New website - comments please

[Mrsbug]

Hi all, not the usual sort of site for Pistonheads, but it is mine and you all normally post useful comments. Just anything on general layout, navigation etc would be good. Comments from the female half of PH particularly welcome!

www.perfectjewellery.co.uk

Thanks
MrsBug

[Outy]

Getting domain name not found there MrsBug.

P~

[Mrsbug]

oooo thats weird as it works for me and my sis who lives 20 miles away.....

Anyone else having this problem??

Jane

[FunkyNige]

Works fine here, tbough the title of the home page is 'front_frame_1' which doesn't look very professional.

It's nice and clear, with no extra distracting bits dotted about like other websites, but the grey of the text could be a bit darker to make it a bit easier to read.

It's very quick to load the pages.

When you click the images to get a larger version in a new window, if the window was the same size as the image (like PH does) that would be a bonus.

[wedge girl]

Works for me.

[wedge girl]

The only bit I don't like is the pink page numbers, also would like to see the 'click to enlarge' when you hover over the pictures.

[Snoremeister]

thanks for the comments - I thought the text could do to be a wee bit darker & about the first thing you mentioned about the home page - I shall tell the bro in law!

Just so chuffed that its up at last and working!!

Jane

[Outy]

Working a treat now. Wonder if it was a brief DNS hiccup. :shrug:

I like it. My personal opinion tho, would be to choose a fixed size layout rather than the 100% width. The reason for that is that if you get a browser like me with a creen res of 1680x1050, your site can look really thin and stretched when filling the full page width.

Just my personal pref.

Nice work.

P~

[zaktoo]

Excellent work. A few points though:

1. Frames really should be avoided for a number of reasons - most importantly the negative effect they have in terms of your search engine rankings.

2. Things like page titles should be written with 2 objectives in mind: help the users understand where in the site they are as well as providing genuinely useful information about the content on that page; and secondly, if it's important, help search engines & their users find your products.

3. You should provide alt text for your images. This helps non-graphical browsers understand what images they're missing.


HTH

Ciao

Zak

[Mrsbug]

Thanks zaktoo et al - thats all a wee bit techie for me but I shall pass all comments onto the website author. I just make the tiaras and hats... ;-))

thanks again - its always really helpful to get objective views

Jane

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Mrsbug said:

Thanks zaktoo et al - thats all a wee bit techie for me but I shall pass all comments onto the website author. I just make the tiaras and hats... ;-)) thanks again - its always really helpful to get objective views Jane

Would second the thing about frames - best avoided if you ever want a good search engine presence.