Site review

[elfinp]

Oh and as far as colour change goes - if I were doing it I'd be using PSP and would simply be taking the old graphic and adjusting the colour using the hue/saturation/lightness function. Nice and quick and it would retain the setting on HSL that I used on one graphic so I could change the colour on other graphics with the same original colour without having to fiddle with the settings again.

[Jan]

> big boring
Sorry about that it should have said a bit boring.

I like the blue scheme best, sorry (I am in your target group BYW - just). In Actinic you can change the colours very easily in design colours, you can then do a site preview to see the results.

Regards,

[pinbrook]

The 1st design is the best one, I like the orange. I'm with elfinp on this, orange, I think the orange reflects the right tone, the blue in my opinion doesn't work. Blue is quitea teccie/corporate colour hence alot of computer sites use blues

but I would loose the light blue nav buttons, maybe replace them with black text links?

BTW I've looked at visitors stats for a cross section of sites on our servers (all successfull siteswith good SE listings and daily sales) they average from 48% to 68% of visits being less than 30 seconds.

Typical conversion rates (I think) are 2 to 4%

[jxm28788]

my conversion rate is about 1% at the moment, which is pants.

Can anyone suggest a tool for creating buttons - pref. free and easy to use...?

[jxm28788]

The 1st design is the best one, I like the orange. I'm with elfinp on this, orange, I think the orange reflects the right tone

ok the new and hopefully improved (and orange) site is now up and mostly running.

big improvement?

[elfinp]

Looks great!

Couple of minor things. Firstly it has a horizontal scrollbar in 800*600 - irritating to those of us with neolithic monitors.

Secondly, I clicked on a section, went to look, went to go back to the home page - clicked on your logo - not a link. Its not something I would have noticed or even thought about but I've just realised that I automatically click on logos to go back to home pages.

Overall very very shiny though

[jxm28788]

Firstly it has a horizontal scrollbar in 800*600 - irritating to those of us with neolithic monitors

yes I noticed that, as I did test it at that resolution to see if it still worked...

see the thread "aagghh - these stupid templates are driving me nutty!". it's that stupid bar that I can't find...oh look, someones replied - maybe fixed shortly then...

clicked on your logo - not a link

didn't think of that, I'll add it to the list...