Please Review my site: Bluesoft Web

keral82's picture

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Hello everyone,
I have redesinged my site right now and all my product demos are also avialable for viewing.
Please post comments on my site it is:

http://www.bluesoftweb.com

Thanks.

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Megan's picture

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Welcome to TWF, keral!

There are a few annoying things here right off the top. First of all, it took a minute to figure out what this site is about. The "Website for each" tagline has absolutely no meaning to me. The "website problems ... wise solutions" in the main graphic doesn't do much for me either. Both of those should be much more descriptive. The overview in the bottom area is much more helpful but is small and out of the way and most people probably won't read it. The picture of the woman working on the computer is quite ambiguouos and doesn't seem to relate directly to your product. That picture could be on any tech site really.

The layout is okay but not great. The boxes seem to be quite unrelated to each other. They are different shapes and sizes and don't align with each other as well as they could. Also, the two bottom ones have drop shadows but the top one doesn't.

The logo is not bad from a design perspective but I'm a little concerned about that X. What kind of a message are you sending with that? X = bad, no, wrong, go away.

That's enough for now - there are more problems I see as I browse around the site but I'll let the others tackle those Wink

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The layout here is beautiful and professional, but I would suggest changing the homepage title to "BlueSoft Online" or something short like that (save the keywords for meta tags). Nice job integrating Google ads into the blue graphic like that and good thinking to have demos of your products for users to see. Overall, I think this site is ready for business!

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Do i see a scrolling marquee at the botem. Get rid of that as soon as you can. If you realy need a scrooler use javascript or flash.

Also the dropshadows are very dark lighten them up a bit.

r3a1's picture

He has: 28 posts

Joined: Aug 2005

You need to check out the page in different browsers. I tried it out in Firefox and your layout is broken on the homepage due to the subscribe form you have there.

I totally agree that the title needs to be WAY smaller ... doesn't even fit in my browser window title.

You might take a hard look at that marquee in the footer. It is very fast and usually a very bad idea.

I wandered around and got to ... http://www.traffic.bluesoftweb.com/
and the logo on that thing need to changed. The tiled blue marble with the black text is nearly impossible to read.

I agree that over all it looks very vague as to what you actually do until the user does some digging. You might try to move the overview information above the featured products to give a user more of an idea of what you actually do before you begin trying to sell them something.... but then again maybe not.

Just a personal opinion, but I usually like some type of reaction when I move over a menu. Something to think about.

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Joined: Jun 2005

Start that title tag with a CAPTIAL letter!

You really want to make sure that the black (i'd use a grey btw) panel containing your three main products should be fully visible for a 1024x768 screen. If you got rid of the Google Ads you could stretch this and then make some of your 'Overview' viewable too. As i'm on the Google Ads bit, it looks like your newsletter subscription is offering people to be e-mailed adverts!

A lot of the images on your site look a bit hazy, what image editor are you using?

That ticker tape is really annoying!

Considering what you are selling i am suprised when looking at your code. Try counting the lines between the top and actual content...

With a little bit of work it will be nice, as i do like it aesthetically.

Good luck.

-Rob

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Joined: Sep 2005

I love the design. I would swap the logo(and make larger) with the description text(over picture of woman, make text much smaller). The affiliates link is not for everyone, but I didn't notice it the first time to the site. I would add some text(become an affiliate and recieve...), or make the button bigger. Flawless integration with the Google Ads! You need some action for the links; good spot r3a1. I would start with this, and what the preceding posts say. Then you should be done. Good luck!

demonhale's picture

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Looks OK, feels like a template, no hover effects on links, the crolling marquee induces siezure... Minor quirks dude, can be fixed...

keral82's picture

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Joined: Sep 2005

Thanks all of you for your kind comments. I have removed my marquee tag.
Moreover i have resoearched too much on search engines. That's why i have did all the content stuffing here and there. I wanted content, Keywords, Design, Ads, and products all on one page in small place. So there is no other option other then this.
Moreover hovering my pictures can create good effect but it will take some time to load the page which i don't want right now.
I am on a shared server. And i think the more KBPS i serve to one user the more bandwidth i will be using.
I am trying to minimize the overall page size.
By the way i am using photoshop for my graphics design. And these pictures are optimized for least size giving the most possible quality. That's why would think that they look blurry.

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