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denisbaldwin -> Need critique on my website (12/3/2006 22:34:02)

After being in the awards and recognition business for many years, we've decided to take a big step in
creating a site that is more SEO friendly, easier to use and shows thousands of awards off.
Other than the "Custom Awards" section, which I'm still finishing, can I get some feedback on the rest of
this site? I'd like feedback on the graphics, ease of use, design issues and anything that you think
might be valuable to know. I'm looking for a critical eye and honest feedback.

The site:

http://www.awardsideas.com

Also, if you wouldn't mind checking out our other sites, that'd be wonderful too.

http://www.flexidisplay.com
http://www.awarenessideas.com

Any and all feedback is welcome!

Thanks,

Denis A. Baldwin
Marketing Manager
Flexi Display Marketing
denis@flexidisplay.com




Nicole -> RE: Need critique on my website (12/4/2006 3:10:21)

Denis, welcome to Outfront!

I only looked at the opening pages of the first 2 sites you posted.

I realise with shopping cart type sites it can be a difficult task getting all the images to load quickly, you're obviously using broadband, the first site was "okay" but the second site took 4 minutes to load on my dial-up connection. You may have optimised the images as much as you could (have you?), but they aren't complex images and should've loaded a lot quicker than 4 minutes.

I like the colour schemes you've used in both sites but you talk about making sites more SEO friendly, and quite frankly there's nothing more friendly than a CSS layout, and at the very least styling page elements with CSS to make your code a lot cleaner.

You have many, many tables used for your layouts and besides that probably being one reason they took so long for me to load, they will be effecting your search ranking also.




jaybee -> RE: Need critique on my website (12/4/2006 5:09:12)

Nicole he's using cart software, he has no choice over tables and css. The cart software is the cart software. Having said that there are carts around with much better code.

Denis my only immediate criticism is the second site which is a little too wide for the page and has a horizontal scroll bar.




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