I have slowish dsl connection and it took a while for your site to load (mostly that background image).
Clicking on the links and moving around wasn't too bad but the nav is a little bit confusing especially for normal users.
When I got to the blog link it took me to another page which kind of broke your whole navigation scheme in my opinion.
And to be perfectly honest this:
Fragment is a group of highly-skilled, creative minds with experience in web and mobile interface design, application development, motion graphics and internet marketing strategy. We unite to make it happen by building and shaping your piece of the web.
Appropriate amount of well-selected content. Catches my eye.
I'd suggest that the information architecture flow is a little lax. You have a clear conversion goal--get users interested in your services and contact you--but to accomplish it it falls to users to first choose to click through your menu. You should have clear calls to action, starting from the landing page: "See what we do" or a couple recently finished projects, and make it easy and compelling for potential clients to contact you directly from project detail pages. I'm sure your newsletter is also a good conversion path--you could integrate into the projects section as well: "Learn more about this site in our newsletter! Click to subscribe!" I'd put your phone number in the footer too, and perhaps investigate a click-to-call implementation.
From a user-experience perspective I'd make sure every clickable element is clearly actionable (links to Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn don't look like links) and has a hover state, consider Fitt's law (e.g. the "Web" and "Print" links on the Work panel are incredibly important, but awfully small), and validate submissions on your contact form. From an implementation perspective, the way elements scroll in on each panel is a little jumpy--maybe that's intentional, but it looks rough. From a tech perspective I'd be more impressed if you'd chosen to use @font-face instead of image-replacement, but that's a little silly.
What does "Your Piece of the Web" mean? If it's regionally-appropriate and you're appealing mostly to local clients then it's good, but otherwise, eh, multivariate test a couple options maybe?
Fragment is a group of highly-skilled, creative minds with experience in web and mobile interface design, application development, motion graphics and internet marketing strategy. We unite to make it happen by building and shaping your piece of the web.
Let's do these guys a favor and crowd source this to something a little less "Corporate Mission Statement", a lot more descriptive, and more about the customer, preferably under 10 words.
I'll go first:
"Raleigh's One Stop Shop for your Whole Web Presence"
Many of us use NoScript, and allow JS only after we've grown to trust a site. You should handle JS-disallowed browser behavior, and present a compelling argument to allow JS. Well-designed sites with a clear purpose and draw will in most all cases lead the user to at least temporarily allow it. Then you can win them over to permanently allow it.
That is not really true. As of 2008, 95% of users have Javascript turned on. To put that in context, consider the fact that about 3.5% of people in the US are colorblind.
More specific, when I clicked on "Work", I would probably let it default to "web work" and then let the user use the menu to change to print. For a second, I thought the button didnt work.
The moving background is a little disorienting until one gets used to it.
I also suggest you change the picture of Brian Henderson. I can't see his head, and my eyes are drawn to "$5 PBR Lunchbox Shots ALL DAY!"
While you are at it, change all the pictures of people that look like they are out drinking. Hate to be a buzzkill, but it's the wrong message to send to clients.
Replace with pictures of people working on stuff. Doing frameworks, shaking hands, presenting, etc.
I don't know about the last part. Are you saying take away pictures of them for the same old, cookie cutter, every websites got 'em, pictures of multicultural business people doing mundane tasks that STILL don't say what the company actually does or what kind of people work there?
Like others have said - the moving background is a bit confusing but you get used to it. Same with the nav - at first I was expecting something to appear and realized it was a small menu in the upper left. It's consistent though, so just a matter of finding it the first time.
That being said, I love the design work you've done. Very impressive.
1. Though the effect of panning along the picture is cool, its also somewhat jarring.
2. You're covering up faces on a couple of the staff pages with the content box... might want to flip the images (so the face appears in the right side) or find a new image for those team members.
We're a web development company from Raleigh NC and just rebranded ourselves as Fragment. Previously we had our blog / a landing page up, but we just launched our new site. I'd really appreciate any feedback / comments from the HN community! Thanks.
I find the background to be a bit disorienting. When the page loads my eyes are looking at the center of the page and that portion of the image is blurry and the portion in focus is far down to the right and the text is in the top left. I can't tell where to look when it loads.
