Website Review and Suggestions

**silverglade** · 05-20-2009, 11:59 AM

hi, i completed a new website and would like a review please if you have time.

here is the site. thank you. derek

http://derekvanderven.com/new_york_coffee/index.html

**silverglade** · 05-20-2009, 01:49 PM

here is another site i just redid. please review it if you can thanks. derek

http://derekvanderven.com/beautiful_flowers/home.html

**zibrnp** · 05-20-2009, 01:59 PM

Hi,

I like background of the second page it is really cool (the yellow one) page is ok.
For the first one I would suggest more pictures maybe from the coffee store. I am sorry but I do not like this web.

Good luck!

**dante17** · 05-21-2009, 04:44 AM

I like your background color, but I myself find the lay-out quite simple and monotonous. I know you will spend more time updating the site in the future. Will add description and choose keywords for it? "New York Coffee home", the title. Do you think that we should use title case for "home" also?

**planb1700** · 05-21-2009, 02:36 PM

it looks like one of those free prebuilt web templates.....i dont see why you this website, all that could just be contained in a brochure.. wich is why i think you need more dynamic/interactive content for the visitor, i browsed around your website for 5 minutes and seen everything.. i do like the dark color scheme you got goin on though

**carterdea** · 05-21-2009, 06:20 PM

I love that lightbox on the second one. It's really nice.

The first one has a weird choice of pictures on the left. They look like weird abstract photoshop art. Like maybe you took a picture of Coffee and swirled it. It's cool if thats what you like.

2nd one has some weirdly formatted images, like they are stretched or something.

It's ok, it seems like you could possibly have more content.

**ronaks** · 05-24-2009, 08:15 AM

Good Going.

186 Pages indexed of your sites in google

derekvanderven.com

Decent design

**Brian07002** · 05-24-2009, 09:33 AM

Don't try to be cool, and do more than you chew. Another words, don't try to do more than one site while trying to learn. It will only boggle your mind when you feel like your in trouble. I can guarantee that what ever you think you know, you will soon realize you don't know it at all.

Patience, time...Time and patience.

**MattCoops** · 05-24-2009, 02:27 PM

It doesn't survive my IE crash test: http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Does...Crashes.625299

**dt17** · 05-24-2009, 05:46 PM

I don't really like them to be perfectly honest. The websites are just graphics and on the second one, the flickering image was far too distracting.

They also appear to be quite blurry, especially the navigation/headers on the first one.

The second one is the better of the two, the drop down menu and the lightbox feature are nice

**Nomar86** · 05-25-2009, 09:33 AM

I like the coffee site! Maybe the colors are to dark! And try to make the menu in text, which will improve SE rankings!

**kramboi** · 05-25-2009, 05:34 PM

good job bro

**mightymap** · 05-25-2009, 11:02 PM

very nice page! I like the graphics and menu a lot, excellent, well done!

**Aadriyah** · 05-25-2009, 11:44 PM

menu should be separated on the Navigation...anyways, the site is good! nice job!

**markAtRitetek** · 05-26-2009, 02:40 AM

I'd stay away from the black background, they are hard to pull off successfully. It might work for the coffee site, however I think that site needs some typography upgrades as well as some more functionality for the user. One page would be enough for all of the information you have on there now.

**karmadir** · 05-26-2009, 06:36 AM

I really like the designs of your site, especially the coffee one.

One more suggestion, you have added a button in coffee website below your menu, I don't know what is it use?. I don't find it very useful in your site.

If possible, try to remove it, rest is okay.

**sherryparker** · 05-26-2009, 08:28 AM

Hi there,

I have seen your site and in my point of view it looks good the dark color of your site is also nice but something is missing on your site. Give more text and links on your site.