Shiny new website coming
26
2008
Those excellent chaps at eleventeenth have been busy building a new website for GREEN which will be oozing with lots of social media goodness.
Eleventeenth used to share premises with us at the Wakefield Media Centre but are now based in their own media centre on West Parade, Wakefield - check them out if your looking for an office as they have room to spare.
The new site, designed by Joe Whittaker, has a really clean look and feel to it and the back office engine built by eleveneenth is really easy to use.
Other add ons include an RSS feed to keep followers up to date on developments at GREEN and with our clients. There are links to this blog and the site also has a tag cloud of what we are blogging about.
There are also links to our the Green Facebook Group, a Twitter feed and other Web2.0 loveliness.
The site is still in in Beta and won’t go live for a couple of weeks but you can check it out here.
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#1 Chris Norton
Ian, congratulations on the new site. I know how time consuming these projects can be having written and built most of our new website. Ours is still in Beta too as we want to add various new tools etc to it. I think it looks nice and clean as you describe. I hope it hasn’t been too onerous.
#2 Ian Green
Thanks Chris,
These things never happen as fast as you expect and we are still finding little niggles with it but are slowly work it out in the back office.
Final elements to be addressed are case studies and design portofilo.
#3 Ian Green
We also need to reconfigure the news archive so people can access older stories. Oh and set up a newsletter subscription service
#4 Healthy Gifts
Hi Ian,
The new website design looks nice and clean. I think it’s nice to have feedback, so here’s a couple of small points I’d look at:
The vertical spacing between the grey and green text lines needs increasing slightly. The best page to demonstrate this is the Services page. Look at the spacing between “Public relations and media…” and “We work in partnership” compared to the space before the “We have existing experience” green text. I’d also leave a little more space before the dotted divider line. White space allows a design the breathe.
I think I’d make your logo a little bigger in relation to the green boxes of your menu items. I’m not a big fan of huge logos, but I think in your case the logo is too small.
Told you they were small things, but the devil is in the detail. Good luck with your new website.
#5 Ian Green
Hi HG
Thanks for the comments on the website. At the moment we are still doing some small adjustments and making sure it works in all browsers from Firefox, IE, Safari and some of the older versions.
Take you point about the logo.