Rockall Celebrates Birthday With New Website
Rockall Design was incorporated four years ago today. It's been an experience and I continue to learn more and more as things move on. You never know it all in this game.
During the past two years — where profits reached a level that allowed me to — I've wanted to put some cash back in to the company. Last year I splashed out on a logo. This year I've spent some money having Rockall's resident graphic designer work on a much, much, much needed redesign of the website.
All I need to do now is spend some time on the content. Although I've had a little spring clean in the portfolio it still needs some work. There's also going to be a section called Services where I'll try and highlight exactly what it is I do (what is it I do exactly?) while promoting special offers and free teasers.
For now though I'm just relieved to have a site that better reflects the quality of what I produce as a company. The old version was nothing short of an embarrassment and probably lost me business.
So, here's to four more exciting years packed with challenging and fun projects. There's never a dull day at Rockall HQ!
Typo on the new website: Domino Developement
No there isn't ;o)
Wow, nice design! Thanks for showing what a site built on Notes/Domino can do.
Ever thought about using the Ext (extjs.com) web design package?
Ext for a website like that one? Why?
Hey Jake - tweak your Case Studies page - the Kwik Kopy - InSite reference has the same description as the Prominic one...
Oh no it isn't...
Jake, the site redesign looks great.
Very nice, but I would suggest you to make the Rockall icon a 3D-icon!
Thanks Ben.
Before having the logo I might have agreed Rafael, but, now that I understand more about the process , I have to disagree. If it were 3d it would be more like an icon, as you say, whereas it shouldn't. It should always look like a logo. It also needs to be simple so it can work in print and in various colour-ways etc.
Has it really been that long? Blimey crikey. Well congrats and nice site!
The site looks fantastic! love to have you redo my employers site but I don't know if we could afford you. :)
Hey jake love the look of the site, don't like how the main NAV tabs aren't on top on the Home page but are on the others, from a consistent user experience point of view. I think it is distracting, you find the Nav down bottom then you start using it up top, then back to home and ow shite where is that Nav again, yeah down the bottom.
Like the new look, especially the three column layout but agree with Danny on the navigation. I'm inclined to look for the navigation at the top part of the screen.
I know what you mean about the missing tabs on the homepage. I'm still undecided on it. The idea is that the paragraph at the top (which only appears when tabs don't - on the homepage) contains links to all the pages the tabs would and so people would read that and decide where to go from there.
I like the idea of it, but I'm just not sure about the practice.
Jake
Jake,
Love the new site. Please ping me offline as I may have a project for you. Thanks.