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Coming from a graphic design point of view this is quite frankly terrible, the navigation of the website overly complicated and not necessary. The animation lags and doesn't look professional and it just looks rushed.

Also, I wished they'd switch up the Mother Hen font for something more professional they use it on everything, and it doesn't have good clarity.
 
In terms of that street, it is simply the street taken from the recent TV ads.

Towers do need a big re-brand. They've kept tweaking things since the 2008 re-brand and now it is stating to feel a bit of a mish mash of things. There isn't much class remaining in the current brand for me.

:)
 
on my pc the icon on the photo is almost hidden by the nav bar across the top.
 
I'm all for modern website design but this is just absolutely horrid. That design style is only suitable to sales pages for products.

Us lot are pretty tech savvy so there's no way on earth any normal person is going to be able to use that website.
 
I think the idea is good, but it looks like it has been by someone in merlin, in an office in London (or somewhere on the planet) The phrase I think we are all looking for hopefully is "work in progress" Least they have done it now and or during the season.
 
Good heavens, save my eyes!

Though it does remind me a lot of DLP's webpage from sometime ago that seemed to be made for Microsoft flash, and this website looks no better. Can't we keep things simple nowadays? Oh wait, we can't, it's Merlin...:unamused:
 
I do web design and development, and whilst I know exactly what they were going for, I really dislike this! It just doesn't seem finished? They've clearly focussed on mobile first design and just forgotten that desktops (or even tablets) exist (Evident by the lack of use of screen real-estate on desktop, with thin blocks of text). The parallax scrolling style doesn't really work, just adds way too much bloat, the navigation bar at the top is terrible to navigate, it's just seems like they saw another site and said, I'll take one of those.
 
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Now I had a look at the site on my phone last night and thought it was OK, but certainly not great on my phone, there was a lot of blank spaces, links I couldn't click, things over lapping, etc. And it was a nightmare to navigate around the site. Certain features didn't work at all like the opening times section.

Now I have had a look on my laptop, and it's even worse. I really don't see the new for the background to move about, it just makes the site go slow and would look nicer with just a plain image. I'm also not a fan of how the homepage just has one large image and then you scroll to another section of the site, seems hard to find what you want.

It all just seems rather fancy and overly complicated, which is then making it very slow and hard to navigate.
 
I just like how it's 'mobile optimized' by having a really silly thin strip of content on the desktop site so it doesn't have to shrink for mobiles...
 
What fresh new hell is this?!

It looks like it was given to a GCSE student with a £10 budget. They simply went on google images (circa 2002) to get the ride photos.
The navigation even fails, if you get one of those monstrosity pages where it takes up a full screen, you click the 'V down' button to the next oversized page - you cant go back up. Seriously they didnt add an UP button. Idiots.

Ah well I suppose its good for sites like us... you know where you can find information easily.
 
I get the impression the website designer/s gave up all hope on the ride information pages.
 
The Towers fan sites have always been the best place for anyone to find out information about the park, that's how I first got my interest back around 2004. ATA in particular was brilliant back then. The new Towers website only enhances this point!

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