Please give feedback on my store

[Guest]

Hi I have just started to build an online store for someone and decided to give the HTML code a total makeover by remove ALL tables and just using CSS.

 

Also most the site should be XHTML (strict) validated .

 

anyways please give me any feedback possible with anything you think looks rubbish or any flaws etc.

 

I can take critisism no matter how bad so fire away as it can only help me improve, thanks

 

http://www.at-webdesign.co.uk/portfolio/ex...foods/index.php

[sdrio]

Hi I have just started to build an online store for someone and decided to give the HTML code a total makeover by remove ALL tables and just using CSS.

 

Also most the site should be XHTML (strict) validated .

 

anyways please give me any feedback possible with anything you think looks rubbish or any flaws etc.

 

I can take critisism no matter how bad so fire away as it can only help me improve, thanks

 

http://www.at-webdesign.co.uk/portfolio/ex...foods/index.php

 

That background gradient is killing you. It looks really 1996.

 

I'd also say there might be more typefaces than you really need - the mixture of standard, bold, italic and different sizes gives a slightly incoherent feel.

 

Just a suggestion as well - on the 'contact us' page, put a phone number as well as the mail fields. As your shop is aimed at local trade, I'd imagine people would far rather give you a buzz. Probably no need to say it, but the $ signs need to be changed to pound signs!

[Guest]

That background gradient is killing you. It looks really 1996.

 

I'd also say there might be more typefaces than you really need - the mixture of standard, bold, italic and different sizes gives a slightly incoherent feel.

 

Just a suggestion as well - on the 'contact us' page, put a phone number as well as the mail fields. As your shop is aimed at local trade, I'd imagine people would far rather give you a buzz. Probably no need to say it, but the $ signs need to be changed to pound signs!

 

Thanks for the reply, The background & design is more or less a 1996 look although I do plan to change it soon, what I mean is the site is actually one thats been around for a few years as a normal webpage but im turning it into an OsCommerce store but I stuck to there design.

 

Having said that im still more of a coder PHP/MySQL etc than I am thinking of designs, I can pretty much do any design someone asked / showed me but actually thinking of good designs myself I tend to struggle.

 

I will have a look at the typeface thing you said aswell today and look into changing it.

 

Thanks again for the feedback

[Guest]

Hello,

 

This review done in Firefox2.0/WinXP. Comments in no particular order.

 

I gots tidy validator installed and it reports two errors on index.php both being link tag missing required attribute (type="text/css").

 

Many of the images I checked seemed to be fairly large byte-wise. If they can be lightened, it would be nice.

 

You did not state that the birthdate is required. Why do you need a birthdate to buy fish?

 

The style had a comfortable feel about it. Pretty decent site.

[burt]

Good work, I'm glad to see that someone else is making an effort to make osCommerce less "bulky". I won't comment on the actual design - as I am sure that is not what you are after.

 

The underlying code looks decent - use more "h" headings, a good example would be the infoboxes - the heading need not be in a div, but could be a h4 for example. Also make use of lists (eg the categories box) - you could also make the breadcrumb into a list (then style is css to display horizontally). Remember that tables are fine to be used for tabular data - tables are not a "bad thing" when used properly.

[georgec]

- Center the logo

- Get rid of the Date stamp in the top left corner. No need to remind someone who visits online what day is so they think "Damn.. its Thursday already? I have to finish that other stuff/project/other thing.. what am I doing sitting here browsing websites" (you get my point here i hope)

- Categories Menu. Make it the same width as the rest of the boxes in that column. Dont be afraid to list all the items in each category and/or subcats. This is your breat and butter mate, when it gets to searchengines - those luv seeing keywords on your index page, especially as links.

- Get image resizing tumbnails to resize your product images so it can use cached thumbnails vs. resizing them every time.

- Slap a 1px grey/black border around your main table. It'll separate your inner white from outer

 

Now if you excuse me, i need to go wash my hands... smell like fish! :)

 

Cheers,

G

 

 

Hi I have just started to build an online store for someone and decided to give the HTML code a total makeover by remove ALL tables and just using CSS.

 

Also most the site should be XHTML (strict) validated .

 

anyways please give me any feedback possible with anything you think looks rubbish or any flaws etc.

 

I can take critisism no matter how bad so fire away as it can only help me improve, thanks

 

http://www.at-webdesign.co.uk/portfolio/ex...foods/index.php