your opinion of my creation
rick
put on the www. Your opinion would greatly appreciated. Please
let me know if i should keep going or throw in the towel.
http://members.aol.com/terebasket
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Jon S.
<neotedd...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
>A site i designed for a nice lady. This is my first page i have
>put on the www. Your opinion would greatly appreciated. Please
>let me know if i should keep going or throw in the towel.
>
>http://members.aol.com/terebasket
Very nice! I like the use of the background image, and lots of white
space, but to the point. Take everything below as very picky
comments. If you look at some of the sites of people advertising as
web designers, you'll know how good your layout instincts are.
1. How about navigation (next/previous) when looking at the individual
baskets? Since there's a discrete number of them, and you're already
numbering them, this wouldn't be too hard.
2. Why not make the baskets on the front page links also? (i.e., not
just the text) People are visual, and want to click. Also, the text
on those links might be a bit too small for those using a high
resolution on a small monitor.
3. On the gallery page, the basket of oranges look incongruous to the
other images because it's cropped differently. If you can re-edit
these to all be the same size and shape, it might look a little
better. But, I love the simple design of that page. Possibly, adding
the name of the baskets might help. They aren't too obvious at a
distance. I like the "custom" names on the individual gallery pages
better than just "new parents" on the front.
5. The text on the display pages is cut off in weird spots (I use a
slightly larger font size as a default) by having 8 words on a line
and one word on the next line. Like this...
These little boxes make great
inexpensive gifts.
We offer more than 20 patterns, themes
or
Why have <br>'s at the end of each line? Just leave them as
paragraphs, the browser will sort out the line breaks.
6. If "What's in the Basket" is the name of the business, use this in
each page title... Do something like "What's in the Basket? :
Gallery" and "What's in the Basket? : Gallery". Also, the "What's in
the Basket" logo would look good on the top of every single page, just
to keep people attached to what's going on.
7. Add some meta tags so when you submit to search engines, the page
will show up.
8. On the info.html page, you seem to be steering people directly off
of the internet. I don't like this from a marketing standpoint.
People want fast email contact (and some are a little scared to talk
on the phone sometimes.) Why not include the email address upfront
and then explain below that contact on the phone would be the best bet
(or that phone contact is required for a final order or something)?
But, at a minimum, let visitors know that contacting via email is
possible if they want to, even if ordering isn't.
9. Along the same lines, you might want to put on the front page which
areas she ships to. This might save a person lots of time if they
browse, find their basket, go to order, and find out that they don't
even live in the right part of the country.
10. New Home clicks to "Mothers day"?
11. On "email", I like to show the actual email address. It's a pet
peeve, but it's "my" pet peeve.
12. I'd leave gallery as a link on all of the screens. Better
navigation when searching for a basket.
13. I assume that the telegift and NSGA are associations for making
these boxes and things? Do they have websites? Is the lady who has
the site an official member? If so, putting links to their pages or
maybe an "about the gift maker" page which explains such things might
be a good way for people to gain trust that this isn't a flybynight
outfit. Possibly a list of client companies? Maybe a list of
comments from satisfied customers?
Like I said at the start, these are all tiny comments. The site looks
and feels very good. Nice and simple design. I wish I could keep
things that "to the point".
Jon
rick
reply i such a big way. I will take this as a push from a pro.
P.S. I'll save the towel for drying off.
sandman
"Jon S." <jonce...@nospammiesno.earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:38ecf75e...@news.earthlink.net...
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:48:14 -0700, rick
> <neotedd...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
>
[snip}
Jon S.
<neotedd...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
>Thanks Jon, no offense taken. I thank you for taking the time to
>reply i such a big way. I will take this as a push from a pro.
*cough* I wouldn't call me a pro at all. I just like to review
things. :) Oh, and I'm really picky. This gives me a chance to blow
off that steam. ;)
I'm actually just honing my skills for my own sites. I've been
studying the various books and heuristics pages as well as various
columns in magazines like Internet Week, PC Week, and Computerworld
when they show what some of the big sites do to update their pages.
I like to review a site and then see what other people on the group
said about it to see how far off the mark I am.
Jon
Jon S.
wrote:
>Wow... excellent post. I learned quite a bit and it's not even my site. :-)
Thanks Sandman.
Jon
Britta
You have a lot of negative space there. Suggustions:
Put a very light coloured border behind the gift basket, draw a square in
imageready, pick a colour like the burgandy from the basket, then set the
transparency of the square to something like 60 or where it looks good.
Just to tie those elements together. Use that on all pages, it'll give more
cohesion.
Secondly, tie together all the images on the front page with some type of
elipse behind the images, either just the border or filled in with the same
transparent colour and the border matching the text. That'll really pull
your design together.
Good luck!
--
Sincerely,
Britta Wingenroth
Web Designer, West Coast Web
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"rick" <neotedd...@aol.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> A site i designed for a nice lady. This is my first page i have
> put on the www. Your opinion would greatly appreciated. Please
> let me know if i should keep going or throw in the towel.
>
> http://members.aol.com/terebasket
>