Please review www.speechbubble.ie

timserw · #1 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 01:00 PM

Hi those of greater knowledge than I.

Please run your fresh eyeballs over our new commercial site.

I welcome your feedback.

Tim

SpeechBubble.ie

johngroup · #2 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 02:05 PM

Like the design very much. The illustrations are great!

chiron · #3 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 02:44 PM

Hi Tim,

Agree, excellent site. I will nit-pick because that's about all there is to do here.

Logo, upper left, link it to the home page please. The flags, oh I really want to click those, but I cannot. I have to assume you are creating and will be linking this site around to itself via those flags in multiple languages, but just in case...

"Multilingual training aids... imagine the difference" - I like the first part. But I am such a lazy consumer. Right now when I try to imagine the difference, I think, uh, well, um I like bacon and did I leave the water running outside? If it's not set in stone in a dozen languages, may wish to rethink the second half and tell us the difference/benefit. Multilingual Training Aids - Improved Retention, Safety, and Efficiency. Or whatever.

Those top links are CSS text, it would be nice for high resolution clumsy mousers (hello!) to have the whole tab to fumble over and click on... couple of the images don't quite blend (shadowing mostly) before they "cut off" at least in Firefox 2+ and lastly, "Safety Talks" is great at catching the eye - too good, it overtakes your logo and (right column) calls to action/nav... maybe smaller text, maybe below vs above the graphic?

Right side nav needs, like the top bar, to have wider swathes of click real estate, blue "SpeechBubble Demo" text in particular. Really nice work!

iany · #4 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 07:08 PM

Nice look and feel and I don't have the gripes of chiron.
But you need to tidy up the html. Lost of markup errors - particularly wrong end tags for the DocType.
See [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.speechbubble.ie/ - W3C Markup Validator for details.

Also the JavaScript should be off page.

Page titles are a bit lazy from an SEO point of view eg Speechbubble home. Eh? Unless folks know your name, nobody will find the site.

I like the theme and the products. Go for it.

Cheers

Ian

copywriter39 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 11:11 PM

I like the look of the site. It's obvious your trying to create a brand identity for your company that carries from the packaging to the web site. One thing I would suggest is adding testimonials to the site highlighting how companies have benefited from your product.

timserw · #6 (**permalink**) 08-15-2008, 06:32 AM

Chiron your comment

"Multilingual training aids... imagine the difference" - I like the first part. But I am such a lazy consumer. Right now when I try to imagine the difference, I think, uh, well, um I like bacon and did I leave the water running outside? If it's not set in stone in a dozen languages, may wish to rethink the second half and tell us the difference/benefit. Multilingual Training Aids - Improved Retention, Safety, and Efficiency. Or whatever.

I agree, I think we might need a more to the point descriptor.

Also.....due to the "flick to a flag scheme, we have already put plans in place to allow this and maybe (if budgets allow) flicking the flag to change the entire site environment to that language...we think that would be uber cool.

Anyway.......to all. Hearty thanks for taking the time....valuable and appreciated.

Please continue.

Tim
SpeechBubble

timserw · #7 (**permalink**) 08-15-2008, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iany

Nice look and feel and I don't have the gripes of chiron.
But you need to tidy up the html. Lost of markup errors - particularly wrong end tags for the DocType.
See [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.speechbubble.ie/ - W3C Markup Validator for details.

Also the JavaScript should be off page.

Page titles are a bit lazy from an SEO point of view eg Speechbubble home. Eh? Unless folks know your name, nobody will find the site.

I like the theme and the products. Go for it.

Cheers

Ian

Iany.....will raise the SEO point IMMEDIATELY.Cheers.

Tim

MuNKyonline · #8 (**permalink**) 08-15-2008, 08:58 AM

The site looks great - nice job!

You have some big SEO/markup issues on the site:

Code:

<div class="buttons_left">&nbsp;</div>
	        <div id="ctl00_divHomeButton" class="button_normal"><h1><a href="/default.aspx">Home</a></h1></div> 
	        <div id="ctl00_divAboutButton" class="button_selected"><h1><a href="/about.aspx">About Us</a></h1></div>
            <div id="ctl00_divProductsButton" class="button_normal"><h1><a href="/products.aspx">Products</a></h1></div>
            <div id="ctl00_divMadeButton" class="button_normal"><h1><a href="/made.aspx">Made to Measure</a></h1></div>

            <div id="ctl00_divClientsButton" class="button_normal"><h1><a href="/clients.aspx">Clients & News</a></h1></div>
            <div id="ctl00_divContactButton" class="button_normal"><h1><a href="/contact.aspx">Contact</a></h1></div>
            <div id="ctl00_divShopButton" class="button_normal"><h1><a href="/shop.aspx">Shop</a></h1></div>
            <div class="buttons_right">&nbsp;</div>
        </div>

You should only have one h1 on a page! It should also be unique. See what the w3c say about headings here - The global structure of an HTML document

Add some meta tags - keywords and description.
More info here - HTML META TAG

When you've done the meta tags run the page through our seo tool (see the link in my sig to munky online).

You have some minor html errors <br> should be <br /> in xhtml.

Also some of your image files are huge! You need to optimise your graphics and reduce their file sizes. Googles guidelines (when they were about) suggested that a page takes up no more than 30k including images css etc. Well 30KB is a bit too small now. You definitely want to take up less than 100KB though. The image on the homepage takes up nearly 100KB on its own and the usb device image takes up 181KB