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Old 06-08-2008, 12:32 AM Feedback Please
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Hi all,

I'm currently working on a site for a personal trainer I know and I have just finished the first page.

Just wanting a bit of feedback as to whether you like it or not, what I should do different or add in the design and code.

I don't mind you being harsh as long as its constructive please.

Thanks guys the link is www.griffinwebdesign.co.uk/feelgood
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Old 06-08-2008, 12:58 AM Re: Feedback Please
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First Impressions

Interesting logo. The colors don't really fit with the blue, but since the main guy is blue, it works, sort of. Where the **** is Brisbane?

Design

The accessibility tab is cool. I've actually never seen one of those before. Is that part of the site, or part of your design demo thing? The typography is okay, but I'm not a big fan of impact. Perhaps try urbanfonts.com or betterfonts or 1001 fonts to find something less...generic? However, that it's the same as the logo is good designing practice. You want everything to feel consistent and separated at the same time.

The black on white is slightly killer, but it's midnight, so it could just be me. Are you using #fff for your font color? If so, I would suggest picking an off-white color. It's less blatant. Try http://chir.ag/phernalia/name-that-color/ for colors.

The picture to the right is fine. Good job. One last thing, I'm not sure if the header quite fits with the concept. Maybe you could show people running around a circuit? Can they silhouette that?

Content

Random question, but are you European? I noticed derivative spellings of words and was trying to figure out if it's culture or typo. Although, technically, they aren't wrong. Depending on what area you're marketing to, you want to use that grammar association, though. Edit - Australian.
Okay so the spellings make sense. In that case, aside from random capitalization (pick between "Personal Training" or "personal training"...you can't have both, sorry. And at times it's like, "Personal training" or "personal Training") it's good to go.

I think the product is well sold, considering I only have one page to go off of. What is "GP"? Also, perhaps make your special terms and conditions more separated. Such as "classes must be paid for a week in advance." Something like:

Personal Training Sessions - $50 per hour*
* sessions must be paid for a week in advance.

SEO

The words "personal training" are used a good deal, which is actually a good thing, because those are keywords. Because they're consistent, the search engine indexes them better. I would say switch the title order to "Personal Training - Feelgood Factor." Maybe put some meta-keywords in your <head> tag?

Would I Sign Up?

Probably, yeah. I'm not a gym kind of person, and I could use some training, probably. I like the reaching your goals bit, it's a good selling point.

Overall Impression

Very nice job. The design is nice, and the font isn't really a big issue, it's just an accent that I think would work better. I'd like to see what the site looks like fully put together, mostly.
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Old 06-08-2008, 01:22 AM Re: Feedback Please
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I really REALLY love your hover affect on the links. That is the best hover affect I've seen yet. Very good job! I like the whole page. I've never seen the Accessibility thing you have going on either, but I like it. I was just thinking though, who would have to use the "ALT +1" - I mean who wouldn't have the mouse or a track pad. And is the Accessibility readable on a page reader? Maybe I will try my page reader on this page... it would be interesting to know that answer. I'll post my findings. I love the colors and the white text on black is a bit hard but I think you picked out a good font - clean lines.

Let me try the page reader and I'll be back.

Good going on this site!!

edit - Page reader does read everything in the accessibility button - now I understand why you have it on there.

One thing I forgot to mention is that you have a star in the address line - if I was you I'd go to: http://www.favicon.cc/ and create a favicon with your logo. That would be icing on the cake. And your page validates for HTML and CSS.. again.. bravo.
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Old 06-08-2008, 01:25 AM Re: Feedback Please
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Looks nice. The accessibility button doesn't work right in IE7. I am not sure I like how the menu items fade when you mouse over one of them.
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Old 06-08-2008, 07:02 AM Re: Feedback Please
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Sneakyheathen: Thanks a lot for such a details review bud, Logo ok I'll take a look at the colours, Font- its actually futura which I quite like but point taken with the colour. I'm from England by the way and Brisbane is in Australia. I'll be putting in meta tags just not got to SEO on the site yet.

Sandyk3: Thanks, people who use access keys are usually people with motor problems or find using mouses difficult. I got the accessibility tab idea from http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/sl...otools_05.html
I will be doing a fav icon btw just haven't got to that stage yet.

Imrtt- Thats weird I tested with IE and it worked for me. Yeah I have that nav on my site also I've found people either love it or hate it.

Thanks so the feedback so far guys.
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Old 06-08-2008, 10:05 AM Re: Feedback Please
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Thank you for posting that blog. I'll be visiting it quite often!!
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Old 06-08-2008, 10:21 AM Re: Feedback Please
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No worries sandy, glad to help.
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Old 06-09-2008, 12:28 PM Re: Feedback Please
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hello did you use ajax for the accessibility tab
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Old 06-09-2008, 01:06 PM Re: Feedback Please
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Old 06-09-2008, 02:19 PM Re: Feedback Please
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nice site but there's no a:focus so if you use the tab key it's pretty difficult to see which link your on.

don't forget your alts for he heading images too!
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Old 06-09-2008, 10:22 PM Re: Feedback Please
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ok dave, cool
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