I would go along with the previous Brickies, the site does look a little cluttered.

However, I previously worked for a company called Business Moves, who are commercial removers. However, as opposed to dumping all old office furniture in landfill, they try various alternatives such as sending old desks off to call-centres in India, pulping the wood, or even simply selling on nearly new furniture (May be of use to new startups also!!)

Their details are www.businessmoves.com and the Sales Directors name is Chris Lansbury. T. 0121 559 1122.

This is not a pitch, and I don't work for them anymore.

Mike Wain
Paperzoo Limited

Sorry - My message was that you could possibly have mutual links from each others websites?

Good luck,
Mike

Sorry, I'd like to find something positive to say, apart from like the ethos and would like to support it, but I really don't know what this site is about, on the home page I do not know what it is for, or trying to achieve, or what services you offer?

The layout does not help - it is confusing with freebie ads and pop ups, and I'm sorry, but I still (after much earching) don't know what you are offering apart from an exchange of waste service.

I would suggest that you start from scratch with your homepage - saying something like 'Welcome to Junkk.com, this site will tell you How you can save money and the planet by recycling your waste, Where to go to do it, and What we can do to help you. Use your logo thing here as an approachable character - but WHO are you aiming this at? Kids, parents, businesses? I'm not clear and neither will your customers be I'm afraid.

Good luck

Jan Harrison

I was worried I was the only one that didn't "get it." I think that sometimes we are all so immersed in our own ideas that we automatically think that what is clear to us is clear to someone else. I know one should praise first, and possibly the idea is good, but the way it is put across is a mess.
www.womenknowhow.com

Quite clearly a lot of time and effort has gone into this site... But I think it needs a good overhaul.
You need to get a clear message what and who the site is for. A tag line, may be?
If it has multiple uses then I think you need to define a front page for each market.
The site looks way to0 busy. This may be okay if the message is clear at what's it there for, but without it, I found myself losing interest very quickly.
Good luck!
robin@win-it.com

Same as everyone else, I couldn't work out what it was for. I'd suggest you think about why people might find your website and what sort of information they would be after - then make that info easily & obviously available to them. (If of course that is what you want to do.)

The character prof gigo with his raised finger, looks like he is lecturing you, rather than being friendly. Also his 'smile' is lost in the background of his face.

Great idea. I found the layout too busy with too many different types of graphics. There was alot of info on each page, and I didn't feel the need to spend time on the sight. It had no draw.

Why should I bother to register or even need to. I found this strategy to demanding and left the site,

- I get iritated when a page is too big to fit on my screen- I am too lazy to scroll back and forth to read a whole sentence.
+ visually attractive
agree with others - needs headline/mission statement summary.

It is clear that a lot of effort has gone into making the site look professional - a lot of it is good, but lacking focus. I think it all stems from the home page. It is too busy and trying to serve too many types of users. How about a simple page with just the professor on and 3 or 4 of the suitcases - click on one for journalists, one for schools etc. Then content can be edited specifically for the needs/interests of the browser. At the moment it is trying to be too many things. Don't give up - you have some good content, just need to present it differently.

Hi there,

You have a fantastic idea here. Seriously. You've got great content and an hilarious mission statement - which to me needs to go on the home page because it's so good - it made me laugh and investigate your site further. The "Rubbish needn't be..." tagline is good but your mission statement is much better.

Overall you really need a design theme for this site in order to tie together what, at the moment, simply looks like a collection of different links.

Making people register first is a risky strategy too - if there's no clear benefit why someone should do this then people probably won't bother - give before you receive might be a better philosophy.

I hope this helps.

Lee

http://www.carnihan.co.uk

I think the site is a great idea but I had to read the tagline to understand what the site was about. I couldn't grasp it immediately from looking at the homepage. I thought the whole effect was too busy and confusing. And the black/orange advert on the right just made it look like a geocities or angelfire website. It detracted from the overall image of the site. I think if you just simplify it all it will look a whole lot better and be easier for people to grasp the concept.

Great idea and good site overall. Your site design echoes your purpose. My biggest gripe is the annoying ad on the right hand side. Can't see how this fits into your strategy exactly, although I appreciate the click-thru revenue is useful!

Hi,

really liked the tagline - but I was utterly confused by the rest of the home page:
Login LHS, advert RHS, big glasses staring at you, journalists stuff RHS, lots of small text dribbling down the middle.

I left the site after about 7secs.

I still don't know what your site does.

Cound't say it any better than Asif. I stayed for five minutes, and I'm still not sure what you want me to do. And those terms of use! Do you really expect anyone to read them before they can use the'core' of your site. A very confusing web experience altogether for a virgin visitor I'm afraid.

I have to say that I agree with many of your other critics; why register (and read all that small print to see what I am agreeing to!) when all I want to do is browse. It's a bit like standing at the shop door and insisting on getting your prospective customers to sign a contract before they enter the shop.

Look out for the page jumping to the left or right as you click along the menu bar - get theose table widths consistent!

Consider an old rule-of-thumb used in traditional print design; if you can see more than five differnt fonts or font sizes on a page you have made a major mistake. Now look at the home page; the eye can't easily distinguish between your headlines and body text. Where is the message? What do I read first?

As for the concept; honestly, I have no idea what it is all about, other than wedging old bottle tops under my chairs. I can't really see why I would want to do that, and I don't see why you or anybody else would want me to do it - it isn't going to save the earth. You would be better off investing your efforts in an attempt to make packaging manufacturers stop using the earth's most precious resource - oil - to manufacture disposable packaging.

Using bottle tops as floor protectors will only make me want to buy four matching bottles of drink per chair...