Website Review Please?

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Hi,

I am a newbie here but was reccommended to pop and and ask for a review of our new site.

We are a webhosting company and our old site is at purple-paw.co.uk

The new site is at purple-paw.com/~newsite

Any comments would be really appreciated.

Many Thanks,
Chris
PurplePaw

Busy's picture

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Hi Superdon, Could you help us out and review a few sites to help us all out with different opinions - thanks

while I'm here ...
very graphic intense, takes a while to load.
Its very busy, dont know where to look or to go, everything is just there.
the search box doesnt show on Netscape4.7, the links dont appera to be working on IE or Netscape.
The section in the middle is a little hard to read, being black and bold

TheGizmoid's picture

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It took 1:50 to load on my 33.6. You could definitely improve on the load time.

You have put all of your text into graphics but don't appear to be using "alt" tags. There will be nothing for spiders to index and the page will be inaccessible to a visually impaired person using a text reader.

The transparent dhtml menus are rather hard to read.

Your logo really doesn't look like a paw, just a bunch of circles.

That was in IE4.0. In NS4.6 (Mac) it's a mess with the transparent dhtml menus down the left at the top, then the rest of the page at the bottom.

Megan's picture

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Cool! I like it! Purple is my favourite colour so this looks particularly nice to me. I think that the logo looks like a paw... This is much, much, much better than the old one.

I agree that you should try to make some of those graphics into plain text - that must take forever on a modem. I'm on cable so I didn't really notice. The middle section is also way too busy - too much trying to catch my attention there, so if you simplified that some with plain text I think it would help.

Overall I think it's really great. Excellent job Smiling I'm just going to sit here and look at it for awhile if you don't mind...

z28cam's picture

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It is Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better then the first.

And I agree with whats already been said, its to busy. People like graphics and colorful pages but to much will bog it down.

Busy's picture

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all these people using my name in vain Sad

hehe Sticking out tongue but seriously, I think the stuff is there, just have to have a little tidy up, coor are good, layouts pretty good, just a lil to much of it. I think the paw is a comical paw look, i like

z28cam's picture

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Good one Busy lol Smiling:)

The Webmistress's picture

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Welcome to TWF superdon,

I have to agree that it's far too BUSY and purple - I quite like the colour purple but here to me it's too much and no contrast. I too am on a fast connection but I would hate to have to wait for all those graphics to open and the search engines are gonna hate it!

I look forward to your reviews of some of the other sites posted for critique.

Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....

They have: 472 posts

Joined: Oct 1999

The new one is much better. I'm on broadband, so I can't really tell you much about the loading time. The old site loads in just a flash, but the new one takes about 10 secs.

Everything looks fine, you just need to compress your graphics now.

sab2000sab's picture

She has: 32 posts

Joined: Nov 2001

Good job on the site!

The graphics are really nice, but since you have so many..hehe.. it is hard to see all of the wonderful work you have done! Also, add some contrasting colors! Contrast makes things pop out, right now everything blends together! Maybe you could add a TINY bit of an off the wall color...like #DDFFBB I love this color!!! Don't overdo it though or you will have an eye sore!...LOLOL

Another thing...
I could not navigate through your site! The JS menu did not work for me...??? That is a big problem!

Have a wonderful night!

Sandra

Until His return,
Sandra Barnes
Ardnes Design

disaster-master's picture

She has: 2,154 posts

Joined: May 2001

I am a big purple fan as well. It is obvious that a great deal of work was put into this page. The first thing I am gonna hen-peck about is the menu. It takes away from the site a lot in my opinoin. Actually the menu on the left is fine it is just that pop out thing. I'd give that part a little thought.

You whole page is graphics. I think that a white background with some plain text and maybe a small accent graphics with some accent colors besides purple would look great.

It looks to me that maybe you want your visitor to be able to see everything without scrolling but with as much content as you have I think you might be better off spacing things out a bit. But hey, you did a great job putting all that stuff in that little bitty section. Wink

I like it and think you did a fine job or as my daughter would say, "That's jam up!"

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Joined: Aug 2001

cool website, i like it!
you may need to check this page
http://www.purple-paw.com/~newsite/domainsprices.htm

you need to do somthing about that table.

good work

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