REVIEW REQUEST: www.tatsujin-audio.com

This is very... um... blue! I really do like that shade you've chosen but there's a little too much of it here. Try adding some other colours to provide some contrast - even putting the content area on a white background would be helpful.

It would also be nice to have some pictures of some sort on the front page to give the viewer a better idea of what this site is about. The logo could use work as well - if nothing else it should be bigger and more obvious. I also don't like that fuzzy striped background behind it - it's not really doing anything for the site. Also try to do something with the navbar so it looks more like a navbar and not just boring old links. Use CSS to style them differently and make them stand out more.

I think you need to introduce another colour, even if it's just the link colours you change. The colors there now are kind of blah, you need to reflect your products image through the colours. I like Megans idea of using white

You also need to move your meta tag inside your html tag, meta tags belong betwen and

I agree with the above comments. Also, there seem to be too many 'edge' effects. Lots of 3-d edge type effect, blurring, etc.

Peter

Did you change the colour? THe layout is definitily different. I think I liked the original colour better - more striking, less bland. The new navbar is not bad, but I'm thinking those buttons should fill the entire area there rather than being inset like that. Or maybe that would be a bad idea, I'm not sure.

Hmmm, can't make up my mind about this one, I quite like it, and I do like the green/blue colour, but I think the buttons should be a different colour to make them stand out more. There is a horizontal scrollbar which I assume is because of your table set up and you really must use height and widths with images.

Looking heaps better, thought about using the 3 colours of the cases displayed on there?
Those pictures alone give it a real boost, makes you want to find out about them, or could just be me (can't decide with color case I like).

I'd do something with that banner now, it actually looks like the old mat I have beside me here, same pattern

Buttons, I reckon just make the text whiter and less fuzzy, note you could do the same thing using CSS and text links (dark background, white or grey links with different color or decoration on hover).

Keep up the good work

many thanks for all your replies folks. ive been busy as you can see with the latest rendition of the site.

hope it looks more appealing now

Word to the wise: micro-font charcoal on black does not make it easy to read things. Ditto micro-font robin's egg blue on white. You obviously have good vision, not everyone does. Try stepping back 4 or 5 feet and read it. The 'Small Print' section does not look quite right. You have solid black border around the title, and nothing around the content. It just looks like it lacks something (a border!)

Peter

It looks like it is now lacking a logo/header. I know you have your eye thingy in the top left but it doesn't stand out enough and the layout looks like the top's been chopped off IMO. Also I would suggest that the buttons have a rollover which chagnes the colour of the text to give it some life and finally I don't like the big text for the news part, it doesn't blend with the rest and stands out in a bad way.

Getting there

ok thanks again, im learning (i hope?!)

ok, here we go then, the home page is slightly modified to include some of the suggestions above.

better or worse ?

The banner doesnt really suit the rest of it, kinda to dark. it looks better but a lot longer in loading,
there are some things you can change in your source code
make your style sheet external (makes editing mutli pages very easy)
add marginheight and marginwidth for NS and Opera
try use class or id in links instead of putting the style into the link (first link), also it's better to use either HTML or CSS for things like fonts etc instead of mix and match

instead of black background, maybe a silver colour like the back of the images.

thanks again for the feedback.

well, ive made quite a few changes based on your suggestions folks