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Luminated

So some of you might know our previous company Illuminated Designs...we've completely re-branded ourselves and subsequently our website. Would love any and all feedback you guys have to offer before we formally launch! :)

http://www.goodchee.com

TheDoc

It's a beauty! I think it's a big improvement over the Illy site - well done!

Luminated

Thanks much Doc, means a lot!

The site has some bugs in IE still (of course), but its should degrade extremely gracefully...or is it progressively enhance smoothly? Hehe...either way, it has an easter egg for Webkit users that hover over the logo... :)

JoshWhite

I like the logo effect. Seriously great website - I also love how you did the link naming convention for the menu. It's clever and very well thought out. Makes me want to start my own company heh.

TheDoc

Nice find, Josh. I hadn't actually noticed the alliteration when I first saw the page.

Luminated

Yeah that was entirely my partners idea. I think it came out great! Thanks again, guys.

jamy_za

I really like it! Well done - The colour scheme is great.

chendrix

I agree it looks absolutely fantastic. Crisp, clean, and visually pleasing.
Now for the feedback:
Your 404 Error page needs some padding changes. (I'm on XP, Firefox latest)

I love how going through the pages is like a progressive story. Clear big blue buttons take you to the next page. However, once you finally get to Principals, the Request a Proposal section breaks that flow. I would suggest changing it to the same kind of blue button like on the other pages, and moving it out of the Connect with chee section.

I would also suggest making the logos on the Praise section be hyperlinks to the respective websites. Sometimes I see the praise and want to see what the final page looked like, and have to return to the Portfolio page and hunt for the respective project.

All in all, great website. Minor possible upgrades, minor fix.

arjunvasudeva

Brilliant site - the simplistic and subtle colour scheme is really great, and the general clean, minimalist aspect of the site highlights your good design. 10/10

ozee

A very great design, only minor changes I see would be the harsh exit when hovering over your logo, the animation stops rather jaggedly. The other change I would recommend is the progression buttons that take you through the site don't have a very visible hover, I had to really look to see any change in them, perhaps a stronger hover element. But the overall design is brilliant, flows well and is very consistent!

Luminated

Thank you all! We have received wonderful feedback from all over and we are totally stoked.

ozee, great suggestions. We were trying to be very subdued and subtle, perhaps I went a bit too far.

And if anybody knows how to get the logo animation to stop smoothly, I would be overjoyed to know. I'm not sure how to make the webkit animation return gracefully.

ozee

This is only speculation, but what if you used a pseudo css class like :after and used another transition that returned it? I haven't used the :after too much, so I am not sure if I am using it the right way in this instance.

Luminated

Hmm...well, the first problem is that this is not a transition, its an animation. The :after selector is usually used for placement of content or attributes after the displaying of an element. I did manage to create a finite animation using the transform/transition combo, but then it spins too quickly and has a finite end to the animation, albeit it does return gracefully.

For now, it will have to stay the way it is...thanks for the suggestion though.

ozee

Yeah, no problem, the only other way to do it would be to use jquery. Although, such a minut detail isn't worth the time spent on it.

Luminated

For sure...I tried to rely much on CSS3 for the polish like gradients, fades...more experimental than anything, like the triangle on the 'to top' button.

Luminated

@Chendrix...we thought about having the Praise logos link, but some of the sites that the testimonials are linked to are no longer up and running, so it wouldn't have been consistent to the user. Thanks for the good words though!

rcobb3

Wow nice website! It's all very up to date looking in the modern web trends and very easy on the eyes. Only thing I don't like and this may just be person opinion is the way the images fade in upon scrolling down -- I personally hate sites that do this because there is a super huge lag in firefox (latest 3.6.13 and previous versions) where the image doesn't show then it 'jumps' on the display as it is loaded. Other than that it's totally awesome!

cybershot

what solution do you have for the client login? Are you doing a reseller account? You said that you were going to have the ability for clients to manage their hosting. How are you achieving this?

Luminated

We're still building this out and it will take a bit, but we are going to be doing a Wordpress Multisite w/Gravity Forms setup, most likely.

For managing hosting, we will have a white-labeled cPanel...pretty standard with Media Temple.

[Deleted User]

With your webkit animation on your logo, how were you able to keep the spin from pausing?

Mine pauses and restarts, look here

Luminated

You want to use a Webkit animation, rather than applying the animation to the attribute itself...

@-webkit-keyframes spin {  
from {  
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);  
}  
to {  
    -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);  
    }  
}  

#header-left:hover #thumbbox .thumb {
	-webkit-animation-name: spin;
	-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
	-webkit-animation-timing-function: linear;
}

[Deleted User]

For whatever reason, that didn't make it work at all. It wouldn't even spin. Oh well, thanks anyways!

Luminated

Sorry to hear that man...not sure why.

Luminated

This was a pleasant surprise to get after launch!

We've been nominated for a CSS Design Award:

http://www.cssdesignawards.com/css-web-design-award-nominees.php

:)

chrisburton

Awesome @Luminated! Congratulations as the hard work pays off.

jkumwenda

I love the design, Most important comments have already been highlited and me would only say Good work and congrats.

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A very intense and long redesign...would love feedback...