Please critique www.redtangle.co.uk

[oindypoind]

Hi all,

Comments and feedback on our company website would be great. I have noticed that many visitors coming to the site are only looking at a couple of pages, and then leaving. So any tactics on how to direct users around the site would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.redtangle.co.uk/

Thanks

Andy

[theodren]

Just to let you know i think alot of the artwork on the portfolio page is excellent, but the first impression of the overall page is that there's not a clearly defined feel to it. The main page looks more like a subpage than what I would expect to land on if I came across your site in a search engine.
Since there's no real text content on the main page (yes there's the title bar, but that seems to have been put together more for the benefit of search engines than for the benefit of users) coupled with the fact that the links lost on the left hand side of the screen the result is something that doesn't point a user anywhere. People seem to be more interested in fast solutions to there problem than anything else, so you might want to consider making the portfolio page a subpage and desiging a main page that basically says "this is who we are and what we do"
in addition to this, keeping along the same lines of people being impatient, you might want to trim the userform as much as possible. Obviously you're working in an industry where a set price is hard to come up with, but i think people would want some kind of idea as to how much your services are going to cost, without having to fill out 3 pages of information and then wait for a response.

[theodren]

btw, please ignore the typos in the previous post

[oindypoind]

thanks theodren,

you're actually thinking along the same lines as me, but I thought I would open it up for public input before I made any drastic descisions.

with the enquiry form there is both a long and a short version there so that people can send a quick enquiry and not fill out the massive form. Maybe I need to differentiate the two better. Perhaps make them 2 seperate pages that you can pick between.