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Old 02-03-2008, 08:11 PM   #11 (permalink)
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your text can do with some clean up, as it looks blurred, top right hand side and else where, just takes off the gloss
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Old 02-03-2008, 08:15 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Alot of your images could be improved by turning them into GIFs, current as JPGs they are over compressed and show artifacts
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Old 04-03-2008, 11:36 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Hi,

A few suggestions you might want to mess about with-

Keep one colour for the background/sides, maybe try a few different shades of grey as it is neutral and will go with the current scheme you have.
Try the table in the middle without the bevel look, it makes the design look a bit ameturish, and imposes on the clean cut image you might be wanting to aim for.
Where you have one or two colours use Gifs not Jpegs, this will keep the quality but reduce size of image files.
Use letter spacing to help keep your text legible but not over or underspaced. If youre using Illustrator I can show you how to do it.

Hope that helps, Its a nice design, goodluck
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Old 05-03-2008, 09:08 AM   #14 (permalink)
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it is clear and simple,nice pages.
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Old 17-03-2008, 12:58 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I wouldnt take any notice of being told not to use tables. apart from the slightly superfluous code it generates compared to CSS, it's mostly down to how anal the web developer is in sprouting on about how tables is meant to be for tabular data etc. Unless it was coded using CSS to begin with, the effort isn't worth it. And it doesn't affect your search engine rankings whatsoever.
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Old 17-03-2008, 11:42 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Hi,

Your site looks great, though I think some of it could be improved. Heres a couple of pointers that I think would make it look a lot better:

1) Change your background colour. The current background makes the site look a bit takey. The centre of the site looks fantastic, and if you changed the background to a solid colour (The grey you have at the top of the current gradient would look nice), then I think your site would look a lot more professional.

2) Justify some of the text instead of centering it. This is something that i personally think looks better. As long as you keep a decent gap at each side then it looks a lot better.

3) Page enter and exit fades. You have the site in the same place on each page, so enter and exit page fades look really nice and they are really simple!. In your "Meta Tag" area. Just add the following scripting on each page:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="progidXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(Du ration=0.4)">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="progidXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(Du ration=0.4)">

I don't know why, but I always think this makes sites look really good.

4) The images you have on the site.... some of them aren't the greatest images. The one on the main page (hand shaking one). A photo that is darker (not as much transparency and glare on it) would look better...

5) on your contact.html page, the verification box is a completely different colour. I'm guessing it is coded in CSS and its a script you found on the net ? (just a guess), just alter the colours to a grey or something.


Thats it!

On the whole, your site looks really good I think you've done a good job.

I think the background colour is the main thing, the other bits are me just being fussy....

Let me know what you think to the suggestions!

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I agree with the table comments...

I also agree that centred text makes the pages look "amateur", a left justification is bar far the accepted net standard...doesn't mean it is the law but will really help I think...

You may not have looked at it yet but the basic meta tag structure (including your title) is far from perfect and doesn't reflect any targettable keywords/phrases, there are lots of disputes on the value of meta data but they have there uses in search positioning on engines other than Google and Google even use then to present search finding (although not rank) so there is value if only in presentation of SERP's (impressions count etc). I have a meta tag guide on my article page on my signature site that you may find useful.

I really like the clean look that you have gone for and the pages feature the product well IMO and it shows any viewer exactly from the outset what the site is offering etc
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