Hello all,

Fairly new to this so go easy on me. This is a Joomla site. This is my first site and I did everything on my own including the pictures. It's only a month old and there will be articles and a blog in the near future. The target market are women so their views will be welcomed as those constructive views from knowledgeable web masters.
I know there are issues with W3C errors but who gets them all. This is built on Mozilla and tested on IE7. Eventually will be an e-commerce. Window and Home Jewelry | Home
1.How is the flow?
2.Any improvements?

Thanks in advance for all comment.
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I just don't care for the color scheme.
Hot pink text on a brown background is not for me. Hurts my eyes.

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Here's my .02.

The code in the the top of your home page is a mess. Your meta description doesn't read well at all and there's little in it that'd convince a user to click on it. Consider revising it so that it describes the site theme but also so that it looks inviting.

You've got too many keywords and they don't seem very focused. You'd do well to trim those down to about 8 keywords or short keyphrases that really describe what your site has to offer. Always try to use words people would type when looking for a site such as yours.

Here's a cleaned up version of your header code:
I'm only going to touch briefly on the page design: Chocolate brown with pink text?? Lighten up the page and make it easy to read and to print.

Holy discount pages, Batman! More pink on brown? minty green on brown? orange on brown? gold on brown??? I don't want to come off as a jerk, but honestly, it kind of reminds me of...



Your menus need some love too. Lighten them up so they're readable and stand out from the background.

Pick a colour palette that incorporates some lighter shades for your menu and content backgrounds. If at all possible, try to stay away from bold or dark background colours.

Pages should be easy to read as well as print.

Good Luck.

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Pretty site, but you may want to consider:

* I would swap your left and right columns.
* You do have a slight issue with the layout when viewed in Safari, but unless you compare it side by side with Firefox or IE I do not think any one will notice. The issues are:
1. Your very top nav bar changes from the right side to the left
2. Your body font style changes
* Looking at your keywords. Your main keyword is 'sun catcher'. I only seen this word used 1 time in the body text and I did not see it used in any alt tags, link title tags or page title.
* Your title/alt tags are displaying code on your Gallery page.
* The site looks more like a blog layout than a regular site layout. This could have a positive or negative affect on your visitors.
* I didn't care for the small area between your two columns to display your content. I would increase the space in the center.
* The title bar seems a bit tall. Also your colors in the title bar, mainly the white, is too bright and too loud. It takes away from the page and is distracting.
* The color choices you used are fine, but I believe you used a few too many.
* You do have a couple of grammar issues that need to be addressed on your home page.
* On your products pages, the pictures of the products should link to your products details page, not to a larger pic. The larger pic would be linked off of your products detail page. Doing this will also, where you have the text 'product details', to put the price of the product once you add the cart. And on your products page it appears that you are trying to separate the text by the use of different colors. I would suggest finding a different way to do this as again you are using too many different colors.

You are gearing your site toward women, but your product could be sold on many different plateaus...they could be sold as gifts, home decor, sun catchers, dream catchers, etc.
It also appears that you are custom making these. If this is the case, you could sell them dismantled as a craft project to be assembled. Not to mention you could sell the individual pieces if someone would like to design and create their own.

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I like the flow. Similar to my own. I have one question that you could help me out on

How did you get your site to resize upon different window sizes? My site is a mess in that means. On some monitors you have to scroll horiz. to see the right.

Any help for me? Paint System Information

I am using frontpage and i would think there is a code that i would have to install?

Thanks.

Thanks for all the input,

Dave,
Yes I agree that the pink text is bit too bright. I have changed the background from purple and the text with that color theme worked well. I haven't change the text color to fit with this template. I have several more templates that I'm working on.

Thanks, Dubbya,
I will trim that down so that it will fit more to the theme. Good pointers.

Thanks Amxfan,
The menu bars is some thing that I have dealing with. Most people have their menu on the left and I always hated it when I have to cross the page to go to the menu. The vertical bar is usually the first place I go to when I arrive at the page and it made it easier for me to have the menu there. It's also more the right brain/ left brain and I want my customers to be impulse buying. Pictures and products on the right something to think about on the left. Not much on the left. Thanks for expanding my customer base those are some great ideas. I thank you whole heartedly for your input.

Thanks jobrasky,
But this is my first site and I don't know any coding before this. I read a little CSS and HTML and know nothing on java. I'm amazed that my site even works. Again thank you for all your input.

Pink and brown are currently a popular color combination for fashion and home interiors, so I think they're a good choice for this site...however, I'd make the pink like one of the tones from within the product image on the homepage...softer, med/light pink (mauve or dusty rose?)

I just want to clarify why I stated swapping your two columns. This has nothing to do with personal preference or navigation of your page for your customers. This has everything to do with search engines. Rule of thumb, search engines read your page left to right, top to bottom. In swapping those two columns, it moves your links higher in the code, also moving any anchor text for those links higher in the code. This ads importance and relevance, although it may be slight. But this also makes your page more search engine friendly as you don't have any anchor text or links or content on the left hand side in that column. This was the only reason I recommended that. I wanted to explain this in case you never gave it a thought.

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Thanks for clearing that up amxfan. It seems that is the drawback with search engines, creativity becomes less important when everything becomes standard. I will be putting all the articles and content on the left to improve or to appease the Google eye. Thanks for your input. The work is never done on these things.