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Submit Your Site For Review Need a fresh set of eyeballs to take a look at your site? Have a specific issue or question about some aspect of your layout, design or interface? This is the forum for you. When submitting your site, be sure to discuss what aspect you are looking for input on. Just posting a link with the word 'review' isn't appropriate.

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Old 01-02-2004, 05:29 PM
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Hi All,

I am new to the webproworld. Nice to meet you all. Please give me your input on my site. After working on it for so long I think I turned blind for the usual errors.
Pls be gentle ;o)

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Old 01-02-2004, 09:05 PM
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Great site! I love your color theme =). Does it really need the flash thing though? I think it takes away a bit...
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Old 01-02-2004, 09:37 PM
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How many times can a person see the word "kiosk" on one webpage?

You beat everyone!

Good looking site, my only suggestion would be that you break down the headers of ALL! THAT! TEXT! into links that take you to specific pages detailing product information, another with customer reaction, and so forth. It is an unwritten rule (although you'll find it written clearly with a lot of awards sites) that a person should not have more than five scrolls per page, let alone a front page. For the best impact, have your front page establish the tone and impact of the site, provide a basic mission statement, and then provide easy-to-use links for your customer to learn more at their own leisure.
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Old 01-02-2004, 10:18 PM
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Thanks for your reviews!

The flash: well, at first I thought it was cool. Kinda catchy. And it is supposed to explain instantly what the topic of the website is.
Now, I am not so sure anymore if I really need it..

# kiosk's:
You're right. Next time im spidered by google I hope it will bring me somewhere high up in the ranks.

Amount of Text: same thing. Google wants a lot of text on the homepage. Contents...contents...contents...
Well, and believe it or not. I saw my rank climbing....now I am anxiously waiting the next spider round.
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The front page is very long. I use 2048x1536 and it is over three whole pages long. At 800x600 that would be more like 9 or 10 pages.

I'd think about cutting that back somehow.

Personally, I'd go with a sans serif font - easier to read. But that IS a personal thing. Others will disagree.

The text on the right side is very small - but that's probably down to my screen resolution as it will read OK on 800x600.

Design-wise, it seems odd when you move to an inner page that the design is slightly different. On the home page you have that Flash movie that sets the scene, as it were, but inside the SurferQuest logo predominates. That just seems like a large step to me.

Could you maybe integrate the SQ logo more into the home page?

That photo of the Pedestal is 46kb. I think that's a bit too big - you ought to be able to get it well below 20kb to reduce loading times for dialup users. Simialr comment with the other photos.

You might also want to include alt tags on the pictures and other links for accessibility reasons - but that's your call.

Minor note: you put apostrophes in PCs and CDRWs (i.e. PC's and CDRW's) - that's grammatically incorrect, though a lot of people do it. Again, your call.

I noticed this on Assisted Living, but your text in one section (table cell) runs right up to cells with coloured backgrounds. Related is the amount of white space around the images - there's a big block underneath but not elsewhere. These are just tidying-up comments, though.

The colour scheme works - though that Flash movie seems out of place in that respect (I'm not saying it is bad - just that the colours seem a bit off to me when taken overall).

It's a tidy-looking site with no major problems I can see :)
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