I've currently just set up a new website using joomla and would appreciate any cunstructive critisicm DP memebrs can offer. Here is the sites URL: http://www.get-twitterfollowers.com/ Thanks, -Paul
Main nav needs making more noticeable. The image of the woman is to strong/dark, against the other tones on the page.
- I'd put the top menu underneath the header. (should be user 3) - remove the email/print/pdf icons for articles (article settings) - change footer message,remove the "powered by joomla nonsense" (should be template.php) - the image of the woman with the people has nothing to do with the theme of your website. i'd replace with something twitterish. - the green on the left menu looks a bit lost. I'm no saying green isn't good, but maybe you need a green tahts stands out more.
Did you design the site yourself or did you get a web design pro to do it? I would put a design or images that reflects twitter so that when people hit the site they know immediately that it's a site related to twitter.
I would suggest a few things: twitter image the youtube video (from when you click on the graphic) needs to be on your page optin box for autoresonder so you can give some info of value - maybe even 'click here to download free trial' These are good to start with Best wishes Christine
I would put the youtube video on the frontpage since visitors usually like videos ;p Otherwise it's very nice good work
I would replace that generic photo of the woman and use a large picture of your product. Why would you have your product so small on the page? As soon as you get on the site, eyes lead to the woman, not your product, no bueno. I would also move the info from the "get twitter followers" onto the main page. People shouldn't have to navigate through the site to find this info. You are looking for a quick sale.
Nice design but i think the content and menu should be 'standing out' more. It just looks really grey to me.
My suggestions 1. May be you should replace top image with twitter icon or something which shows relation with twitter. 2. Side menu should be more prominent. 3. Change the font color of top nav. bar.
Well... first off you don't really have a site logo - that makes it look like something is 'missing'. Likewise there's not enough spacing between the menu items up top given that the middle one is three words, dividers at the very least would help make that clearer. The 'line' around the upper area is so faint I would probably suggest axing it as a 'why bother' element. From an accessibility standpoint you've got some issues too - biggest of which being the absurdly undersized fixed metric fonts making Large font/120dpi users like myself dive for the zoom, which being you have a fixed width layout means that when I do zoom in the 40-50% or so I need to read any of it the page no longer fits what I usually have the browser set to. The other accessibility failing comes from the colors. The majority of the flow text is fine, but the green on the sidebar items may as well be invisible on the grey being both are almost the same luminance - and the light blue is similarly afflicted (though not as bad). The contrast on those colors reallly needs to be increased. You've got no accesskeys defined - which I realize few people take the time to implement them, but it would be nice to see. Pulling up a heading menu we see that you've got nonsensical heading orders, with no H1 and three H3 before you even get to your first H2. Running it past the validator to see if there are any deal-breaking errors, you have several javascript methods camelBacked that shouldn't be, and you use the same ID more than once (if you need it more than once, use a class). Still, that's a lot less errors than I'm used to seeing, and shouldn't be too hard to clean up. Taking a peek under the hood this is a new page? If so, what are you doing with a Tranny doctype. Transitional is for supporting old crap code, not for writing new websites. You've got no media types on your stylesheet embeds, that IE conditional malarkey when there's nothing on the page that should warrant it, (even more confusing is that it's LTE IE6 but the file is called IE7). The commenting style is likely to trip rendering bugs in IE6 (possibly why you needed the conditionals) and you'e got a LOT of elements for nothing given what a simple layout you have. The worst part is the use of tables for no good reason - here's a tip: If you are only going to have one TD, there is ZERO reason to be using a table. If all you are doing is a two or three columns, there is zero reason to be using a table. If you have a plain layout with two columns followed by three columns even if violating current design thought and using tables for layout there is no reason to have more than two tables - you have SEVEN. Even biggger is there is ZERO reason to be dicking around with clearing DIV anymore given the number of wrapping containers you used, and writing a page properly there is zero reason to be using the outdated/outmoded ALIGN attribute, especially on elements that have perfectly good classes on them... Also, if all your TD inside a table are getting the SAME class and the table itself has a class on it, those TD are nothing but a waste of code. Which is how you ended up with 12k of code for 2.4k of content - likely TWICE what should be needed for such a simple layout. (even so, that puts you head and shoulders over most sites people ask for reviews for with their 40k of markup for the same thing) The biggest problem is the sheer size of the site given how little information there is. 113k of javascript and 42k of CSS for THAT?!? Half that CSS can be blamed on that stupid 'addthis' widget, but that 24k template.css appears to be double what's needed for something so simple - and begs the question "at 24k what do you need presentational attributes and tables for in the markup?" Some image optimizations wouldn't hurt either. You've got some .png which would be better off as .jpg, the method by which much of the page is sliced does not lend itself well to image optimizations... you've got 71k of images in 19 files, for a page where I doubt it really needs more than 40k in seven or eight files. But really, the 113k of javascript is where the biggest problem lies - most of it being the use of 'yet another' fat bloated rubbish framework - mootools. Tacking on 113k of javascript when all you are doing is delivering 2k of actual content doesn't make a lot of sense, especially since there's nothing on that page which should warrant it's use. So to sum up, the big problems are font sizes, certain colors not meeting contrast minimums, and the site being 240k in 28 files... I've seen worse. Oh, and I almost forgot - it appears the POINT of the website is to sell copies of Tweetwhistle - but you have keyword stuffed the crap out of 'get twitter followers' to the point where you could get slapped down for it, while not even mentioning the product name until halfway through the copy - that's bad. That little image up top with the seemingly unrelated text next to it doesn't even make a decent call to action.
decent. Consider uploading a new favicon. Also I hope this isn't the sales page because it isn't very convincing