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Venus Concepts, a premiere web and graphic design company out of Scottsdale, AZ is proud to announce the launch of its updated website. The live roll out is expected to happen in March. Please visit our teaser page at http://www.venusconcepts.com. We welcome any comments and suggestions. Please send them to anna@venusconcepts.com

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Venus Concepts
Expert Web and Graphic Design
877.244.8129
http://www.venusconcepts.com

Doesn`t look like much right now.

The flashing thing is rather annoying.

Where is your SEO?

I would hope that you will be revising this to be effective.



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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

What would be your suggestions for making the teaser "more effective"?

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Venus Concepts
Expert Web and Graphic Design
877.244.8129
http://www.venusconcepts.com

The first time I viewed it, the video wasn`t playing. However I have seen it now, and I guess I`m still thinking that if i didn`t already know this was for a web design/graphics company, what I should be looking forward to?

You make the video seem like a promo for a movie without telling anything. Don`t make it so non-informative. Anyone not knowing what your business is, or what your site eventually will be about, or who your audience should be, will probably be totally lost, so would they return to see it later?


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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

Let`s see... ten seconds of black, followed by a full ten seconds of countdown, and if the viewer hasn`t already clicked off, ten seconds of SLOW teaser text followed by the orchestra piece then the unreadable text, followed by yet another ten seconds of black.

I got nothing out of it.  Nothing.

Also the music you used may be a copyright of Dolby, Inc.  And the Dolby logo and the MPAA rating box are trademarks. 

I think I see where you are trying to take this, but you`ve failed miserably because I still don`t know what`s "coming".

Instead of the teaser text - which tells me nothing, how about a montage of your work/product/service (I still don`t know) with a vocal track to build the tension.  At the end of the "movie" close the viewer window and reveal a "More Information" button.




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Steve Mann
Internet Videographer
MannMade Digital Video
My Email

Love the overall flavor. It gave me goosebumps. Inspiring.  I expected an edgy haute couture house. I expected a decadent, high end cosmetic line. I expected a hot dark chocolate tinged gothic romance or science fiction movie. The confusion: what IS the product? The confusion was the ad`s downfall, but Venus seems to have  so much creativity bubbling that if you really polish (the timing in some places is kinda rugged) I expect to see your name in the advertising awards soon. Please continue to work it!

Thank you to those of you who have given comments and suggestions. I appreciate it and have sent them to the designers. I welcome any other feedback from whoever has constructive criticism.

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Venus Concepts
Expert Web and Graphic Design
877.244.8129
http://www.venusconcepts.com

It`s pretty simple, if your a desing company then let the people know that. I got bored within the first 15 seconds and simply clicked away. There was no info whats so ever to tell me what you are about. You would be better off with a stagment page that has a few of your designs on it, a brief here is what we do in the middle of the page and the date you will launch. Atleast that would tell people to come back and look at all your work at a later date. I look at that and go hmmmm why would I book mark a site that I have no idea what it is about.

.........I was confused and didn`t know what the site was about. Webline is also right about the SEO portion of your site, flash makes SEO a bit harder.

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AdsMaster
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One thing I will say about your site is it is the fastest Flash site that I`ve ever loaded.  I`m on dial up and most designers consider me collateral damage!  I usually don`t wait around for Flash.  I was going to so I could see what everyone was talking about, but I was pleasantly surprised when it came up quickly.  Or at least, more quickly than most Flash sites.