Any Comments on how to improve this site

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Dear Len:

Great job on the website! Have you been in web design long? It seems like you have a nice grip on web design, but there's still some things that stuck out like a sore thumb to me:

1) On the homepage, the black text placed upon the world map has bad contrast with the background color. Try changing the country links to a different color, such as a white. Also, you may want to use CSS to make the links look special when a user hovers over them. (This also goes for the other links placed on the purple background such as the top frame.)

2) Also on the homepage, it would improve the layout if you changed the world map into an image map, this way a user could simply click on their location. If you'd like some help on this, I'd be glad to help you out.

3) On the world map, make the title that says "Click on country of your choice" a bigger font, catching user's eyes.

This is all that REALLY stuck out at me, but I'm sure other members will aid you in some coding problems. Like I said, if you need help with any of these suggestions, just ask! I love helping! :-)

Regards,
Mike
http://WiseWizards.cjb.net

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Up-front I was unclear on what you meant--did you mean wood-shops or metal-shops or yarn-shops or glass-shops or silverware-shops or ... etc.--but a bit of navigation showed that you were not so categorized (that is, you generally categorize by location-and-then-name). I think you might want to indicate the "place ... Everywhere there's a shop"-factor of your front-page's puller (that is, not so much 'EasySpeedy' as 'WhereverYouGo' ... don't change the text in the link, just the title-text on the front-page).

You might make navigation simpler by asking "Where will you be shopping?" and providing links to all the places (or a textbox for them to reference-search your site).

At that point, some categorization would do you good--either a 'nearest to *city*'-type program, or a 'shopping-for in *country*'-program, or both.

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