Thread: First Website: Constructive Criticism Welcome!

I still have a long list of adjustments I want to make to the site, but am curious how it presents itself so far. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated because I have a lot to learn.

808dinah
www.muttmakeovers.com

Hi, you did a wonderful job. Easy navigation, concise layout, good prices. I can't imagine what else you think you need to do? I predict you will be very successful. Excellent job!


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Hi... I love your site, especially your makeover page. Very clever. Both your Q&A and About Us pages are titled 'comments' You might want to address that. On your Q&A page your first 'price list' link is not working.
But I love the simplicity and functionality of your site. A very pleasant experience.
Best of luck!

Thank you so much Sedona for the kind comments. I will fix the missing pricelist link right away, and maybe you can help me with another problem I haven't been able to solve. Some of my clickable links (like Price List, my email address, and the "Vodahost" at the bottom) are showing as different colors (purple, beige, red, etc) and I want them to be blue until clicked and then turn purple. I've followed instructions and gone into link style but am confused by the choices: Link (blue), visited link (purple), active link (red), and hover link (blue) I want them blue, so I've been choosing "Link" but it is not "taking" even though I click the Add button. I'm sure there is a simple explanation, but I'm not getting it. Any suggestions?

808dinah
www.muttmakeovers.com

Hi,
The way I set my link color choices is at the very beginning in page properties, if you know how to do this. Each choice is clickable and you can choose even custom colours. If you wanted it to stay blue regardless of activity just click nothing but blue, for instance.That having been said, I have had trouble in the past with text links not cooperating with color changes, presumably because of ghosting, in which case I have rebuilt the page with new text (not copy and paste). Hope this helps.

I think your site is very impressive - you did a great job. What a great idea.

Originally Posted by 808dinah

I still have a long list of adjustments I want to make to the site, but am curious how it presents itself so far. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated because I have a lot to learn.

808dinah
www.muttmakeovers.com

You have done a great job! I noticed that your (About Us) page is named "Mutt Makeovers Comments", and your (Comments) page is named "Mutt Makeover Comments" . Not a big thing but some one might be confused.
Good luck and your pics are great!!

That site brought tears to my eyes...you seem to be such a pet lover! The before and after page is truly amazing..you can almost see the pride restored in the doggies! Good for you!

at the bottom of your price page, the extras overflow the box on Foxfire not sure how it looks on explorer.

Wow, I love your site--very easy to navigate, uncrowded--you really get a sense that you love what you are doing! And I am envious you are back in Hawaii :)

I did notice that the FAQ page was crowded at the bottom, probably just needs to have the page size lengthened and items pulled down a little.

Such a great job! Any thoughts for a second site? :)
Amy

Very nice. Love the blue and brown colours and love the name - muttmakeovers is great!

(I might add a little more text on your homepage - just to add in some keywords & phrases for dog grooming etc :) )

Sunchaser

I was just looking - I think I dreamed about your site the other night - how cute would it be if your navigation buttons were paw prints? Keep the brown color, but make them paws with the words on them?

Just an idea -

Great site!

I hav to agree with Bethers. Having the buttons be paw prints would add a nice touch.

The text overlaps the pics on this page on my p.c

http://www.muttmakeovers.com/about.html

Also found the text a little blurred at the bottom of this page.

Very good start though for your first site.

Paul

Wow, thank you everyone for the compliments and especially the great advice. I was worried the lower text would not show up on all computers because it sat on the very bottom edge of my own screen. But I can easily fix that, and I will address the other problems as well. And thanks Suncatcher, for the advice about adding more keyword text to the index; I will do that too. Bethers, I was telling my daughter Michelle when I showed her all the posts, that you are my "Go to" person because your answers are always easy for me to understand. And just so you know, Michelle had asked from the beginning if I could make the buttons like little pawprints! I told her I would try, but then I couldn't come up with any clip art that was transparent. I spent hours researching how to do that, but finally abandoned the idea thinking I will get back to that later... I also downloaded a sound byte (.wav) of a dog bark that I thought would be cute to add to the menu button mouseovers, but have not figured out how to incorporate that effect.... Any advice out there?
Mahalo Nui Loa (Thank you very much)
808dinah
www.muttmakeovers.com

Nice site, you need to check your pages though as there is a lot of overlapping text.

Maybe it's an American thing but I prefer the before pictures to the after ones on all but one of your gallery images.

I guess I just like my dog to look like a dog. Sorry

I know someone who should be able to do the paw print buttons, if you want them done let me know and I will see what they can do!

The legend under the photo on the index page reads: "Tahj", owner of Michelle Tadani - is that a 'doggie' thing or should it read "Tahj", owned by Michelle Tadani?

Also, your link to Vodahost is blank.

The following is just an opinion:
The whole page could do with a border around the content. At the moment all the elements give the impression of being plonked into the middle of an (almost) eternal background, with no sense of order or control. A border could fix that, and if you use a simple white rectangle with a border, moved to the back layer, it would also give you the chance to see how your site would look on a white background with the pawprint background as a surround. I fancy it may look a little more professional like that.

Hio think your site is nice, If I was you I will add a contact form, and remove your mail address from the web. The WEBSITES GURU's are saying that address can attract a lot of spamming.
Think about it.
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The paw prints do NOT need to be transparent. Find ones you like - and make them the right size, then upload them to the navigation image file - and you call for them the same as the already uploaded ones. And, if you name it right, it will be the top choice :)

There is a thread telling exactly how to do this - http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/blu...s-nav-bar.html