karavite
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It is nice and simple and that is good! The consistent use of the left navigator is great, but I think it might be worth having the home page formatted the same as the other pages. Going back and forth to home is visually jarring - the same navigator links/buttons are there, but users "physical memory" of having these links on the left could cause a little frustration and inital confusion every time they return to home. You could still use your brushed metal window in the content section to hold other content or links - just not the main site navigator buttons.
It would be nice if the active link had some visual indicator (for example if I am on Software, have the button be another color that stands out). This introduces issues when you are at pages that are "children" of the main link - for example - PowerText - would you have Software highlighted or not? A lot of people use navigator "sublinks" - following this strategy you would have little buttons indented and placed under Software (only when it is selected) for each page under the software section and each of these would be highlighted when active. Though it may seem a hassle now, it will help to have this sort of thing as your site grows.
Also, you may want to justify the navigation buttons to the left or center - I'm not sure which would be best - maybe center to align with your nice logo.
You might want to consider having the content text start just a little bit lower - I may be off on this, but it just struck me as something to try. Also, you might think about having a more pronounced title for each page - for some reason, the titles really didn't jump out for me. My eyes didn't want to go that high and I am willing to bet this is a result of viewing so many pages that have some kind of masthead.
Please don't take this as anything but constructive critisicm. I work as a usabiltiy specialist and I do this kind of thing all day long. You have done a far better job than most people and this is a very good effort. Good luck.
It would be nice if the active link had some visual indicator (for example if I am on Software, have the button be another color that stands out). This introduces issues when you are at pages that are "children" of the main link - for example - PowerText - would you have Software highlighted or not? A lot of people use navigator "sublinks" - following this strategy you would have little buttons indented and placed under Software (only when it is selected) for each page under the software section and each of these would be highlighted when active. Though it may seem a hassle now, it will help to have this sort of thing as your site grows.
Also, you may want to justify the navigation buttons to the left or center - I'm not sure which would be best - maybe center to align with your nice logo.
You might want to consider having the content text start just a little bit lower - I may be off on this, but it just struck me as something to try. Also, you might think about having a more pronounced title for each page - for some reason, the titles really didn't jump out for me. My eyes didn't want to go that high and I am willing to bet this is a result of viewing so many pages that have some kind of masthead.
Please don't take this as anything but constructive critisicm. I work as a usabiltiy specialist and I do this kind of thing all day long. You have done a far better job than most people and this is a very good effort. Good luck.