www.emilitarymanuals.com

Milman · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-2003, 06:57 PM

Need some feedback on my completely re-done website. Since this is a business site, I want it to be a site a customer will come to and be inclined to buy. Any suggestions towards this goal will be gladly accepted. Look forward to hearing from all of you.

Here you go: www.emilitarymanuals.com

AJCF88 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-13-2003, 01:29 AM

Hello, My first impression was not good as the main text was almost blinding. The white print in the middle needs to be toned down. Use a small font and without the bold setting. 10 pt. or 12 pt. is a good text size. Or h2 font size. Headings can have some bold and a little larger font size but all I saw was that white text and hardly noticed the rest of the site.

The side bar menu and information boxes look great. They are well done and the large bold font in the middle of the page cheapens the look of your site.

The color scheme is not quite together. It is a military site so why not make your side bars green instead of blue? Also the top logo and header, how about using a camo background to play up the military image. With solid green on your main page area.... that would look nice!

Look through you site and try to make all of the text the same size so you establish a consistent look from page to page. Some pages right now have different size text.

If you decide to go with the green theme as I mentioned, make your links gold or orange to match your divider up top...

Aside from that, I think the layout is good. It is just more visual improvements that could use some work. Right now, the colors are not unified.

I hope this helps. I'm not trying to pick it apart, just offer visual advice.

Leisa · #3 (**permalink**) 11-13-2003, 04:49 AM

I hadn't read AJCF88's reply before looking at your site and I came back with pretty much the same comments. You have a lot to offer but that big white text on a black background kind of made me dizzy. :) Once I got past that the rest of the content was great.

Something I think might look really good is if you take your "Military manuals are our specialty..." paragraph and do this:
1- Size the font down.
2- Write a shorter summary and create a bulleted list of the rest of your points.
3- Insert a really great, relevant graphic/photo to the left of the summary paragragh and bulleted points...or something similar to that.

I think that would break up the monotony a little bit. You have a lot of good "what we do" and "what makes us special" info in that big paragraph but not many people are going to read the whole thing. You might want to make it easy to "get the idea" really quickly.

Best of luck to you!

Milman · #4 (**permalink**) 11-13-2003, 05:07 PM

Thank you AJCF88 & Leisa for your great suggestions!! That is the kind of helpI was looking for. I will take all your input and make some changes and will repost it for your look see again. Thanks again for the 2 of you for taking the time to help. I'll be back!

janeth · #5 (**permalink**) 11-13-2003, 05:22 PM

I agree with both the above post. I would try a white or off white back ground with black text.

I love the logo on the left top of the page but the text across the top is a little boring.

Also on your left menu I would use just link to the pages on my site there and have links to other sites some where else.