Help on web page design for charity bike ride

[bikeworld]

Hello. I have a group of friends who are going to bike from Lands End (south Cornwall) and attempt to cycle up through England and Scotland to John O'Groats for support the help the heroes. They have had a web designer o this web page. And iam worried as it looks very armature and don’t give the right impression at all. Please have look and feel free to comment and help to improve. Or if there is a web designer who like to show us there skills would be very grateful. Thank you for you time

http://www.giving4heroes.co.uk/

[evenflow]

Having had a very quick glance I don't think it looks too bad at all.

The spelling of "heroes" on the dog-tag graphic is wrong btw.

[ad551]

Looks OK to me, certainly not too amateurish. Maybe it could do with a bit more line spacing, and the photos don't seem to work on the riders page either.

The main thing I'd suggest would be to set up a Justgiving page for your donations, rather than using a Paypal account, as it looks a bit 'dodgy' at the moment.

Oh and the route is wrong as well unless you're actually planning on cycling up the hard shoulder?

Edited by ad551 on Tuesday 23 February 12:25

[bikeworld]

Thank you for the replays. and yes i agree and have mention some things all ready. like the m6. thing they need to change. the more feed back the better cheers

[fivesixseven8]

Only had a quick glance (will try to give you some more feedback this evening.)

- I'd suggest changing the email link in the top right, the yellow background doesn't sit well with the background images. Also the font could be nicer. Maybe put it in some sort of box with a proper border?
- On the sponsor page, try spacing things out a bit more. Maybe put a bit of text in there too. It looks a bit empty at present.

[fivesixseven8]

Only had a quick glance (will try to give you some more feedback this evening.)

- I'd suggest changing the email link in the top right, the yellow background doesn't sit well with the background images. Also the font could be nicer. Maybe put it in some sort of box with a proper border?
- On the sponsor page, try spacing things out a bit more. Maybe put a bit of text in there too. It looks a bit empty at present.

[milfordkong]

There's a decent enough design somewhere in there, just hasn't been implemented very well, looks a bit of a mess to me... For the purpose it's serving it suffers from the most common of all web design faults - Over design... This site's purpose is purely to provide information about an event, not to advertise a product - The style at the minute lends itself towards the latter.

Oh and definitely agree on the Just Giving account/page, i'm sure there's nothing dodgy going on but i'd still never donate or sponsor using paypal...

[American iv]

it's quite a nice design... Some points from me:

• The background isn't repeated so it runs out on the riders page.
• it's quite slow to load (although that may be lots of PH'er loading the page at the same time) - the background image is huge at 775kb (http://www.giving4heroes.co.uk/images/heros4.jpg). People like me with caching turned off need to download it everytime...
• jQuery Javascript library is referenced in the code but is throwing errors (looks like it's not instigated in time)

[bikeworld]

Cheers all, thanks for the replays.will pass the info on. cheers