What do you think of this website?

[Zoltar]

A website to learn how to cut particular styles online from an expert.

onlinehairschool.com

All comments welcome.

 

[Cormac]

Overall it is very nice. Navigation is simple to use. I would consider renaming "Browse Products" to something more descriptive. You should add descriptive titles to each of your pages too. In your contact page you have &nbps in the title. Maybe a pattern background would be nicer than the one you have?

 

[Zoltar]

Overall it is very nice. Navigation is simple to use. I would consider renaming "Browse Products" to something more descriptive. You should add descriptive titles to each of your pages too. In your contact page you have &nbps in the title. Maybe a pattern background would be nicer than the one you have?

Thank you Rollo - the &nbps is because you are using firefox, its fine in ie.
I am not the most graphically adept its fair to say i definatly wouldn't make it as a fashion designer.

Thanks for taking the time.

 

[paul]

don't forget to check for spelling mistakes, see ..The Hair School

The design does look nice.

 

[TheMenace]

A few things to take the site to the next level:

• Don't use tables for layout.
• Use CSS to style the page (rather than using margin and border setting in the body tag or using bgcolor on tables, etc)
• Inline styles are a particular bugbear of mine. Keep CSS in the head of the doc or, ideally, in an external CSS file.
• Lowercase your HTML tags and attributes.

 

[kae]

the front page is very distracting. it's okay to switch from image to image, but the way you do it is too fast, and very attention-grabbing (not in a "look at the new image" way, but in a "look - something is happening!" way).

also, what exactly does the site sell? you don't seem to say anywhere. I go into the "browse products" page, and I'm only told I need to pay for stuff - but not what I will be given for that money. DVDs? online videos? who knows...

you use .jpg images for the navigation. you should probably use .png instead, or even better, plain text, as .jpg by definition comes with "jpeg artifacts" - you can see what I mean by zooming in on any one of those images.

looks-wise, I'd say it's pretty nice, but very dark.

 

[louie]

Hey,

my girlfriend (Claire) ask me to have a look at it as she was talking to the owner (Fran), so here is my opinion:

a bit too dark but that was said above.
layout based on tables - could be easily achieved using divs and css.
tables has attributes that are not W3C compliant.
some images are also using the wrong id tags.
Kae is right about the links on the left, they can easily be turned into plain text (better for search engines).

On the products page I think you should have the price beside the select menu or the Add button.

Non-existent shopping cart. I should be able to see what I have in my cart after clicking the Add button, instead I am asked to Login or Register.

On the Terms page you mention

Membership Registration and Fees

Membership registration entitles you unlimited access to any of the videos selected and paid for by credit card, for a period of 30 days from the payment date.

but nowhere else on the website in asking "become a member and you get..."

Also on the Terms page you should make that a link

Please send e-mail to enquiries@onlinehairschool.com

not everyone knows how to copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl + V)

That's about it for now.

 

[mneylon]

The privacy policy does not say who is behind the site or how to contact them to request data.

The contact us page is a form to mail without any tangible contact details.

Unique page titles would help.