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02 April 2007

Well designed website examples? I've just offended our website designer by describing our website as "a little clunky" to a client.→[More:] Well, it IS a little clunky, but I'd like to be able to point him to a well designed one as an example.

I'm looking for a website
- with an uncluttered layout,
-that's pretty,
-that steers different users to their appropriate pages, and
-that makes it obvious what things are click-through-able.

On our website the clients and advisors share a front page, which is okay, I guess, except you can't tell where to go from there, so clients end up clicking through to the advisors' sign on page and vice versa- very annoying.

Bonus for finance related websites that require directing different populations to different areas and yet still come out with the above qualities.

I don't know if it makes a difference but our target demographic tends towards baby boomers.

post by: small_ruminant at: 12:18 | 8 comments

I have no good examples to show you but if clients and advisors are sharing a front page and it's not clear where people are supposed to go - Yeah, that is definitely CLUNKY. Particularly since people need to be able to use the thing.

I don't care who the audience is - if it is confusing to figure out where to go then somebody has fucked up the works. It doesn't have to be complicated but it *should have to work*.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 02 April | 12:29

thanks. Yeah- you can figure it out eventually, but you either have to read through a bunch of text or make a guess.

If they refuse to have more than one front page I think they should make the advisors' links obscure and the clients' and potential clients' big and obvious.

Also, everything's in 12 point font and it's a little hard on MY eyes, and I'm substantially younger than a boomer.

posted by small_ruminant 02 April | 12:40

s_r, I just emailed you at whatever address you once emailed me from. (I didn't want to link an ex-employer here.) Hopefully the message goes through and is helpful.

posted by occhiblu 02 April | 13:15

thanks!

posted by small_ruminant 02 April | 13:41

I haven't tried this in ages, but the last time I did, it was pretty cool: try searching sites like flickt, del.icio.us and ma.gnolia for tags like "inspiratation". They're generally used by webby types anyway, so you tend to get good design stuff come back.

posted by TheDonF 02 April | 14:44

inspiratation? I'll try that one, but I won't know what made up words are good bets.

posted by small_ruminant 02 April | 14:56

sorry- was that just a typo? I'll try "inspiration." Just goes to show how little I know about this stuff.

posted by small_ruminant 02 April | 14:57

wow! good idea! thanks!

posted by small_ruminant 02 April | 14:58

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