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Hi all,
I've just inherited responsibility for www.wellhungmeat.com (organic meat!), and wondering what you guys think of the site before making any changes.
Please let me know your thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc.
All very gratefully received and will think about for the future.
Many thanks!
>>> Edited by blueski on Wednesday 27th April 12:13
I've just inherited responsibility for www.wellhungmeat.com (organic meat!), and wondering what you guys think of the site before making any changes.
Please let me know your thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc.
All very gratefully received and will think about for the future.
Many thanks!
>>> Edited by blueski on Wednesday 27th April 12:13
From a technical point of view, it's good. Good use of stylesheets instead of bandwidth-hungry graphics for navigation. Good use of keywords and the core documents are well set up for search engine indexing. Works in Firefox.
Nice use of colours to show links and section titles. FAQs and Recipies contain good information - useful for generating traffic and repeat visits. Generally nice, tidy, easy to read.
And, as Plotloss mentions, you might have a new customer here too!
Nice use of colours to show links and section titles. FAQs and Recipies contain good information - useful for generating traffic and repeat visits. Generally nice, tidy, easy to read.
And, as Plotloss mentions, you might have a new customer here too!
Couple of comments, neither are that important 
Links to other sites (like the telegraph link from sausages on the home page) are all fine and dandy, until the linked site changes. Also if the linked site needs registration at some point to continue surfing (again like the telegraph site) then you kind of coerce the viewer to sign up to another site in order to view whatever it was you were suggesting they look at. Maybe it's better to have the content on your site, and have all the necessary copyright notices.
Links to other sites (like the telegraph link from sausages on the home page) are all fine and dandy, until the linked site changes. Also if the linked site needs registration at some point to continue surfing (again like the telegraph site) then you kind of coerce the viewer to sign up to another site in order to view whatever it was you were suggesting they look at. Maybe it's better to have the content on your site, and have all the necessary copyright notices.
I agree - clean and easy to use site on the whole but wath out for strange visitors with that domain name.
One observation - to be successful in search engine you need to link to other sites and encourage them to link to you in return. Building links (especially back links to your site) apparently gets you listed higher in the searches.
Also when you do link to other sites like the Telegraph link, its better to do that in another window so your user doesn’t disappear of your site.
On a similar note I have just been given responsibility for www.carhiredirect.co.uk.
I'd love some similar feedback for fellow PHers
I didn’t design the site though I have just had the colours/look & feel changed a little to see if that has an impact on bookings. My real challenge is that I need to grow traffic and bookings but on a limited marketing budget, and search engines seem to have a mind of their own.
Oh and if any of you guys want to use the site to book please let me know and I can email you a discount voucher.
Thanks
One observation - to be successful in search engine you need to link to other sites and encourage them to link to you in return. Building links (especially back links to your site) apparently gets you listed higher in the searches.
Also when you do link to other sites like the Telegraph link, its better to do that in another window so your user doesn’t disappear of your site.
On a similar note I have just been given responsibility for www.carhiredirect.co.uk.
I'd love some similar feedback for fellow PHers
I didn’t design the site though I have just had the colours/look & feel changed a little to see if that has an impact on bookings. My real challenge is that I need to grow traffic and bookings but on a limited marketing budget, and search engines seem to have a mind of their own.
Oh and if any of you guys want to use the site to book please let me know and I can email you a discount voucher.
Thanks
blueski said:
Agree the blue/green combo is a bit wishy washy; we had a graphics design agency come up with the logo and some of the text, and never been entirely convinced myself.
I like the slightly humorous look of your logo/banner. The Babington House one is very nice and suits that business, but doesn't seem suited to meat - would seem a bit self-important flogging sausages I think
You could keep your banner and change the background colour. I like black: classy, easy on the eye, goes with anything, helps photos stand out.
simpo two said:
...change the background colour. I like black...
Black background is OK for photographic sites, but is very bad for text. Black text on white sharpens the text, and enables the eye to read the text very easily - the reverse is true of light text on a dark background, the text tends to expand and blur, and is harder to read.
PH has a very good palette, very simple shades for areas of text.
I'd recommend books by Edward Tufte on graphic design and presenting information, e.g. this.
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