HI,

My site has just gone live and I would welcome any feedback you all have.

http://www.updatetechnology.ie

If i can return the favour just leave a link to your thread.

Thanks all

hi pete,

everything's fine on IE... in fact it looks great.. cool and professional! :)

but viewing your site on firefox.. the navigation (drop down menu) does not work like it should.. the links appear as a string of text on the top left coner of the screen. the links at the bottom of the screen changes from black to red instead of white to black. and the scroll bar for the content is out of the box.. and you could have use the title bar for keywords instead.. that will help a lot in the SEO aspect.

just some opinions~
sky

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Hey,

Your website looks good - nice and professional.

One word of warning though would be about your navigation - the use of JavaScript is probably not recommended as search engines cannot crawl it. Use text or images instead if possible.

I have noticed that you have a sitemap which is great and will still help your website in terms of SEO.

I have run the W3C tool and it says that your code is not valid HTML. You can see the results here - it would be a good idea to sort out these problems in terms of SEO effectiveness too.

1 last thing - the image on the quality page does not load.

Hope this helps.

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www.strawberrysoup.co.uk

Hey,

Your website looks good - nice and professional.

One word of warning though would be about your navigation - the use of JavaScript is probably not recommended as search engines cannot crawl it. Use text or images instead if possible.

I have noticed that you have a sitemap which is great and will still help your website in terms of SEO.

I have run the W3C tool and it says that your code is not valid HTML. You can see the results here - it would be a good idea to sort out these problems in terms of SEO effectiveness too.

1 last thing - the image on the quality page does not load.

Hope this helps.

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www.strawberrysoup.co.uk

Sorry - didn't mean to post that twice.

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www.strawberrysoup.co.uk

I know it's not much and not very constructive but I loved your site.

I browsed and was impressed.

If your writing for the user I'm giving it the thumbs up.

SEO points have been made above along with validation notes.

BUt all in all a job well done.

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Your site looks great
One way of overcoming the menu problems is to swap the Javascript for CSS.
Try http://css.maxdesign.com.au/index.htm
There are loads of examples including some similar to yours, all with the code freely available to copy and modify.
That way they will also work for anybody using a non Javascript or text only browser.
I'd be delighted by any comments you could make on my site http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=55935

I could not use your site very well. I have a Mac using the Safari browser, your navigation is non-functional. For instance when I hover over "Profile" a menu appears in a different part of the screen that I can't get to without the menu going away.

I don't like that the links at the bottom of the screen dissapear when hovered over.

My personal taste is that there be more info and less logo, but it is nice looking.

The only way I could navigate your site was through the site map. I did like the way the map showed up on the contact us portion.

Your brochure form has a drop down list, with a list as well. Confusing. I don't think I need to see the options twice. It almost seemed you want to click on a list item that doesn't have any action associated with it.

The home page is essentially a splash page and wasted SEO oportunity. I don't see the point of iframes - other than for slick design. You'd be surprised how many visitor don't/can't use them - especially when the scroll bars are changed to an unfamilar color. So text below the 'page fold' will be lost.

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Alll in all i loved it, one very small point. how about centrelising the dropdown menus to stay inline with the lines that split the options. Just looks a bit odd comeing down to one side.
Bit picky but the only thing that grabed my attention.

Pete - it's complete pants in Netscape 7.2 - sorry mate :(

The drop down menus from Profile, Project, Contact Us, (which I only see now that I browse in IE), don't appear in Netscape 7.2. All that you see when you mouse over the links are the link to default2.htm.

I'm guessing it's a Javascript issue of some sort?

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Hi everyone thanks a million for all the replies, I completely forgot about that whole cross browser thing.....

Skydream
Sorted out the navigation in firefox (pain in the ass the way you have to tweak the littlest things for each browser) As for the scroll bar in the box, again something im going to have to play around with to get right!!
I presume that firefox doesnt let you change form elements by css therefore whichever way i do it is going to look fairly shit.
And finally the links at the bottom have me stumped, i have no idea why they dont change from black to white, i have it set as a span class which has it working fine in MS Explorer but not in netscape or firefox, has anyone come across this before, or does anyone know a quick fix for me....
im not sure i understood what you meant about putting my keywords in the title bar, did you mean as in <title>keywords in here??</title>


Strawberrysoup
I know that search engines wont crawl my java navigation, but does the sitemap not offset this as i have it as a static link on all of my pages???
The image on the quality page i cant figure out, the image is up on the server, the code for it is perfect, have no idea why it wont show up.

dmadance
I think i have fixed the navigation issue but dont have a mac so cant test it there, if you get a chance maybe you could let me know, as for those links turning invisible at the bottom, that is something im working on, but struggling.
As for the select box i had in my brochure form, i have got rid of it, i was trying to be fancy and tweak the select box with css to get it in line with all the other scroll bars on the site, but is just far too much hassle.

send2paul
Same issue with the navigation, got it sorted in netscape as well.

Again Thanks for all the feedback, all much appreciated.

And if anyone knows why my links at the bottom dont work in netscape or firefox will you give me a shout.

got those bottom links sorted now..

Thanks again everyone

Pete - oops!

Broken link image on the Quality link.

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Laser Eye Surgery Facts| Helen Flanagan

Thanks Paul B i know about that one and cant figure it out, the image is on the server an the code for the image is fine, I will get it sortedsomehow.

It looks alright...but i don't really dig how confined it is.

is there any particular reason the content is smushed into a tiny iframe?

the image display is kinda neat tho.

good luck!