Computer Hardware site

That site doesn't work at all in Opera. All I get is a bunch of scrambled characters. I've never seen that before.

In Firefox it generally looks good. At first I thought this was as shopping site so I expected to see products on the front page not news items. You could maybe change the tagline to "High quality hardware information" instead of "database". It looks like you've got a lot of really good content here.

The design is good. For a site like this you don't need to be brilliant. Something simple and functional is all you need. I don't like that gradient in the background. I would change that to a solid grey instead. Overall the colour scheme is very bland. you could try to spinkle some of the yellow around the site a little more. Using it for headers would be a good idea - as it is the headers are the same colour as links which can be confusing (since one would assume that those headers are also links, which they're not).

The logo is okay but the HQ and HARDWARE parts sort of conflict because both are so heavily styled. Try simplifying the HARDWARE text so that the HQ takes emphasis. The problem here is that the two elements are competing for attention so the eye doesn't know where to focus. Keep the most important party styled and the rest simple, so only one area holds the emphasis.

I think it would be good to have a little more padding in that header block. Both the logo and the banner ad are too close to the edge there.

Overall a good job

good job, good look on this type of site, most of what megan has said I like to repeat... Your site should some flair in the logo area, and really the gradient is bad... Also the first impression is really a shopping site rather than info site... try to rethink your layout attack... thats just my .2

Your site is good in navigation, contents and structure.
Is easy to navigate and visitors don't get lost I suppose.

I only see a thing you can do better which is the menu buttons: now you can only click on texts, not in the entire menu box, which is not difficult to implement

I like the look of the site. It's laid out nicely, and it has a clean, orderly look to it.

This review is from a website more or less novice, I am not a designer but would like to give my view as an " outsider "
There is a hell of a lot of text and things going on on the front page that tended to have my eyes darting around ( if you know what I mean )
Would it be posssible to simplify any areas with drop downs or a slightly simpler layout?
I am sure you will recieve a lot more technical and in depth reviews than mine but best of luck.

I own a site which I am having problems with as I wanted to optomise my pages title tags and have found out as the site was done with smarty templates the site can only have a generic title tag throughout, don't know if anyone knows a way round this ?
My site is written in PHP linked to a SQL database using oscommerce as the shopping cart.
Any reviews or criticism would be welcome.
Thankyou
Martin
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Hi Lost Hunter,

You site looks okay and works well, but I don’t see anything new, anything I can’t find on other sites.

I feel you need to do something different to stand out.

People aren’t always looking for the bleeding edge newest components as they tend to be more expensive and less reliable. Perhaps you could concentrate on that angle. the most reliable and best value stuff.

I personally like stuff I can drop without it breaking like military spec stuff, some people like blink flashy stuff, other prefer looks rather and functionality.

I think you should narrow your scope and concentrate in an area no one else is covering because you’re trying to compete with such as PC World and Amazon and I’m not confident you will win.

Hope this helps

Roy