Website Review and Suggestions

**markstorey** · 07-15-2004, 04:45 PM

Hi All,

We are a web design company based in the UK.

We supply a wide range of services to businesses and would like to get your opinion on our site and more importantly the copy.

Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, we look forward to your replies.

Thanks for your help.

Mark

http://www.eventureinternet.com

**Head Diva** · 07-17-2004, 03:23 AM

Site design is nice, but the home pages has way too much text on it.

I'm not sure if I would take the time to read this if I was a busy business owner looking for a web developer. Rather, I would be looking for key points and "pretty pictures" to draw me in further.

Why do you start the page with a statement about where you are located? If you are targeting only businesses in your area it may make sense. If you are targeting businesses outside of your area, I don't think that it is a good idea. That is prime realestate better used on different wordage.

Overall the copy is to "feature" oriented. It should be more "benefits" oriented. Also it is better to speak in the first person - address me directly. Instead of saying, " Each client has a dedicated advisor and single point of contact throughout their project..." Say, "You will have a dedicated advisor throughout your project...." As a potential client I don't want to know what you do. I want to know what you are going to do for me.

All that said, thumbs up for having lots of content. You just need to work on the homepage copy a bit.

**chrisf** · 07-17-2004, 08:12 AM

Hey Mark,

I like it. As websites go it isn't bad. The only thing I worry about is that as you're a company in a firecly competitive market, is your site polished enough?

You've made good use of CSS but there seems to be one or two contradictions in your code. For example for the site links table in the left column you've used CSS border properties to create a border but also added a "border=1" property to your table tag:

<TABLE class=LeftLinks style="BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: #cccccc; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #cccccc; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #cccccc; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #cccccc" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="2" width="89%" align=center summary=Navigation border="1">

Was that done on purpose? Also, you might consider putting your border properties in your css stylesheet too, just to tidy up the code a little. You also use the TBODY tag - someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that tag being deprecated with XHTML? As a web design company you really ought to be aware of these issues.

I'd second Head Diva's comments about the amount of content there on your homepage although you've done well to keep everything "contained" or blocked off so users can at least pick out content with relative ease.

Some quick thoughts:
- Like the logo - powerful and simple and could do well for your branding efforts

- Like the gradient on the header although not sure about the icons on the far left (perhaps could use some work or drop them)

- Image of the lady on the floor at her Mac; make sure that's the image you want to convey

- Text only version. EXCELLENT move! Showing your professional colors!

Some companies you're up against in the UK
http://www.headscape.co.uk/
http://www.idnet.net.uk/
http://www.e-scapemedia.co.uk/

Don't let it put you off - use it to strengthen your site!

Hope that helps :-)

Chris

**joemc91** · 07-17-2004, 07:38 PM

I really like the layout of the site, it's very clean. The colors also match beautifully. The only think I don't particulary like are the site links on the left. I think it would look better to give the links CSS rollovers and no underlines. Although there is quite a bit of info on the front page, it's laid out logically and cleanly, and doesn't overwhelm the viewer.

**bill** · 07-21-2004, 02:15 AM

Very nice. Simple layout, with good content. Its very easy to navigate which is a very good thing.

**Mooofasa** · 07-21-2004, 09:33 AM

Great graphics and modern website template (design and look). Great menu systems. Could do with a little more dynamic content. But still top noch.
**** (4 star rating out of 5)