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Matt · 9 Jun 2006 at 17:01

I'm just making my mum a new site for her small business, and thought i'd ask for a few opinions

http://www.houlbrooke.co.uk/dev/simplyflowers/

The design isn't really very imaginative, but i wanted to keep it as simple as possible, and i don't have enough time/creative ability, to do anything really special.

The front page may get a randomly changing image later to make it a little more interesting.

I'd like the website to appear well on search engines, but with the small amount of content this could prove to be a bit of a pain!

So what do you think of the website as a whole?

Thanks

Matt · 9 Jun 2006 at 18:34

yhack said:
Firefox:

Yeah i need to work out how to fix that! It'll occur in most browsers where the page is to big for the window, and you have to scroll.

The front page image will be changing soon, so i won't be doing much to that

Google advert?

I'll have a think about what to put at the bottom. We're just going through content at the moment.

Matt · 9 Jun 2006 at 18:42

cb_linus said:
It is nice and simple I'm not too sure about the photo on the first page though - the mirror is a bit of a distraction, maybe try other ways to take that photo, or do an external, shop front, type of shot?

I'll be changing that photo, and making it so there are a few photos and it selects one to display each time.

cb_linus said:
Also, I wonder if you might give a credit to the people who did the testimonials - to give some sort of idea who the customers are to add an extra personal touch to the site?

Yeah, i'll probably be doing that, and putting in approximate dates (eg. July, 2005).

cb_linus said:
Another thing to think about I guess is to allow an alternative to the nice gallery in the 'our work' section - I like it, but Flash wasn't detected in my browser because I have NoScript running (I'm probably in the minority here) but a non-flash gallery as an alternative might be a good extra feature, to improve accessibilty?

There's a whole Coppermine gallery that's linked to from that page

I guess i need to make the link more obvious

Matt · 10 Jun 2006 at 10:51

punky_munky said:
The photography is generally not up to the standard of the site.

I know that

It's so hard to get her to take decent photographs!

Matt · 10 Jun 2006 at 16:42

I'm going to go live with it now

I've changed the front page photo, and layout slightly. There's now a description of the business, which should help people visiting, and also my google rank! (maybe).

Matt · 10 Jun 2006 at 17:15

Ok, i'm REALLY confused by this problem with PostCardViewer ('our work' page).

http://www.simplyflowers.biz/ourwork/

All i've done is uploaded the files to the site hosting, yet it doesn't appear to load the images now. I've tested it on two machines (Mac and PC), and the Mac won't show it in FF, but will in Safari, and the PC won't show it in FF or IE! I've deleted and reuploaded, and even tried the example for the PostCardViewer site!

Anyone got any ideas? as this is strange.