New Website Design
If you are new here or are reading this in a Feed Reader you should know that we just re-designed the cloudbrain.com website. Thanks to Kyle for knocking the design out of the park.
For the curious: This is still a Wordpress powered blog / site. Kyle designed everything in Photoshop and we used the PSD2HTML service to slice everything up in to html / css / images. That same service also did the final Wordpress theme coding. (Yes, we could do all that ourselves, but why?). Once the theme is installed, it took an hour or so of tweaking to get everything the way we wanted it (making sure the widgets worked, small design details etc. etc.).
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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The website looks pretty good. A smooth flow and clean palette. However, I am surprised you resorted to using PSD2HTML for the homepage. Keeping the work in-house would have been more impressive and showcased the expansive capabilities of a young start-up.
Other than that, the design is very clean. Keep up the good work Cloudbrain! Keep us posted with your new projects and company progress!
Best Wishes
Matt – Thanks!
Regarding PSD2HTML – Actually, I think using a service like that is a mark of a good startup – knowing what to outsource and what to do yourself. Anyone can slice up a photoshop file and code a wordpress theme – that’s not hard. The design and layout choices are the core pieces of a site like this (where the technology is nothing special). It would be a real problem if things were the other way around – we coded the site but outsourced design.
However, a lot of the code is still custom – we make small plugins changes, SEO tweeks etc.
Testing how comments look in the new site…