Website Review and Suggestions

**karinca** · 11-19-2006, 05:51 AM

i want to show a site what do you thinking about it?
www.shoescenter.com.tr

**True Life** · 11-19-2006, 08:50 AM

Well, let me say that you got flash pretty good going on and the splash page and the loading page that follows look clean before I point out some things I disliked.

1. the background music is a little too hard for a shoecenter, you know what I mean?
2. everything is so slow, for a first time visitor it maybe interesting to watch it, but someone who is coming back doesn't want to wait for everything getting at their places everytime
3. there's not really a color scheme, okay it's not a must to stick to only a hand full of colors, but I think the colors on the page are too different
4. there's no real main spot, me as a viewer couldn't focus on anything... hard to explain but so to speak nothing was more important to the eyes than the rest, means the viewer is actually looking at the page, but he isn't reading because he doesn't know where to start

**blackhawkpowers** · 11-19-2006, 11:07 AM

for me the navigation was difficult to follow but all around a good site.

just a word of caution though... Goggle and other search engines aren't going to know what to do with your flash so some basic html is a must if you hope it to rank good on the search engines.

**stoot98** · 11-19-2006, 03:32 PM

I personally like it. I thought the navigation wasnt particularly difficult to use and the colours seemed ok to me.

I agree with the music - maybe something a little lighter. Personally i dislike music on a website altogether but there you go.

Also the entire site doesnt fit on my screen, and no scrollbars appear so i had to drag it down a little. Granted not very much but still a bit annoying.

Hope this helps

-Stoot

**jason_bristol** · 11-19-2006, 07:17 PM

The site does not work for me. I'm using Safari

**YvesTB** · 11-20-2006, 03:38 AM

Its a good site nice style etc, i agree on the music and navigation fronts tho i have to say the music is a bit heavy. maybe have a separate floating menu bar or something

**afcbob** · 11-20-2006, 10:13 AM

Looks good but the music is a bit much have a mute button or something i would say.

**mgarde** · 11-20-2006, 01:07 PM

cool, very cool. well done on the flash. I would warn people on the splash page (they may be at work) about the sound or on the splash page give them the option to turn it off.

and Jason said he couldn't use it in Safari, obviously that would be something to fix, but Jason, you should know better, get FireFox. Safari is just that, an adventure in the jungle, you'll see web pages that are wild and untamed, just not as dangerous as Internet Explorer, everything has at least been explored in Safari.

**tjtravis** · 11-20-2006, 09:39 PM

prety good the flash is a little slow though

**LadynRed** · 11-21-2006, 01:05 PM

Cool design, and at least you didn't use the <embed> for your flash.

I don't care for the music either. I really hate it when I land on a site and the owner insists on shoving their music at me. I play my own music while I surf ! In addition, with no OBVIOUS way to turn the music OFF, it gets old really fast. I did find the off switch, but only because I'm familiar enough with flash to recognize it. MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS !

An all flash site is not going to get you any search engine points - -nothing to spider. In addition, it's totally inaccessible - you think people with disabilities don't buy shoes ??

That flash file must be huge -- it cranked my FF 2.0 up to 99% of my memory usage !!!

**ghiavolu** · 11-21-2006, 01:55 PM

Nice site but - doesn`t work in Firefox. I don`t see the point of using those Javascripts. Yeah , for a coder it`s interesting, but has no real use, just makes it difficult for customers.
Second - navigation is difficult!
The slideshow on the left distracts me ... and too many colors and graphics thrown there.
You should make the navigation bigger.
It won`t be on google, that`s for sure.

**33ecards** · 11-21-2006, 02:29 PM

Impressive! The flash is pretty good and I like the photographs. A couple of things:

1. The background music is a bit too aggressive
2. Maybe it's my connection, but it loaded slowly
3. The navigation can be improved.

**Alexey** · 11-23-2006, 08:22 AM

It was all good untill the music started, i hate websites with music..

**Mooofasa** · 11-23-2006, 01:42 PM

It doesn't work for me neither, I am using FF2. I clicked on the 'enter' the window maximised then restored then nothing appeared. I've tried twice now.

**nickthrolson** · 11-23-2006, 01:46 PM

i would not change anything on the site all i would do is promote good job

**t'ni** · 11-24-2006, 04:48 PM

If I could time travel back 30 years, I'd been your intended audience and I think it was good for them with the exception of:

- a way to turn the music down in case I'm listening to my own
- a little slow to get started for return visitors

As it was, I can't time travel back and I'd say that you're unlikely to get anyone over 25 stick around very long. But hey, I don't buy fashionable shoes anymore, so don't cater to me.

**egoldincome** · 11-27-2006, 12:12 AM

I think its good
But to slow for loading

**karinca** · 12-14-2006, 02:37 AM

firstly thanks everyone for your replies; im glad to hear your replies

generally you say "music is bad" yes you are true; we say our costumer but they wants this music . we dont do anything i m sorry, i dont want to talk about music. it disturbed me. (im sorry) secondly; you say page loads too late. yes will be true. because it is hosted in turkey. i dont know where you live. but it loads very easy for me !
thanks for replies!

**tikiki8** · 12-14-2006, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karinca

i want to show a site what do you thinking about it?
www.shoescenter.com.tr

Well I would like to review the Turkish page. First it is better to add mouseover function on the toolbar.

Thumbnails are too small to review. And some of the words are still in english and can confuse the user