From the dept of usability

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 by Andy Bell

20 October, 2005

How not to do a drop-down list: http://www.remroberts.com/fs/officeSearch.htm.

Nearly a hundred items, not in alphabetical order, organised into a hodge-podge of categories.

Choices include:

John St/Old St
Noho/Rag Trade
Barnet Borough
Insurance
Reigate and surrounds
East 1
Zones 3 - 5
M20 Corridor

Say something

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 by Andy Bell

12 October, 2005

Many companies invest heavily in getting you to their website and then aim to be as boring and straight and uncontroversial and unmemorable as possible once you get there.

I think this is a good use of Salesforce’s homepage:
Salesforce

Mint - take it or leave it

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 by Andy Bell

3 October, 2005

The Click #18

Warning: this Click is entirely self promotional. Feel free to delete it immediately.

Last Click I was prattling on about the importance of prices on a website. Half way through I realised our site totally ignored all the advice I was giving. A bit further on I was hit by an idea so momentous that I was worried it was a brain spasm. I checked with my partners. They said it wasn’t. So here goes:

Mint - take it or leave it

For £450 we’ll mock you up a new home page.

What’s the big idea?

Many people we meet know their website isn’t up to scratch. A major stumbling block to improving the situation is the fear that a new one won’t be any better. Or, more precisely, that it won’t be sufficiently better to justify the expense.

This frustrates us. Every single client we’ve had agrees that their site has been, at the very least, a very worthwhile investment.

So we want to remove the fear from commissioning a website. The plan is we have a chat on the phone and then create you one home page redesign. This allows us to you show how much better your site could be, without you having to make a big commitment.

As part of the deal, we ask for an hour of your time to pop in and discuss what we have created. (A mock-up inevitably has loose ends that are best discussed round a table.)

What then?

Well, the choice is yours. We can discuss how we’d take the design and make a site based round it. Or you can take our ideas and use them yourself.

Or, if you don’t like it all, you can walk away (well, we’ll walk away). It is called ‘Mint - Take it or Leave it’ because if you (really, truly) don’t value it, you don’t have to pay us a penny.

What could be less risky than that?

Sign up now! Email andy@mintdigital.com or call 020 7193 7312.