Website Review and Suggestions

**user160** · 06-24-2007, 02:49 PM

Please tell me what you think of this web designer focused site:

http://www.webdesignersbystate.com

It lets web design companies get a free listing to promote their business. If you think the layout would be better in a different way please let me know.

thanks

**carterdea** · 06-25-2007, 03:43 PM

It's not very good looking, and you have way too many required things I must fill out (ex phone, address) to get a listing. I just want to do it quick without revealing all of my information if I don't want to.

**jv16** · 06-25-2007, 05:12 PM

I agree with Carterdea, the site isn't looking very good. I'd hit the Back button as fast as I could if I would ever land to a page like this.

Firstly, the header image looks rather cheap. Not the worse that I have seen by far, but still... Secondly, the color scheme of the site seems a bit like an LSD trip, there are just way too much colors.

And thirdly, the links of all the states seems like over-SEO to me. It looks bad, it's difficult to use and I really doubt it gives you any SEO effect since it must trigger all keyword stuffing detectors there are.

**benmanf** · 06-26-2007, 04:43 AM

The header image indeed looks not very professional, And the brown/yellow link highlighting doesn't look very good.

All those ads and the " X Web Design Company " links are very annoying

,
I would prefer making a selection box with all the states listed there, After that will be another selection box for all the cities in that state(you can use a small JS script i think), And maybe add a text box for searching.

As for the quote page, Specify which fields are required and which are optional

(you can put a red asterisk beside the required fields).

Another useful tip(for you and for everyone

), Check your code if its a valid HTML:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...ersbystate.com
As it shows there, You got some problems in your code, Its not that important to fix it, As soon as all works OK, But i usually correct all the problems so that my code is absolutely valid and interoperable.

**vinesh** · 06-29-2007, 05:45 AM

the 1st comment is quite true...the look is not appealing...thus makes ur site one of the thousand others...so i guess you need to work...the menu bar should be attractive....and should do sumthing with listings...need to put them al in some attractive frame....

**Line** · 06-29-2007, 05:52 AM

Heya!

Looks like a plain old directory.. nothing much to it. I should say it's well organized and seems to have a lot of data. I like that it goes down so far into the city as well past the state.

Hope it does well for you.

-Line

**EGS** · 07-01-2007, 01:50 AM

At a first glance, I think the site is very bright.

As my eyes adjust to it, the site is laid out very night. I especially like the navigational section for each state. I would consider adding a picture above that list of states of the United States with clickable states.

That would add interaction to your site along with creativity and graphics, which everybody loves.