Website Design - Feedback please.

[SMP]

Morning all,

I'm after some constructive critisism on our company website - www.nova-design.co.uk

Can I have some opinions please.

Thanks in advance.

Simon

[shadytree]

Sorry, but I don't like the red text on grey background, it's not that pleasant on the eye.
Otherwise looks a neat and tidy site.

[mattley]

You're right, red on grey isn't the best.

The whole things a bit old fasioned, the menu would be better done using CSS, All the repetition in the H tags are a waste of space, and can get you marked down by search engines, as they're all the same, and not actually used in the body.

Disabling right click is a bit sad as well.

Lack of consistency with the buttons at the bottom of some pages, this tends to draw the eye away from the content, Some pages have a back button, which is unnecessary, and can be confusing, as users tend to think it might do something different rather than just give a 404

hope that helps.

[_dobbo_]

Looks pretty good to me, only comments I would add are that if it were me I'd fix the site width at (say) 800px wide. Having variable width means you can never know for sure how a page is going to render from one visitor to the next.

Other thing is that the image on page one seems to change it's position relative to the text, depending on the width of the page. Fixing the width would prevent that as well, or otherwise fix the image using a style in your div tags.

Finally, you've got some very spammy looking <h1> etc tags, I'm assuming this is for search engine placement, I'd wager though that it wont have the effect you want as it's very obviously done for that. Search engines (particularly google) are pretty wise to that, if you are going to use hidden text at all (and I'm not sure I would) you should at least make it "proper" text which is keyword rich, rather than just lots of repeating keywords.

[SMP]

Thanks for the feedback.

Time to do some tweaking . . . . .

[padgett]

I think your web site is rubbish


(although I am a bit biased, as I am a competitor of yours!)



>> Edited by padgett on Tuesday 18th April 17:34

[SMP]

padgett said:

I think your web site is rubbish (although I am a bit biased as I am a competitor of yours!)

[JonRB]

shadytree said:

Sorry, but I don't like the red text on grey background, it's not that pleasant on the eye.

Ow, ow, it hurts my eyes. Make it stop!

Also, on a 1600x1200 screen it looks tiny

mattley said:

Disabling right click is a bit sad as well.

Indeed. And easily re-enabled in Firefox too, if you can be bothered (because in most cases you just mutter "w*nker" under your breath and just click away)

>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 18th April 20:54

[mattley]

JonRB said:

mattley said: Disabling right click is a bit sad as well. Indeed. And easily re-enabled in Firefox too, if you can be bothered (because in most cases you just mutter "w*nker" under your breath and just click away)

I'm glad it's not just me.

It's html served into a well documented browser environment, what the fu3K do you think you have worth hiding?

I love the fact that all the real code ninjas leave their source out for anyone

[slapmatt]

If you want some info on making yoru site a bit more search engine friendly have a look here. I started out writing an Word doc, which turned into an article and now seems to be a site in it's own right. It's still work in progress and is by no means the definitive guide, but take a look at [url=www.yourspaced.com]Search Engine Optimisation[/url] Hints and Tips - which uses a real site to give examples of good seo practices along with actual tangible results.