http://www.superactive.biz what 's working / not working

[jrobin747]

Trying to see from a client point of view what is working and what isn't.
http://www.superactive.biz

[MarcieZoob]

The first impression is the site is quite busy - too many boxes and windows with individual scrollbars, there's graphical overload in the header that doesn't really compliment and the site overall is not very user-friendly.

Your text is hard to read throughout since you're using Times New Roman in gold on maroon. The blue links on maroon vibrate, which is very hard to read; the visited links are purple on maroon - ouch! Use a sans serif font and opt for white text for more contrast.

The site itself needs to be centered on the page, it feels tilted off to the left right now. Add a link to your homepage (I couldn't find one).

In regard to SEO, you've got some code clean-up to do and META tags to address. (Your #1 keyword phrase right now is "does not support" at 2.54% because of the error message in your code for your Iframes.)

[skyrocket]

Well, if I was Mr Joe Average client I would probably be put off by all that brown. That's just my opinion but brown! Yeeeuch :/ You have a 176K Flash movie that takes ages to load and under the bonnet looks like sites that were being built 5-7 years ago with all those old tags and spacer gif hacks. You use a Yahoo email address which just looks unprofessional. Having said that I like the touch where you give 20% of your profits to charity - can't find which one though

[jrobin747]

Thanks everyone. My feelings are not hurt. I'm getting what I asked. I went against the design rules trying something different.

I did have someone without a programming or design background look at it. Their comments were the opposite.

It kinds of like asking an experience ice skater to asking another ice skater critque their routine. You'll get comments like your lift off wasn't powerful enough, your rotation was a little wobbly.

If comments were ask of a non skater. They might think the ice skater was marvelous.

Of course, all opinions matter. Especially all of you who are doing web design for a living. I will make adjustments. I want clients of a higher paying range. For those I've designed for so far they aren't concern about old programming code and etc. They just want a presence.

Thanks very much to those who had time to look.

As far as the coding... I used DW MX 2004.