Thread: Please take a look

Hi,
I would be grateful if anyone out there can takea look at this website in progress and see if I can add or subtract elements that may help its functionality and look so as to attract maximum visitors.

Website located at http://www.thecornmarketbar.com

Also could you let me know if the message is scrolling at the bottom of the home page.I can view on my PC but the oewner of the site cannot view,don't understand why as I added code to page html to prevent caching so can't be that.

Hi, the front page loaded & the scroll came across once at the start?.
Also got the scroll on this page http://www.thecornmarketbar.com/bistro.html
It runs all the time! But this type of scroll will with firefox.
This page http://www.thecornmarketbar.com/venue.html could do with some better quality images, or larger. Lighting is a very hard one to put on the web & don’t feel these bring out the best feel for the venue. Maybe even a click to a larger pop up.

Good luck.

I like the uniqueness of the site. Just a few housekeeping comments.
1. On the home page, need a better photo. The one there, I find a little blurry. Also the scrolling white text going back and forth is difficult to read. The fireworks on this page I think work fine as a home page.
2. Events Page - Need to center...I don't like the fireworks on this page because when I mouse over the annimation, I get outline boxes of the gifs. Plus I think it is distracting when Im trying to read the events list.
3. Bistro Page - The only thing I see here is a continueous scroll of text. Just want to make sure that's all you have there so far.
4. Gallery - Just shooting starts right now...no pics
5. Contact Us and submit cv pages seems to work with all pop up messages. I didn't send the form, but everything seemed ok up to that point.
I agree with Chris in that you need to spend some time to get some good quality pictures and I would also make them slightly larger.

I love your header and Logo! Keep up the great work!

Thanks guys, great feedback and totally taken on board. I will try to get better quality images from the owner of this site.

I have not completed the "bistro","gallery" and "links" pages as I am awaiting information for these pages.

Thanks for letting me know that the pop ups and scrollers are working. I very much appreciate your time to get back to me so thanks again.

-Liam

Hi Dream Lady,

Why does the box outline appear when I (and everyone) mouses over the "flash" text or images?

I could do with this not appearing so I would be grateful to anyone to help me make them disappear

Hey Liam...Sorry, can't answer that, because I don't know. I'm sure someone will be along who can though!

Yes,I'm sure someone out there will help and thanks for all your input. I have requested some more images but it looks like I am limited to the ones in use but maybe I can persaude the owner to let me take some pics myself.

Have a very wonderful Christmas & Prosperous new year.

-Liam.

Out of curiosity - did you change the size of the image and take it out of proportion? That is often a reason for what we're seeing. Or possilby you took the original and made it too small in pixels for the image. You might be able to clean it up in a photo editing software.

Your Bistro Page needs some work. My opinion is get rid fo that scrolling marquee and just put it on the page. I dont want to sit there and wait for the scroll to tell me what hours etc you are open... Just type it out.. remember K.I.S.S.

Keep
IT
Simple
Stupid..
and no im not calling you stupid i am just quoting what it stands for. The flash and that looks great, but keep the MEAT of the site for your customer or viewer!

Karen

Aloha:
I like the flash in the title. The lettering in the homepage is difficult to read. The gallery page, and I know you know this, had nothing on it.

The page with just the scroll - it was scrolling too fast. Plus the page needs a photo of some sort on it. I like your colors, they really blend well.

Why are you only open until 6pm? That's when people are just starting to drink. What kind of food do you serve? You could feature a few signature dishes.

I think your site looks good and with a few tweeks it will look great!
Good luck to you.

Great Site and agree with comments above. As stated before witha few tweaks hereand there you'll havea good site and don't forget to optimize your site with the best possible keywords. Good Luck

Lot of work,
Seems loud and hard to read.

Spelling errors create a feeling of the site being "unfinished" or "hurried"....(even mis-spelled your own name on Venue page!)

A bit lopsided layout: either pages lacking any content, or way too full with too many pictures......(sometimes it might be better having only one or two picture areas, and any additional "in rotation").

A slightly larger overall page size might help to give the space required to develop content, and to offer more visual balance....if you stay with the colors chosen.

Agree with majority...just seemed difficult to get through...hard to read, hard to see...stop the scrolling

Thanks a lot to all above. The feedback is just wonderful and I will get onto changing a few things straight away, others will have to wait until I recieve the content for the unfinished pages etc.

Thanks again guys,much appreciated.

-Liam.

Originally Posted by Vasili

Spelling errors create a feeling of the site being "unfinished" or "hurried"....(even mis-spelled your own name on Venue page!)

A bit lopsided layout: either pages lacking any content, or way too full with too many pictures......(sometimes it might be better having only one or two picture areas, and any additional "in rotation").

A slightly larger overall page size might help to give the space required to develop content, and to offer more visual balance....if you stay with the colors chosen.

Hi Vasili,

Thank you for your input and I corrected the mis-spelling on the "venue" page. You have a good eye.

I cannot locate other spelling mistakes so if you do spot any then please let me know and thanks in advance but keep in mind that we use English spelling as opposed to American.

Best Regards,

Liam

Originally Posted by bill2006

Lot of work,
Seems loud and hard to read.

Hi Bill,

Had a look at your websites and was very impressed by the uncluttered and tidyness of all the sites. Just thought I would compliment your work.

I'm limited with the images, colour scheme and in some cases the text for this website so I kniow its not ideal on the home page as the text is hard to read. I did try using the text in the orange colour to see if it would stand out but was worse and the black text wasn't much better so I went with the white text as a lesser of three evils.

Person who owns the site wants the image(as given to me) with the fireworks and also wants the text information.

I placed the text information in "flash" text to fit in the page which is built for an 800 x 600 res screen but will look equally good for all res. screens but which limits me to space to place the text so the "Flash" solution seemed best option.

I realise it is far from perfect so I am open to any and all suggestions of which are gratefully recieved.

Thanks again to all and please keep them coming.

Best Regards,
Liam.

Originally Posted by beegud2

Great Site and agree with comments above. As stated before witha few tweaks hereand there you'll havea good site and don't forget to optimize your site with the best possible keywords. Good Luck

Thank you for your kind comments and I will place the best possible keywords into Meta-Tags.

I am at present tweaking as the comments are coming in and its nice people like yourself that makes this chore a pleasure.
-Liam.

Originally Posted by scubadiver

Aloha:
I like the flash in the title. The lettering in the homepage is difficult to read. The gallery page, and I know you know this, had nothing on it.

The page with just the scroll - it was scrolling too fast. Plus the page needs a photo of some sort on it. I like your colors, they really blend well.

Why are you only open until 6pm? That's when people are just starting to drink. What kind of food do you serve? You could feature a few signature dishes.

I think your site looks good and with a few tweeks it will look great!
Good luck to you.

Aloha,

The Bistro is only open until 6.00 pm as then the serious drinking will start.

This is the way Irish Bars run (as opposed to restaurants with a bar licence) not my thing but c'est la vie

Originally Posted by Karen Mac

Your Bistro Page needs some work. My opinion is get rid fo that scrolling marquee and just put it on the page. I dont want to sit there and wait for the scroll to tell me what hours etc you are open... Just type it out.. remember K.I.S.S.

Keep
IT
Simple
Stupid..
and no im not calling you stupid i am just quoting what it stands for. The flash and that looks great, but keep the MEAT of the site for your customer or viewer!

Karen

Hi Karen,

Hey the S is definitly me, If the cap fits I wear it...lol.

Thank you for your input and to all input as all is truely appreciated and if I have not replied to all the comments above then its because I have replied to many and do not wish to clutter this thread up more than I have so thanks again to all.

Originally Posted by Bethers

Out of curiosity - did you change the size of the image and take it out of proportion? That is often a reason for what we're seeing. Or possilby you took the original and made it too small in pixels for the image. You might be able to clean it up in a photo editing software.

Hi Bethers,

I recieved all the images from his previous website which was done by somebody else and who left him down badly.

He asked me to do the website but had no images so I had to save the one's from the website. I am in the process of trying to get some good quality snaps where I can re-size with a pix resizer software.

This is the plan,hopefully will work accordingly.

-Liam