New Site Launch Huge Success

I have been working on a new design for my cocktail recipes site for about 2 months now. The company I selected to do the design were 2 pixel solutions (based in India) who I found through elance. You can see the results of the redesign below.

I have been really pleased with working with the 2 pixel team. They were really good in making the changes I asked for and simplified the design extremely well. I would highly recommend anyone using elance to ask for an outline mock up of the design a company is thinking of creating ahead of time for your site. I certainly benefitted from that. 

Having launched the site yesterday I took a look at the very early results and am over the moon. All the visitor level metrics are looking great. Visitors are spending nearly 25% longer on the site and viewing 30-40% more pages on each visit. I also found a number of features that were broken as I recoded the site (and honestly broke some more myself) so I have some fixing to do but bottom line the new site ROCKS :) and my users (most importantly) seem to love it.

For the rest of today I am working on getting my facebook application up and running again.

Comments

[Nick]

I was wondering if you know just how badly your site has ripped off webtender.com

Seriously, this is bad bad practice. Funny thing is your search function doesn't work properly! So why visit it anyway.

Jokes. Thief.

[Ben]

Sidenote* I don't think your trackbacks are working properly.

[alex schultz]

I was actually very general with my ask from 2pixel solutions. The plan was to get a design that was more graphical and more professional but to give them the leeway to do what they want to do.

The cost in the end was $750 which I was happy with... I had quotes as low as $500 to redo the entire site but I wanted to go with 2pixel as they produced the best design of the bunch as a proposal.

All round a great experience.

Alex

[Ben]

I'm just curious how much the new design cost you? How much was your original design/idea versus what 2Pixels contributed? There's no current space on the home page for ads, what was the thinking behind that?

Best,
Ben