This is my first post. I have been designer for a few years now since graduating from university with a degree in multimedia design, and have just taken a long contract to update the corporate identity of my client - Seaflex Ltd - starting with their online presence. The brief for this site was very tight but I am hoping that I have made the best of it. Any comments would be gratefully received and I would definitely like to review anyones site who reviews mine.

Well, you've done a good job!

It appears that the site is more informational
(about the company's products) than trying to sell
them.

There are a few things I might change:

1) The color. White text on your light grey background
is ok, but may be harder to read for some. You might
think about a dark grey text on a white background keeping
the five grey "product" blocks???

2) I'd add Alt text for all the pictures in the site.
It's better for search engines, people with graphics off, and acessibility.

3) I'd like to see navigation on every page that allows
the viewer to go to any other page. As it is now, the
viewer must go back to the home page to select
another product page to go to.

4) The dark grey product boxes - the product name
and "more information" go to the same place. I'm not
sure if both are needed. One potential problem with
using links that do not have an underline is
viewers may not think there is a link... until they
happen to mouse over it.... thus the "need" for a
more overt "more information".

5) It would be better to have a more direct link
between the product information and "where do I find it"? After all eventhough the products may be sold
through dealers/agents... the veiwer doesn't care, he/she
only want to know where to get it... and want to know now.

~Roland

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Hi!

Overall I like your site very much. Straight to the point, moderate use of graphics, good layout. I do like the color scheme you've chosen, it's light on the eyes and the contrast between text and background is enough, I think...

Regarding the website navigation I would agree more with the last reviewer if there where a lot of products in the site, but because there aren't so many pages, maybe it's alright in your case. But I do think you should have a back button, I know you do tell to use the browser back button, but its always good to have that possibility using only the site interface.

I do agree with the fact you should have a different colour in your text links (to make them more noticeable) and orange probably isn't the best color for the mouseover, it's not all that readable...

Congrats for the help option, it's something hard to see in most sites, and for the alternate text version of the site. But why don't you insert links on the site map too?!

If you wanna take a peek at my website go to http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=1754&start=0. I had a lot of input, and have to make some changes for my next version (soon, I hope), but it will be nice having comments from someone with a degree in this area. ;-)

Ricardo Pereira

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Good job! Actually I liked your use of color, with a touch of orange to accent the dark gray/black. I do agree that it's difficult to read the white text on the lighter gray background, particularly on your interior pages where there's a lot of content. You've laid out the site in a very logical, straight-forward design, very clean and attractive. I do agree that you want to provide a way for users to get from one area to another without going back to the homepage. Your "Help" section is a really nice touch, but I would make the entries on the Site Map live/clickable, so a user could jump to a new topic right from there. Also, I tried to check out the text only version but got a 404 error. All-in-all, a very nice effort!

carol

I would change

<title>Air lift bags, Inflatable Buoyancy bags, pipeline buoyancy, cable flotation and waterload bags from Seaflex ltd</title>
to

<title>Seaflex - Air lift bags, Inflatable Buoyancy bags, pipeline buoyancy, cable flotation and waterload bags</title>

1. no one cares about the Ltd
2. you want bookmarks to begin with the company name
3. your want bookmarks to be alphabetically under S and not A

,dave

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Looks like you have done a good job on the site and have gotten some good reviews I would like to add or agree with the text being hard to read and also I think you need a really nice logo across the top of the page.

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Seaflex looks good & very clean to me - I had no problems with reading the text, but I could imagine some might.

I like the orange text rollover links - yes it's hard to read, but usually one has already read the link before the mouse rolls over it & who can read through the mouse curser anyway???, so I really don't see that as a problem, rather a nice colour contrast effect to the darker backgrounds.

Maybe expand the navigation onto all pages to include all products - I did keep going home to.

Mate I like it, very well put together.

Thanks very much to all who have reviewed the site - I have definitely got a few points to work on now.

This was my first experience of Web Pro World and its just great.

THANKYOU!

Phil

Site looks great though I agree with the various comments already posted.

However - You don't have any sites stats script within your html. perhaps you are planning on using the server side logs?

Its all very well having the best site in the world but what is important is knowing if anybody is looking at it, how they get there, what pages they look at. Without that knowledge one of the great advantages of the web in being able to provide feedback is lost.
That feedback also enables you to develop the site, building on what works, rejecting what fails.

Good luck

Simon

Simon,

Thanks for your comments. I have tried something new with this site - they are called MatrixStats. I must say that so far they have been outstanding - it is web based and to be honest it provides far more information than I could ever need - the most important of which to my client (apart from number of hits etc) is the tracking of geographic location of visitors. My client is aware of most big projects that are on the horizon and can tell from the MatrixStats if people in that country are looking through the site - it gives them a head start when pitching.

MatrixStats are cheap and proving to be valuable - I would recommend them to anyone.

Simon,

Thanks for your comments. I have tried something new with this site - they are called MatrixStats. I must say that so far they have been outstanding - it is web based and to be honest it provides far more information than I could ever need - the most important of which to my client (apart from number of hits etc) is the tracking of geographic location of visitors. My client is aware of most big projects that are on the horizon and can tell from the MatrixStats if people in that country are looking through the site - it gives them a head start when pitching.

MatrixStats are cheap and proving to be valuable - I would recommend them to anyone.