Please review My site (goldwatches.com)

This looks good at first glance. Nice, light colour scheme, decent typography. It looks elegant, which is exactly the look you want for a jewelry site.

The logo/header area could use some work. I'm not sure what's with the red G and two bar type things are next to the .com. Keep the title simple and elegant. Try a script or serif typeface instead of that modern looking one. Script and serif typefaces look more traditional and elegant. Also make sure the type can be clearly read on top of the background. You could flip that mountain bit so the mountain is behind the little houses or something.

Looking more closely at your page, I notice that there is a lot of text in graphics. This does help you achieve a nice look but it also means that search engines can't read that text. Very important. Learn to use CSS to style regular text instead of putting it in a graphic. That way search engines will be able to read it and people will be able to resize it if they need to. You could achieve the same look you have here with a combination of plain text, CSS, and background images.

The main navigation is quite far down on the left side. People might even miss it there after all those ads. This is especially problematic when you've already used the horizontal drop-down menus to start a search and need to use that sidbar if you want to refine it. I did find the navigation easy to use and I liked having multiple ways to narrow down my search.

The amount of information in the product descriptions is good, and the enlarged photos are actually big enough to see a good amount of detail.

The pages tend to look a little cluttered - try adding more white space around the main content area and between the product listings. I think it would be okay to make the thumbnails a little smaller because you do have more good photos on the actual product pages.

Good job overall.

First post here from me, so bear with me.

I think the colors are good for the site, I felt like the gold tones and silver in the site was nice as it made me think right away of the jewelry and watches.

Trying to resize the text blew out the layout of the site as the text went outside of the containers, overlapping the images and created some problems reading it.

Plenty of options for searching what you are looking for, which is good.

Agree that there needs to be more whitespace as things looked a little crowded at times and my eyes were kinda wandering when looking at everything.

Just a question, any reason for no doctype and using a table design? just wondering from my standards (xHTML and CSS) ocd mind....

Great site!

a very impressive website,
nice search feature, the homepage looks very good but it may have to much information on it for someones first time looking at your website.
Overall, the design is perfect.

Peter

I really like it. The pictures really pop out which is important to grab someones attention.
i would say work a little more on the logo. The idea is great, but i think you really need to make it stick out a little, so when people think gold watches they remember the logo.

My first impression is good. It has a very nice design and layout. For what the website is made for it does it perfectly!

I was expecting it to be a fairly tacky site tbh but was pleasantly surprised. The colours work very well for the product you are doing, and really suggest it is a trustworthy site as opposed to a "make money quick" site.

Buying a secondary domian name may be helpful - something more discreet such as "joebloggsjewellers.com", you could still have goldwatches.com but it instantly suggests a con site to me.

Very nice site, good luck with it.

I noticed that from a previous posting, the navigation tools were down to low on the left hand side but you seem to have corrected that by adding another way of navigation at the top of the home page which is a good move. The website is simple and plain which lends itself very well to view jewelry on. When I clicked on the watch, I had the option to view the detail which could also be useful if I were trying to find a watch online.

The site is good to work at i guess. Looks like a clean business shopping cart to me but there are things that i dint like-
1. the colour of the site is tame. i thing you should have given it a more flashy look considering the kind of site it is and the stuff that you are selling.
2. the header is a bit of a lay-off. half of the site's name goes beyond the mountains. i guess something more strong should have presented the overall presence of the header.
3. you could have tried keeping the rest of the site of a differrent color and the header bit a more flashy color.
4. the design is good but a bit jumbled up. the homepage should have been kept clean with more options to categorical view of the featured listings.
Rest is kool. i hope it serves your purpose. keep up the dedicated work.

I like it a lot. It displays fine in Firefox and on Linux. There is some text in images that may hold you back a bit in search engines, so you might want to somehow change that. Other than that, it's great.

Hello,

I thought your site was very good, nice and crisp clear images, nice and easy to navigate, I also like the banner, I'm quite a newb with web design but hope I can get mine to look half as good.

First impression: Cooool!

I think the header and first bar (with search on it etc) are really good! And the box with the "give the gift of time" is awesomely placed. Grabs the attentiion straight away!

Then as I scroll down I see the "Browse by" btis straight away, so I know how to shop.

I also think the colour scheme goes really well, it looks really respectable and watch like.

340 errors in validation though, ha! But no worries, its a great looking site. The big pictures are brilliant.

The site layout and design looks good.
I like the banner with the gold watch image.

Code structure looks good

342 errors that needs to be fixed in w3c validator
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goldwatches.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

I think that is well designed and has good navigation.
If I need watch I'll visit you're site and choose something.

Wow. This is a neat site.
It looks very professional and the colors were well chosen (the gold color).
There is not much criticism that I can give. It's a very nice website and well put together. A+

I think it looks good.Theres a lot of adds but that's whats needed right?
The banner is also nicely done.

very elegant look and a professional template .