Please can you review my new site http://www.recyclingsupermarket.com As you can probably guess from the domain it is a site about recycling, waste management and the environment. I would be grateful for any comments and recommendations, especially with regards to the theme/layout. PS. the banner under the feature link is just a test banner. I will be adding a directory to the site so this banner will be a link to that. The empty space on the right will eventually have some banners also but am trying to concentrate on content at the moment. Rep will be given to all who provide useful comments. Thanks in advance.
I like the logo design , it's very web 2.0. For the barcode on the right, I think it looks "off" make it a light faded grey or blue instead... For the right menu, it looks a bit bare, I would add in a light background color behind it, making the width match up with your content area of course.
Overall layout is clean and simple, and the pages load fast. The white 'recycle' logo on the barcode looks pixelated, you may want to smoothen it out a bit. More info to fill out the right-hand menu would be nice, the site looks plain as you scroll down the front page.
Did you customise Wordpress yourself? I'm not sure about the very top nav bar though. Maybe the tabs could be rounded to fit with the 'web 2.0' feel about it otherwise content clearly laid out. Also I personally would place a larger RSS button as I think the content of this site lends it a feed reader. In relation to that have a look a feedburner.com for your feeds(better stat management for feeds) Let me know if you ever want to sell it
You have a rectangular box for Category on the Right side, but there is a long empty space below the box My suggestion over this If you can show the categories in a horizontal box under the Banner so that you can increase width of your page contents. and at the same time it will be visible on all pages just try this and see how it looks and how user friendly it is
Thanks for all your comments. I understand the right sidebar is very bare at the moment but am planning on adding a custom made directory to the site and selling banner links in that space. Once it is more developed I will also perhaps add a 'Most Recent Comments' section, etc. Yes I agree with the tabs at the top. Not sure how to change them so will have to look into that. Also agree with the RSS buttom - haven't really looked into the whole RSS thing yet (still at a pretty beginner stage). I am going to add an opt-in email newsletter to the sidebar so will perhaps add a bigger RSS button there. Once again thanks for your comments. Any more would be appreciated.
I agreee with the post that the bar code header needs to be minimized a bit. It's a little too distracting right now.
Yeah not happy with that myself. Thinking of getting someone on the forum to redesign the banner for me. Anybody have any recommendations with regards to the opt-in email newsletter?