Hi everyone,
I am new to this site and must say I am really enjoying it.
I would appreciate anyone who has a spare moment to check out my site and critique it. This is the first site I have ever done and would appreciate any input.
Thanks in advance.
Ted
http://www.planetlava.com

the color orange is very harsh on the eyes... you might want to either consider using a better color or making the orange a much lighter shade...
the graphics on your bubble chair pages are missing..
you need more text on your index page...
you should be using a more readable and professional looking font.. such as Verdana or Arial.
hope this helps..

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Mary Ann
Affordable Websites Designed - www.m-goret.com

Thanks for taking the time to take a look. The color suggestion is understandable. As far as the fonts, like I said, I am new to this and was afraid if I picked a font that wasn't on the user's computer it might not work right. As far as the pictures missing, I couldn't find which ones were missing. Unless you meant the add to cart buttons which I left out on backordered items.

Thanks again...

you did a great job on this site i think your products are really good!I would love to have a link to your site on my site but i don't know how i am really new at all this.i love your site its colors and fonts really compliment each other and your products are really clear i hate it when i can't see a product i want to buy.
sherie www.justwhimsyme.com

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check all of your bubble chair pages... the main photo on most of the pages is missing... be sure you have the coding correct.

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Mary Ann
Affordable Websites Designed - www.m-goret.com

Thanks for taking the time to alert me to the exact problem with the images. I was unable to tell the pictures were missing because it was pulling them from my hard drive. It was easy enough to fix. Thanks for the help.

Ted

I was thinking of adding a product slideshow javascript to my index page. Does anyone have any thoughts on that. I'm trying to decide. Would it be too distracting
or would it add some zest to the site? Any thoughts?

Ted
www.planetlava.com

Hi,

Your site is fast-loading, clean, neat and well-organized.

The color scheme leaves a lot to be desired, and will not be very helpful for the color-blind. Below are some URLs that I think are most helpful in determining a color scheme. If you decide to change your colors, you might like to take a look at what these sites have to offer.

Accessibility for the Color-Blind

How Do Things Look to Colorblind People?
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html

Safe Web Colours for Colour-Deficient Vision
http://more.btexact.com/people/rigde...s/PalFiles.htm

Colorblind Web Page Filter
http://colorfilter.wickline.org

Colorblind Color Lab
http://colorlab.wickline.org/colorblind/colorlab

Colour Picker
http://www.tesspub.com/colours.html

Newman Services Color-Blind Evaluation
http://www.newmanservices.com/colorblind/default.asp

‘The Eye of the Beholder’ - Designing for Colour-Blind
Users
http://more.btexact.com/people/rigde...rs/colours.pdf

Vischeck for color-blind adaptations
http://www.vischeck.com

Other Helpful Color Links

Color Contrast Verification Tool (HP)
http://h10014.www1.hp.com/accessibility/color_tool.html
(have your hexadecimal values or RGB values ready for
this one)

VisiBone
About web-safe colors
http://www.visibone.com/color/faq.html#colorblind

VisiBone Color Lab
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab


This last one is very useful in helping you develop a color scheme. You can play around with all the options and try different settings.

Cool Tools: Color Scheme
http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html

Best wishes for your site.

Nanci
www.neckwares.com

Thanks for your review Nanci.
I was looking at the resources you mentioned and it dawned on me, I have no clue how to pick colors.
So please, if anyone has a color combination that they think would go good with the logo I have at the top left of my page, please make a suggestion, in hex, or just lighter, darker, greener, etc...

I want the site to be non offending, but I also want it to have some character.

Thanks in advance,
Ted
www.planetlava.com

Try #CC0000 for the red or for even darker #990000.
I know we have to think of accessibilty so by making thered darker you will allow the navigation elemnts to stand out. The Orange should not be a problem.

The above make the red a shade darker or two and takes that glare away.

Nice site and some good stuff you have on it

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Thanks for the color suggestions Keimos.
I had actually thought about using #cc0000.
It's amazing what a difference just changing the red made on the whole impact of the page. It certainly toned it down a bit. As for the Logo, I'm not sure if I should tone it down or if it is fine the way it is.

Thanks again to everyone for looking.

Ted
www.planetlava.com

Your logo is very good so keep it.

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Keimos - Always learning something new each day
www.keimos.co.uk , www.keimos.net , www.selfpacedit.co.uk

Looks like the changes did you some good... just one suggestion from me is to change your margins in the body tag (or add margins.. I didn't check the source) so that you don't have that white space at the top and side of your design (making the orange flush against the top and the left side)

I think that would give it a nice improvement:)

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Really? I didn't even notice the margins, I should be able to take care of that. Thanks for taking the time to drop me a line.

Ted Novak
www.planetlava.com