Hi,

I would appreciate it if I could get some reviews of my new website that I am testing. If you could review on concept and design and if you have suggestions that would be great also. I am more than happy to return the favor if and when required.

www.workvent.com

Thanks
Kevin.

Hi Kevin,

I've gone very quickly through your website and I think you've done a great job. The concept is attractive and there is a need for such a service. In addition the design and the layout are very good.

I have small comments though (of course... who doesn't ):

• On the home page: "in the strictest of confident to encourage"... I think it's not a good sentence... Maybe if you say "in a secure and confident environment to encourage..." it will be better
• "Your online username is the only information displayed"... hmmmm... I believe the user should have the ability to display whatever info he wants to... So, even if he wants to hide his username, let him.

Good luck

okay...
Please read this topic...
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread88871.html

That covers more than a few issues your website has, and should suggest some form of testing as well to double check you haven't missed anything.


Please get an online Email form put in on the Cotact page... MailTo:s are limited to those with email applications, where as some folk still use webmail only.

The green liks on the pale blue/grey is lacking a little in contrast.

You hae generic Titles on every page - not good for SEO - try making each page have a unique title relating to thetopic/contents.

You have no use of Header Tags... <h1> etc. are good for SEO.... so try positioning one absolutely behind your banner with the site name/page name on it.

It's in Tables....?


Apart from that stuff... novel idea, good clean designwith no silly frilly bits, logical naviagation and obvious structure.

Smart!

Great idea and concept. Should be a great social network site.

The first thing that hit me is bad color combinations. The green does not work, and looks cheesy with the gray. Maybe play around with the fonts also.

Your intro/descreption has typos, and is run together and hard to read. Maybe use a bold catch phrase to describe the site right off. Check out your workplace before it's too late and then tell what your site does.

Navigation seemed easy and straightforward. Make the sign up part stand out. Not everybody is savy on forums, and signing up. Gear it towards a new user, more seasoned users will forgive you.

The overall look is nice (except the green font) but generic. The keyboard thing etc, just a template like millions of other websites. You may want to make your banner more original and relevant.

Definately use one of the online color pickers to select colors for your site.

So I would give you a B+ for site, a C- for colors and an A for function and concept (this is without signing up)

I think that site has some real neat design. There is no clutter and i find it extremely easy to navigate. The ads though seem a bit obvious. I am not sure if you did that on purpose. You could possibly get a bit creative with the title tag though as i am a SEO guy i think that part is not taken care off well. May be add relevant keywords on the content and teh title tag. This will give you a small boost in the traffic too.

Please get rid of the green on grey colour scheme. Its really hard to read.

Review of www.workvent.com
menu at top: may want to items closer together
May want to expalin on how you rate a company:
just "working conditions - respect - pay - management" doesn't give much information
what do they mean ?? you may want more information or more items
Login information - may want to place information on how and how not this information will be used
hope this helps
falcon

HI,

Thanks for the great feedback, it was very helpful. The main feedback was about the colour, I have changed this. Can you please take another look at the new colour scheme?

Thanks again.
K

Hmmm, sorry to say, but you need to go read up on Colour Contrast.
you do not have a Dark BG and then use a Dark colour on top (your top nav bar has deep grey with white - then the hover is a deep green! thats no good!).

You aside Nav has a light blue BG with Dark Blue liks... good.... then you goto a mid grey for the hover - again, not good.
(same for the footer links!)



To get an understanding (though it is painfully complicated!)...
http://juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.php

To see why it is importnant, take a screen shot of your site... then go to...
http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/
...and give it a go!

If you hae a Dark BG, always retain light on top - shift from white to Light green (or poss. better to have light green shift to white?)

If you have the light/mid colours on the side, keep to dark colours.

Basically, try swapping some of the colours from Top to side!

I think, you should do something with the colors and design.