wwwben — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:09:41 +0000

spice up the nav a little

craig747 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:51:49 +0000

Great site!

One suggestion, can you reduce the length of it slightly to prevent the need for scrolling at all. That's always a good thing.

The phone number is important information and is in a good clear location but does not hinder the view the rest of the site. Impressed!

Overall, thumbs up!

mattbutterworth — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:43:56 +0000

Hi all,

Thanks for all the suggestions - some of them are good common sense that I've overlooked - others are pure genius. I've had hardly any time to do things to the site recently but will be updating next week (my day job is rather busy at the moment...!). I'll also make a concerted effort to review some more sites also.

WaveyUK — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:11:07 +0000

Hi.
Looked at the site. It's not fussy. But I will agree with the comment made in here about the colour scheme. The contrast of light brown text on a white page can make it hard to read, especially on an LCD screen.
Another thing I noticed is when you click on the price list and referals links, the page seems to do a shimmy to the left! Only a minor thing I guess, but something that might need looking at!!
One other thing... Michelle's telephone number is probably the most important thing of all, so having it flash past in some text at the bottom of the screen is probably not a wise idea. I would put it as static text on the page somewhere.
Hope this helps.

WarriorFX — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:01:59 +0000

The Web site looks good - and I like your choice of complementary colors. I would suggest making all the hyper link text (whether traditional or graphic-based text) blue. So that the link color does not get confusing... so people know for sure what is clickable. I think blue would be the way to go for the image text links - cause totally monochromatic would be a little drab. On your main page you have a photo of yourself (I think) and another woman - you can use Photoshops eyedropper to grab a color from there for your hyperlinked text and gifs...

Your title tag reads, "Ex Toni and Guy hairdressers" - you could run into a problem with that if it is a tradename ( I don't know much of the hair dresser industry). Like I couldn't put any reference to Ebay in my title tag hoping to draw from their search results... but if they don't contest it - you're good to go!

Your upper left corner is just screaming, "GIVE ME A LOGO!" lol

Busy — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:25:35 +0000

The colours don't do much for me and the coloured text is just to much I think.
The logo is a little confusing at first, maybe a bigger seperation in colours.

The images on the main page are confusing, which one is Michelle ? My guess is the one on the right but the one on the left is bigger which also could be. It's not as confusing on other pages, just the index.

I don't have flash installed so have no idea what the very bottom section is or says, so if any of the following is in it, just ignore this

On your other pages it appears like a saloon site rather than a mobile one, search engines aren't always going to deliver people to your index, if anything most of your traffic will come through the other pages and some may never even see the index page. So really all pages need mention it's a mobile service

Your page titles are also way to long, keep it short and to the point, you also have missed some real basic key words from your site/meta tags, things like, when someone wants a hairdresser, they want their hair cut or trimmed etc

Another thing you may want to point out is use of power, do you use the persons power to run the hairdryer or do you have a cordless one, or run from generator? what if the person had some maintaince work done that day but wanted their hair done while they waited ... could include it into your small print (which you dont have), heaps of questions, like is there a traveling/call out fee? do you do perms or highlights ... do you sell shampoo, conditioner, combs, rollers ... the more information you give, the more keywords you have used, the more the search engines have to find ...

gfawce1 — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:25:34 +0000

Hi,

I know you're mobile but the thing that hit me was when I saw a mobile telephone number that you perhaps weren't a serious outfit. Perhaps it's just me? Have you thought of publishing a local telphone number and having it divert to your mobile when you're not around?

If you've got broadband and a router, check out vonage.co.uk - they'll give you a virtual local number for your area and call forwarding is free (apart from the cost of the call to the mobile of course). Plus you'll save a heap on calls too!

Just my 2c

Good luck!

Liked the site very clean

Piers — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:46:02 +0000

I am new to websites myself and have only just set up mine. So from a not too "Techy" point of view I think its clean and polished.. Maybe a few pictures of some of the haircuts you have done yourself would be a good idea, also unless I missed it how far out you will travel...

r3a1 — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:22:51 +0000

I think that a couple of tricks could spice this site up. So that I don't point out stuff that was already said I will just stick to two things that I think might help to take away from that table layout look mentioned Jeeves.

- use a non-repeating background with that leaf/flower background like I did here. you gotta use CSS, but I think the result is professional and interesting. Sigma Kappa Temp - KSU - this is a web design for a sorority on campus, its subtle but that small image behind your text removes that feel of being boxed in.

- There have been gripes about the pic which im sure you will fix. You might think about removing that black box around her and go with a full upper body shot. removing and the box and making her look like she is "there" might contine with the effect of removing the table layout feel. ~Hatcliff this is design for a professor in my department which I did that has the effect I'm talking about.

mattbutterworth — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:42:16 +0000

Thanks for all your help guys. I've got a load of stuff on CSS which I'm going to go through this week. I'll put on a post when things are updated.

p.s. Michelle sends her thanks also!