Please review explorevietnamtravel.com

andy2610 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-18-2007, 12:13 PM

Hello everyone,

I would be grateful if you can review my website explorevietnamtravel.com Please feel free to give your comments. All of your input will be highly valuable to us. Thank you.

Andy at explorevietnamtravel.com

davebarnes · #2 (**permalink**) 10-18-2007, 01:45 PM

My initial reaction was: very nice. Pretty images and easy navigation.

You do need to correct the many English grammar errors.

Dubbya · #3 (**permalink**) 10-18-2007, 03:20 PM

I second Dave's evaluation.

You've got a nice site.

You can remove the following meta tags (to improve your text to content ratio) as they serve no useful purpose:

Code:

<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="info@explorevietnamtravel.com">
<meta name="Page-topic" content="Vietnam travel, Vietnam tours, Vietnam hotels, Vietnam trips">
<meta name="Abstract" content="Vietnam Travel, Travel services in Vietnam: hotels, guest houses, hostels, tours, resort, visa, air ticket.">
<meta name="Classification" content="Vietnam tours, Vietnam travel, Vietnam Tour, Vietnam private tours, Vietnam package tours, Vietnam trips">
<meta name="Area" content="Tours & Travel">
<meta name="placename" content="Vietnam">
<meta name="resource-type" content="Document">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="2 days">
<meta name="copyright" content="2007 explorevietnamtravel.com">

<meta name="owner" content="explorevietnamtravel.com">
<meta http-equiv="Reply-to" content="www.explorevietnamtravel.com">
<meta name="Robots" content="index, follow">

If you want the copyright meta tag included, you might want to change it to something like this:

Code:

<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 2007 Explore Vietnam Travel, All Rights Reserved"/>

*As Dave said, you really should have the entire site proofread and fix the grammatical errors.*

As it stands, these types of errors make the site appear less professional and therefore, somewhat less appealing to English speaking visitors.

The "Travel News" and "Contact Us" page text needs to be formatted to match the rest of the site. (The default in Firefox is Times new roman.)

Look at the paragraph and page headings. They don't all have to look exactly the same, but ensure that font sizes, colour and spacing are consistent across the site.

Finally, consider reducing the amount of text so that there's more white space around paragraphs, headings and links. It will help balance out the page elements, make the page more readable and visually appealing. You're bordering on "too busy" for the average reader.

sformby · #4 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 05:40 PM

Overall, nice design. In the Safari (Mac) browser, the text in the "What's News" section spill over the background boundary by about 100 pixels.

Terms' doesn't need an apostrophe. Much of the text on the site is sans serif (arial), but the contact us page is serif (times). Change the text on the Contact us page to match.

Fix the images in the Gallery that are stretched, including the girl in the top row.