

jpiers: Thanks bud, I had a look at your site, its nice. On a slightly bigger scale to the one page site I have done lol. I have coded up the design now its here.