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Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the world wide web a new website. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find it at www.headscape.co.uk.

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Posted on: Friday, December 9, 2005

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Now, without further ado *insert drum roll here* I give you the new Headscape website!

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http://overallpack.com Nemanja

You soudn so happy ! Great ! Nice site, great build, low vision option is something I don`t see to much ( great ! ) , I love colors ! BUT I don like pictures, header pictures.
Please, keep writing on this blog, now when you have your new site ;)
http://www.christianready.com/ Christian Ready

Paul,
Excellent job on the site. Very well done and in particular, very well written!
-Chris
http://www.lucentminds.com/ Scott

The new site looks great! Love the low vision design option. One question though: Why the random images on top? They look cool and everything, but only a couple I’ve seen were relevent to your work.
http://www.thinkcolony.com Richard Conyard

Like the new design, well done :-)
The only thing I would say is where have the CMS demo pages gone? They were one thing I was truly jealous of on the old site.
http://www.lofitribe.com Shawn Anthony

LOL! Love your new design for Headscape! I love this post’s intro even more though … Very creative! Good work.
http://www.boagworld.com Paul Boag

Hey all,
Thanks so much for the encouragement about the new site and for the constructive criticism I have received. I thought before I wrap up for the year I would just respond to a couple of the comments made.
Firstly, there were some of you that expressed some concern about the large header images. There was a feeling that people simply didnâ€™t â€œget itâ€?. What purpose did they serve? Why that choice of imagery? Well there are two answers to this. Firstly, these random (generally abstract) images are a hang over from the last site that also used them. They turned out to be very popular among some of our clients so we decided to keep them in order to maintain continuity with the old site. Admittedly their random nature largely goes against my recent post on imagery but hey, sometimes you choice to break the rules. Secondly, they are the seed of an idea that will grow over time. The idea is that this top area will be used to promote various case studies and services. Unfortunately, we ran out of time and so this feature couldnâ€™t be finished. However, a very basic idea can be given. If a user comes to our site after searching on say â€œweb designâ€? over â€œaccessibilityâ€? they will get a homepage image relating specifically to our design services. Equally, if they search on â€œusabilityâ€? rather than â€œmultimediaâ€? they get a usability image. The idea is to allow users to click through on this image to the specific service.
The second comment was relating to our decision to drop the CMS demo. This one is much simpler to explain. We ran out of time. The existing demos were considered out of date and so needed redoing. Combined with our desire to ensure these demos were made as accessible as possible led us to the conclusion that we should come back to these later. Finally, I felt we needed to be careful not to push our own CMS too heavily. We pride ourselves on selling the right solution for each individual customer. Sometimes that is our own CMS but often it is somebody elseâ€™s.
I hope that this helps clear a few things up. Hope you all have a great Christmas and we shall speak again in the New Year.
Ed

The Paul Boag publicity photo was “Taken on October 8, 2005″, and already had the design pretty much as it is now. I know the new design had been talked about for ages, but how long had the design been there but not uploaded?!!
(let me guess, it was done, but you were doing usability/accessibility testing)

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