Opinions PLEASE

mercman_3

have just spent along time and alot of money on having my site re designed from my feeble effort earlier in the year..

I have a vision in my mind as to where i want to be with it, but am unsure as to if it is correct

The following link is a link to my website,

https://www.pvcprinting.co.uk

It appears to work alright, but have some naggings doubts over some bits of it that i just cannot put my finger on!

Would appreciate you web techies out there taking a look at it and letting me know how it looks and if you feel it works?

Cheers in advance

Pete

damo101

looks fine using Safari on a Mac

mercman_3

Damo

cheers

how bout the content and layout?

i am unsure about how light the purple looks!

cheers anyway for the info

Savvy_Sue

I'm looking at it in Mozilla Firefox. I'd say the purple text was too light, and the original main text size a bit small. I'm just getting to the age where I sometimes need glasses, but I'm blowed if I can be bothered with them most of the time: if you want me to read something, make it big enough for me to do so!

Also, the 'medallions' on the left hand side: Gift Vouchers, Loyalty cards etc. It would be more 'professional' if clicking on them brought you immediately to an actual example of what a Gift Voucher or Loyalty Card might look like. Whereas they all open the same window, which doesn't have all the options displayed. In fact all the 'options' in that window look pretty much the same product.

Now as for the navigation menus at the top: I get a stripey effect with them! Marketing Designs and Contact Us are OK, but all the others have white horizontal strips of varying thicknesses through the left hand graphics ...

Brain in no fit state to comment on anything more than what's very obvious right now, but hope that helps and isn't too negative!

theGrinch

looks good. but pink too light as said previously

mercman_3

THANKS for all your inputs. please, please keep them coming....

Sue, your right about the medallions...it does need looking at!

any other input is greatly appreciated

cheers

Pete

leylie

Hi Pete

i've only had a quick look at your site - and agree with the other comments about the medallions and the colours.

Thought you might be interested in this info too:-
(lifted from a document I'm working on about making information accessible)
The following organisations offer appropriate help and advice:

The Web Accessibility Initiative which has produced a comprehensive and detailed set of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
https://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT

Bobby – an automated program for checking accessibility of web pages
https://www.cast.org/bobby

Webable!
A source of information and resources on disability-related internet issues
https://www.webable.com

W3C HTML Validator
The W3C validator will check the HTML code. It will highlight any errors which may have crept into your code and which affect accessibility
https://www.validator.w3.org

The RNIB offer a commercial consultancy service on website accessibility.
Contact the RNIB Best Practice Officer for Website Accessibility on
020 7391 2178

Good Luck
Shirley

mercman_3

Shirley,

Thanks for the input and the links...

the validator link does not work however...can you try or re post the link
cheers

Pete

leylie

Hi Pete
Sorry about the error (must remember to update my document too!)
I'm not really sure of the direct link (being a complete dunce about web design), and especially as there seems to be a choice of validators, but if you go to the home page at
https://www.w3.org
there's an option for new visitors, which will hopefully give you the information you need. Llooks like it's quite a useful site for anybody that might have the vaguest understanding of what they're talking about
Shirley

seoras_2

Dear Pete,
as a web designer I had a quick look at your site and while the look and feel is OK there are a number of fundamental coding errors. As mentioned by others you can validate your sites markup at http://validator.w3.org/ However your site will not validate as it is missing a vital DOCTYPE declaration atthe start of the document. This should be something like this for HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

or like this for XHTML <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> .

The other major flaw is the total lack of style sheets (CSS) and the deprecated <font> tag has been used throughout. It looks like the designers built the look of the site in Macromedia Fireworks and coded straight from this in Dreamweaver.

In short the site has not been built to current web design standards in markup or accessibility.

Sorry to be a doom merchant
Seoras.

scuzz

Looks good to me. Very professional. Only the lightness as already said.

I thought it was very well laid out and easy to navigate.