Site Design & Function Advice Please

Hi Nicholas

If you are building a site for a client, I think that you
should provide him with a short list (3-5) of options
and let him decide which design he prefers.

That's what I would do.

Nicholas,

Your question is very vague. I am a professional freelance designer and looked at the sites. To tell you the truth I would have taken a different approach on most of them.

When designing a website the specific needs of the client must be met. Such a vague questions leaves the designer in a position as to what it is exactly the client does or wants to accomplish.

What kind of site is best depends on your goal. Although a site template may work in some cases, a corporate site is build around the goal, not the goal stuffed into a site template.

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This reply was not intended specifically to drum up business but to impress upon you that a site, regardless of purpose, is an entity in its own right and should be approached from wrapping the design around the goal and not stuffing the goal in a template.

The first site has a video on it I recommend you watch.

pete

Thanks for the replies.
Can y'all provide me some case studies/ examples of sites you will build based on the company's goal?

See, if I were to build a site for a corporate company which specialize in event management and organizing trade exhibitions , how do you go about deciding which design is the best?