evaluation please

[edd1e19]

hi there,

I would like to get some feedback on the new website i designed and developed. Could you please evaluate this website in terms of graphics, useability etc etc.

Could you please give marks out of 10, with 10 being the best and 0 being the worst.

http://www.a1nannies.com

Thanks very much

Edd

 

[grtfercho]

Pretty cool.
Nothing else to say. It looks great, easy to navigate, good graphics, simple and to the point.

I'd give it a 9.5 (only because a 10 is too perfect and nothing can be absolutely perfect.)

Good work.

grtfercho çB^]\..
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge" A. Einstein
-----------------------------------------------

http://www.llajta.com

 

[edd1e19]

Thanks grtfercho,

Please keep the reviews coming.

Thanks

Edd

 

[Dweezel]

Hi Eddie.
I really like the site. A couple of points you might want to consider though:

1. I think the text in the main white section of the home page looks a little unbalanced. It seems pressed up against the top of that section, and it looks a little bare. As it's the homepage I think it could use a graphic of some sort in there.

2. In the 'contact us' section (nice forms by the way), the baby graphic is good but looks a little bit cut and pasted. If you airbrush some soft shadows under the legs and feet in photoshop he will look more like he's sat in the page, and will give a nicer effect.

3. In the 'about us' section I think the 'pinned to the page polaroid' idea might look better if they were pinned a little less uniformley. Perhaps with the pins in different places, and the photos at slightly different angles.

Love the look of the site, and the colours. Love the alphabet blocks logo as well. The information is well presented and the navigation is clear and direct and makes it very easy to follow.

You want a mark out of 10? blimey.....erm...8

 

[MichiganRon]

Overall, looks good.

I searched for problems and came up with just a couple. The first one is just a picky stylistic thing. I would change the title of your pages so that they all start with "A1 Nannies -..." where the "..." is replaced by the current page name. For instance: "A1 Nannies - Home". This way, if someone bookmarks your site, they don't just get a name of "Home".

Your site looked good in IE6 and Opera 7.5. I found one problem in FireFox 0.9.1. On

http://www.a1nannies.com/nannies2.php

there is a break above your families2bottom.jpg image.

Oh yeah, one more thing, IMHO "background.jpg" is a little creepy. It looks like a couple of eyeball staring at you. It's so light that it's hard to make out. At first I thought it was that my monitor was dirty. You might want to darken it up a bit or do away with it completely.

Overall, good site. I give it a 8.5.

Ron


“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
~ Mevlana Rumi


Do you live in Michigan? Join us in the Tek-Tips in Michigan forum.

 

[Dweezel]

I didn't spot background.jpg until MichiganRon pointed it out. I thought it was smudges on my monitor as well

A bit too subtle perhaps.

 

[johnwm]

Just a small point, on the Nannies page there is a line of text 'After this checking we will.............' which is repeated.

________________________________________________________________
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first

'If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?'

 

[GUJUm0deL]

edd1e19, nice site. Like the color schema, and images. Noticed a few things:

1) The 'Contact Us' form seems to be submitted even when its blank. Might want to use some kind of validations. Something simple like JavaScript will work fine.

2) The 'confidentiality' pop-up link seems to be cut off at the end. Make the popup box wider, so all the contect can fit in. Also, format that pop-up box. You know with some nice font color, font style, font size, images, etc.

Aside from that, nice work.

[sub]
____________________________________
Just Imagine.

http://www.imajinarts.com

[sub]

 

[ChrisHunt]

OK, nice stuff first: Nice looking site. Good use of colour and graphics in the logo bar. The pages load fast and have plenty of useful information in them. Now the problems...
[ul]
[li]The text size is a little too small too read comfortably. As noted above, it's floating above a big blank space in your home page - so there's room for a more managable size. Admittedly, I can choose to display the text bigger - but then I can't read the whole of the confidentiality pop-up (of which more later).[/li]

[li]There are one or two typos in your copy, e.g. "Some nannies have told us stories about difficulties in having to ask for their pay form their previous employers". Also brush up on use of apostrophes in your FAQ page: "What about my families confidential information?" should be "What about my family's confidential information?". Seems trivial, but it undermines the professionalism of the site[/li]

[li]On the FAQ page, split the questions asked by families from those asked by nannies. It flits from one to the other at the moment, making it quite difficult to follow. I thought that "What about my families confidential information?" question was about a nanny protecting her previous employers' information until I read it twice.[/li]

[li]The confidentiality pop-up can't be re-sized or scrolled, when sometimes it needs to be (see above). It also seems to want to pop up automatically sometimes (though my pop-up blocker stops it). I don't really know why this page is treated differently to the others - I'd make it a normal page displaying full-screen.[/li]

[li]What does that "Disclosure" thing mean in the bottom left?[/li]

[li]Don't see a good reason to use images-as-text for your contact form labels, but if you have to, give them some alt attributes so blind folk can read them. (nice picture btw)[/li]

[li]Perhaps break up some of the more text-heavy pages with more pictures, maybe some kids of different ages (assuming that they're part of your business too)[/li]

[li]Technical note: Your pages should all have a full two-part doctype for it to be recognised by all browsers. Make it like this:[/li]

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]

[li]Use an external CSS style sheet instead of <font> tags and assorted inline style attibutes. Your pages will load faster and be easier to maintain.[/li]

[li]Saved the worst till last: Using an <iframe> to hold your actual page content may cause you real trouble with search engines. They like pages with text on, so they're likely to send vistors to pages like

http://www.a1nannies.com/index1.html

- which is not very helpful. You can use CSS to get a similar scrolling box effect whilst keeping all the content on the same page.[/li]
[/ul]

All minor problems except for the last. I give it 8.

-- Chris Hunt

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk

http://www.napitalia.org.uk

http://www.leicesteryha.org.uk

 

[edd1e19]

Thanks for all your replys.

Just want to say something to Chris.

You mentioned "You can use CSS to get a similar scrolling box effect whilst keeping all the content on the same page.
"

How is this done? what is the code i would use?

thanks

edd

 

[ChrisHunt]

Try something like this:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Scrolling DIV Fun</title>
</head>
<body>
  <div style="width:200px;height:200px;border: 1px solid black;overflow:scroll;">
     Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
     incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
     exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute
     irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
     pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia
     deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
  </div>
</body>
</html>

-- Chris Hunt

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk

http://www.napitalia.org.uk

http://www.leicesteryha.org.uk