Thread: Need your honest opinon

Hi, everybody,
I have changed my website as well. I like for you to check it out and give me some pointers of what i should change or could improve.
Please visit my site at www.beadedjewels.biz

Thanks Lexi

Lexi,

Your site looks good. I just finished mine and had it critiqued so I am returning the favor.

The home page looks nice enough. I would create a more dominant header (maybe with the logo maker) and make it look a little more, sophisticated.

what about reducing the image sizes on your products page? It would load a lot faster.

Other than that, it is a fine site. Good job.

Your page is too wide. You have set it at 950 which is ok but something on your page - probably your header - is making it wider. Also there appears to be the suggestion of something underneath your header which should not be there - some sort of grey box?

Nice music! Would be nice to have it on your Music page, and to have clips of various songs available.

I have to give it to you straight...if it were not for the music, I would not have waited for site to finish loading. Consider me the impatient customer. No expert on websites here, but I have a reasonable amount of disposable income.

I run Internet Explorer(because that's what most who buy computers and don't know computers use) and the women who would buy your products aren't necessarily internet savvy.

Just talking from a purely consumer view, not webmaster view. I do not mean to sound disrespectful.

Sincerely,

I'm talking about the loading of "My Shop" not your home page.

Hi, I am sorry to say that you will have to redo most of the images on your site! I was so surprised at this page taking 391 seconds to load, I had to look to see what was going on. It was the images at over 35meg on one page. That’s around 36,000kb.
Most pages should be no more that 300kb. It must of taken ages to upload? The bad news is most of the pages are the same.
Sorry!

Hi Lexi,
Nice site, and you have good looking jewelry, and noce music. I ditto what Chris said, you need to resize those pics. I know that seems like a daunting task but you pages are large and slow. Did you mean to spell music with a "k" only on your music page? Nice work though.

Hi there - first I want to say - I like the colors you have used and the page set up. However....for me I have satellite internet connection - and the pictures were V E R Y slow in opening. I didn't wait for any one page to completely open. Try using PixResizer on them avialable on line free also you need to title your pages better i.e. extravagant says nothing what about extravagant beaded necklaces or something that tells what is on the page. Also you want to use the alternative text on your pictures. words that tell the viewer what they are seeing in case the picture doesn't show up. Check your spacing and spelling. a lot of words are run together - you might want to center your descriptions instead of justifying them ( i just checked out the necklaces page)

THE SITE LOOKS GOOD EXCEPT FOR THE PAGE LOADING I USE WIRELESS AND IT TOOK ABOUT 2 MINUTES TO LOAD.TO MAKE IT SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY STAY UNDER 5,000 KBS FOR A PAGE REDUCE THE SIZE OF IMAGES. I USE www.submitexpress.com for meta tag analyser its free it gives you alot of info on your pages just use thier free tools time page loads size of kbs the page is plus keywords or more its a very useful tool.good luck with the site

It needs some spiz-az! .. it's too blah? .. Make yourself a nice logo and it will make your site much better!

Honest :)

sorry gave out the wrong info stay under 50000 bytes per page

not bad at all but some advice. When i visit your shop section and was waiting for the images to appear it was going rather slowly. I looked at the size and you had 600 and something kb for each one. Bring the size down because people are very impatient with websites and they could leave not being bothered for the page to load. Also people with dial up would have to wait aaaaages.

Sorry if i sound harsh just trying to help :) I like the everything else

I"m still a newbie, but I would suggest that you also view the page with a Firefox browser. Pages look differently on Firefox than they do on IE. For example, on the Extravagant page, the Add to Cart buttons are over the text of each item. My Music page has same issue along with other text.

jcaywood
http://www.thegoofygiftshop.com
http://www.rhsclassof1965.com

Hi,

Looks like you have been working hard. The loading time is sooooo much better now. Nice site! Good luck and keep up the good work.