At 16 I wouldn't have had the get up and go to do anything like that! If youre designing a website yourself without getting a professional involved then unless you've had training it is a bit of a process! I've only had mine a few months and I change it all the time! I'm pretty sure…in fact, I know, that mine looks less professional than some. But crikey you gotta start somewhere! If my eldest who is 18 created their own business I'd be proud as hell. I think any young person who gets off their butt and actually does something like this deserves a round of applause.
And Irv2307… if your offering your analytics experience around I'd love a wee hander too! :D (might as well ask eh!)
I teach 16-18 year olds a-levels and do wish a few more of them had your ambition. Good luck with your venture. I look forward to browsing the site more when it's complete.
OK I spotted a few more errors. Only slight but it detracts from a professional image. Competitive, stocking, amend are all spelt incorrectly on there. Thank you written as one word, and a few commas that would read better as full stops. Like I said, just simple things. But important for a good image.
edit: seen more. Spelling, punctuation etc. I think you really need to get the site proof read properly by someone.
G i am not being argumentative, if your going to post a business website as up and running then it should be designed to a professional standard or else what is the point. However, I will apologise and keep it shut from now on.
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Few other ideas for you! It might be a good idea to change the 'reptile shipping' banner picture from a picture of a box with 'fragile' on it designed for glassware to a box that would actually be suitable for livestock transport, as people may get the wrong idea. The grey text on the front page is hard to read on the green background. May I suggest full black, or even white? On the vivarium part of the banner, if you size the word 'Vivariums' up to fill in the gap it may look better, or even if you just popped a picture of a smaller viv in the gap.
yup, its a bog stock shopping cart site just like all the others. If the design is easy on the eye and its easy to navigate those are the most important things.
I have only two minor criticisms, the black on dark green isn't the easiest to read and in the footer you have a mobile number and free email address as contacts. I know this will most likely be sorted eventually but it doesn't instil confidence and trust in a site as it is.
....and will people give the guy a break! who cares what section its in (the correct one btw), who cares if theres no products there yet, he's asking for general feedback not a full blown review of his shop. Only time will tell whether it will be successful and I wish you all the best with the venture, it takes balls to step out and start up a new business especially while times are hard for everyone atm.
Hi there and well done for beginning this. There’s a lot of hard work ahead of you and I wish you luck. Here are the things that leapt out at me after giving the site a really quick look.
I started by listing some proof-reading corrections for the main pieces of text but there really are too many and on every page. When I used to work on magazines we had two people with an excellent eye for detail and spelling skills to proof-read each piece of writing and they had to be people who were not involved in producing the text. When you've written it yourself it can blind you to some of the errors. For me, spelling errors always send up a red flag about the trustworthyness (not a real word!!) of a site so it’s really important to get it right. The spelling across the site is really bad – sorry!
It says you have 'numerous qualifications and years of experience'. This immediately raises the questions – which qualifications, how many years of experience and gained where? The fact that an answer isn’t provided could make a potential customer nervous.
Also, you mention 'a large amount of knowledge on all Exotic Species'. Really, all of them? What is ‘large’ and what type of knowledge – from breeding, from working in a zoo, as a pet owner, read from a book etc. Again because it raises a question which is unanswered it leaves the customer uneasy.
Last one for me – I’m confused about postage. In one place it says all orders are posted free but on the same page it invites the buyer to pay £40 for unlimited postage. On another page there are other options for pre-paying postage and it’s £55.99 for unlimited postage. Which one is correct?
Hope this is helpful.
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im trying to work on a new logo, for anyone that is interested i will pay £30 for the right logo, and i will have a tweak of the colours, thanks for your help its always nice to get some fresh ideas from a new perspective
I can try and help design a logo after the 6th of June if that is any good to you! Lol! Not too intrested in the money either really although it may end up looking shoddy XD You should def have a colour swatch for you site though before you think of logos or giving anyone else the task of it :)
The site seems fine to me apart from the comments I made, not as pro as Swell but there are some really shoddy ones out there that still make money! Although a note, I am now on a different computer as I can read the black text against the green better, minitors are calibated differently and you just need to test your site on a a laptop, desktop, old chunky pc monitors, interenet phone and on a TV as they all display the colours differently but that happens all the time. It's just picking a good colour that works well with all :)
Yes designing a website is easy, anyone can do it but setting it up so the payment systems work and how picking a good layout and colours is hard, but I think you've done well! I didn't know you were 16, so kudos. I remeber making some at your ages and yours is a lot better than mine, I could never get the payment system working! Are you using dreamweaver just out of curiousity?
I hope things go well for you. I would also offer the tip, I see you have a 10% off voucher at the side of your site although this raises the question, who wouldn't use use that voucher while shopping so why not just take 10% of your prices? Maybe make a kind of sign up/news letter of which, there is 10% off instead of advertsing it :)
to be honest a good start, my only quible so far, as a bit of an old fart is the black text on green background is a little hard to read. Good luck with the new venture
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Um like a compromise between the two...like a pale not so saturated green? You culd always do an easy test by taking a screen shot of your page and uyusing the fiull tool on the backgrouns with something like MS paint.
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Posted - 29/04/2011 : 22:01:08
is the black text on green background is a little hard to read. Good luck with the new venture
