Wanted: Website Review Review plz

[techtimmy]

Hi

I've built myself an alternative to parking for all my site as 100+ are just sitting there earning nothing.

Can you please take a look at this site as an example of the template I am using. The site is controlled by just changing a couple of key variables on 1 page and uploading a datafeed. Should be a sinch to replicate for all my site. I intend to use it for all my spare sites so want to get it right first before rolling it out.

www.manpurse.co.uk

The design isn't amazin but any comments on the structure/SEO would be appreciated.

Let me know what you think.

Ta

Tim

 

[WealdDomains]

Hi Tim.

I like the feel of this. Straightforward, clean, not too bright or aggressive, does what you expect. Good luck with rolling this out. So, with that context, please treat these as relatively minor points.

- The UK location choice, out of one, seems just an excuse to embed UK references for SEO. Fair enough, but it looks slightly odd.
- Despite my earlier general comment, the Hot Product seems a little bit too cool and doesn't stand out enough. Also, I'm sure it changed when I moved between pages.
- The Home/About/Contact Us links appear an afterthought and ought to be a bit bigger and in the site's overall navigation font
- The copyright symbol should be before Man Purse, and I would probably go for ManPurse.co.uk as a generic approach in case any of your other sites have more dubious overlaps with other sites/trademarks.
- If the logo is generated from the domain name keywords, how would it look for two words that are wildly different lengths, or where the top word is longer than the bottom word ?
- Why have the (fuzzy) arrow AND the word "Navigation" on the breadcrumb trail ?
- Inconsistent use of Men's versus Mens.
- "Leather holdalls are especially smart and give off an air of proffesionalism." Maybe, but two fs in the last word don't !
- The "Betweens" in the price section seem a bit obtrusive, and £0 seems an odd starting point - maybe "Under £20" instead ?
- There's no contact form on the "Contact Us" page.
- http://www.suitsmen.co.uk/suit-images/info-main/stylish-mens-flight-bag-1.jpg has a visible watermark.
- I'm sure some people will be happy to write a few hundred unique words for you, but it seemed a bit odd asking for it, and "article generator" sounds dodgy.
- The title has a typo - biggests
- Several product typos : Rogue Avaitor Bag in Buffalo, WolseyWeeknd Canvas Holdall Bag
- The w in "Bags for men who put fashion first" looks thinner than the other letters on my display, but I can't see anything in the code that differs.
- windows-1252 seemed a slightly odd encoding rather than, say, UTF-* / iso-8859

Hope that helps. As I said, if feels simple, straightforward and clean, and I like it.

Regards,
David

 

[techtimmy]

Wow David

That's an extremely thorough review. There's quite a few small errors and spelling mistakes that I need to check, well spotted.

I will take all your points onboard and make adjustments accordingly. I agree with you on all of them.

Thank you very much for your time.

Rep added.

 

[ABCV]

Tim,

I can see that David's review has been implemented very well, all I can say is that the website looks very professional and neat!

Only criticism: do you need the "Choose your location" at the top right when there's only one option/selection???

Good luck with the rest.

PS: Just out of curiosity did you make this site yourself from scratch or use a web designer for bits and bobs? Assuming your not a professional web designer by trade, I'd say you've done an excellent job with the design!

 

[ABCV]

Tim,

Also forgot to add, if you ever take on paid work for sites similar to this please let me know. I wanted to develop a toy website but just haven't got the skills or expertise.

Or any contacts in the field would be much appreciated!

 

[techtimmy]

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[denchomsky]

I think it looks good, very easy on the eye, easy to navigate.

Are you using a custom script to parse your data feed, or are you using something like price tapestry?

 

[techtimmy]

It's a custom script however it still requires some manual manipulation. I have found the majority of data feed to be rubbish so I still have to eliminate some producs from the csv manually and also assign categories to products.