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Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 07/16/07 14:15
windandwaves wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
just a couple of things that came to mi mind whilst visiting the above URL:
- Navigational design
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- How do I navigate? The small images do not 'talk' to me... I have to
rely on a mouse over to see that each of the small images refer to a
main item in your navigation. This is one way to chase away customers:
don't tell them what they can find, obscure everything and leave them
alone to discover the treasures of your site. I don't know many
customers who will react in a friendly way to such a proposition :-)
- Who on earth told you that German is only spoken in Germany? I am
Swiss, and I can't see my flag, so I have to guess that I am not your
targeting audiance?
- Why should I identify grey colored text on a grey background as a
clickable link? Not very clever for people who might have some eyessight
troubles (and I assume those people are also inculded in your targeting
audiance?)
- What do you mean by placing an arrow in the footer besides your
flag-icons? Are you telling me, that there are more language options
available? I still couldn't find the Swiss-flag, but realised, that you
are trying to introduce a linear navigation with this arrow. This will
not work, as you are not telling your audiance what they might expect.
- No consistence in navigation design: If I click on one of the images
at least two new menus are being introduced: one above the small images,
and one in the footer bar. I can't see which is what, and couldn't
identify any visual and hence semantic hierarchy between those
naviations. Ahhh, and I notice a third menu-structure, when you dive
deeper into the menu-hierarchy... this is very bad. I suggest you
re-think your navigational-design.
- No immediate contact information. For a hotel I would expect this to
be the most important thing. As a future guest I want to know: where and
who can I contact you, as I want to book NOW. As your client I would
have insisted on this.
- What do you mean by introducing a menu item labelled 'Back to
Functions'? Keep your target audiance in mind: they are not geeks, nor
are they webdesigners. They want to be taken smoothly by the hands.
Explain them in a nice manner, that, if they click this link, they will
be taken to the entry page... whatever.. but something meaningful.
- Design
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I like your calm and neutral desing. The color-scheme is well used (if
one leaves the link-colors aside). I think it is quite courageous to
design the site against all 'common' design rules (logo centered, menu
at the bottom (where you would expect it the least), more information o
the top, two columns divided by a big image in the center), and IMHO you
could almost convince me about it :-)
- Typography
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Drop any italic. This is not readable, at least not on screen.
- HTML
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XHTML Strict? I don't think this is a good idea (at least if I read the
posts from the pros here in the group). Although your site validates.
your print.css seems to be HTML?
http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/s/print.css
I haven't looked at it thouroughly, but I can see some akward things
there... Why not using the @media selector?
And, yes: your site will not print. At least on my printer it will print
the entire layout, which will look terrible.
Just my two cents
Bernhard
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www.daszeichen.ch
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