Website Review and Suggestions

**ihsaan** · 07-07-2009, 06:55 PM

Im open to full critisism. layout, colors etc.. please review

www.peblinds.co.za

**twhdir** · 07-07-2009, 09:08 PM

I think verdana font face through out the website look better.

**macgizmoguy** · 07-07-2009, 11:17 PM

Aesthetically it's very very appealing. Under the hood you have no DESCRIPTION meta-tag which is critical. Add one and use 2 sentences to speak what your site is about: "Explore our selection of window blinds... Aluminum, wooden, bamboo, fabric and .... Vertical, mini and roller..."

Echo important keywords that are already on the body of the page.

Also you could have a bit better TITLE Tag: Perhaps something like:
PE Blind Manufacturers : Custom Window Treatments

Those 3 extra Title words would help both visitors - and search engines zone in. Especially the word 'window' is critical cuz 'blind' has multiple meanings.

Bottom line: Your Title and Description tags together are the strongest 2 things to get your site SEEN.

**ihsaan** · 07-08-2009, 01:29 AM

thnks so far guys.. anything else?

**Joshy D** · 07-08-2009, 04:41 AM

on the left you have to blocks, the quick quotes and the main menu. Firstly, I personally would put the menu above the quotes thing.
But secondly, I just want to point out that the drop shadow looks great on the menu title but on the quick quotes title, its messed up. It has a different type of drop shadow, its darker and it just stops before it reaches the edge.

**peterumingan2** · 07-09-2009, 01:53 AM

you have a good taste... your color combinations is very good... but still you can improve it more...

**peterumingan2** · 07-09-2009, 01:57 AM

You have a good taste... your color combinations is very good... but still you can always change it for more improving...

**peterumingan2** · 07-09-2009, 02:12 AM

You have a good taste... your color combinations is very good... but still you can always change it for more improving...

**emofree** · 07-09-2009, 02:54 AM

the layout of the site is very good you needed to put a small icon on the left of the nav on the top which has a home contact and about so that we can actually distinguish it as a nav. Well I guess that's all for now.

**eshieh** · 07-09-2009, 07:28 PM

i love the clean, minimalist look, but I'm not digging the position your logo on the top left as it seems a little too close to the top edge. Maybe you could move it down a couple of pixels? Also the circular banner right below the left nav bar has "20% discount" with shadow, which is a little jarring to the eye. But otherwise, I love it! It clearly emphasizes what the site's selling.

**edg227** · 07-10-2009, 02:16 AM

i think this site looks very professional and clean.

**Telephones** · 07-10-2009, 08:58 AM

i liked the design, looking neat and clean. havent seen from seo view but the design is awesome.

**treyk4** · 07-10-2009, 02:26 PM

It's a very nice website. One problem I'm seeing, though, is that on the main menu, you can only see the link text on the Contact link when you physically hover over the text "Contact" (In both FF3.5 & IE8), and you get the same effect for the Home link (in FF3.5, but not IE8. Strange...)

Also, the text for the different types of blinds ("Venetian Blinds", "Vertical blinds", etc) needs to be anti-aliased.

Also, the box you get when you mouseover the different types of blinds is... interesting. I'm not totally for it, but I'm not totally against it, either. Remember, usability is key.

HTH,
~Trey

**JonathanAlan** · 07-10-2009, 09:32 PM

Very professional and organized well!

**navweb** · 07-11-2009, 03:07 AM

Nice, i like it although i think i would add a few more of the links to the top of the page (eg products etc).

Apart from that good performance, nice

**efingo** · 07-11-2009, 11:12 AM

In my opinion the website looks unfinished.
The logo is way to small - looks like you don't put some valor in it at all.
I can't connect that blue color with the rest of the website. The images show nice and relaxing areas with blinds and those blue buttons break that warm feeling.
You offer discount - cool but I can't read that badge. Again the badge has a shadow at the bottom like it's floating right? Well then why did you added a drop-shadow too? It is supposed to "flow" or stay on a plane surface? Again white text on yellow background - not good, where's the contrast?

As a possible client you don't convince me at all to buy blinds from you. Try and put yourself into the client shoes.
What do you think about these thoughts?

**TWD** · 07-11-2009, 12:15 PM

Overall a pretty good effort.

Technically:
1)If you are going to use inline Javascript it should go BEFORE the CSS link tags in your code. Speeds up the load time.
2)UNLESS you put the JS into an external file - which you should really do in this case.
3) I assume you are going to add Google Analytics when you are finished?

Visually:
1)I don't like the blue either. Would be great for a medical site. But you are not selling medicine. Use a color code wheel to find the best combinations.
2)The block for the Quick Quote and Main Navigation look too similar.
The have completely different functions so you should define them differently.
3) Logo too small and it needs a tag line or slogan to emphasize why I should choose this company and not the competition.
4) The discount badge or some other Call to Action button should be brighter and somewhere up the top of the page - not skulking down in the bottom left corner.
5) Check for typos. I found at least one.
6) When I click the width/height fields they should automatically clear the default inputs. Why are you making me do the work of backspacing? Use Javascript for this.
7) Dont use red text for links.
8) Use a favicon in the URL

Thats seems like a long list but with a little bit more work you could have a very good design. Good luck