Sothink — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:54:36 +0000

Yes, I have the same feeling as allen555. The colors remind me of chocolate.
If it is a site to sell chocolate, I will definitely buy one.
Anyway, your site is greate. I like those baskets offered on your site.

One more thing, when I searched sth in your search box at the top, the font size and color of the footer links on the result page is not the same as the homepage.

diceventures — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:02:04 +0000

I think the design looks great! excllent job overall.

Your title is WAY too long. You are just cramming words in, and it looks horrible. Both your keyword tag and your Discription tag are doing the same. I"m all for Keyword density, but you're going overboard with not only density, but you repeat the same words over again "picnic, basket"

addicted2 — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:25:35 +0000

When I arrived at your site I was a little disappointed as the colour scheme put me off a bit. I think the idea that you are selling picnic-ware should impose more of a fresh/outdoors theme as I think in order to sell any product the buyer needs to have a sense of "being there" or using the item. On the other hand the swirling bar at the top is inviting and adds to the "romantic" theme you've gone for. The site is certainly professional and I would certainly feel comfortable buying from you, I just dont think I would have spent long on there if I had of been shopping for myself.
I hope this helps and good luck.

allen555 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:04:48 +0000

the site is pretty nice but the colors on it reminds me of chocolate and caramel.
for pick nick basket website i picture a bright, surburban, good morning type of web site.

Tudor.b — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:41:07 +0000

The site looks pretty okay, but the brown curves don`t say picnic basket. They make me think about...chocolate, or something like this. Must be all the damn comercials...
Anyway, you should ad some heading tags h1, h2 with keywords, and try to make the source code a little more crawler friendly. On a google search ( http://www.google.com/search?q=picnic-basket&hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_ro&rls=GBSA,GBSA:2005-23,GBSA:en&start=50&sa=N ) for picnic-basket I could find you on the first 6 pages. Therefor, you don't exist...sad but true.

akdiver — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:02:55 +0000

Hey

nice job i like the look of it.
it loaded quickly for me so no problems there.

I love the header and the nav bar looks great.

2 things though
1 it doesnt fit horizontally on my screen (ie6)
2 the colour chosen for the bottom nav bar doesnt allow me to see the links properly

other than that good job i like it.

Re:

inet_ventures — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:32:53 +0000

Thanks to everyone that has reviewed picnic-basket for me. I have gotten some great feedback and
have made a few changes based on it.

My advice would be to generally sell your products more.'
Matt, that's good advice and I will try to figure out some ways to do this.It was a consious
decision on my part to NOT start off on my main page trying to sell you something. I want the
user to feel comfortable on the site, to want to return for more (content). I have many plans
in the works for more content BUT I can see that I need to make it easier for people to shop.

If I have to make a complaint it is this (and I'd be interested to know others' opinions on 
this issue) 
I like big print because I like to sit a few feet from my computer. My dad likes big print because 
he can read it.But the menu View > Text size has no effect on your site. I'm stuck with the small 
letters. Is this because of CSS? Maybe there's a way around this that I don't know about. 
And people like my dad aren't your likely clinets. But how about people like me that don't 
necessairly sit at a desk and read, but rather try to read from a medium distance? View > Text 
Size > Largest is my friend.

'
Tony, I understand where you are coming from on this. This site uses CSS and I do not know if I
can change the CSS to allow my users to use a larger font. Anyone out there know if it can be done?

gfxsector - Thanks

I think it's good to have, for example, key words that is linked. So you could highlight some 
key products and link to the product pages. Headings are also good, so you could have various 
sections with headings and then a list of links to product pages. Or you could higlight some key 
products with little descriptions that would get some more keywords in

'
Megan, Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it. I did the things you suggested and would love
to get even more feed back from anyone else with knowledge of SEO.

If anything, get rid of that image show thing at the top that's just 
taking up space and replace it with product highlights and such.

'
Megan - I can't agree with you on this one. I really like my "image show thing".

Thanks again to everyone for your feedback, you guys are the greatest!

Sam Warren
Picnic-Basket.com

mattdes — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:05:55 +0000

I just opened up your site and I really liked the look of it. You should be happy that you have created something so proffesional-looking, and I think that visitors will have no problem trusting you with their credit card details, which is a plus!
If I were you, trying to sell products, I would have images of the products and your most recent offer on the first page. Maybe even just images linking to each of the categories. This would help the visitor know which exact picnic category to go for, and give them an idea of what your product is like when they load up the site.
Perhaps the essay on picnicking is a bit much, however good marketing spin it is!
My advice would be to generally sell your products more.

tony873004 — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:28:14 +0000

Very professional!

If I have to make a complaint it is this (and I'd be interested to know others' opinions on this issue)

I like big print because I like to sit a few feet from my computer. My dad likes big print because he can read it.

But the menu View > Text size has no effect on your site. I'm stuck with the small letters. Is this because of CSS? Maybe there's a way around this that I don't know about. And people like my dad aren't your likely clinets. But how about people like me that don't necessairly sit at a desk and read, but rather try to read from a medium distance? View > Text Size > Largest is my friend.

Also, I like your color scheme and the images you took. Makes me want to go on a picnic!

gfxsector — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:29:03 +0000

wow the design looks really good and unique. i love the colours they flow perfectly and the picture in the middle draws real attention.