I am a new couture who have just start the first wedding dress website in my life 2 month ago. The wedding dress website and dress are total difference but I believe some comment here will help me have good guideline to improve my site. http://www.thaitopwedding.com/ Can I have some comments and / or suggestions? This forum is awesome. Thanks for your help!
I think a wedding website shouldn't use black color. In most of country, black is the color of death. Pink are most common
indeed this is true. Unless you're a goth but thats a very limited market and I've never met someone from Thailand who was a goth (not that there aren't any I just figure its a more European/American thing). I see once the site loads that the dresses aren't black so that's a good thing! Places your Google Analytics code at the bottom of the page to speed load times. Validate your CSS Validate your XHTML Consider reducing the number of objects loaded and perhaps enabling gzip compression to speed up load time for slow connections. A text only version is also a great option. A 56k modem would take about 50 seconds to download this page. You server seems very slow. I have a 5Mbps connection and it seems to take a long time for the page to show up Offer a contact page or show your email address. This will help inspire trust. Personally the black and orange makes me think of Halloween. Not likely that has the same impact in your country but I would give the colors a lot of thought.
Good lord that's painful to watch load. Slower than molassas at the south pole. Took almost two minutes to load here and I'm on a 10mbps hard connect at the moment. I think that might be your server though since at 237k in 20 files it shouldn't be taking that long, unless there's something screwy going on in that javascript. First off, I thought as Thailand is an oriental culture their wedding dresses would in fact be BLACK, since white is a color of mourning in most oriental cultures (or has thailand been completely westernized by the westerners going there to have sex with underage children?) The site design is ok, but I'd narrow a few of your borders, get rid of some others, and try to even out the spacings. You've got 1px borders with inconsistant paddings inside them which look more like rendering errors, likewise the buttons in the sidebar with the text flush-top like that looks like rendering errors, not intentional design. I'd probably axe the background around that menu and the header (people know what a menu is, you don't have to label it). The floats at the bottom for the dresses with images also look like errors as the text doesn't line up with the image making it hard to even tell what text even goes with what item. It has potential, but some more images combined with better image compression would go a long ways towards making it better. Code-wise... 41 validation errors, invalid CSS, not doing good out of the gate. The main page has 4.2k of actual content with 13 presentational images, so the 11k HTML filesize is within expected norms. The use of heading tags starts out ok, though I'd argue that the later H2's are NOT subsections of the H1, so it's inappropriate for that to be your H1. Likewise once you get further in you jump to H5's that are NOT subsections of the H2 before it, and you skip H3 and H4 meaning it's semantically incorrect. Stuff like: <p><br /> <br /> </p> Code (markup): is just made of /FAIL/ - likely why the text in that area doesn't line up with the images as the code for those is flat out rubbish. Your ID's don't seem to correspond to the content inside them, and with things like 'column' (on a section that in itself doesn't seem to be a column) are real head-scratchers. The use of classes like "inline left" is just outright defeating the whole POINT of CSS in the first place... Basically thanks to things like that another 2k or so could likely be shaved off the html. Basically, you've got a few too many div, a few too many classes, and a bit too much presentational markup left. That said, I've seen a LOT worse.
Oh! Thank you very much for these very importance comments. nullvariable: I have already change the old Halloween theme to wedding theme. By the way, I use the back theme due to I want to support "Energy save, to save the world" but I'm really poor to communicate well on this. deathshadow: Your list is encouraging me to learn more on CSS. I have just start this CSS for 3 months and read a lot of stuff in DP CSS forum. I have changed some on my CSS file but I know there are many area need improvement. I will do more homework on web design. I think I have to allocate more time on website instead of design my wedding dresses. It's fun here. Rgds.,
if you still believe that Black screen save energy for most people viewing your site, read this article: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/ten_things_you.php the impact of using a black theme is so negligible that unless it was used on 100% of the internet... I wouldn't make any design decisions based on that.
Very interesting on LCD monitor data from that link, I'm not sure on this experiment. By the way, thanks you very much on the info for a dress maker like me. I have to reconsider again.
The current traffic is 2 times higher industral standard, the view/page is 9 but that is for local visitor using google webmaster tool. I think it's so far so good for a newbie ( 3 monthes ) on web design like me. I still keep the back theme running due to I believe in color of the birth date too. I was born on Saturday so I have to use black and pink for success. I also believe in high risk high return concept, so I always do things difference if it's not impact someone.
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could you a more light theme, as pointed out black is not the perfect color for wedding theme. add something on left side bar as it is empty at the bottom of the page ... Rest everything looks preety ok ....
zengxj1986 we don't have link exchange for this year and I also really new on the website design so I have no idea on the impact. s_Tirmizi & ebooktops: thank you very much on your suggestions, we are busy on new theme design and your input are very much appreciate.
For some reason i find i tiring to read... Maybe decrease font size a little bit or decrease the spacing between lines ?