How professional does our site look

[vivio]

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Please can you give us your honest opinion on how you think our website looks?

Does it look professional
Is it easy to navigate around?

What would you change if you was us?

We are new to this and could do with any help or ideas that you can give us.

We know that there is a problem opening the site in certain browsers due to the java script. But we have our web team working on this as we speak.

We will also be adding shopping cart to the site shortly, But at the moment we are just trying to get the look of the website right.

Thanks for your help

[Swiss]

Just took a look with FireFox 1.0.6, IE6 and Opera 8. In each of the 3 browsers, atleast a couple of items on the page are out of alignment, what parts depend on what browser you are viewing it in.

Your CSS validates fine, although your HTML will not validate as you have not declared your character encoding. You can check out a speed report for your site here as you can see, your sites main page takes 27.77 seconds to load on a 56k connection - You should be aiming for sub 8-seconds. You have horizontal scrolling when viwing in a resolution of 800x600, this is still the industry standard resolution to design to (as a minimum).

Visuals wise, I think there is a bit too much white space, and the actual menus and content looks as though its just floating there, I think you need something to 'hold it all together'. I like the colour scheme though (mainly cause I'm working on a design of blues and oranges too right now heh!).

I think it would be cool if you could sort out some kinda roll-over effect for your menu on the left. I dont know if its because your still in development or not, but you havea few dead links too. I think your contact form could do with a little cleaning up too - The flat gray text boxes look ugly, maybe lighten them a bit and add a darker border on them.

Thats all from me right now. I may come back with more.

[vivio]

Hi, thanks for taking a look at that for us, your opinion is very much appreciated.

I will look into some of the suggestions you have made.
Please can you tell me where you found the dead links just so I can go back to the web team and say what's what and where.

The problem with in fire fox is being worked on. The alignment of certain boxes on the site is off line and some don't even appear. This should be fixed shortly.

Once again thanks very much for your help and if you can think of anything else please let me no.

cheers

Darren

[vivio]

Has anyone elese got any helpful comments about our website?

We can do with all the help you give can give us.

cheers

[Jonny5uk]

I think its a pretty nice site, good clean images, fonts and good use of colour.

I agree on a couple of the points made above, maybe a rollover on the left menu would be a simple, but valueable addition.

Not sure about the white background either, there's nothing wrong with it, but would be interesting to see how it would look within something behind it.

Good company/domain name too !