Alex's business covers a wide range of different areas of landscaping, from land to water, for example lakes and ponds.
Here are 4 different competitors that cover the different areas:
Aqua Landscape Design:
http://www.aqualandscapedesign.co.uk/
This company is mainly based on water landscaping and water features.
The website is quite busy on first glance, the buttons are not obvious and I found them by rolling over the words, they are however a lighter shade of green so they do stand out from the background.
The colour scheme, the light blue with the green is quite calmly and pleasing to the eye, and really maps out what the company does, the green for the gardening/landscaping side of things and then the light blue for the water side of things, also the amount of these colours used gives an indication to what the company does as well.
Lakes and Ponds by PHB Contractors Ltd
http://www.lakes-ponds.co.uk/
With this website, it is completely different to the previous website, because the site is very minimalistic, with only 2 sections, the header and the body. The header has the buttons/links and the company name within it, the buttons are easy to find and are clearly mapped out.
On the home page there is a changing image above the fold, demonstrating what the company can do, and when you go below the fold there is a clearly laid out set of articles which are the most important to the company, and they all have specific headers as well. Lastly, there is an enquiry form at the bottom, with also what the company have done recently, with a photo gallery of everything they have done.
This website as a whole is nice presented and you are able to find the information that you need to then get an idea of how this company works and operates.
Groundwork
http://www.groundwork.org.uk/
This site is very visually interesting to look at, it is not busy and very clearly laid out. Everything has a place, but they do all mould together very well.
It looks like they are some sort of charity, helping schools and communities have better grounds etc.
There are loads of links that people can look at, which in a way can really put you off, however in this case they have marked out their main objectives in each section so that if people are looking for a specific thing then they can find it using their drop-down list of links from the buttons.
The images and colours work because they seem quite urban and give off a vibe that they don't mind getting their hands dirty.
K.P.H Groundworks Ltd
http://www.kphdrainageltd.co.uk/
When I first found this website I immediately saw a problem, where all of the buttons are they seems to have butted up close together, which I am sure should not be the case, there maybe a problem with the CSS or that the site is not built to be seen on a laptop.
Despite that the simple style of the website allows for me to find out all of the information about the company that I would need if I was to use them.
The colour scheme however I feel that for this doesn't work as well, for some reason having a different shades of blue and then a blue to white gradient in the background seems quite amature and for this sort of company does not work.
