Review and advice please

[Key2driving]

Hi All

I have just signed up to the forum. I thought it was time to stop 'lurking'.
I would appreciate it if someone would have a look at my site and give me some advice on improvements that I should make, and maybe give us a 'review'. I'm a newbie to the forum but I've been online for ten years or so, so I can take critisism without losing any sleep. :wink:

Thanks

John

[Mwebb]

John
Alot of informative stuff on the site. Great domain name aswell! Only comment: maybe a bit too much use of red and black writing?
However:
would you like to exchange links? My site and yours are not directly linked, but both automotive orientated. PM me if you are interested. I wil create a new catagory for driving instructors, on the site for you.

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Cheers michael

[creacom]

Hi John,

Ok firstly, there is a lot of good info on there. I had a quick read and it was quite interesting.

Next, no company name, no logo ?! One every page when I look up there is no sign of your company name ! Thats essential. Your viewer needs to know who they are looking at. Your logo and image is a key factor in your success.

This is my opinion and others might disagree but I dont think the car and the moving wheels helps either. Its distracting. My eyes are drawn to it - maybe just because I like the car :wink: Seriously, its too distracting.

As I said, your content is there so its a good start.

The woman on the More info page is really scary ! She looks like she is about to order a hitman or something !!

Jacqui

[Mwebb]

Hadn't noticed the woman.....she looks pissed!!

Did she fail or something???

[cjd]

I agree with all the above.

The woman will be in Matrix 4, the wheels shouldn't move - cool but distracting, the use of black and red make an otherwise clean site look amateur, the content is good but I want much more detail about the course and I don't want to email you to get it.

I'm anal about 'contact us' pages and think yours is good.

"why is the price so low?" is possibly the worst 6 words I've seen on a the first line of an FAQ and you should not use the most important page (the home page) of your whole site as an FAQ anyway. Use the space to expalin what you are and what you and do not ever feel the need to defend how little you charge.

Type face changes between pages, tell me more looks like roman?

Sleep easy, you've got something here - just tweak a little.

[coxadmin]

I use Firefox 1.5.0.2 and on the Home page the website is cut off at the bottom so the text of the last line is cut in half. In IE it displays fine with a gap below that text and the copyright line, which isn't visible in Firefox. Other pages have similar problems, but not all.

Also in Firefox the text is in Arial and in IE it looks like Times New Roman, apart from the Tell Me More page, where it is as others have stated.

Great idea, though.

[Astaroth]

Certainly the site is missing any form of corporate identity - the content is good and sounds interesting but if I was to go away from your site there is nothing to remind me on how to find you again.

Personally not a fan of .org.uk domains but why do you have a domain name and then not use it for your email address? I also have a major thing against paypal - to me it says spotty teenager flogging things on ebay rather than professional established company - this combined with the 2 points above would probably make me buy into the idea but find another company that offers the same thing.

[Key2driving]

Thanks for the input eveyone. I've made a few changes. Better or worse?

John

[epiphany]

page/page/3273541.htm

you need to change all the page and folder names. Stick the site in the route directory(i.e. site name/pagename.htm and name the webpages soemthing relivant to the content of the page rather than a bunch of numbers.

Terry

[billhilton]

You've got the copy centre-justified on a couple of pages, which looks a bit amateurish. Left justify with a ragged right, just like they do in books. If you don't like ragged right, do a full justify - but you might end up with "rivers" running through the block of text.

I'd also be inclined to use a font that's a bit more "now" - put Trebuchet or something similar above whatever san-serif you're using now. It'll look cool and the few people who haven't got it will just default back to the san serif.

[walldred]

Generally a good looking site. A couple of points:

-Font size seems to change from page to page. I think it's good to stick to one size of font for text and another for headings (obviously if you've got multiple headings you'll want different sizes).

Also try using one style for text and another for headings: sans-serif (eg. Verdana, Arial) for headings and serif for text.

Try www.webstyleguide.com for quick tips.

For me (personal view) trebuchet just doesn't sit well. I'd (personally) try something else.

I've also noticed that on some pages (eg. About Us)the top of the images and the text don't align.

I think little details like these do a lot to project a professional, solid image.

Other than these I think you've got a good thing going

Hope this helps.

[Early Warning]

Hi Like the site but would like to see text in a better font and sizes kept the same. The text would look better in black.