Review: theadvertisingguide.co.nr

[anakha6]

Hi, can you review http://www.theadvertisingguide.co.nr Thanks.

[Anca]

it looks old; make it more modern; use some light colors and add some more text

[Valiant]

Ronald Harrup, I believe that your site has many issues as illustrated just now. Check of broken links and read through some web design articles to design your site a bit better for visual appeal and usability. And the banner looks a bit tacky. There is no overall colour scheme.
Hope these comments helped.

[anakha6]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Ronald Harrup, I believe that your site has many issues as illustrated just now. Check of broken links and read through some web design articles to design your site a bit better for visual appeal and usability. And the banner looks a bit tacky. There is no overall colour scheme.
Hope these comments helped.

Fixing the banner soon. Can you please point out the links that you noticed were broken? Fixing the ones I can see, is it just the ones that link to the page you are already on? Thanks.

[Valiant]

The links which point to the same page that the user is currently on. E.g when on the home page, the home page link is "broken", in the sense that it directs to a directory on your computer.

[anakha6]

Originally Posted by Valiant

The links which point to the same page that the user is currently on. E.g when on the home page, the home page link is "broken", in the sense that it directs to a directory on your computer.

I think I've fixed those now. Thanks for noticing, added to your reputation for it.

[junction4seo]

I think if your better to using some different colors.

[anakha6]

Originally Posted by junction4seo

I think if your better to using some different colors.

I get this 1 a lot. And it keeps getting re-added to my to do list lol.

[Hades]

Hi Anakha, nice start, let me give you some tips to improve your work:

The design and concept
So you decided to use a fixed size centered layout, with a blue background, white body and blue header. This type of layout can look great if you work a bit more on it, put a different color on the header, work a few more hours on the logo, I know it's difficult to do but nobody said it would be easy

Look for a guide to create headers, I suggest you check on the sixrevisions header showcase:
http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/f...in-web-design/

Also make the white background have rounded borders which will give it a better look.

I'm not asking you to copy them, but having a look might give you some ideas.

The Content
Your website only has 1 page, which makes it look shallow, you should add 2 or 3 more pages and a navigation bar/header/menu, even if these pages have very similar content they will give your some more variety.

Also put some stock images to give it a feeling of high professionalism.

Guide to stock photo usage:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/...k_photography/

The Fonts
You are using the default Times new roman which makes the website look as if it didn't have any stylesheet applied, I suggest giving this article a read:
http://www.motive.co.nz/guides/typography/webfonts.php
It explains how to use web fonts and which one is convenient on each size.

Buttons
The text "Yes, I want to see my traffic go through the roof!" could be an awesome button Again check this sixrevisions.com's guide for some tips:
http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/ph...-in-photoshop/

The code
You put a frameset, this is not needed for this kind of design. Consider removing it for better compatibility.

I hope it helps, let us know how your site goes and we'll help you more

[htmlbasictutor]

Originally Posted by Hades

The design and concept
with a blue background, white body and blue header.

Either you are looking at an old version of the design or this brings up a point about colours on web pages:

(I am seeing a mauve background)
-Each browser and operating system will render their interpretation of the colours chosen differently.
-If the user has not adjusted the Gamma settings of their monitor, then your chosen colour may not be presented as intended.
-There are what are browser safe colours. These are colours that are supposed to render the same in each browser. With the advent of browsers and monitors, some would argue that this list is out dated.
-There are named colours which are supported by all browsers.

[Hades]

You are right but I don't think I'm seeing an old version, with my laptop (WinXP) I see it light blue and with the desktop (WinVista) mauve. In both using FF3.

[jitendraag]

Nothing much on that page designwise but this might do well with PPC marketing because there is a clear message to the visitor. The digg button is kind of standing out, you might want to add more buttons and make a 'row of such buttons'.

[2advance]

Interesting post. I think your site need more information to be added..