Thread: Finally finished & out there Need to know allis well & working

After weeks of sleepness night's and days i am finally there and its now out there !!! Can anyone please check over site, let me know if links are all working, spellings ok and if pic's and pages are loading quicker now i have removed all the music from pages?
Appreciate any feedback as i have noticed that people are checking it out but not giving any tips or pointers !
Much appreciated.
Karen :)
www.urbancouturepaperweddingstuff.com

Hi Karen, all of the links that I tried worked OK (didnt try them All)

Pics seem to be loading ok for me.............

One small comment, the white text on the light blue background
is not that easy to read................

Otherwise, I can see that you have spent a heckof a lot of time in getting things just right............big, big, well done..............

Nice. You sure have done alot of work on it, and it shows.
On most of the pages the pictures are not fast to load. When I look at the size, they are pretty heavy. Have you run all the pics through the pix rexizer?

Hi David
Lovely thank you for the comments not too sure what page you are referring to with regards the blue background with i white writing? was it the price guide by any chance ?
Thanks
Regards
Karen

Hi Liz
Never heard of the pix rexizer so no i guess not ! Can you please tell me more would be so appreciated
and thanks for taking time to look and for your comments
Regards
Karen

Pic resizer is here: http://www.vodahost.com/pix.htm

and the page I was referring to was your home page top and the dropdown menus.............

Very nice but my pc froze on the font page.

David, Thanks Very much for the link to the rezixer program! its very good, shame we didnt know about it, about a month ago! and maybe it could be added to the first download of blue voda??

Thanks again

Kind Regards
marcus

Karen,

I believe that I clicked through every link and they all worked for me. I had a little difficulty in reading your menu items with the white on light grey. Might be my display properties. Other than that, looks pretty good to me.Good luck with it.

Hey Rick
Thanks for that it must ahve taken you ages and ages ! Bless you thanks x
Marcus , said he has'nt forgotten about your duke article ' he said if he can ever get on here ' as ime never off i look like David !!!!! LOL
Yea will have to check this menu bar out now as its getting the same comments !
Thanks again
Take it easy
Karen
:)

Karen,

I have to say those two marquees at the very top are annoying and distracting! I would much rather just see your sale for the month of march, than to have my eyes bouncing around the page trying to figure out what both of them say and rather or not they are relevant. If you have to have both.. try bounce and stop so they dont continually go!

Other than that.. you are looking much better than when I first viewed the store.

Karen

As to the marquee's - I'd totally get rid of the top one and put those words stationary on the page. The 2nd one needs to be slowed down - both are moving too fast and together distracting. I think the 2nd one could work by itself if slowed down.

I'm also not a fan of the italicized text for your address info. Italics used as more than an occasional word are very hard for some people to read - unless you up the size. I think the size is appropriate for what you're doing, so wouldn't have that in italics.

I also would remove the BV banner from the bottom of the home page. It detracts from your site... If you want to give BV credit, do so in your own way - with a nice, non-detracting link - Something like the way I do it on A Child's Palace would work for you.

Your home page needs to be centered properly - looks like the width properties are probably out of whack.

Back to the 2nd marquee - I'd remove the words "website launch" - just have it start with a Month of March specials.

On the "something pretty" page - it keeps going and going - with lots of white space. It would look better if you closed off the end - bring an end to the white box and let the background color surround like you do on the home page.

And that bottom surround would actually be a great place for a "footer" - with the stuff like the link to BV and your copyright.

Your look is so YOU - it's great to see that - and looking very good.

Karen: Looks great. You've come a long way. On the index page at the bottom, "net weddings" seems to be covering up some text..you might want to look at that. In addition to everything else, you are doing a great job!

Karen,

No, it didn't take too long to go through them. Your site is really taking shape. It's kind of like a never ending project, you just want to keep adding or changing something. Keep up the great work!

No problem on the article. When ever he gets a shot at the computer is ok with me LOL. I'm going tomorrow afternoon to do a test ride on a Harley Davidson Softail Custom so look for that feature article next month.

Very nice so far. The only thing I can think to mention other than what a nice site it is going to be is, the model in the photos on your header seems to have to black eyes, maybe the photo is stretched too much, but looks bad. Your copyright 2006 is placed too hig on the page it is place above the last paragraph.

Hi Bethers
Some great pointers there thanks and as you will see have changed alot again ! I have changed the marquee's as it shouts out that i am not established and may put some folk off i guess ! I have moved the BV banner too to dif page.
Thanks again for your help
:)
Regards
Karen
www.urbancouturepaperweddingstuff.com

Hey Dreamlady
Great comments thanks and thanks for taking time out to have a look for me. I have rectified the net weddings banner.
Thanks again
:)
Regards
Karen
www.urbancouturepaperweddingstuff.com

Hey Rick,
Thanks
Enjoy your ride - nice machine !!!
I thought i had finished til i popped back on here and read more
Aaaaaarghhhhhhhhh !!!!!! LOL
at least ime getting sleep now LOL
Spk soon
take it easy
Karen

Hey Choco
Hmm - yea those models on the template its on the list honest its finding a way around as i need larger pages for some of my stationery items ! Thanks for taking time out to have a l@@k
will sort this soon !
Regards
Karen
www.urbancouturepaperweddingstuff.com

Karen,
I like it much better with just one scrolling marquee on the page! And with the text to your address bigger, the italics works good, also.

Your hard work is really showing off.

On at least one page I noticed a copyright - it says 2006 - you need to update it to 2007 or 2006-2007.

Hi there
Love your site very well put together. The only think that I would suggest is that you have better quality images as I do not really get a great idea of how pretty your work is. I know this is a royal pain in the a** but it is worth it. I spent most of my time re sizing and cropping pictures so that they looked professional and clear. After all that is what you are selling. There are some great ways to resize and opt pics here is a link
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/index.php
i use this one alot.
as you can see what the image will look like prior to saving and it gives you alot of resized images to choose from.
sometimes I think it is better to have less information than too much as it begins to look messy. Not that your site is messy but keep it a little more simple after all when you are planning a wedding it would be really nice to see a site that calms you rather than having overload and confusing your already overloaded mind.
good luck with everything
maybe you would like to add my new site I am selling crystal jewellery for weddings !!!!!
take care and good luck
james

Hi James
Sorry been away from the forum for quite a while and have only just found this from you. Not sure when you visited the site, but i have run all the pics through pi rezixer last week, so most of them have been through although not all !
Thanks for your feedback thats awesome, i am currently doin a bit of research to see some ways of making some changes ie all the write ups and i am noticing that mine is alot different to others which is my aim but having said that i do not want to put people off ..!
Yea, cool gladly swap links with you let me have the info for it, just what i am looking at next to add to the site too bridal jewellery ! Do you sell the crystals themselves ? as thats another thing i am after a supplier?
Ok James, hope to speak soon
take it easy
Regards
Karen :)
www.urbancouturepaperweddingstuff.com