Critical Suggestions Pls.

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I desire an honest opinion about this site http://www.freewebs.com/tokunbo/. If possible suggest how to make it browseable with firefox. Its an awful thing when I tried it with it, except with IE. I am new and I use frontpage. Thank you. Laughing out loud

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Joined: Nov 2005

Hi, checked it just now.
Not bad. I like the design.
Maybe more content will make it nicer.
But the frames are good. They're working just fine to seperate the info.
Keep up the good work.

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Megan's picture

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This is basically a bunch of affiliate links, right? I think you're going to have to work hard on your formatting to make this useful for anyone. After all, why shouldn't they go straight to the original site? What makes your site useful to them?

A unified colour scheme and design is necessary here. Make sure you stick to a defined palette of about 3-4 colours. Take the orange from the header coloumn and add a contrasting colour like blue. Also make sure all your fonts are consistent - I'm seeing some default Times New Roman in the left content column.

The navbar was confusing because it sent me to other sites. It would be best not to make it look like you're tricking people into visiting your affiliates. Maybe a header such as "Top Deals at:" with the names of the sites listed below. Or you could do some graphics that say things like "Get the best prices on Games at XXXX"

There should be some actual prices on here as well. Otherwise it's not very useful at all.

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Joined: Jul 2005

You do realize there is already a pretty big store called "Best Buy" and I'm sure the name is copyrighted.

Anywho, I would definitely limit your colors to those found in the banner. The green doesn't quite fit in. Perhaps a little snippet describing your purpose with this site would help too. Wink

Kurtis

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The reason it is not displaying correctly in Firefox is because of the code errors. Front Page is known for outputting bad code.

The errors are numerous...it would take me a long time to post them all and post fixes, so first I'll ask this question:

Do you know anything about html? Will you be able to code by hand and fix all of the errors that are causing display problems?

Roo

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Joined: Nov 2005

Thank you folks for all of your positive opinion. Megan, I am grateful for your detailed analysis; its like you have a third eye! The suggestions are taken and I am going to work on them.

Thank you.

They have: 96 posts

Joined: Jul 2005

I never ever used front page. It puts out way too much bad code. I use Home Site and learned HTML.

Bestbuy is a registered trademark so watch out for that. The site has no "identity" meaning theres nothing to pull a viewer in. I tell ya, if your trying to sell. You have to have a professional quality site.

My 2 cents oh and what Megan said. Shes always right on Smiling

Greg K's picture

He has: 2,145 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

Learn to code by hand first. it is harder learning curve, but well worth it.

Front page is not the best choice for jsut starting out if you are wanting cross browser support.

If you want to see proof of that, follow your link to your personal page in the footer of this page... Reminds me of my hometown's website, half the images look like garbage or won't come up becasue they used Front Page which feeds crap to non-IE browsers. I hope you learn to change to something else before it becomes to late like it did for my hometown, they have been using FP so long, they seem to not want to have to learn how to do it right.

-Greg

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Joined: Nov 2005

Site looks fairly nice, but it doesn't really DO anything.

They have: 4 posts

Joined: Dec 2005

Hmm your sites need more stuffs more links.

They have: 12 posts

Joined: Jul 2004

Your site looks okay for a beginner, but i don't like the banner. The green font doesn't fit the color scheme and i don't like times new roman font. Also, what does a person doing yoga and the earth have to do with shopping for electronics. I agree that you may want to take off the google ads or make them blend in to the color scheme a little bit better. Other than that, you are doing very well.

He has: 29 posts

Joined: Jan 2006

a site full of affiliate links?!
a free domain/hosting that would not receive any web traffic or google rank and your services are software, games and electronics? really not the best angle.

design critique? could not find design nor critique amongst all the ads.

fat chicks in party hats.

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