Thread: New site please rip it to shreds

Hi everybody
I have built a new site for some friends of mine http://www.fnqindependent.com.au/ and they had alot of input which was good but I need the eyes of all u pro's out there, so please rip it to pieces.

Hello, I'm also living in Australia... Good job on the website - the revolving adverts at the top of the front page are very blury you may want to re-do those. And you may also want to add some written links to your internal pages so that the spiders can go through your site and not think it has only one page. You could put them down the bottom. Also your bottom link headings are really hard to read until you mouse over them. Keep up the good work.

Gunn R
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I was not able to spend much time on your site, finding the background too visually disturbing.

You may wish to re-think it, possibly by making the image itself larger (so the tiling is not so 'busy' and visually compelling --- it is a background, not an imperative design element of the site, remember?) and "washing" it out, so it is more suggestive rather than harshly contrasting (it should compliment the page design, not compete with it).

*Hint: Think Watermark

Hi Vasili,

Good job! I like it. It suites the topic. Two things, the first being not very very ...

1) I initially felt the text in the left text boxes should be flush left like in an article, but when I took the time to read them, centered is ok, but thought I would report to you my initial feeling just to let you know.

2) I ran the site through the links-checker and the report is at http://validator.w3.org/checklink?ur...h=&check=Check


One remaining feeling about the site, I really like the colour scheme and the red-green tint of the top bar.

GOOD WORK !

Originally Posted by Elegance Reclaimed

Hi Vasili,
Good job! I like it. It suites the topic. Two things, the first being not very very ...
1) I initially felt the text in the left text boxes should be flush left like in an article, but when I took the time to read them, centered is ok, but thought I would report to you my initial feeling just to let you know.
2) I ran the site through the links-checker and the report is at http://validator.w3.org/checklink?ur...h=&check=Check
One remaining feeling about the site, I really like the colour scheme and the red-green tint of the top bar. GOOD WORK !

What in the world are you talking about?
This thread is all about "Doods" website (which I had nothing to do with whatsoever) > http://www.fnqindependent.com.au/ which has no "green" in it at all!

** I would also strongly suggest that you NOT take it upon yourself to run other people's websites through any validator or web tool without their prior authorization, since creating a report for websites still in development creates lasting cache that can negatively impact on the website's future SERP.

Nothing wrong in suggesting links to tools you think others might find useful, but ethically it is improper to run reports on another's site and leave the results on the Net.

My sincere apology; I hope I did not cause any problem. Now that I know better, I won’t do this ever again.

First of all thanks to you all for your advice.

Gun r: I did have the links on the red bar at the top but my friends wanted the visitors to the site to scroll down so as to see the ads. I didn't think to have a smaller version at the bottom which I have now placed there ;)
I have looked at the site from serveral computers and the ads don't look blury to me. Does anybody else notice this as I am a bit one eyed and maybe a bit reluctant to do them all again. cheers.

Vasili: In defense of Elegance Reclaimed I do have green text on a red bar as the links on the other pages.
I have made the back ground lager and it does look better. I also tried to put a shape and reduced the opacity and it improved ten fold but only appeared on one half of the back ground. Replacing it isn't really an option as my friends love it, So do you have a watermark program that you can recommend because if I have to pay for it I would prefer to buy a tried one.
Cheers and thanks again :)

Ditto with the background being distracting.
Using a lot of images the way you are wont do you many favour's with the SE's in knowing what the page is about. You will need more text on the pages.

the site is very busy and I couldn't tell what was advertising or what I could click on... or what I should read. I agree the background should be washed out and faded.

Your headlines on the left are a great idea and I really wanted to read more about each article - is there more to read? It would be great if visitors could click on each headline and read more about it (in depth)!

overall I think the site has great potential.

I had to agree with Vasili. I couldn't spend too much time there because the background was much too busy.

Below is a suggestion made by Chris of Collectors-info which will lend itself well to your background...may be?

...........but think it would be less distracting if a static background was used to save that strobe effect when scrolling down the page.

<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-image:url('http://www.ctpallets.co.uk/images/background6.jpg');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment:fixed
}
</style>

Obviously change the bits that are appropriate to you

Here is the result

Have a play and see what you think

Looking at this again. Chris might have to look in. My background is one image, where as yours is tiled. The above code may have to be tweaked

Originally Posted by DarrenC

Looking at this again. Chris might have to look in. My background is one image, where as yours is tiled. The above code may have to be tweaked

<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-image:url('http://www.fnqindependent.com.au/images%20%28250%20x%20336%29.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat;
background-attachment:fixed
}
</style>

Thanks to everyone for your replies

Can I just copy and paste the below script and if so where exactly does it go as I have tried a couple of spots with no luck

Originally Posted by Collectors-info

<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-image:url('http://www.fnqindependent.com.au/images%20%28250%20x%20336%29.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat;
background-attachment:fixed
}
</style>

This is where I have tried

</script>
<style type="text/css">
img { behavior: url("pngfix.***");}
</style>
</head>
<body background="images (250 x 336).jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

I usually always try to tell people of the things I like about their website. However, you asked that we "rip it to shreds". This site is so hard on the eyes. With the newspaper background, all the text on the front page, and the scrolling banners at the bottom, I felt dizzy after looking at the main page for just 5 seconds.

You might want to tone it down quite a bit.

Who is your target audience? What will they be most interested in? Make sure that is the focal point of your site.

Just place this code in the page's html area under "Between the head tag" & change the part in blue to your image that is already on your server.
<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-image:url('http://www.fnqindependent.com.au/images%20%28250%20x%20336%29.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat;
background-attachment:fixed
}
</style>

I have to agree with Eric and a few others.

The background is very distracting and if you MUST keep you should wash it out or fade it. It's very easy to do and pretty simple to change. Personally I think your website has too much noise, or rather too many parts shouting at the viewer to look at.

The use of the tones on the red and green are very annoying to the eye because it actually temporarily encrypts an image onto the persons eye. While this may be good for advertising/marketing (where you are competing for attention) it is probably not a good idea for a webpage since they are already at your page.

I like the overall design, I just think it needs to be more toned down and harmonious. It just looks too chaotic, and demands too much from the eye.