I've just finished a site for a wedding planner and thought I'd ask peoples opinions of the site for once. The only thing i've still to do are the meta tags and get all the w3c validation done. The URL is www.perfectoccasionsni.co.uk
It looks good. I would only have a few suggestions: On this page: http://www.perfectoccasionsni.co.uk/Special_Occasions.php I would soften the squares a but - maybe flower petals as a background - the squares make the page a bit blocky On this page: http://www.perfectoccasionsni.co.uk/Packages.php I would increase the spacing inside the table so the text isn't coming so close to the border. The "organise us" is particularly hard to read Hope those comments are constructive Cheers
I like the look of this Perfect Occasions, its clean, simple and easy to navigate thanks to the Petal!
Copy that. The blocks don't really go well with the rounded feel of the site. The page doesn't render well on 800x600. Special Occasions is weak in text content, might make it hard to get spidered. The fonts (sizes - kerning etc.) of the blocks aren't very consistent. I'd change that. I'd cut up the phone number to make it more readable. Is that e-mail spam proof? Have you tried printing the Planning Packages? Not sure how the fonts will come out. I'd imagine it being quite likely that soon-to-be-weds might print it off and read it over. On that page, I would have justified the text. Seems nicer IMO. I'd make the font size larger above the <ul>'s. Like Get Me Started a h4 or something. I'd like to see some more happy people there. Titles need work... Oh and ehh.. I can't find any links to my sites... Did you forget them? Did I mention I like it? I'll post my first OsCommerce shop up for review soon and it uses similar colours. They fit this theme just fine I think. The menu is cool as well. Nice Job WF! Now get the sucker to rank!
Also... The black text just doesn't seme quite right to me (but I suck at design so you have reason enough to ignore me completely) perhaps you could try a dark purple almost bordeaux/bourgundy red. The white could then be #fffff0 ivory and I think it's perfect.
Despite centriums obvious biases I will reluctantly agree with him that it is clean which is important for a non tech site. It does need more content (The FAQ is a bit lite for such a complex profession...people always have a million questions for wedding planning companies - but that is up to the owner) - More pictures if the owner has been doing this for a while. I would expect to see the beautiful flowers they matched with the church of a previous client, etc. It goes along with Tops comment, they should really get an idea of your "style" through your content. Going back to the original comment, keep the navigation how it is. Nice big obvious clean buttons where you don't have to search on how to get from point A->B. An asset for this kind of site.
Bright site! Another comment I have is to include a little cellpadding in some of your tables. This page, for example: http://www.perfectoccasionsni.co.uk/Packages.php The info gets crammed up against the sides of the cells -- makes it a titch hard to read. Also, on your front page... I'd try to make your PERFECT OCCASIONS, SPECIALISTS BASED IN NORTHERN IRELAND line stand out a little more -- it took me a while to find... and I think that line is not only good for SEO but it tells people in one short sentance who you are and what you do. Although I might add "WEDDING PLANNING SPECIALISTS" or something like that.
Weirfire... You realize what you've done now don't you? DP will now automatically outrank that site for all related words
Personally, I'd make it a fixed width layout (I hade fluid designs at full screen - hard to read, especially without a left nav there)... Make it work at 800x600 Check it in FF And like 2ndPlatform says, make this link "PERFECT OCCASIONS, SPECIALISTS BASED IN NORTHERN IRELAND" Either that, or get rid of the underline on it...
It might for the first few weeks but I've got more work still to do for the marketing side of things. If DP picks up good placements for the keywords visitors may still click through to the site as well. It's better than a competitor taking all the places don't you think? Thanks for all the guidance on the site everyone.
I should have waited a couple of months... I like my 19" LCD but it only goes to 1280x1024 In a while I'll get a 21" LCD, then things will be a bit more interesting... I like the look of the iiyama stuff...
Iiayama rocks. But I only have a 17" CTR albeit flatscreen. I scratched it once then got a customer enquiry at work from a Iiyama Engineer (sig). I couldn't help him but thought 'Why not?' and asked him my question but couldn't fix it. But let's not take this off topic. PS Oliver, let me know when you upgrade, I might be willing to take the 19 off you...
I'll let you know... Thanks for the info... I may get the 20/21 sooner than I thought </off topic> Nice site