| Wordpress theme or not, it was still chosen over and above better designed themes in that collection. Plus some of the most distracting elements on that page are stuff they've added which wasn't in the theme's demo: * The main carousel images background is different from the background of the carousel itself. And since the images are quite small, it means the top section of the landing page looks disjoined when the browser window is sized to larger dimensions. * The main carousel has lots of sunken bevels which makes the logos and text harder to identify and read. I'm not generally a fan of flat design, but things like that are meant to be instantly identifiable; so they should either be flat, or have a larger unified border around them (badly explained, but something like how the social icons are often bevelled, or how Apple shapes iOS apps). * In the main title, "OSBoxes" has a different vertical alignment to the rest of the text. * In the main title, "VMWare" and "Virtualbox" scroll in a vertical "carousel", which is very distracting. * In the main title, the aforementioned vertical carousel has a blue background which is jarring against the rest of the white document. To be honest, between this and the previous two points, the dyslexic in me took a couple of attempts to parse the title. Which somewhat undermines the point of a title. * Downloading a VM image requires clicking the OS to reveal a hidden dropdown, then clicking the download link. Given the amount of whitespace in that list, they could have just had download icons in the list and saved users a pointless click. Given you only need a download icon and a www icon (icons people are already familiar with), you could still have a clean usable design. Anyway, I didn't mean this to slate the project based on the site. In fact normally I wouldn't be so critical of someone else's site. Perhaps it's just my dyslexia, or even just me specifically, but I really struggled to read through this site in ways that I don't on most other websites. |