Your Thoughts Please (re new site)

tomgould · 30-05-08

Hi Guys,

I am nearly finished building a new affiliate site selling Mobile Phones from all the networks and retailers and would appreciate it very much if anyone has the time to give me any suggestions, criticisms or any other feedback so that i may improve the site from a commercial point of view.

Here's the link
Compare-Mobile.com - Home Page

Cheers Guys.

Markup · 30-05-08

Tom Tom Tom

Long time no hear...

...wasn't sure if it was your name I saw on the forum the other day but soon cleared that mystery up soon as I took a look at your scruffy code

Just kidding mate.

You've put a nice site together here Tom. To be picky, you could centre the image case below the "Most Popular Phones in the Last 24 Hours" title and in ie6 you have only two of your center page content boxes sitting side by side whereas in Firefox you have them sitting nicely in threes. Probably just a pixel or two is causing it.

I thought it was a little on the slow side but I am still using that bad tempered little think pad from the old office so I could well be wrong there.

"We'll have you there in a jiffy",

I liked that

Good luck with it - it's very nice

jezaff · 30-05-08

looks good, but seems a bit crowded/confusing to me - too many things to look at! Could be just me though

!

kevforth · 30-05-08

Hi tom,

Really like the search function at the top v usefull, never been over fond of scrolling thingys in the middle of a page but guess they work for many people, would maybe have a gap inbetween the phones to make it easier to spot the phone you want.

Possible would make more of the searching 122556 deals .... as I think this is a good selling point for your site, others probably do it but do they say that they do it.

Tiny things - the date is cut off a little and there is a white line through the Find a phone box.

Overall think if you can get people there they will use.

Affi Liate · 30-05-08

Looks pretty good first impressions.

Still lookin.

Ran a search on flip phone / orange / orange - got an error message.

ADODB.Recordset error '800a0bcd'

Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record.

/wwwroot/_incTitleTags.asp, line 284

Could be s*ds law and a one off.

I love the way you actually got some half decent description text on the product pages, feed or not this is often missing and your just presented with the pure basics. This way is much better and offers you sh*t loads of SEO potential. - Get some keyword text links within the content pointing to the homepage - pointless for the user but awsome for SEO at present. (the user won't even notice this type of text link if they're interested in the product on a given page).

Still lookin...

Aff

tomgould · 31-05-08

Thanks allot for the help guys,

kevforth, what browser were you using and OS as I am using XP and apparently the Vista interprets the code a little different.
I have designed the site for both IE and Firefox but older versions of IE and Vista can cause the white line.

The site is not finished yet so I am still developing different features, I have recently changed all the rewrites to be more SEO friendly but have not yet ironed out all the bugs.

tomgould · 31-05-08

Cheers Affi Liate, i think i have sorted that now, just waiting for the database to finish the update and i will test it on the live site.