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servantofgod servantofgod is offline Offline Nov 1st, 2008, 12:30 am |
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For your review of my client's site: http://www.whatsshopping.com.
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infotechland infotechland is offline Offline | Nov 1st, 2008
I just checked it out. It looks pretty good. Although, one thing that caught my attention was the HUGE selection/navigation bar on the left. I know it would suck coding wise, but in my opinion, viewing wise it may look nicer if you collapsed the selections into their main catagories, and expanded them when a user hovers or clicks on them. But overall its pretty nice.
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jorel001 jorel001 is offline Offline | Nov 1st, 2008
Nice site overall. To much info on the left navbar. This could be missleading for your visitors. My opinion is that the footer could be in the center of the page. In rest is OK!
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servantofgod servantofgod is offline Offline | Nov 1st, 2008
Thanks guys, I will be reviewing both your sites and PMing you.

Anyone else is welcomed to review I will do the same in return.
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animeshmehra animeshmehra is offline Offline | Nov 5th, 2008
Lots of things

1) During load time, since images get loaded a bot slowly, it looks a bit ugly. I am using a 2 MBPS DSL and I see no reason why images should be loaded so slowly.. Please move from a shared machine to a dedicated server for faster response times.

2) All items are listed with price tags but how does it convince a visitor to spend money on it unless he/she is told your competitive advantage over your competion. Why should one buy from your site?

3) Also you have assumed that it would be selfevident to people by the domain name, price tags and categories that it is a shop corner. Please write a "About Us" somewhere at the top describing your number of years of experience in retail, online retail etc and any testimonials you may have received from your customers.

4) Items are moving out of page on my laptop and I have scroll right to see all items in a row.. It is not very comfortable... May be it will look okay on a large sized monitor.

5) You page rank is 1/10.. I am not an SEO expert but if you are 5-6 month old site then SEO wise you are okay.

If you are interested, please review mine

http://www.econcinnity.com

Thanks
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servantofgod servantofgod is offline Offline | Nov 5th, 2008
Now that is the review we were looking for. The site is, in fact on a dedicated server actually. Approximately how long did the home page take to load?

Thank you, and I will review your site and PM you when I have completed my projects for the day.
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animeshmehra animeshmehra is offline Offline | Nov 6th, 2008
20 seconds... show only the items for one category and let visitor choose the category from the left.. although have an option (a link at the top) to show all the item at once if a visitor wants. this should increase response times... if it is hosted on dedicated machine and u still want to show so many items on the home page then choose another hosting service with dedicated xeon 8 core processors available to you
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servantofgod servantofgod is offline Offline | Nov 6th, 2008
Make sure to puruse additional reviews, as one person cannot give you the direction you need

Layout is fine

Elements need work such as the color scheme. Go for something a little more clean. The silver gradients with gray are fine, but you want it to look extremely professional. Try white backgrounds for text.

Remove the rounded corners from the google ads.

Design should look a little more crisp and 2008-ish, remember you are selling software estimation, people that visit your site will expect your site to be more visually appealing than theirs.

Revert from the Econcinnity.com logo you are using. It is very small and off-looking. Go for regular a regular text logo in the same location.

Check this site out, see if you can get a look like theirs. I did a custom software company search in google and they came first.

http://www.tometasoftware.com/

Also, where are your meta keyword and description tags?


PS thanks for the info, helps a lot
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animeshmehra animeshmehra is offline Offline | Nov 6th, 2008
Thanks to you too... keyword and description tags are there ..search for name="keywords"... logo we are getting rid of soon... have already started speaking with mysitelogo.com to design a good one for us. we will work out on the rest... do you think we should reduce font size or change font as well?
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servantofgod servantofgod is offline Offline | Nov 6th, 2008
Reduce font, I forgot to mention that. I have a 1152 resolution and it still looks fairly large.
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