Site reviewed - http://mihaic.homepage.com
Machine used - AMD Athlon, Matrox video, 18.1 inch flat panel, Netscape
4.7
Obligatory Disclaimer - The below is my opinion and should be take as
such.
IMO, the site needs a lot of the little things like a doctype,
validation, and spell checking. This is supposed to be a representation
of a successful business.
You shouldn't misspell successfully as succesfully on the about page.
There are many examples on that and other pages. It may sound like
nit-picking, but bad spelling is like wearing a dirty shirt to a job
interview. I understand that there might be a language problem, but
there are spell checkers; and like I said, you are supposed to be
looking like a professional, successful company. Shake a tree and 50 Web
design wannabes fall out. Don't try to look like them.
Doctype... you need one to validate your code. You can find one and a
validation engine at http://www.w3c.org. I'm not a big stickler for
exact validation, but in this case you'd have found some extra open and
close table tags as well as missing alt and size image tags. Missing or
extra tags can play havoc with a browser as well as, again, failing to
show professionalism.
As a usability issue, and again this is your choice, I would allow text
decoration. It may not look as snazzy, but people like their text links
underlined according to most studies I've seen.
You claim that you will submit a client's site to major search engines,
yet your meta tags don't exist.
The two bottom images on your portfolio page are not on the server or at
least, not by that name when I looked.
Nice job using color safe colors on the images.
Finally, you asked that the ads not be mentioned, but really, this is a
company site. IMO, you should beg and borrow to get a domain and host it
somewhere. Many designers feel that they need to offer hosting services
as part of the overall package. To not even have your own site properly
hosted doesn't look good. Think about it. If you were a prospective
client looking for an Internet solution or presence, would you consider
someone hosted on a freebie domain with freebie email addresses?
Probably not. Furthermore you have to resort to freebie forms. You can't
even handle server side solutions. E-Commerce would be a nightmare, IMO.
A domain is dirt cheap to free. Commercial hosting services are
extremely inexpensive.
Now, I realize that I've been a little harsh. I don't do many critiques
anymore. The ones that I do critique are where I think the designer has
real talent. This case is the same. I love the concept, and I think you
have talent. I like the graphics, and I think the layout is simple, yet
clean; pleasing to the eye. I just don't think this site is going to get
you business when implemented this way. Then you might get discouraged
and give up. I'd hate to see your abilities go to waste.
Mihaela Parvan wrote:
> I added a portofolio page, as most of you suggested and I moved it to
> homepage.com (webjump is really, really, really slow). Don't say
> anything about the ads on top, he can't afford webhosting or domain
> name.
> What about the design, speed, browser compatibility etc. Please CC to my
> address.
> Mihaela Parvan.
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Craig T. Harding
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