Website Review and Suggestions

**klangdon** · 04-22-2004, 05:14 PM

I just started working on this site about a month ago. I am very curious what people have to say:

What do you think about the decision to make the site 100% Flash?

Would you ever send one of these Ecards?

Would you be happy to receive one of them?

Any large problem areas in navigation or site design?

http://www.bloompetals.com

Thanks,
Kevin

**Criper2000** · 04-22-2004, 06:42 PM

i dont have anything really to complain about except the store is a little too white for me. 9/10

**Cosy** · 04-24-2004, 09:36 AM

nice, clean, easy-on-eyes site design you got there......even loads pretty quick on me 56k modem (no comments plz

). It would have been nice to see the "store" pages as the rest of the flash site, but thats understandable. Good work!

**Webmaster-RT** · 04-24-2004, 11:34 AM

Great work. Very smooth and pleasing to the eye.
TT

**CriticalFix** · 04-24-2004, 07:26 PM

Yup...9/10 here also. Very easy to navigate too.

**lilval81** · 04-24-2004, 10:53 PM

only thing - and I'm being picky is that on the "about us" page the orange text for the email is hard to see!! The cards page is messed up for me... overlapping text and images...

**TalkingWorld** · 04-25-2004, 07:13 AM

Very easy to navigate and good matching colors. Very creative work as well especially with the cards...

I do agree with the others regarding the store. It could have been slightly a bit more pro looking with a few graphical additions.

Good Luck ! 9/10

TW

**skip rat** · 04-25-2004, 09:43 AM

very nice. all in flash works fine
maybee "free e-cards" maybe better to distinguis from stationery cards to buy (well it confused me for a moment but thats not hard)
home page could benifit from a bit more content, ie what is bloompettles it takes a moment of navigateing to find out what its all about
id like to see a small photo of who im e-maillin just makes it a bit more personal/ less annonymoss
9/10

**klangdon** · 04-25-2004, 09:54 AM

Thanks for all of the great feedback. Couple of questions:

lilval81, could you send a screenshot of the text overlapping on the card page, not sure what you mean.

skip rat, what do you mean by an image of who you are emailing. You want the ability to upload an image of your friend before you send an email to them?

**inspiration100** · 04-25-2004, 11:03 AM

I love the site (i'm a flash fan).

**web-Inspect** · 04-25-2004, 12:22 PM

The site looks very nice, however now you are going to have a bit of a problem optimizing it for the search engines as your homepage has no content. You'd better get a grib of incoming links if you want any search engine traffic.

**simon71** · 04-26-2004, 10:05 AM

I love it!! I'm not a great lover of all flash sites but this is one of the best I ever seen!!

I love the send card idea (just sent one to the missus, should gain some brownie pionts i hope).

The only comment is put some colour or a background image on your store page then it will be perfect.

99.9%

**tonya** · 04-26-2004, 05:05 PM

love it & love the characters. wow its really fast ! which is great considering its flash. You have obviously worked very hard - well done

10/10

**nixies78@yahoo.** · 04-27-2004, 04:07 PM

Flash is great but search engine hate it, since they can't finger out what their about, That the only real problem I can see with flash. Great drawing

8/10

**skip rat** · 05-14-2004, 08:26 AM

i meant a picture of you on your contact us page, but iv just had another look at your site and now i dissagree with my self cos it may look odd cos most of the images on the site are cartoons, then you stick a photo in,maybeey a caricatur could work, or just forget it cos i dont think it's that important any moor!!
like the new slide game very cool..

**Brufton** · 05-14-2004, 12:07 PM

Colours work together very well!
Links all work, just a shame your shop couldn't be more part of your site really.
Cards seem OK. I wouldn't use them, but that's because I don't use online cards in general, but they seem good to use.

**Bryan** · 05-14-2004, 02:40 PM

I think it’s terrific!!! I love the colors and pictures. Nice clean look that is easy to navigate. Don't know about the e-cards. I've never used them... 9/10

**carmack** · 05-14-2004, 04:24 PM

Someone touched on this topic before but I wanted to bring it up again. Flash definitely looks cool, but it will greatly effect your rankings in the search engines in a negative way.

Although not impossible, sites that are all flash are hard to optimize for search engines because the engines cannot read the content in the flash. This content is the main factor for determining your rankings.

Sites such as Nike.com can get away with using flash because they do not need the traffic from the search engines. They draw people to their Web site in other ways. Maybe you don't either - I'm not familiar with how you plan on doing your marketing.

Another thing to consider is your target audience (probably female home users). The majority of them will be on a dial up connections which makes downloading flash a tedious task. You may be chasing away potential site users.

**tonya** · 05-16-2004, 01:43 PM

Well i Like it & I even sent a card to my brother for his birthday as I bet he thinks its cute too. Love the new slider game although I couldnt do it.

I see the point re broadband but think more & more of your viewers would either wait or actually have broadband by now. I am sending URL to my girlfriends to ask them what they think.

**snootyteddi** · 05-16-2004, 10:20 PM

I liked your site ! and would use the cards! the only bad things I noted was . your front page ... overlapping text and images... it would do that when I click a link it would still load the image with the text. and you have such wonderful front page so colorfull then I click the link and ( BAM!) blinding WHITE! I wish you had a soft soft pastel like blue there. and you need more choices like (fun cards) and it was just a bit weard that each link had just the HUGE one card (that we wait to load. instead of thumnails to chose before loading time. (8.0)