Critique this website.

[metbandit1]

www.joshwgray.co.uk

That's my own domain but im using it to test a website that I have designed for a friend, would just like to know if there's anything I should change/improve before the website goes live on his domain this Thursday.

 

[metbandit1]

Meta tags are the least of his problems, especially as half of them are no longer used for SEO.

Coding wise it's a complete mess. You've got two doctype tags, you're using flash when there's no need to, and there's inline javascript (dreamweaver rubbish) and CSS.

As for the design, the logo is too big, the "Welcome" header is FAR too big and it's animated for some obscure reason, the navigation menu isn't too bad, although it should really be using CSS3 for those effects rather than rollovers.

The typeface is rubbish and too large and it varies throughout the site and there's not enough information about the actual restaurant.

- Doctype has been sorted and removed so there's only one.

- Why should I not use flash? What's he alternative?

- What's up with the code that DW puts in and CSS? (considering its done in DW).

- Logo and welcome will be shrunk to make it look better. (Is animated to give the Portuguese/English version. How can I incorporate css3 when ive used css? Will roll-over image not do for it?

- I will sort out the typeface and add more information later today.

Thanks for your feedback, im still in the throws of learning how to design websites properly which is why its much appreciated and I can learn from it!

Edit: Changed have been made, tell me what you think.
Title animations will be re-done to remove the jagged edges later once im happy with layout etc.

 

[metbandit1]

Thanks for all the feedback! Ill start addressing the issues now. Ill get rid of the top flash and just use the image instead, saves apple users not getting the full site.

Photos of the outside of the premises will be acquired when I next go there for the website.

I think ill keep the menu page because it doesn't seem that hard to operate (gave it to my dad and mum to use and they managed without any instruction).

SEO will be sorted too.

How would I do a slideshow images in JS like I have in there then? Never used JS before only html and CSS so not much of an idea on that.

thanks again!

 

[metbandit1]

Needs appropriate sizing e.g. not fixed.

Reason ive done fixed is that the majority of mobiles can re-size the webite to fit the screen. Ive tested this on my HTC and on an iphone 4 and seems to look ok. Apart from the flash on iphone obviously.

 

[metbandit1]

On my phone (using opera) the text on the main page overlaps the slideshow if I zoom in...
Also the opening hours overlap the bar hours on the contact page. I'd normally have a shot at figuring out why but like I said I'm on my phone

What phone are you using?

Its good to get a mixture of browsers and phone screen sizes so I can make it work on as many as possible.

edit: changes have been made. See what you think and anything else to do.

 

[metbandit1]

It's still happening, and I'm using a SGSII.
I quite like the design though, it just looks like Dreamweaver has gone a bit mental with the code.

Should be fixed now, all text should be fine.

I don't know what DW has done with the code, but it works so im not going to mess with it too much...