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Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

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Re: Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

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Post by orangethirty »

This page is proof you can make pretty websites. Sadly, it might also evidence that you may stink at marketing. Its way to busy for me to follow a distinct line, and there is abosolutely no structured copy for me to read. Plus you put the very little copy you have in a carrousel and made it hard to read with some weird color choices.

Now, luckily for you, I'm not your target market ( I think, there is no way for me to know ). Which makes me ask the following question:

Who is your target market? If you answer with every business in Vancourver who wants/needs a website done, then you are taking the wrong route here.

Note: I'm not trying to rain on your parade. So dont take it as an insult, but as real feedback from someone who does copywriting/marketing.

Re: Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

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Post by zacksjoden »

_sentient wrote: post #20

Great looking site, and I love the strike-through approach you used in your marketing copy. However, I did notice a couple issues: 1. There seems to be a few problems with the font you are using, as some of the words seem to run into each other, at least on Chrome. Some of the sub-headings on this page are borked, for example: http://redstamp.ca/design/ 2. I like the carousel, but found it fairly annoying when it wou…

Regarding 1, enabling Javascript fixed that for me, Chrome Version 23.0.1271.101 with ScriptSave v1.0.6.13 on OSX 10.7.5.

Re: Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

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Post by kelsokennedy »

inept wrote: post #13
greengreens wrote: post #9

Typo on 'both' in /marketing/ "To E or not to E ... in btoh direct mail and e-mail campaigns..."

Well spotted. Missing period in "[...]campaign We’re experts [...]" Really stunning work on the whole. Full props.

Thanks for your kind words and your grammar check. Appreciated and fixed!

Re: Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

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Post by dylan-m »

The first thing I noticed was that your header text is part of the same JPEG image that has each background image: http://redstamp.ca/wp-content/themes/redstamp/images/layout/.... This is especially visible with the red text, which is thoroughly mangled by the compression, but it's just as obvious with the white lettering if you're used to being grouchy about how browsers all render text differently poorly ;)

Speaking as a nerd / web developer, I would of course be delighted if you managed to use @font-face (via Typekit or whatever) with something clever to draw the strikethrough, or an SVG, since that would scale really nicely with high resolution screens and mobile browsers (which use funny DPI numbers). For a simple and widely portable solution, though, please please please just move the text from those images to transparent PNGs. It's making my eyes hurt.

Of course, I'm hoping you fix it because I expect to see more of your website. Good luck! I live here, so Vancouver-based web developers are my favourite :)

Re: Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

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Post by kelsokennedy »

hbn321 wrote: post #3

In your contact form, you're using ticks, but you can't choose more than one. This is inconsistent with the way radio buttons usually look. Would also be good if your Google Map linked to the Google Maps site, rather than just an image. Might just be me, but I find the two column layout of your blog bizarre to read, especially as the first column doesn't end cleanly before it goes onto the next. I wonder if the "Cont…

Thanks for your feedback. I hear what you are saying about the check marks, however it's consistent with the rest of our site and our order forms (http://redstamp.ca/marketingplanv5/ still very WIP, but might give you an idea of the application).
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