celum IMAGINE

celum IMAGINE

celum IMAGINE is a company in [tag]Austria[/tag] that provides online software for companies around the world who need to manage, process, distribute and integrate digital objects such as pictures, photographs, presentations or graphics files. It allows large groups to work with items in one location using just a web browser.

Their site uses a very simple, clean design that makes good use of CSS. I’m interested to know how much of that is due to their design team and how much of it is due to the open-source CMS that they use, phpwcms. Either way, they’ve created a nice site.

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  1. paulMay 9, 20065:45 pm

    the design isn’t bad, two things though:

    1. the cms spits out non-sensical urls, that are all #s… why not use URLs that are a little more easy to remember?

    2. if you look at the site unstyled there are square brackets []s around the main navigation items, which are in an unordered list. it sort of decreases readability and i don’t see they’d be necessary.

  2. ThomasMay 9, 200611:55 pm

    well, thanks for the feature!
    just a quick remark: actually we’re located in austria ;)

  3. Pete BrondyMay 10, 200612:02 am

    I’ve seen a demo of celum imagine, it’s very powerful but intended for enterprise use. One shouldn’t compare it with flickr-like tools.
    Btw, this is Thomas Marban’s company, the guy who runs http://popurls.com

  4. Ben LilleyMay 10, 20066:39 am

    It’s quite a nice site.

    My biggest problem however would be the lack of rollover/highlighting effects.

    This is purely because it’s hard to tell what you’re actually clicking on. Take the ‘product’ bar for example. It’s a link, but are you clicking on one big one? Can you click the different sections or ‘Sales’ etc. I think this is a fairly large letdown.

    If people can’t tell what they’re doing they will leave the site. End of story.

  5. Chris WilliamsMay 16, 200612:41 pm

    Ok, this is a “nice” site. It has quite nice calm color choices and the navigation is very clear and simple, so I’m not going to get lost anytime soon.

    However, they’ve done it again (People should really know what really gets my goat by now ;o) ). WHAT ABOUT 800×600 USERS?!?!?

    As they state, their target audience is “oriented around departments of all industries that utilise image and media files”. Hmmm - well why immediately annoy up to maybe 20% of your audience? I’m afraid the last office I worked in that would probably find this software useful would mainly be made up of users in this bracket. However, this is merely just my own opinion - I’m sure the people at Celum know what resolution is used by their audience and purposely made this decision?

    Sorry to bring this issue up once AGAIN - I’m just still shocked that websites aimed at such a wide and varied audience can abandon such a (still quite sizeable) userbase.

    My only other real criticism is the amount of imagery used on the homepage when this could have been easily replicated with plain text. Yes it looks nicer to have anti-aliased text, but it really does add to the weight of the site - PLUS in terms of accessibility this is horrendous for screen readers or browsers that may have images disabled. Most images don’t even have ALT text…

    So overall a niceish looking site - but not very good in terms of accessibility.

    Sorry - it seems like I’m only being negative today and I actually hate that :o(

  6. thomasMay 17, 20066:05 pm

    chris,
    i understand your concerns and let me emphazise that i’m a web-standards zealot ever since. however our target groups for celumimagine.com are not people using screenreaders, 800 users are

  7. thomasMay 17, 20066:06 pm

    seems that &gt breaks a comment?

  8. ShaneMay 17, 20068:37 pm

    Looks like it apparently :(

  9. Chris WilliamsMay 18, 20065:21 am

    Hi Thomas,

    Regarding your comment:

    “…however our target groups for celumimagine.com are not people using screenreaders, 800 users are”

    I don’t think ANYONE’s target audience are people using screen readers (except for maybe sites that specifically cater for sighting difficulties?). If websites are built with accessibility in mind then it simply means the website can be enjoyed by them too, instead of shunning an audience sector and a possible customer. The design of a website doesn not have to be fundamentally different in order to support screenreaders.

    Also - if you are aiming at 800×600 resolution users then why do you make them scroll horizontally?

    Anyway, none of this changes the fact that this is still a very nice site. Unmatched Style is a showcase for good design, and NOT one for “rubber stamped” accessible sites, so I don’t disagree this site has deserved its feature here.

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