Facelift

[Phil_s]

Got bored so gave our site a facelift - any comments?

www.londongraphics.co.uk

(I haven't yet finished carrying some of the styling from the front page to the catalog pages yet - thought I'd wait for the criticism first!)

Cheers

Phil

[jont]

Hi Phil,

will just comment on the homepage if this is the theme to be transfered through to the rest of the site.

You should move the "London Graphic Centre" above the 50% off graphic and make this a <h1> tag as it is the site title. The new product sections need more info and even links through to key products - I have no idea if Crumpler make pens, drawing boards, lamps or indeed bags - best to give people a clue as not everyone may know the brand names.

I would be inclined to add in "Products" to the top navigation bar linking through to the actalog/index.html page (which could do with some section images BTW).

Usability shows that users expect to see the search box top right on a page so may be worth considering moving up alongside the "help" link. The seach link in the middle of the body text is a little superfluous IMHO.

The "Centagrapgh" box in the LH navigation could do with moving up over the credit card box to keep the 3 similar boxes together.

Rather than using "click here for full details" try using organic text in the link that is keyword specific to the product you are listing through to.

Have you viewed the site under Firefox as well as IE as the dashed borders to the navigation links render differently under each?

I personally like the site - greys and reds work very well for your products and it is very simple to navigate around and my thoughts above are, on the whole, quite minor.

Good luck with the site

[RuralWeb]

Looks very good. My only comments are that you have a lot of very large file file size images on a page eg Crumpler has 51 images with file sizes 20 - 50K this give a page size of @ 2040K which is far to high and will certainly stop people on dialup seeing the page. You should reduce the size and use the extended info facility also look at splitting up the products into subsections of about 10 products each.

The other thing is when I click on other links in the main navigation my screen when mad, it was as if there was some sort of page refresh working?

[whirlex]

one rule I have always stuck by is:

If its a photograph its a JPG

If it is not, or is a drawn iamge (logos etc) it should be a GIF

If a product photo was saved as a GIF and changed to a JPG you could save lots of bandwidth for yourself and your punter.