Thread: First BV10 Website For Review

I'm busy with my first website built with the new BlueVoda 10. Please could I have your comments and crits. www.homefinishes.co.za

Cheers,

LOL This might help... www.homefinishes.co.za

Hi Andrew, Usual great looking site. Like the style & colour’s.
The only thing I am not convinced on just yet is the way parts of the side menus work. Feels like you should be able to click on the button to get to a url & not just the text. It also feels that you can click on the header to a menu it feels like a link & when you do, the menu disappears. Not sure how 1st time users will get on with it. Naval did a revamp on this menu to work a little differently & was a lot better.

Hi,
Some of your links is not working.
Do you find sanitary ware in kitchens and bathrooms.
Nice original site.
I see you are from the Eastern Cape where I grew up.

Originally Posted by Collectors-info

Hi Andrew, Usual great looking site. Like the style & colour’s.
The only thing I am not convinced on just yet is the way parts of the side menus work. Feels like you should be able to click on the button to get to a url & not just the text. It also feels that you can click on the header to a menu it feels like a link & when you do, the menu disappears. Not sure how 1st time users will get on with it. Naval did a revamp on this menu to work a little differently & was a lot better.

Hi Chris,

Yes, I've been watching the BV10 bug report and holding thumbs that the menu changes suggested by Naval and yourself find there way into BV10E.

Cheers

Hi Andrew. Great looking site, but then everything I've seen of yours is top notch. I am nowhere near your standard but my only observation are the delivery, credit application, Return Policy & Warranty links, where when clicked they open as a pdf. I often find there is a time lag while waiting for the pages to open. It might be just me, but as a visitor expecting a just a regular web page, I find these pdf pages quite irritating.

Kind regards

Darren

Originally Posted by leoscats

Hi,
Some of your links is not working.
Do you find sanitary ware in kitchens and bathrooms.
Nice original site.
I see you are from the Eastern Cape where I grew up.

Hi Leo,
I asked the same question as I studied 'Construction Management' a long time ago and was asked to change 'kitchen fittings' to 'kitchen sanitaryware'. I'm waiting on a some content which i'll pick up from a little town you might remember called Humansdorp.

Cheers,

Originally Posted by DCOFFICESERVICES

Hi Andrew. Great looking site, but then everything I've seen of yours is top notch. I am nowhere near your standard but my only observation are the delivery, credit application, Return Policy & Warranty links, where when clicked they open as a pdf. I often find there is a time lag while waiting for the pages to open. It might be just me, but as a visitor expecting a just a regular web page, I find these pdf pages quite irritating.

Kind regards

Darren

Thanks Darren,

The 'credit application' needs to remain as a .pdf file as the customers need to print, sign & send or drop, but I will have a look at the others.

Cheers,

Hi Andrew,
Great looking site as usual. Nice looking colours. I agree with Chris on the Title headings, etc.

Suppliers page: Any reason why the links are different colours? Some blue and some purple. It give me the impression that I have already visited the purple ones.

In Store Promotions links not all working.

Gas Savers page:
retrofitting" or upgrading the insulation levels for homeowners. "
The inverted commas look out of palce. I think the correct use of the period and inverted comma at the end is like this:
retrofitting "or upgrading the insulation levels for homeowners".
Just the next line: learn more about how Builders can
- Capital L.

LOL, it's always a pleasure and inspiration to look at your sites.
Cheers for "eers".

Hi Tommie,

The pages in mention are lacking content as the first store to open is slightly behind schedule and the guy's are chasing to open. If they're close enough, I'm hoping to photograph the shop and collect content tommorrow.

Thanks,

PlayItByBeer LOL
Good website all round.

Website has a clean Joomla look to it???

Originally Posted by BevServ

Website has a clean Joomla look to it???

Hi Bevserv,
I'm not sure whether that is a complement, dig or question? But thank you and it's a 100% BlueVoda site...No Joomla at all on this one.

Cheers,

How's things, mate?

An other great site! The red with the dark grey/black goes really well!
Congrats!

Originally Posted by nzbr

How's things, mate?

An other great site! The red with the dark grey/black goes really well!
Congrats!

Hi NZBR,

Long time no hear?
Thanks for the comments.

Cheers,

Hooray...I'm a 'Lieutenant Colonel' and looking forward to each new website with BlueVoda.

Cheers,

excellent looking site! works great for me

Hi Clefnote,
Glad you enjoy, thanks for the comments.

Cheers,

A much lighter grey background would make a huge difference.

I thought you would have evolved to 900-1000 wide pages by now ..... allows Content to be more evenly distributed if set as modules, and larger/crisper images to be utilized to assume more of the "expression" than words. AND it allows more to be seen nicely laid out above the fold.

IMO

Very very nice.


Bob at www.mikespizza.us

Originally Posted by Vasili

A much lighter grey background would make a huge difference.

I thought you would have evolved to 900-1000 wide pages by now ..... allows Content to be more evenly distributed if set as modules, and larger/crisper images to be utilized to assume more of the "expression" than words. AND it allows more to be seen nicely laid out above the fold.

IMO

Hi Vasili,
You lost me on the "content to be more evenly distributed if set as modules"
Thanks for comments.

Rather than thinking 'linear' (as in scrolling down the page following one 'column'), try thinking along proven methods, such as perceiving your index page as a "table" maybe with 4-8 "cells" and each cell can be a module:
A. Left tall column, nav gutter;
B. Immediately under the header should be a horizontally-oriented "intro" cell, preferrably a pix (doesn't need to be all across the page either, right-justified with a short headline to the left, or even some emphasized "whitr space" works good;
2. four(+?) modules evenly in center of page (as would normally see a table), either under a picture (or slideshow, etc.) or directly under the header/page top: each module can contain short blocks of text, which can be linked to interior pages (as in "Read More"); they can be a combination of graphics and text (attention getters), also linked to interior pages for depth); or maybe stacked in such a way that some may appear to be "block" and some not, depending on design style .... get it?
D. The bottom element, similar to the top, only as a "definer" (think of it as a "recap" of the above, or means to refine the selection of information presented;
E. The footer/base element.

BALANCE .............

The Key is to allow the natural attraction of visitors to images and brevity to be the driving factor, not all the "inticements" to be so in-your-face: with links to interior depth, use of white space, and projecting a more ordered/structures/organized development of info and Content, you are able to keep a lot "above the fold" with better effective means to create the conversion results you desire.

For an example that most miss, take a good analytical look at most CMS builds....see if their "order" is not exactly what we have been preaching about regarding site builds is all about....YES it is a CMS format, but see how the strengths of images, above-fold presentation, and information flow is established? Same has ALWAYS been true for HTML builds, but no one can rid themselves of the initial struggles with building sites to make much of a difference for themselves (IMO).

So much for ME trying to keep it brief on a Sunday. Hope you get the idea - I'm done for the day! Was starting to sound like a college class...
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Thanks Visili,
Great detailed explanation... They were quite specific in their requirements hence the CMS feel to a BV site. There are plenty of product and store specific pictures which still needed to be added as well.

There goes my early Sunday. LOL
Cheers,