Please Can you Appraise This Design

[Marcoose]

Hey peeps, could you please provide constructive criticism on this:

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt206/marcusofplymouth/wxchang-currency-1.jpg

Many thanks!

 

[Bailey]

Too many obvious containments (Solid -(defind) boxes) - for one page -far too much BOXED for one screen (unless it's a pure categorised listing)

you have to loose that to start with (good lines have some bend)- then they don't look like porn boxes

Break the page up- Start with (look at) the right and left as separate pages - look to put colour (nothing to do with the adjacent text- nobody is going to relate it anyway) As a not-even seen distraction/contrast.(it gives focus) Play around with how text looks ,rather than whats in the text

If I've lost you - your probably already lost already anyways -stay good

 

[Joeyl]

Like the design colours but think some bits could be moved around and overall style could be improved

Here a quick mock design of how I would lay it out

 

[Marcoose]

Great feedback guys. Many thanks. I'lll update the thread when I have an amended template.

 

[MASSEY]

I like it, but i'd remove the facebook box and the social stuff at the bottom, it lowers the tone of the site i feel.

 

[Admin]

Put a table with the latest x-rates for the major currencies on display rather than "currency news". Take a look at xe.com

 

[peter_w]

For me there's just too much going on. As a user I'd struggle to know where you actually wanted me to click.

I'd cut both of the Travelex banners, and keep the focus on the comparison form - potentially making it much larger and therefore becoming the primary focus of the page. If you do want to keep external banners, would it not be better to use them for a different product to straight up currency exchange, such as currency cards?

The subscribe to Newsletter box seems entirely redundant in it's current format, as it doesn't say what you're actually signing up "for". Likewise the Facebook like box would seem something that will just eat up space which would be better serve as a testimonials box, or something such. The poll also seems like a conversion killer to me (especially if you use that question/answer - they vote, see the results, and go directly to whoever is winning).

The facebook/twitter/stumble/youtube buttons in the footer again just seem unnecessary and won't aid the conversion.