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Published on: December 9, 2005 by Paul Boag

www.headscape.co.uk.

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

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  • Post by Nemanja on December 9, 2005 6:58 PM

    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 ;)

  • Post by Christian Ready on December 9, 2005 8:53 PM

    Paul,

    Excellent job on the site. Very well done and in particular, very well written!

    -Chris

  • Post by Scott on December 10, 2005 3:36 PM

    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.

  • Post by Richard Conyard on December 11, 2005 12:09 PM

    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.

  • Post by Shawn Anthony on December 12, 2005 12:16 AM

    LOL! Love your new design for Headscape! I love this post's intro even more though ... Very creative! Good work.

  • Post by Paul Boag on December 12, 2005 3:12 PM

    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 didn’t “get it�. 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 couldn’t be finished. However, a very basic idea can be given. If a user comes to our site after searching on say “web design� over “accessibility� they will get a homepage image relating specifically to our design services. Equally, if they search on “usability� rather than “multimedia� 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 else’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.

  • Post by Ed on May 17, 2006 2:29 PM

    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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