Vitamins and Supplement Site

roban · #1 (**permalink**) 06-11-2005, 05:08 PM

I'd appreciate some feedback. The site has been through some iterations over the past few weeks and I seem to be happy with this PR5 version.

roban · #2 (**permalink**) 06-15-2005, 01:01 PM

I guess not.

slideri812 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-15-2005, 02:34 PM

Hi,

Don't feel bad. I too receive very little response to some of my requests for review. There has been recent discussions about the requests being visible long enough for people to see and review before they roll off to page 2, 3 and so on.

So to the meat of the matter:

Nice colors. But the site looks like a stock version of osCommerce (which I am a fan of) with some custom tables.

META
If you're going to use meta tags you should also include a title tag as a supplement to the plain title tag.

I found this at the top of your page:

Code:

<table width="790" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#8FBC8F">
<tr><td bgcolor="#CCCC99">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<HTML>
<head>

Why is there a table opening statement placed outside of the code? (i.e. before the the HTML and HEAD tags)?
Also, this table is not closed before the HTML begins.

It looks nice and you have a good selection of products. But it also looks very plain and cookie cutter. Your not giving the impression of reputable and trustworthy.

Have you looked at other sites that are in the same market as you?

You have obviously put a lot of time into this and it is basically good. However you seem to miss the boat concerning branding and customer physiology.

roban · #4 (**permalink**) 06-15-2005, 11:24 PM

Thank you for your reply slider it is much appreciated.

That table sets the 'your account' algnment and also was used for the search function when it was located there. The full code was:
//begin Center table
print ('<table width="790" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#8FBC8F">
<tr><td bgcolor="#CCCC99">');
//end Center table

I have moved the search box to the category box which made more sense to me. I have deleted the above code. There is no noticable difference except the 'your account' link moves up a bit. I never noticed the code was still there.

The site is a Cube Cart site and I am not happy with the 'stock look' either and will most likely move to a custom cart if the product does well enough. The new CC version 3 is in beta and does away with this style. When it is ready for prime time I'll make the switch.

I have done quite a bit of research on my competition especially the vitabase site. I had a portal online that redirects to this cart. I'll put that back online and if you have a chance take a look at it.

Thanks.

Paul B · #5 (**permalink**) 06-16-2005, 12:26 PM

It has a bit of a drab and jumbled feel to it all. You realy could have combined the index page in the cart.

The categories are tightly packed, but the header is taking up a lot of space and not doing very much. I think you might have been better leaving the design as standard Cube Cart (which is an offshoot of osCommerce).

The good news is that a bright image in the header and a change of color scheme is easily done...

roban · #6 (**permalink**) 06-16-2005, 02:13 PM

Thanks Paul B. We're now using the cart as the main page and I am working on a header.

DIRTYDISCO · #7 (**permalink**) 06-16-2005, 02:34 PM

good site but, the second the site loaded i felt overwhelmed with all the text and I didn't know what to read first , maybe less content on more pages?

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