Cincinnati's Economic Development Department has a new website: http://www.choosecincy.com/

This is a tremendous new site.  Perfect for people looking around for investment opportunities.  Very engaging, very user friendly, clean, and powerful.  Well done.

I don't like how Memphis is in Arkansas and Atlanta's near Valdosta.

 

Trash!

 

;)  Great site.

Good start but as a web designer/developer, their site kills me! :)

Nice site.

I don't like how Memphis is in Arkansas and Atlanta's near Valdosta.

 

That's funny, didn't notice it at first.

 

Good start but as a web designer/developer, their site kills me! :)

 

Care to elaborate Mr. web designer/developer?

Since you asked :)

 

What I don't like:

1. Rotating banner at the top has white text on contrasting backgrounds. The text overlaps beautiful images of Cincinnati, and should be aligned so that it doesn't visually mar what the city is trying to sell.

2. Too many clashing styles. The font for the main page is a rather generic Arial for items that can be better stylized with graphics (e.g. "I am...). CSS3 can handle custom fonts and degrades great for non-supporting IE8. Standard copy in Arial is fine, but for presenting, it is dreaded.

 

What I do like:

3. Nice roll down with jQuery. It has some odd shifts and pushes text down further than it needs be on FF3, but looks fine on IE8.

4. Custom curved form elements.

5. The report builder is a nice feature, and the drop down is even better.

 

I like the site, it is well laid out, functional and easy-to-use, just the glaring font issue and the graphic scares me :)

I'm with Sherman, only a bit more critical.  Depending on how you want to classify and count, there are about five different headers/title bars across the top all in somewhat different styles, but all horizontal.  There really isn't a hierarchy of what I should be looking at, and there's so much information on each page.  The horizontal bars I'm seeing are: the language/options bar across the top, "Giving you reason to choose", the scrolling text over the image, the "I am" bar, and the "Explore Maps."  There doesn't seem to be a cohesive aesthetic and it's making it tough to look at.