Can you do me a favour? Please?

[Leon]

I think it is timed I polled you all again. Yes, every single one of you...

anyhoo...

could you take a look at my website - www.crazydiamondmedia.com and tell me if it is working?

Many thanks

SM

[docwra]

Yes, looks like it is old chap.
Cant be arsed to vote though :)

[Filmidget]

Working with Opera 6.01 if thats any interest.

[jibber]

yep, and if this ancient pile of crap can get on it most things should,:D

[TomM]

For a "creative agency" (whatever that is - design, PR, & advertising, right?) might I just say... no offence intended... the web-site could perhaps be a little more impressive... :(

Please don't take this the wrong way :)

[Leon]

Originally posted by Tombs
For a "creative agency" (whatever that is - design, PR, & advertising, right?) might I just say... no offence intended... the web-site could perhaps be a little more impressive... :(

Please don't take this the wrong way :)

No offence taken mate. Yes, it is a little basic but it says what it is meant to.
I am a startup so things are somewhat difficult at times! Once various things drop into place then I'll frill it up a little.
Thanks for looking at it - much appreciated!
Take it easy

[Nathan_200sx]

Yup works fine for me.
good luck in your venture

[TAC]

..."Then there is the fact that the only 'house-style' is a commitment to be different. If you need a fresh take on the world around you, Crazy Diamond Media will provide it..."

- Need more distinctive font on co. name, I reckon


...again, no offense intended & lots of respect for what you're doing

Tracy

[TomM]

Originally posted by TAC
- Need more distinctive font on co. name, I reckon

Using a different font (Times) for the company name in the body text makes it less easy to read, but would be justified if it was the font of the company logo, and you were trying to establish a single look for the phrase "Crazy Diamond Media". But then you have the 'dot-matrix' style main page logo, a totally different font for the initials of the campany on the intro page, and another different font for the full company name within the Flash intro.

This doesn't really help establish an overall 'identity' for the name & logo of the company in the readers' minds. Which of the four will stay with people the best? Which would you use for a letter-head? Or a signature for your company emails? Or on the hoardings at Old Trafford (in a couple of years :) )

I've found that to aid legibility of internet pages, a simple sans serif like Tahoma or Arial is good if you reduce it in size, and then increase the line spacing to ~130-140%. Hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs :)

Does that make sense, or am I just gibbering?!? Good luck with it!

[TheSlipper]

I have to agree with the others, the site needs to show the perspective customers what you can do for them and I'd consider reducing Crazy Diamond Media to CDM, having to read the company name over and over again can annoy some people and any spelling mistakes / mishaps will put people off, they tend to think if you rush a website how dedicated are you to them.

Feel free to take offence, most of what I say is cr@p anyway.

Good Luck.

[Leon]

Thanks for all the input guys.
With respect to the font issue - the font for Crazy Diamond Media is meant to be different in the body copy - however for some reason it won't load up (it isn't a standard font so I have to upload the font set to the server to be downloaded by each user). In theory it is very simple but for some reason isn't working once on the web. I can't test it on my machine at home because that has the font set installed... So it is a case of working on it as I get the chance and then checking it in work!
D'oh

In theory anyway, "Crazy Diamond Media" is meant to be in a font called (I think) Orphans while "CDM" is in (I think) Iron Works. Then again, it will all change once I get my own font editor!!!

Thanks for the comments about line spacing - I'll look into that this weekend, see what I can do.

Once again everyone, thank you!
:)