Please review my website
I would really like any/all comments and suggestions about our website! We offer a simple service to create Web databases without any programming experience, and have designed the website to look similar to a portal. I've recently received feedback that our site may look "too busy." Any thoughts would be great appreciated!!! The site is at eCriteria.net. Thank you!
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mairving posted this at 01:51 — 28th March 2001.
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Overall I think the site looks good. It displayed about the same in all browsers. I really just have a couple of comments:
That is my 2-cents worth.
Mark Irving
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outlaw posted this at 06:25 — 29th March 2001.
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I like the graphics, principles, and the content is great. In could be perceived as overwhelming, or cluttered. I don't think this is because of to much stuff. Maybe the way in which it is laid out. One thing that I think you could do to decrease clutter is to have a focal point on the page. To me it seems their is a lot of info coming at me all a once. This can be a good thing, personally I do not prefer this when I visit a page. I agree that the ads should be few to none, especially if they are animated. In a site packed with info an animated graphic could be the defining factor between full of info and cluttered. Placing a center alignment on the entire site would be more appealing to viewers on larger monitors with out effecting the look to anyone else. Over all I think the site has a lot to offer and has a good design.
I am no expert but I hope this helps
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 07:35 — 29th March 2001.
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I think you have some great concepts and I only have a few comments, most of which are my personal opinion rather then a technical or design flaw.
a) The advertisements defiantly take away from the site design and make it look a whole lot less professional.
b) I like the honeycomb type shape near the login form however it looks strange as it's not used anywhere else.
c) I'd make all of the bars, backgrounds, headlines, etc all the same color. It makes things look a lot more uniform and doesn't distract the eye as much.
d) There is very little uniformity in text sizes. Take a look at the FEATURED PUBLIC DATABASE headline and the DATABASE WINNER OF THE WEEK. Both the actual bar and the font size are different.
Basically my critique would be to try to uniform the color scheme, layout style, sizes, and alignment. I think the site will look a whole lot better that way and provide a more professional appearance.
Good luck!!
Megan posted this at 13:59 — 29th March 2001.
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I definitely think it looks too cluttered. There are too many things on there competng for my attention. It would be a good idea to change the yellow backgrounds on the right to match the grey on the left. Also put the login area on top of one of those boxes too.
All your headers should look the same - the one at the top "Power your business..." is styled differently from the two "Database" tables below it. The rest of the pages look a lot better though. You might want to try changing your link colour to either black or red (or black with red hover..)
On the FAQ page you forgot to close a bold tag so half the page is in bold. Some of your graphics are a little bit over optimized looking (ie. the header on the "About Us" page).
Overall the design looks quite nice, it just needs a little bit of work. You might want to try integrating that honeycomb thing you've got into the design a little more.
Megan
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ecriteria posted this at 21:28 — 30th March 2001.
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Thanks everyone! I really appreciate these comments and suggestions. I will definitely work on implementing these ideas for our next website revision.
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