Website Review and Suggestions

**staydoggy** · 07-15-2009, 01:09 PM

Hi all please check out my website www.staydoggy.com. I have redesigned the whole site and I think it is a major improvement.
Thanks in advance

**treyk4** · 07-15-2009, 04:42 PM

It's quite a nice site. a few things, though.
I'm not crazy about the colors, although you can get away with them. also, you have a few white pixels atound your "more" image.

You may want to make the logo more slick, too. Just make it a bit more appealing to the eye.

Overall, it looks quite nice. and if I remember correctly, it's much better than your old design.

HTH,
-Trey

**Gog** · 07-15-2009, 06:34 PM

Nice design, just don't have everything in bold otherwise nothing will stand out. It should only be used to emphasise something. Change the font from Ariel black to ariel.

**emofree** · 07-15-2009, 09:14 PM

the design is good the only drawback there is the font you needed to learn how to put a good font in your site to make it stand out. try using verdana font in some of your contents instead. don't use bolded fonts it will look messy. Plus the cropping on the left dog the one at the back of chu hua hua needs to be cropped clean.

**websam** · 09:17 PM

Remove paw prints. They look silly. Tidy HTML code. Remove CSS code to external page. It loads page faster. Put testimonials on the main navigation. You need more cute dog photos. You should put caption on those location photos. Most people don't know much about Ireland. You should introduce those location names to your target users.

**Kaigan** · 07-16-2009, 06:08 PM

Your top banner is nice (who can resist cute pictures of dogs?) but I do think it's far too large. I'd remove the top paw print, raise your logo up and also find a better font for it. Also, Use a smaller font for "dog accomodation in Ireland" so they don't compete. Your content could sound a bit more professional, and there are some typos in there that need correction as well. "thier dog."

**TWD** · 03:57 AM

Nice overall.

PLEEEZ dont use Comic Sans font. It looks amateur.

If there was ever a site to use dog paw prints, this is it!
I would keep them. I think they work!
Also, you should use a paw print as a favicon. Why dont you have one?

My mental image of Ireland is green, not yellow and red so I'd like to see
how it looks with a greenish color scheme instead.

Images need to be arranged a bit better and centered.

"Testimonials" link just takes me back to the home page.

Speaking of which, how many people do you think are going to type
these words into Google if they havent already heard of you?

Quote:

Staydoggy.com Homepage

Not many.
But that is your title tag.
You need to get much better SEO mileage than that.

Also, how about putting some "AddThis" buttons on the site
so I can easily tell my friends about it?
http://www.addthis.com/?utm_source=h...mpaign=AT_main

**theohoutman** · 07-19-2009, 05:42 AM

Nice looking site! But please! Change the font of the header. Comic Sans just hurts my poor eyes.

Maybe you can align the photo´s at the bottom more to the center. Increase the space between the photo´s to atleast 15px. Either create a new class for it or use the hspace defenition in your IMG tags.

**theohoutman** · 07-19-2009, 06:23 AM

Well, I have to speak out my frustration. Sorry pall. But you got us well fooled. I just discovered that you simply used a template

http://www.templatemo.com/preview/templatemo_074_dog

Verry lame thing to do!

**girlgeek** · 07-19-2009, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaigan

Your top banner is nice (who can resist cute pictures of dogs?) but I do think it's far too large.

I agree with Kaigan; your top banner is too large and is taking too much space above the fold. Make it a bit smaller. Other than that, it looks great!

**StylaStyla** · 07-19-2009, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theohoutman

Well, I have to speak out my frustration. Sorry pall. But you got us well fooled. I just discovered that you simply used a template

http://www.templatemo.com/preview/templatemo_074_dog

Verry lame thing to do!

When I looked at the header "stay doggy" and comic sans then saw the gradient boxes (dog news and dog club) I thought it was rather inconsistent with quality but didn't think to mention it and now because of you, I see why..

**emofree** · 07-19-2009, 07:22 PM

aah so that explains it nice find there for a detective skills