Wanted: Website Review Opinions please!

[woffer]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to gage opinions and any constructive criticism on our website www.woffer.co.uk


Thank you

Jon

 

[wb]

Only had a quick look but a few things stood out:

1. Not too keen on the use of text in graphics, I think it would look a lot cleaner if you coded them all instead.

2. The "Managing ecommerce with Woffer:" at the bottom of the page needs some spacing after is before the footer begins.

3. If you want the .co.uk to go with your CocktailAccessories.net, you know where to find me (ever the opportunist).

 

[woffer]

Haha, if we were making more than £200 a month off Cocktail Accessories i would be tempted!

Thanks for the footer prob, didnt see that.

By text in graphics which part do you mean?

Thank you

Jon

 

[Blossom]

I like it apart from the logo. Your colours for the 'Woffer' text just make me think of Google and it's so important to show creativeness as a design agency. And although the wet floor look on the main graphic is ok, the pink and the yellow (and the background brushes) don't work well. It's very clear that the logo and the rest of the site design have been done by different people as they don't gel.

Sorry if the above sounds too critical, I don't want it to come across as offensive.

 

[Ashton]

Writing a review in more detail, to help

 

[wb]

Haha, if we were making more than £200 a month off Cocktail Accessories i would be tempted!

Thanks for the footer prob, didnt see that.

By text in graphics which part do you mean?

Thank you

Jon

Text in graphics can be seen on the menu buttons, phone number, text to the right of the title, package price buttons, service titles, client testimonials. Using CSS instead should make it look a lot 'slicker' and modern.

Re domain, feel free to tempt me with an offer if you change your mind as it's not at the top of my development pile.

 

[woffer]

Not to critical at all, really appreciate all the feedback and time looking. Completely agree about the points to do with logo and background image and seeing if we can come up with a few other ideas,

Thanks WB, if sales pick up a little i might make an offer on the .co.uk. got so many things on the go at the moment, development time is hard to come by!

 

[bedazzledaz]

Is there any reason why you use the H1 tag about 5 times in your homepage?

 

[Ashton]

Hi Jon, Sorry if this is brutal or harsh, not personal at all! Just trying to help.


Code issues

Disability Discrimination Act - Your site fails the disability discrimination act. You could even be sued for this. All business's operating on the internet are lawfully required to comply with this. To comply all your website needs to do is meet the lowest of accessibility standards.

Accessibility - There are many issues with the site in its current state. This ranges from the over use of images to replace text + the lack of alt tags on images to a total absence of hover effects on the majority of links.

Users using a text based browser / audio tools will find it virtually impossible to use your site in its current state.

Wordpress - Great, I use it in the majority of my designs, but why haven't you coded the site yourself? You have some framework on there (sweans?) that seems cumbersome and seems to add far too much code than can be healthy.

Validation - It is always worth making sure your site validates with w3's validator's. This will reduce errors in other browsers, improve your code and generally help your site a lot. Some people ask why don't google validate and this is purely so that they send the minimum amount of data (so the site loads quickly as possible + they use as little bandwidth as possible)

As above with the over-use of h1 tags.

Design

I don't want to comment on the design a lot as my opinion could vastly differ than your potential clients. I also know my design isn't that great so I will keep this brief!

I believe that its overly 2.0, there is too much. Its all fighting for my attention and the end result is nothing gets it. Gradients, shadows, embossing, beveling, buttons, etc all have a place - just not all at once!

However, onto the good! Below the header its fine, especially for your pricing. Its easy to read, nicely contrasted.


General

Pricing - Your pricing is very cheap and thats very fair of you.

The free quote is a great call to action.

Logo - As others have stated, too many colours, stick with 2d, might be worth outsourcing.

 

[WealdDomains]

Hi Jon. Some comments :

- It initially comes across to me as a cheap and cheerful company that does basic websites for small businesses : no frills, slightly rough edges, but solid basic stuff for reasonable prices. So long as that's how you're positioning it, great.

- I agree with the previous comments. The logo immediately made me think of G too.

- The last blog entry was in October.

- I wouldn't use an iPhone jailbreak site as my top reference site.

- Generally there are a number of typos and grammar problems dotted across the site.

- The articles page has a different logo to the rest of the site ... and what is the difference between Articles and Blog ?

- there's a trailing pipe delimiter on the first row of the footer

- the hyphenated copyright row of the footer doesn't work as I would expect since it is a single string

- my understanding is that Cardiff phone numbers should have the gap after the 029 (just like London is 020, not 0207/0208) to avoid confusion for locals omitting the area code

Hope that helps - the more I read, the more I liked the site and the company, but I think it comes across a bit garish and rough at first glance

David