What do you guys think of my "coming soon" page
As the title says, what do you guys think of my website's coming soon page?
http://www.emmyweb.com/
(except the font, or which font according to you will be good?)
http://www.emmyweb.com/
(except the font, or which font according to you will be good?)
The assumption is that as a design firm, your website should advertise the designs you would make. And yet none of the rotating backgrounds you have are anything I would like to see on any site except Flickr. Neither do they maintain a consistent theme, since one is, confusingly enough, a bunch of circles, and one is clearly not a photo given how it tapers off on the left and right.
Furthermore, on many of the backgrounds you choose, the bottom bar is unreadable --- it doesn't even half-ass it by making it opaque and white when you mouse over. Presumably you'd at least choose the backgrounds well.
The backgrounds also mean that the site takes a while to load (and this is with great internet), so the site looks bad for two or three seconds.
The focal point of the site is presumably the subscribe button and entry field. Yet these are gray and, worse, the subscribe button doesn't even match height with the entry field, which looks amateurish and ugly. I'm on Chrome 14 on Arch Linux.
The backgrounds have a light grid overlaid upon them. This might make sense for some of the backgrounds, but is silly for the circles one, and at the very least looks like you're going for flair with no reason. Again, amateurish.
I'm not sure the blue you use for the percent complete bar matches any of the backgrounds.
The facebook and google+ buttons do nothing (but maybe you know that).
Sorry to be harsh, again.
Edit: So in answer to the font question, anything but Comic Sans. Helvetica/Arial are "safe bets" but if you browse around the Google free web fonts, you might find something nice. Maybe its cliché, but cityscapes make me think of thin/narrow sans-serif fonts, e.g. http://www.google.com/webfonts#QuickUsePlace:quickUse/Family...
In the long run, you shouldn't be worrying too much about a page that will be going away (hopefully!) soon, except that it is legible and gets people signing up for more info.
Other than that, I have to agree with what`s already been said. My first impression was that this was a photographer`s website. Then I read the text on the right and realized you are a web design company. Alright, but what kind of web design company? What exactly do you do. Make me WANT to enter my email. Tell me you're passionate about web design. Tell me that you've been pleasing clients with your awesome work since 2008. Maybe even tease me with a few links to some of your incredible work. You do web design. You do it well. There are clients out there that would be so much happier if they knew you were designing their website. You've got to get this across.
Good luck!
The larger question is, what are you trying to communicate with your "coming soon" page? I hope you are trying to communicate something. Web design has become an incredibly generic business format.
You need to actually say something about who you serve, what you do for your clientele, and what makes your services irreplaceable.
Forgive me if that is for the "next version", but there is a culture in some web-dev circles of letting metaphoric images "communicate" ... and they really don't do that very well at all.
About the SaaS part, well i just want the users to know which and all services i provide, and whether they want to be notified when we are done re-designing, they can leave their email address if they want to. Nothing else.
May look better with Javascript active. If so, stop assuming that it will be available. Mobile devices often don't have it. Tech-savvy users often have it disabled and are unlikely to turn it on for nothing more than a landing page.