New website, please comment

sirichmond · 1 Aug 2011 at 15:53

Afternoon all,

Well its version 4 of our website and I have finally had a go at using CSS instead of tables. Their are still a few tables throughout the site but compared wiith the old site the new one is easy 90% CSS. Please let me know what you think and what I could improve on.

Many Thanks
Simon

http://www.allthegearnoidea.net/index.html

FabienO · 1 Aug 2011 at 15:58

Make the backgrounds of the content less opaque. Hard-ish to read the text.

Emphacy · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:47

Blend the background image in more with the black background, it looks like it's been slapped on (particularly on the RHS)...
I can hardly read the text, I think you should increase the contrast and lower the brightness of the image or alternatively make the boxes more opaque.

sirichmond · 1 Aug 2011 at 19:54

Thanks will have a look at that tomorrow.

treehouse786 · 4 Aug 2011 at 23:33

would it not be worth making the mail:to link open in a new tab instead of overwriting the website tab?

sirichmond · 5 Aug 2011 at 09:08

treehouse786, not fully sure what you mean but yes I can do that.

Cheers
Simon

phil-k · 5 Aug 2011 at 09:59

I can read the text fine, ferfectly clear

Sherbs · 5 Aug 2011 at 22:59

treehouse786 said:
would it not be worth making the mail:to link open in a new tab instead of overwriting the website tab?

It should open up your default email client. Does here.

sirichmond · 7 Aug 2011 at 19:08

Ah right thanks for that, will sort that tomorrow or later tonight if I get chance.

camerongray · 7 Aug 2011 at 21:26

One important thing to do is to encode that email address for the contact us link to prevent it being harvested by spam bots. You can either use a javascript based solution such as the one here: http://www.mailtoencoder.com/ This will allow the contact link to perform as it does at the moment but your email address should be hidden from most spam bots. The other option would be to build a contact form, you could either use an external provider or use a PHP script (If supported by your web host)

There is also a minor grammar mistake on the homepage - "...ride story’s and photos." There shouldn't be an apostrophe in "storys." I know I'm being picky but it's one of those small things that annoys me!

I hope this helps!

unwashed potato! · 7 Aug 2011 at 22:15

remove the see through background as it's impossible to read on my laptop screen which has poor contrast.

there is no need for it as the site is fairly thin you'll be able to see the background fine