Website Review and Suggestions

**invitado** · 09-03-2008, 11:39 AM

Just finished working on our new website and would really appreciate some feedback!

http://www.microfilmstore.com

**aldor** · 09-03-2008, 02:36 PM

Liked the look you have created, very clean and inviting.

I was confused, you say that you have just finished your site but I find on your home page three empty boxes headed "TONER AND FILM", "BEST SELLING MICROFILM PARTS" and "MICROFILM LAMPS". Should there be content in these boxes? If not why are they there?

I compared the look in FF 3 and IE 7, both on Windows XP, and found that in FF the items in the box headed "YOUR TRUSTED SOURCE FOR MICROFILM PARTS" were bulleted however the bullets did not show in IE. Having checked your HTML in the W3C validator I found 211 errors, no doubt fixing these would help to give a more consistent rendering.

Why is the bullet for "CHEMICALS" grey and the others orange.

A site that needs to attract as many visitors as possible should be accessible to all, I tried to increase the text size and couldn't when using IE. Using relative font size instead of absolute sizes would allow this.

I hope the above doesn't seem too picky but feel that a few minor tweaks would make a good site an excellent one.

**jv17** · 09-03-2008, 08:50 PM

well your site is not that good but it's still ok..

**Mr. B** · 09-03-2008, 09:16 PM

You'll see from my site thread in this forum that i'm not really qualified to talk about color, but I think you should try some background colors that aren't white.

**PureDezigner** · 09-03-2008, 10:49 PM

I like the clean simplistic look, very professional looking and easy to use. You might want to add more content to your site and consider running this through validation.

**invitado** · 09-04-2008, 09:26 AM

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the feedback!

**Jdinh04** · 09-04-2008, 11:55 AM

Not a bad start, I would try implementing another color into the design. Are you using a eCommerce application? or how are you running this shopping cart?

**yarrgh** · 09-04-2008, 04:25 PM

I like the expanding lists on the left to get right to the product category you want to.

There are a bunch of places where it looks like there ought to be content but they are empty, and there are other places where everything is crammed together and feels as if it doesn't have enough space. You should utilize the space you have more effectively--especially paying attention to white space. If there is empty space around the content and it is done in the right way it can make the webpage seem less crampt-less spammy. It will be more welcoming and it can draw attention to different places better. But the empty space you have now is in little sections by themselves that look empty compared to everything else.

I am using Firefox 3 in Ubuntu Linux and here are a few things I see that don't look right: "Call Toll Free" in the top right wraps onto the next line so it says:

Call Toll
Free: 1-800-830-9934

I think this is caused by hard-coding the space between the call toll free sentence and the links on the left. Try using a right-align instead.

Shipping methods and payment methods appear on the very bottom and they are not aligned with anything. Especially all the empty space to the right of them looks kind of awkward. I would suggest putting them in line with the main body content and giving them a border that matches up. This may be something that only looks odd in linux--you'll have to test to make sure.

This seems like a functional website more than a "pretty" website. I assume that as long as customers dont' get lost and can buy products that the website is a success. So good job on this. With that in mind--try to keep the website working fast. Don't use huge images that a customer who just wants to get to the data will be slowed down by. Just general advice.

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