3d buttons

God's Honest Truth

Those buttons are pretty damn cheesy and should be scrapped immediately. Especially if your goal is to impress. Buttons like that would have looked professional in 1982... maybe 1984.

AS3

God's Honest Truth

Buttons like that would have looked professional in 1982... maybe 1984.
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From what I remember of the 80's, other than Ratt, Cinderella, Guns n Roses,and that there was no WWW to look at, is that instrument and prism would have been cutting edge. 🙂

I won't call them "cheesy", but putting those buttons in your post was distracting and made the post hard to read.

I wouldn't use the word cheesy, but that site needs several things more than it needs animated pictures.

Generally, the things I thought of in a very quick look
-Is the contact information up to date with your current situation? Correct info comes before appearance.

-The contrast is too high for good readability. The green washes out the firm name in the left panel, and the whole site is a little hard on the eyes with the stark black background. There are labels (I think) around the W.Va. map that I can't read.

-The top level page says "Giles Land Surveying" three places but none stand out like a good title line.

-The W.Va. map implies that if you click different places you might get different information, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'd leave the map, but not use it as the portal to other pages.

-Make the links to other pages more obvious and handy.

-The "About" page is not filled in, and would probably be redundant anyway with the "Profile" page.

-The Profile page gives good background, but is too detailed. Highlighting that the business was interrupted by service overseas is good. Giving every date it happened is unnecessary.

-The "Services" page is very important and has good information on it. But it appears cramped by giving the main information such a narrow column.

-Get a recent copyright date on all pages, whether or not you really update them much. You want to give the impression you are on top of things.

I agree with Bill's good advice.
The site needs some edits to style and substance.
The animated doohickeys are distracting. They are something you would at a discount retail instrument vendor site.
The animated plat is the least obtrusive and it doesn't make me dizzy. 🙂

Good luck in your endeavors

Thanks for the opinions

I didn't make it clear enough that the current website is not the website I will be using. It is just something I put up (it's my old site but messed up a bit) to have a website until I get my other one finished.

The buttons won't be rotating and will be much smaller until you mouse over them. That is just the animation that will happen for a brief time. Basically a small still pic of these will be in the center of a round button and will pop out on mouse over.

I'm going to go with a red white and blue theme on my site as those are the most eye catching colors.

Do you guys think basic buttons and such would be better? I know we get into the whole professional appearance and all, I am hoping to still capture that, but more with content and have a more animated website. But only animated on mouse overs. Not all the time.

This is what they will look at most of the time.

Is that still cheesy? I'm looking for honest and thanks for the opinions.

Things to consider: http://www.webmazine.org/issues/bull242/documents/webDesign.pdf

Bill

Just realized about the profile page.

I thought I had gotten rid of all that stuff. I must have deleted the new page instead of the old one.

At most somewhere I might put that I am a veteran owned business. If that.

I think that part of my site is cheesy and it won't be on the new site I'm making

John

Personally I thought they were kind of cool...

but I'm getting to be an old geezer, and as I started surveying in 19798 maybe I'm getting cheesy myself.