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Hi LittlePip,
Thanks for posting your site for review.
Your site is nice and uncluttered, and is well structured and easy to navigate around.
I like the partners and high-profile links on the right. It adds credibility - which is very important on the web. The link colours are good too - instantly recognisable.
You haven't asked for advice on anything in particular, but I've found a few things you could improve:
1. The homepage's page title is "Homepage" - not great for search engine results, people bookmarking your site, or for tabbed browsers. "Barnsley People First Consortium" would be a huge improvement. I'd append this to the page titles on the other pages too.
2. It would be great if the homepage identified at a glance what the site is about. E.g. Introduce a tagline - "GPs reforming health services".
3. The menu text is a bit hard to read, although it's great that it changes colour to show you what page you're on. Perhaps you could change the menu button design to increase the contrast?
4. The text on the site is not very easy to take in. Some more whitespace would help, as would rewriting it to make it more scannable. You could maybe even consider some feature boxes - to solicit patient participation for example.
5. Finally, the menu disappears on the team pages. These look like they should be popups (which I'd try to avoid anyway) but aren't functioning as such. I'd just make these normal pages with the menu and a "back to team" link at the bottom where the "close" link is currently.
I hope that gives you some ideas! Good luck with your quest - a very worthwhile aim, I hope you have some success
Cat
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http://web.soothed.com.au/
Web design for natural therapists
Thanks for posting your site for review.
Your site is nice and uncluttered, and is well structured and easy to navigate around.
I like the partners and high-profile links on the right. It adds credibility - which is very important on the web. The link colours are good too - instantly recognisable.
You haven't asked for advice on anything in particular, but I've found a few things you could improve:
1. The homepage's page title is "Homepage" - not great for search engine results, people bookmarking your site, or for tabbed browsers. "Barnsley People First Consortium" would be a huge improvement. I'd append this to the page titles on the other pages too.
2. It would be great if the homepage identified at a glance what the site is about. E.g. Introduce a tagline - "GPs reforming health services".
3. The menu text is a bit hard to read, although it's great that it changes colour to show you what page you're on. Perhaps you could change the menu button design to increase the contrast?
4. The text on the site is not very easy to take in. Some more whitespace would help, as would rewriting it to make it more scannable. You could maybe even consider some feature boxes - to solicit patient participation for example.
5. Finally, the menu disappears on the team pages. These look like they should be popups (which I'd try to avoid anyway) but aren't functioning as such. I'd just make these normal pages with the menu and a "back to team" link at the bottom where the "close" link is currently.
I hope that gives you some ideas! Good luck with your quest - a very worthwhile aim, I hope you have some success
Cat
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http://web.soothed.com.au/
Web design for natural therapists
Many thanks for your input Cat, It's nice to have feedback from an independent view. Have implemented a few of your ideas.
Regards Phil
[Edited by littlepip on 22-Oct-09 14:01]
Regards Phil
[Edited by littlepip on 22-Oct-09 14:01]
Hi Phil,
Thanks for posting your site. Good advice from Cat there, and it looks like you've already made a few changes.
A couple of things I noticed:
1) If you click on "Members Area", all the menu links are then broken (they link to eg private/practice.html instead of practice.html).
2) Maybe make the header image a link to the homepage? I instinctively wanted to click on it all the time!
3) A page footer of some sort would help to give the design more coherence. It could be something simple, like a purple line with copyright and/or contact details below it.
Hope that helps, and good luck with the site.
Cheers,
Matt
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Matt Doyle, Elated
3rd Edition of my jQuery Mobile book out now! Learn to build mobile web apps. Free sample chapter: http://store.elated.com/
Thanks for posting your site. Good advice from Cat there, and it looks like you've already made a few changes.
A couple of things I noticed:
1) If you click on "Members Area", all the menu links are then broken (they link to eg private/practice.html instead of practice.html).
2) Maybe make the header image a link to the homepage? I instinctively wanted to click on it all the time!
3) A page footer of some sort would help to give the design more coherence. It could be something simple, like a purple line with copyright and/or contact details below it.
Hope that helps, and good luck with the site.
Cheers,
Matt
--
Matt Doyle, Elated
3rd Edition of my jQuery Mobile book out now! Learn to build mobile web apps. Free sample chapter: http://store.elated.com/
Cheers Matt, having a rest before finalising site, will look at footer as i think your right.
Hi Phil,
The site's already looking better. That red ribbon is a good move - it adds personality to the site and creates a good "anchor point" when scanning the page. I would make it link back to the homepage though. Also a bit more spacing around the ribbon and header text would give the header more room to breathe.
Good work. I'm looking forward to seeing the finalised site!
Cheers,
Matt
--
Matt Doyle, Elated
3rd Edition of my jQuery Mobile book out now! Learn to build mobile web apps. Free sample chapter: http://store.elated.com/
The site's already looking better. That red ribbon is a good move - it adds personality to the site and creates a good "anchor point" when scanning the page. I would make it link back to the homepage though. Also a bit more spacing around the ribbon and header text would give the header more room to breathe.
Good work. I'm looking forward to seeing the finalised site!
Cheers,
Matt
--
Matt Doyle, Elated
3rd Edition of my jQuery Mobile book out now! Learn to build mobile web apps. Free sample chapter: http://store.elated.com/
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