Critique of site please!

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Hiya ! I'm self employed designer and interested in gettign some critical feedback on one of my sites Would anyone be interested in giving a critique of a site I have done www.hungryhilllodge.com ... maybe another Irish website designer...i spotted www.mullingarequestrian.com Thanks very much!!

Edited by Parker. Fixed url.

[This message has been edited by Parker Trasborg (edited 15 April 2000).]

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I only had a chance to chekc out hungryhilllodge.com and it looks good.
The only thing I would change is where it says:
welcome to our hostel.Use a different font or style.

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Hungry Hill Lodge one looks great. Don't do anything to it at all. The only thing I can suggest is all the way to the right that picture thing repeats as you scroll down, which isn't to much of a problem.

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Hi,

Excellent site, the only thing I can suggest is try and imprve the loading time. I am only on a 56k modem and it took ages for all the graphics to load up completly.

Fletch

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I think you should make the edges of your photos round so that it will look better.

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1) Took a while to load on my 56k modem at home.

2) I really like the side menu, but I don't know if I like that graphic to the very left of it. I guess it's ok.

3) The colors arn't the best, and don't really remind me of a bed and breakfast/lodge place to stay. Maybe more earthy colors?

4) The "Welcome to Our Hostel" text is a little jagged around the edges. Try to make it more like "Enjoy Beautiful Bearna" or whatever it says.

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Colours aren't good. The two greens don't go well with each other, and that bright red clashes with both of them. For something like this I would use a lot more white.

The logo at the top needs to be bigger - you can't read the text on there.

ON the front page you mentioned something about idyllic rural surroundings - you need to show some photographs of this. That's what was successful about that mulligan equestrian site - the photos gave a great impression of what the place was like.

What is that square tapestry-like thing supposed to be? Is it just decoration? It looks pointless and out of place.

You might want to quote your prices in other currencies - like maybe British Pounds (if the rates are a lot different)

Oh, just noticed - your right side background design is not repeating smoothly - you can see a line where the tile repeats.

That background is huge - that's probably what's causing you to have such long download times. I didn't even notice the photos at the side until I downloaded the bg to see if it was as big as I thought it was. Lose those photos, and make a narrow border (about 100-200 pixels would be okay) with the green left side bar and the right side design (make sure the pattern repeats seamlessly)

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