Brymen website updated (finally)

[Electro Detective]

I might be a bit biased and pissed off with them

Is there a story I missed somewhere?

Oh yeah, ready for a good bias yarn   

[PedroDaGr8]

Glad they redid the site.  Thanks for the heads up!  The old site just sucked, and that is putting it mildly.

Let's not get carried away, the new one's still quite horrible if we're honest.

(I'll do them a new one for the cost of a few meters...  )

The old one was Geocities circa 1998 at the LATEST! This one at least attempts to try to be professional.

[Fungus]

The idea of having everything dim/dark until you put the mouse over it is a huge fail.

Apart from simply looking bad, anything with a touch screen doesn't have a "mouse over", ie. phone/tablet users will only ever see the 'dark' version of the graphics.



And ... why are those meters so tiny? They only fill up a tiny part of the page on a PC monitor - make them huge, let me read the text on the front of the meters. If you want a mouse-over effect then make it a magnifying glass so I can see even more!

The font of the menu on the left is also borderline illegible due to size and low contrast, etc.

It's a step up from their old 1990s-era site but I'd only give it 2 out of 10 overall.

[X]

Still hard to believe in todays world with web designers coming out of Uni a dime a dozen it has taken some of these companies this long to have a half decent website that allows users to see what they sell, track down which product is likely best for them and provide reasonable customer support....

In this case, Brymen seems sensible enough to focus on good content and layout and not to cater to the "let's update the site just because it's 20XX" crowd, who seem to think that sharp corners on buttons will poke peoples' eyes out, and JavaScript is mandatory, and each page must take up a grand total of over 900KB and require 1600000x1200000 resolution screens.

Huge thumbs up to Brymen from me. Their site looks slick and sharp, can be browsed with JavaScript disabled, each page loads quickly, and the images are wholly visible on my 1024x768 screen.

There are only a few things here I would change:

 - Get rid of the "image words" on the menu. There are no UN sanctions or laws in any country I know of that are against text on web pages, and HTML does stand for Hyper-Text Markup Language.
 - Make the images scale up (use "%" sizing) to cater to those with higher or lower screen resolutions.
 - Consider a sitemap so people who may have heard of a "Bryman BM169S" can find it easily without having to navigate the whole thing.

Pity about the fate of those senior products.

[Electro Detective]

I'd be happy if it was an old school 1990s clunky web site with BIG pictures of the meters,

all the specs on the left or right side or below,

a proper support link with PDF links for owners manuals and applications etc

let's not forget everyone's favorite 'OBSOLETED' meters info page 

and I know this may push new friendships way too far    
but a   -METER COMPARE-   facility wouldn't create that many web cramps in the tummy setting it up, would it?