Thread: my site is ready for visitors

I would like to get some comments on my new website. This is a new product so I am wondering if my website is self explanatory to someone who has no idea of what to expect when they open my site? Any comments or suggestions regarding how my site looks or functions would be appreciated.

Thank You,
Jetgirl

www.comfyfootrest.com

Hi there Jetgirl,

Your website is nice, and this idea is catchy... good luck in this venture.

Some pointers:

1. The Navigation button: you need to change the "mouse over" in order to view the entire words on the buttons
2. The pictures are a little too big, therefore, they take time to load, maybe you can make them a little smaller
3. the "Click here" Link on your three pages is an image, therefore, we can not click on them to contact you
4. The contact us page also has the "Click here" link as image, therefore, we are unable to order your product

Other than that your product looks good and your website too :)

Good luck

well your off to a good start just a few tweaks, your image on your home page you got to cut down on the kbs it take a while to load use a pix reziser also on your menu bars the tex is to light make it darker and the pages need to be centered, other than that it looks. Good luck with it.

Joe
www.anytime-figurines.com
www.jkteddybear.com

Hi,

Not bad. But you need to get a hold of yourself as most beginners I noticed
likes to use font size larger than they should.

Try not to use fonts larger than 12 points. 10 points is good

look at other professionally done websites and compare them to your own as it will give you a comparative picture where changes should be made and styles to emulate.

Everybody has their own preferences so sometimes other peoples ideas may not be how you yourself wants your web page to be presented.

Originally Posted by fadikaouk

Hi there Jetgirl,

Your website is nice, and this idea is catchy... good luck in this venture.

Some pointers:

1. The Navigation button: you need to change the "mouse over" in order to view the entire words on the buttons
2. The pictures are a little too big, therefore, they take time to load, maybe you can make them a little smaller
3. the "Click here" Link on your three pages is an image, therefore, we can not click on them to contact you
4. The contact us page also has the "Click here" link as image, therefore, we are unable to order your product

Other than that your product looks good and your website too :)

Good luck

Thank you for the comments- I set all the text as images so my pages would show right on all the different computer screens and forgot about the links.. I now have the link issue solved but am still working on my e-mail
Jetgirl

Hi, site looks great for the product with the style & colours. But ditto with the images on all pages needing to be reduced, the 2 main ones on the front page are at nearly 4000kb & need to get them down to about 100kb max for both.
I noticed that most of your text is in an image format? Which looks fine, but the SE’s won’t be able to pick up on the words to help promote the site. You have a good title & keywords, but the SE’s won’t be able to match them to the text in the page because they are images & they can’t read these as text.

Good luck.

The product idea is fun. Some of the fonts are hard to read (too light or too small) and so many different ones make it busy. I like the circular logo better than the banner on the home page, it's more eye catching. This isn't web design related, but maybe a few solid colors too?
Good luck, and a great start.

hi, it's a nice site u have there
am just beginning. i hope to get some help from u too or any body
i named my index page as. www.mysite.com/index
and sub pages as. www.mysite.com/contact etc
and i need to know how to preview the page to test the navigation buttons if there are working properly

sykzpisces,
You should open your own thread if you want a review.
The index page link would be www.mysite.com
The contact page would be www.mysite.com/contact.html (if indeed the page is html and not php)

Originally Posted by Collectors-info

Hi, site looks great for the product with the style & colours. But ditto with the images on all pages needing to be reduced, the 2 main ones on the front page are at nearly 4000kb & need to get them down to about 100kb max for both.
I noticed that most of your text is in an image format? Which looks fine, but the SE’s won’t be able to pick up on the words to help promote the site. You have a good title & keywords, but the SE’s won’t be able to match them to the text in the page because they are images & they can’t read these as text.

Good luck.

I am waiting to get some help from a friend on resizing the pics because I am clueless how to do that. So the next problem is how do I get my fonts to look good on all monitors if I don't change them to an image? I thought I finally had it fiquered out, but you are right about the SE's..
Jetgirl

Hi, catch 22 on the text & SE side of things. But on the image side of things, use the Free Pixresizer for your images & remember to resize in DPI & the phisical size. There is some info at the bottom of my threads.
There are 2 images attached that are under 100kb using this tool.

Good luck.
PS. Also a good time to rename your images when resizing to things like foot-rest.jpg. It will all help with the SE's.

Thanks everyone, I have made many changes with everyones help.
Chris, I tried to insert the pictures you sized for me, but they can't be enlarged without looking like a pixel maze. I did "Save picture as" and put them in my BV folder. Is their another way I should be saving them?
Jetgirl

LOL, did you D/click on the attachment in the post. It should download & then open in your default picture program at the sizes you have on the site at the moment. 457x343 & 240x180. The image on the forum is only the thumbnail to the larder one stored.

Post back if your not sure.

I really don't have a clue.. Please help!!
Thank You......Jetgirl

Hi, if you D/Click on the Attached Thumbnail images in the post above the image should automatically download onto your machine & open in your picture program. If it hasn't opened? it will have downloaded either to a folder called downloads or your desk top. Have a look for the file & replace the one on your BV page & re-publish.

Hi Jetgirl, your site looks good.
You are saying that after downloading the picture you can not make it larger. You do not need to do this.
Follow what Chris is saying first left double click and open the image, then save it. If you right/click you will save only save the thumbnail.
I, will also suggest you to consider in creating a contact page using the forms feature, they are not that easy to understand, but if you follow the instruction you will manage.
It is a much better way for your customer to contact you, your email address at yahoo does not look professional, you can create one like info@comfyfootrest.com, or sales@comfyfootrest.com, and then redirect it to your yahoo.
I think that mail address you have published there will bring you a lot of spam mails.
If you need help just post, there is a lot of people in this community ready to help you out, it is a great forum.
Ciao
Alas

Thanks Again, I now have the resized pics on my site.
I am now working on the forms feature. I have 2 problems.
I have changed all my pages to .php, but from my index page, the old page is still showing up.
Now don't laugh to hard but where do I post the .html extension for the thank you page? I just get an error page when I send a message, but everything else is set up correctly because I get the message forwarded to my yahoo mail.
Jetgirl
www.comfyfootrest.com

You save your thank you page with the html extension selected in page properties. You cannot add it manually.
You will have to delete the index.html from the CPanel/File Manager/public_html in order to see the index.php page.

Thanks again to everyone. Your help is so appreciated, I have everything working as it should.