I was hoping for an overall Honest review of my website. http://www.avervenus.com I was hoping if you could tell me your honest opinion as if you were going there to purchase what you'd like to see improved. What you think is good, not so good etc. Female opinions are very highly wanted.
Very good site, believe me. I like diamonds and jewelry. Its very nice information your have entered. Nice work, keep it up.
I don't like that the sub-menu is so far to the right or the main menu. I also don't like the photo of the girl, it's poor quality and can be cleaned up a bit. Outside of that, the layout is nice.
I thought the same with the girl. Would you all agree if I was to change that part to something better it would add uch more quality to the front page?
I think the design should be light not dark. It is a website for women to buy something, and not anything, jewelry. I think it should be light and have some nice designs to get women interested.
When arriving at your site, it was not obvious what you were selling, a tag line under your header would help solve this . Black background looks good for about 10 secs, that is until you start reading the text which is way to hard to read. Above the fold is prime internet real estate and your Logo holds nearly 50% of it, as it appears twice.
Thank you for the advice. I'm going to have the text changed to something more appropriate. I'll paste an update once done and try getting your opinions? Also elogicway Thank you! You made an excellent point a simple banner could easily fix that. As it should be instant to the user what they are on the website to purchase thank you pointing that out . I think sometimes these forums are fabulous for this because (we) web designers can miss some of the basic things and need it pointing out to us!. I think where the second logo is some text/content would do well? would you agree?
My first feel was that this seems creepy. It took me a minute to figure out what the site was for. Seems to dark to me rather than elegant.
yes some text or a image, encouraging your viewer to venture beyond your home page, and start viewing what you are actually selling. A close up shot of a piece of your stock with a button that says some thing like click here to see our full range. As your home page is really not going to pull in any sales by itself, you want to get them off there and into your site as quick as possible. before they hit that back button. I believe every page on your site including your home page should have ONE major call to action.
Definitely change the image for the girl, its horizontally shrunken and looks unnatural. Also the quality of that image is not that great.
As a girl, I was a bit creeped out. The girl looks horrified and generally unhappy to be looking at that piece of jewelry, and the picture qualities are not good. The black is definitely a no. Change it to white or a pink. I would not purchase from this site because right now it looks unprofessional and I wouldn't feel safe putting any information into this site. Take advantage of articles and more writing to get people to know more about what it is you're selling. Have some articles on each jewelry page describing what's available, etc. This will also help you get more visibility in the search engines, by adding content. Better yet, add a blog. Seriously, though, you need to change the black.