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Old 22-05-2008, 10:43 AM
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I'd value any feedback on this site redesign....

Irish Mobile- mobile phones Ireland

there's a few bits of content yet to be added (useful websites, yet to be updated, pm if you know any ) but the nuts and bolts of it are there....would like to know your thoughts....

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don't have time to have a proper look but initial impressions. Very nice.

Not sure about the featured items image though??? Doesnt match the other section that well????
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don't have time to have a proper look but initial impressions. Very nice.

Not sure about the featured items image though??? Doesnt match the other section that well????
I hope to change the look of the hompage every couple of weeks to match the latest offers etc....

I'll be changing that image in due course...

thanks for the feedback.......
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I'm very unsure about that site logo. It doesn't work for me.

Reason being that its not very print friendly (I don't know what direction you'll be going). I also think the brown background doesn't work with it. I'd prefer the green on just a white bg.

If I was you though I'd seriously consider another typeface and something non-italic.

Perhaps even consider having black text for your logo, with a green symbol, or something green around it for the (Irish green / relationship).

The images in your product catalogues are very large (compressed with HTML) which means very slow load times for those on a slower connection. There are several image libraries in PHP that can help with this.

All your pages titles are the same which is not good for SEO.

Other than that I think it looks ok.

Sorry if it comes off a bit rough (can be hard to read true intentions over a forum), but just wanted to be honest.
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What about text and search engines? Too much use of images
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I'm very unsure about that site logo. It doesn't work for me.

Reason being that its not very print friendly (I don't know what direction you'll be going). I also think the brown background doesn't work with it. I'd prefer the green on just a white bg.

If I was you though I'd seriously consider another typeface and something non-italic.

Perhaps even consider having black text for your logo, with a green symbol, or something green around it for the (Irish green / relationship).

The images in your product catalogues are very large (compressed with HTML) which means very slow load times for those on a slower connection. There are several image libraries in PHP that can help with this.

All your pages titles are the same which is not good for SEO.

Other than that I think it looks ok.

Sorry if it comes off a bit rough (can be hard to read true intentions over a forum), but just wanted to be honest.
I'm aware of the image load times, that'll be fully sorted in a week or so....just waiting to fill the whole site before I do a batch compression.....

The seo optimization is being worked on.....

the logo has been a constant problem for me.......i've 6500 fonts and can't find one I like and I haven't the budget just yet to hire an expert to design one for me.......

thanks for the feedback......i'll probably be going back to the drawing board again with the logo......
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What about text and search engines? Too much use of images
On the home page maybe but I think there's a good bit of text in the product descriptions......is that not enough? By next week sometime there should be 100+ pages on the site....i'm hoping that will keep google happy.....what do you think?
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Looks very nice. As landing pages go however, its not very search engine friendly? Your keywords are littered with the word "phone", but there is no mention of the word phone (in text) in your page. In fact there is no textual content at all. As you are using tables, maybe use a summary attribute. Your image directory location seems a bit odd src="../../../../../images/. Perhaps use an image caption. When I click on PayPal I'm brought to An Post.


Products: Displaying 1 to 10 (of 65 new products) you can barely see this text (a darker color perhaps). As you have 3 x 4 colums down, perhaps you should show 12 instead of 10 products. It looks a bit gappy.

Looking at /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3. Because your images are different sizes they resizing the container the product is sitting in. Perhaps have this changed to an absolute size in CSS?

When I went in to view the source of the page, it looks like you have a page embeded within the page. "3 is Ireland's largest". A HTML tag within a HTML tag isn't a great idea. bit...

Contact Us form could have a little bit of info about you. The warning on leaving a field empty has left me blinded for life. Perhaps something subtler.

On the upside, its a lovely design and is quick to load.

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Looks very nice. As landing pages go however, its not very search engine friendly? Your keywords are littered with the word "phone", but there is no mention of the word phone (in text) in your page. In fact there is no textual content at all. As you are using tables, maybe use a summary attribute. Your image directory location seems a bit odd src="../../../../../images/. Perhaps use an image caption. When I click on PayPal I'm brought to An Post.


Products: Displaying 1 to 10 (of 65 new products) you can barely see this text (a darker color perhaps). As you have 3 x 4 colums down, perhaps you should show 12 instead of 10 products. It looks a bit gappy.

Looking at /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3. Because your images are different sizes they resizing the container the product is sitting in. Perhaps have this changed to an absolute size in CSS?

When I went in to view the source of the page, it looks like you have a page embeded within the page. "3 is Ireland's largest". A HTML tag within a HTML tag isn't a great idea. bit...

Contact Us form could have a little bit of info about you. The warning on leaving a field empty has left me blinded for life. Perhaps something subtler.

On the upside, its a lovely design and is quick to load.

Regards
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When I went in to view the source of the page, it looks like you have a page embeded within the page. "3 is Ireland's largest". A HTML tag within a HTML tag isn't a great idea. bit...
Thanks for the tips i'll definatley have a look at them.....

just on the HTML inside the HTML....do you think that will upset google......If I change the way I write the product descriptions and pages that will mean a lot more work........what do you think, I know it's not best pratice but will I get away with it?
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