After looking through all the listed sites for possible review and analysis, I decided to look at sapient.com and oslaw.com.
SAPIENT
In the most basic sense, sapient helps there clients, "innovate in the areas of marketing, business, operations and technology." Their goal is to, "to partner with companies in a spirit of collaboration to help them evolve and grow in today’s dynamic marketplace."
Sapient.com is a very cool and stylish looking website. They have a monochromatic orange based color scheme which I think is very "hip". I think the look and feel is effective because it comes off as being very professional, but still playful at the same time. The navigation is the coolest part, in my opinion. The home page starts with the navigation of the right side, and when you roll over it, the entire original 5 links expand into an array of different options to click on. This really helps the user get to exactly where they want to go quickly, without having to search around the site.
I played around a little with the sites features and hypothetically what I would be doing if I was actually interested in there services. Overall it seemed pretty easy. The site does have ALOT of information though, and its a good thing that it is structured so well.
Immediatly when you visit this site it is obvious that it uses flash, as well as HTML and javascript. It probably uses some kind of server technology as well for its clients in a database. What it is I'm not sure.
Right now I'm sitting at a 19" wide screen monitor, and I can view the site perfectly with huge margins. If I bring the open window from my extended desktop to my laptop I can still see everything I saw before (15.4" monitor on laptop)
This site is probably not super unique. It has nothing that has not been done before, but in general, what they've done has been done well.
Overall, I would give the site a 8/10. Sometimes the navigation can be a bit funky and will trick you by moving to the top instead of the right side. Generally this is fine, but for an old grandma (who probably wouldn't be using this site anyway) it might cause some confusion.
OSLAW
As soon as I opened this site I did not like it. It does not look professional and does not look well designed.
This line pretty much sums up what oslaw does, "Our philosophy is that we do best what we know best - litigation and trial work." Basically they are lawyers.
The main communication objective of this site is to tell about oslaws services. They have sections for what they do, who they are, getting it done, and results.
The site itself it a bit of a mess. There is no real title... Well there is, but its at the bottom of the page, stupid. At the top of the page is a thin purple area for the main nav. and the pages main content section is in a giant unstructured white area in the middle of the page without margins. Or at least you can't see the margins. At the bottom of the page is the title and name of the company, as well as contact information.
As far as navigation and getting around on the site, it does pretty well. The navigation is pretty straight-forward, with the main nav. at the top of the page horizontally, and secondary nav. on each of the main navs pages. The main nav. is set up so that the button remains highlighted when you are on the corresponding page. This can be nice sometimes, but its not quite working here. There just isn't enough to let us know what page we are on. The secondary nav. is OK. The text is very small, probably 7pt, and is even smaller than the content text, which seems silly to me. I didn't even notice this until just now, there is more "main" navigation on the bottom section of the page next to the title.
The site really doesn't have a definable look and feel. It's very boring, very little graphical content, plain text. Blah. I really don't think the design of this site was really thought out. It really feels like it was just thrown together in an afternoon.
I feel pretty confident that I could easily get in contact with a rep. from the company if I wanted to. The site certainly needs work, but its not hard to navigate.
From what I can see the site just uses basic HTML and some javascript/css.
Overall, the site needs work. 6/10.
SAPIENT
In the most basic sense, sapient helps there clients, "innovate in the areas of marketing, business, operations and technology." Their goal is to, "to partner with companies in a spirit of collaboration to help them evolve and grow in today’s dynamic marketplace."
Sapient.com is a very cool and stylish looking website. They have a monochromatic orange based color scheme which I think is very "hip". I think the look and feel is effective because it comes off as being very professional, but still playful at the same time. The navigation is the coolest part, in my opinion. The home page starts with the navigation of the right side, and when you roll over it, the entire original 5 links expand into an array of different options to click on. This really helps the user get to exactly where they want to go quickly, without having to search around the site.
I played around a little with the sites features and hypothetically what I would be doing if I was actually interested in there services. Overall it seemed pretty easy. The site does have ALOT of information though, and its a good thing that it is structured so well.
Immediatly when you visit this site it is obvious that it uses flash, as well as HTML and javascript. It probably uses some kind of server technology as well for its clients in a database. What it is I'm not sure.
Right now I'm sitting at a 19" wide screen monitor, and I can view the site perfectly with huge margins. If I bring the open window from my extended desktop to my laptop I can still see everything I saw before (15.4" monitor on laptop)
This site is probably not super unique. It has nothing that has not been done before, but in general, what they've done has been done well.
Overall, I would give the site a 8/10. Sometimes the navigation can be a bit funky and will trick you by moving to the top instead of the right side. Generally this is fine, but for an old grandma (who probably wouldn't be using this site anyway) it might cause some confusion.
OSLAW
As soon as I opened this site I did not like it. It does not look professional and does not look well designed.
This line pretty much sums up what oslaw does, "Our philosophy is that we do best what we know best - litigation and trial work." Basically they are lawyers.
The main communication objective of this site is to tell about oslaws services. They have sections for what they do, who they are, getting it done, and results.
The site itself it a bit of a mess. There is no real title... Well there is, but its at the bottom of the page, stupid. At the top of the page is a thin purple area for the main nav. and the pages main content section is in a giant unstructured white area in the middle of the page without margins. Or at least you can't see the margins. At the bottom of the page is the title and name of the company, as well as contact information.
As far as navigation and getting around on the site, it does pretty well. The navigation is pretty straight-forward, with the main nav. at the top of the page horizontally, and secondary nav. on each of the main navs pages. The main nav. is set up so that the button remains highlighted when you are on the corresponding page. This can be nice sometimes, but its not quite working here. There just isn't enough to let us know what page we are on. The secondary nav. is OK. The text is very small, probably 7pt, and is even smaller than the content text, which seems silly to me. I didn't even notice this until just now, there is more "main" navigation on the bottom section of the page next to the title.
The site really doesn't have a definable look and feel. It's very boring, very little graphical content, plain text. Blah. I really don't think the design of this site was really thought out. It really feels like it was just thrown together in an afternoon.
I feel pretty confident that I could easily get in contact with a rep. from the company if I wanted to. The site certainly needs work, but its not hard to navigate.
From what I can see the site just uses basic HTML and some javascript/css.
Overall, the site needs work. 6/10.
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