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Old 12-19-2006, 09:10 PM Advice on this site?
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This is a site I did awhile back.

It needs a complete redesign...I know the right side is out of frame for widescreen monitors or at 100%...ugh.

http://www.tennesseebraces.com

Most of the "customers" are children and teens, so I have to keep it "fun" but still professional enough to pull in parents.

Any ideas and feedback welcome!

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Old 12-19-2006, 09:54 PM Re: Advice on this site?
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Nice layout, the whole site functions as it should.

I'm not sure how many teens you will get on a website with a topic like that but i would recommend trying to lighten the site up (color wise) or adding some gradients.

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Old 12-20-2006, 01:24 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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Thanks. Gradients are a good idea.

Any color ideas? The owner (doctor) wants red, but for some weird reason, that's not a color I associate with a health site?

I think I'll remove all the flash too, except for some very small accents.
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Old 12-20-2006, 02:36 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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Blue tends to be more calming. Red tends to be more aggressive, which may not be the way you want to go.

Green is a happy healthy colour. Why not green?
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Old 12-20-2006, 02:16 PM Re: Advice on this site?
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Like the above, I also agree it's calming. The last thing you want to do is have color or content on the site which reflects aggression, anger, pain etc.

As it's related to health, I'd also say that some form of green would probably be your best bet for grabbing a users attention to this particular kind of site.
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Old 12-21-2006, 02:10 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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it seems u used flash for some graphics...but it hardly looks like flash. u should have put some extra effects ....otherwise it seems u r using GIF.

but the bottom part of ur site is really cool! :-)
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Old 12-23-2006, 03:00 PM Re: Advice on this site?
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I dont really like the flash work, maybe you could clean that up. It just doesn't go with the feel.
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Old 12-24-2006, 09:16 PM Re: Advice on this site?
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It's not terrible. I like the clean navigation. You did a good job organizing into quick easy links.

I would question why you have some of your text on the right in graphic form if they are of simple fonts? Perhaps this was to add the water droplet effect.

Personally, I think it's distracting, though I understand your desire to give the page some more pizazz. Flash can be a great tool for that, but subtle is usually much better than distracting animations.

Also, I noticed you had a text link "ask us about our free consultations..." that is a bit difficult to click. This is probably because you put a getURL on the text, or just added a link to that text. What ends up happening is, you have to click on an exact letter for the hand to pop up.

You can avoid this by creating another layer in flash and put a movie clip with just a solid shape in it, right on top of the text you want to make clickable. Then put an OnClick on this new movie clip, and set it's alpha all the way to 0.

Another tip has to do with your use of lines, separating the content. You can separate content in many different ways, you do not have to explicitly use a line or border to do that.

In fact, the clean "white space" around letters can serve as a perfect border that separates different content around a layout. Look at some magazines for examples of this.

Good luck.
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Old 12-25-2006, 09:49 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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I agree with crikeys -- DEFINITELY get rid of that water droplet effect on the right ... talk about annoying ... and also get rid of the flash at the bottom; it too is also very annoying!

The dark blue background IMO makes the site rather ugly and uninviting -- if you want to see what different colors look like as a background, visit the site I use often as shown here -- click the color link on the left; then select the HTML code on the right.

Your site is missing a DOCTYPE Declaration which is mandatory for most current markup languages, and without one, it's impossible to reliably validate a document. The DOCTYPE defines the version of the document like -- HTML 4.0.1, XHTML 1.0, 1.1, ...etc.

You have 60 code warnings you may wish to fix, so that your site validates for accessibility in all browsers, as shown here ...

Code:
line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> attribute with missing trailing quote mark
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <tr> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 46 column 1 - Warning: inserting implicit <table>
line 46 column 1 - Warning: <div> isn't allowed in <table> elements
line 52 column 1 - Warning: missing </div> before <table>
line 53 column 3 - Warning: missing <tr>
line 53 column 3 - Warning: discarding unexpected <table>
line 54 column 5 - Warning: missing <td>
line 70 column 11 - Warning: missing <tr>
line 90 column 11 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 91 column 11 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 142 column 11 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 143 column 11 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 158 column 29 - Warning: missing <td>
line 166 column 11 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 167 column 11 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 194 column 11 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 195 column 11 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 217 column 11 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 218 column 11 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 242 column 13 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 243 column 13 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 250 column 13 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 251 column 13 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 269 column 10 - Warning: missing <td>
line 279 column 11 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 280 column 11 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 297 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected </div>
line 23 column 1 - Warning: <style> inserting "type" attribute
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "topmargin"
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "leftmargin"
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "rightmargin"
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> attribute "text" has invalid value "#333333>
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "border"
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "cellspacing"
line 44 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "cellpadding"
line 55 column 82 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 57 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 63 column 11 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 66 column 3 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 85 column 9 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 90 column 11 - Warning: <embed> attribute "bgcolor" lacks value
line 137 column 9 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 142 column 11 - Warning: <embed> attribute "bgcolor" lacks value
line 144 column 19 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
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line 166 column 11 - Warning: <embed> attribute "bgcolor" lacks value
line 189 column 9 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 194 column 11 - Warning: <embed> attribute "bgcolor" lacks value
line 212 column 9 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 217 column 11 - Warning: <embed> attribute "bgcolor" lacks value
line 236 column 59 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 255 column 28 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 261 column 35 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 273 column 24 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 286 column 24 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 294 column 72 - Warning: <font> attribute "color" had invalid value "000066"
line 171 column 222 - Warning: trimming empty <font>
line 294 column 72 - Warning: trimming empty <font>
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Old 12-25-2006, 03:51 PM Re: Advice on this site?
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The design seems fine to me. But , if you want your site to be ranked high in Google , it could be a problem. See what submitexpress.comsay about your site.

Meta tags analysis. Title: This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 86 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 80.
Title relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Title relevancy to page content is 0%.
Description: Description relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Description relevancy to page content is 0%.
Keywords: This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 1112 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 500.
This tag contains too many keywords.
This tag contains 104 keywords. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of keywords we recommend for this tag is 25.
Keyword relevancy to page content is terrible. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 0%.
Robots: The Robots meta tag contains no errors.
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Old 12-26-2006, 10:23 PM Re: Advice on this site?
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not bad...i like the flash stuff goin on all over
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Old 12-27-2006, 09:27 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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Hi! the layout is nice but would recommend you to change the search feature there are lot many free php site search scripts available you can use them. So you can customise the search pages also.
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Old 12-28-2006, 05:24 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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i quite like it, i think there is too much going on though, (with the little circles) but the flash under the table is cool, the colour is a bit dark a gradient or pale blue would be cool, and the photos are not great quality, and the dropshadow kinda spoils them.

But the rest is ace!!! Nice easy nav, very informative!
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Old 12-28-2006, 05:56 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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Thanks for all the input...I guess I have a lot of modifications to do!!!!

Jainritesh,

Could you recommend a PHP search script?

Thanks.
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Old 12-28-2006, 08:53 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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Just so you know, it took me about 30-45 seconds for the flash to load. Until that point, it was just a white screen with your title and nav bar on the left.

It is a very clean layout but I had the same delay loading some of the other pages.
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Old 12-29-2006, 03:50 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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good use of flash, nice site
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Old 12-29-2006, 03:55 AM Re: Advice on this site?
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nice clean website, easy to navigate.

looks good
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