Hey Guys, I just wondered if some of you experts could review my website? Smarter Webdesign Feel free to be as critical as you like but please make it constructive.
Very nice like the portfolio good work. Fast loading clean and crisp. Only 1 thing I dislike and thats the sitemap link, to me it looks out of place where it currently is. Good luck with it
Where do you think it would look better? I put it at the top because that seems to be the "trend" of places to put it so put it up there. Other good thing I like is that it is all from a database
Just my personal choice nick I would normally prefer to see a sitemap link at the bottom or at least navbar. To me it just looks out of place all on its lonesome lol You have to go with whats best for you and all in all is a great site
It's very narrow, especially for a 19" monitor. Almost half the screen is blank vertically. This creates unnecessary vertical scrolling. If you are sold on it being narrow though, I would underline the green hyperlinks in the content for two reasons. The first is, the lime green is a little difficult to read on a white background. By underlining it should make them a little more visible. The second reason is so visitors know that they are hyperlinks. Since you are a web designer I will try to explain the narrow issue to you. Ideally, sites should be built to fit most screens. In 2006 studies revealed that more than 90% of pc's were using a setting of 1,024 or greater in width. If you check some of your sites stats you will see this as well I am sure. Your site is set for 735. This might have been a good idea back in 2004 or earlier. I honestly don't remember having a monitor that pathetic. Now here is a better reason to have a website that is wider. One of the reasons a website is considered great is because a visitor can very quickly navigate a site getting the information they need. When a site is narrow a visitor has to stop using their eyes to read content, and start using the scroll bar to read content. 5 seconds big deal, but it starts adding up. I have one site that has over 30,000 pages, and the visitors often look at over a 100 pages a session. If they had to scroll down on everyone page, I guarantee I wouldn't get that many page views. I use every ounce of the screen so all they have to do is click. Look at sites made by professional designers. Yahoo, Google, Digital Point, MSN, eBay. The last two, ebay and MSN don't use the whole screen, but their sites are designed for most screens being used today. They are wide. Hope that helps.
Very nice, everything is really easy to see and navigate with! I would include images with really cool text made on photoshop instead of the simple text there like "What Do we do", it looks to plain. Nice stuff though mate, keep it up !
Thanks for the input I didnt want to use photoshop fancy text as I wanted to keep it as normal text as I thought this helped with SEO with the headings and things like that. Regarding the site being narrow, I know this is narrow but I just wanted to keep it simple and to the point. I could have filled it with text like MSN but it may be too "crowded"