Tedioli is a law firm in Italy specializing in agricultural law, general civil, commercial practice, insolvency and corporate law services. The website is extremely simple but communicates effectively to the end-users.

First Impression
We would recommend taking away the flash introduction from the homepage for 2 reasons. Firstly, it does not impress. Secondly, it does not serve its purpose. Flash can be effective but we reckoned that using it in this case is not justifiable. Once entered the site, we were looking for the company logo which we could not find. The logo speaks alot about the company and it is important to have it placed in a fixed position of the website.

Navigation and Layout
The menu and layout is simple - cool. It might be a good idea to make the menu stand out more by adding background colors, more pronounced mouseover effects...etc. This is not critical because the current system is already quite functional. The display, however needs to be re-looked. The varying image widths on the right causes the entire table to stretch and contract. They author might want to work on the image sizes or even replace them by adding quick links or texts.

Design and Content
The content of all the pages is short and sweet - good. Long stories tend to bore people easily. The images used in the site need professional help and some are inserted inappropriately. We would also like to see more images relating to customer services. The keywords in the header image could be extracted so that they are visible to the search engines. The author might therefore want to use transparent gifs instead of jpegs for the headers.

The news page should only contain news and not other things. Putting links, judgements and other sections there is not a good idea.

Because of the nature of the industry, we would expect the site to be content focus. All design elements in the site should sell the content and not distract users from reading it; We were particularly distracted by the animated gifs used in the website. As the site is not convincing in terms of its design, the company might want to consider adding a testimonial section with customer faces and quotations to boost the user confidence in the company.

Conclusion
The site is simple and is able to convey its messages easily across to the end-users. However, as a commercial law firm, we would expect some level of professionalism in their website. More work could definitely be done on the fonts, images and layout.

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