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Well the site looks horrible, and as stated above the whole CSS/HTML is a mess. There are several errors with the HTML like there should be only one H1 tag… and that either the logo (Component Factory) or the page title (Blog, Krypton Toolkit).

Second the colors and fonts are wrong. Some colors are too dark and some to white (like this background). Use a font like Arial, Verdana, Trebchuchet or any sans-serf; Try to match a current Toolkit theme.

Set the font size in “em”

Don’t use “«” use images instead. Also some bullets are just wrong. They’re a gold/brown like color. Use something in blue :)

Compress your CSS and JS. Also enable gzip compression.

The good part is that the whole concept is quite OK, modern and stylish, but with the changes above.

PK :-)

First of all, I think the overall design is in the spirit of current modern website. That’s a good point !

But as mentionned above, there are few things that make the design not so good and I think they can be quite easily corrected :
- the font : times new roman is horrible, use something like “font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;”
- the size of fonts is too much big, that really disturbs me.
- the background with the little grid is a good, but the current result does not look good.

Can’t be good for a first impression, sorry I don’t mean to criticize but I too like Krypton and I feel that the previous design was much more professional.

Overall, I think that most of the followers of this blog are people interested in good-looking/well polished UI since they use Krypton in their App’s :-D so the negative feedback is certainly due to the very high expectations we are all used to have about Krypton… Once you love neat UI, you can’t live without it… :-p

I would be interested in what Phil thinks about it, there is always room for different opinions, but no closed-minds.

Good luck with the new website!
Mike

@Retheesh
Of course the concept could be improved, a lot as matter of fact. This is a known and common concept nowadays. The problem is in the implementation of that concept and the care for little details (like Phil has with it’s controls) that’s non-existent.

@vesuvius
The font maybe correct in that page only at same places, not overall. That just proves how horribly thought and design this site was (not saying it’s your fault Phil), there’s no consistency at all, no care for detail.

This may be just me but I believe the website plays a big part on all your future clients. This unattractive and unprofessional design will just draw them out of your product. Krypton is a very professional an polished .NET control. Everyone that reads your news/blog knows that, we can see how you care about making Krypton the best at what it does. However, the current website doesn’t represent that at all.

If I didn’t knew Kyrpton and how good it was, I would probably never download it now if I came to this new site. I would close the page as fast as I opened it. But like I said, that may be just me.

P.S: I’m sorry if I may sound harsh sometimes, it’s not my intentions. But since English is not my main language I may have some difficulties expressing myself. But I also kinda feel a little indignant with this so called “professional webdesign” as I’ve been doing that for many years now and this is everything but professional looking and it sure doesn’t fit the quality of the Krypton Suite.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8154/86684454.png

I echo the comments about fonts: they aren’t very imaginative. This isn’t 1996. Other than that, I quite like the front page.

I am posting in firefox, and the rest of ther site is ugly “times new roman” so check the css in the page I have linked to above, you may need to apply that to the rest of the webpages.

Also, it doesn’t seemed to be designed for wide resolutions (1600×1200). I’m seeing some gap/alignment issues.

For me this look exactly like a modified dreamtemplate (www.dreamtemplate.com) site. I’m sure you’ll be making this better…

I think the designers you got to do the redesign have done a great job, but maybe the bold headers could come down a font size or two. It makes all the other text hard to read.

This web site show of a great deal of professionalism, Well done Phil.

Is this the site you paid $2000 for some pro to do? I would have done a better job for half the price. And I know amateur kids that would have done a better job too.

I’m not a professional webdesigner, I’m a freelancer webdesigner and wedeveloper and I can tell you that the current design is not worth even $500. The previous one was 100 times better. This design is just unprofessional. And the errors in the code? So many… Totally unprofessional.

Hopefully, there’s somethign wrong with my browser or the site itself because I can’t believe this is the site you got after this request:
http://www.componentfactory.com/blog/2009/08/web-designer-required/

I didn’t even answer that request because I though it was too much for my skills, but I now see that it wasn’t.