Website Review and Suggestions

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-10-2009, 06:52 AM

I am looking for coding tips and any technology which would be good for my companies website. I mostly code in html and div a bit of asp but looking for any kind of coding help. I would be grateful....

The site: http://www.rutlandcycling.com/

Thanks for your time

**TWD** · 08-10-2009, 07:14 AM

DNS error - cannot find server

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-10-2009, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by TWD

DNS error - cannot find server

Should be working....is for me

**FiZiX** · 08-10-2009, 08:25 AM

Doesn't look bad at all! Navigation is fairly easy. I didn't go through the whole checkout process but it looks pretty straight-forward.

I'd give it a 8/10

**TWD** · 08-10-2009, 10:45 AM

Not sure what the issue was, but its working fine now.

Looks pretty good.
I like the tab style main navigation but one thing
that confused me is that no matter which tab I visited
the "SALE" tab remained highlighted.
That will confuse a lot of people because, by convention,
the CURRENT tab should be highlighted.

To take it to the next level design wise, I would recommend
using some rollover button effects. When I hover over a button
nothing happens. Again, its a convention that buttons should
change "state" when the user hovers over.

You could use a proper contact us form.
Its currently just a collection of email addresses.
You know a lot of people use ONLY web mail accounts these
days so a percentage of people are not going to bother logging
into their account to send you an email. Having a form
ready to use would help big time.

You are obviously getting quite a bit of user traffic already.
I felt that what your site really lacks is a sense of community.
Why not add a user forum? Great for finding out what customers
are talking about. Not bad for SEO either.

Maybe a YouTube video on the front page somewhere too would
give it a bit more zest?

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-10-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TWD

Not sure what the issue was, but its working fine now.

Looks pretty good.
I like the tab style main navigation but one thing
that confused me is that no matter which tab I visited
the "SALE" tab remained highlighted.
That will confuse a lot of people because, by convention,
the CURRENT tab should be highlighted.

To take it to the next level design wise, I would recommend
using some rollover button effects. When I hover over a button
nothing happens. Again, its a convention that buttons should
change "state" when the user hovers over.

You could use a proper contact us form.
Its currently just a collection of email addresses.
You know a lot of people use ONLY web mail accounts these
days so a percentage of people are not going to bother logging
into their account to send you an email. Having a form
ready to use would help big time.

You are obviously getting quite a bit of user traffic already.
I felt that what your site really lacks is a sense of community.
Why not add a user forum? Great for finding out what customers
are talking about. Not bad for SEO either.

Maybe a YouTube video on the front page somewhere too would
give it a bit more zest?

Thanks for the review very interesting. I agree with the sale tag and contact us point. I am currently developing a facebook page for us (700 plus members) and we are thinking of a forum. Anymore Reviews Guys?

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-11-2009, 10:49 AM

anymore guys?

**WebTraffic** · 08-11-2009, 03:26 PM

The navigation on the left side is WAY too long. I would suggest keeping the category closed until a user clicks on it, then opens it to show the other topics inside. (Can be done with Javascript)

Other than that, I think it looks great.

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-12-2009, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by WebTraffic

The navigation on the left side is WAY too long. I would suggest keeping the category closed until a user clicks on it, then opens it to show the other topics inside. (Can be done with Javascript)

Other than that, I think it looks great.

We would like to do that however doesn't this affect our SEO and google picking up links down the left hand side?

**TWD** · 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Rutlandcycling

We would like to do that however doesn't this affect our SEO and google picking up links down the left hand side?

Not really.
Google and other searchbots will read whatever HTML is on
the page BEFORE JavaScript kicks in.

It all depends HOW the JS is implemented.
The most logical way to go about it would
be to set the CSS property of all the sub-links to "display:none",
then use lets say JQuery to add an event handler for each of
the main menu buttons. The handler would say, "if this button is
clicked, toggle all child element display attributes to "display:visible".

**MG-ROVER-CODES** · 10:00 AM

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-12-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by MG-ROVER-CODES

Sorry where is this? I don't understand where you found this meta tag :-)

**MG-ROVER-CODES** · 08-12-2009, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Rutlandcycling

Sorry where is this? I don't understand where you found this meta tag :-)

In your index page (the main one) near the top. If you right click the page and view source you will see it.

To fix the issue you will need access to the page on your hosting server...

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-12-2009, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MG-ROVER-CODES

In your index page (the main one) near the top. If you right click the page and view source you will see it.

To fix the issue you will need access to the page on your hosting server...

All I can see is this? <meta name="Description" content="Rutland Cycling offer the lowest prices on many bikes and accessories. We have three shops and the largest Demo fleet in Europe." >

looks fine?

**MG-ROVER-CODES** · 08-12-2009, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Rutlandcycling

All I can see is this? <meta name="Description" content="Rutland Cycling offer the lowest prices on many bikes and accessories. We have three shops and the largest Demo fleet in Europe." >

looks fine?

My apologies I meant in the contact page

**Rutlandcycling** · 08-13-2009, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MG-ROVER-CODES

My apologies I meant in the contact page

Thanks will get onto sorting it. Anything else anyone has seen?