Review: spruceindustries.com

djosephs · 12-24-2007, 01:24 PM

Hi all,
I recently launched our new e-commerce site. I build everything from scratch so please don't be gentle. If I missed something or have errors - I would love to know.

Here is the site: http://www.spruceindustries.com/

Thanks and happy holidays!

zeruel · 12-26-2007, 12:05 AM

Very simple and clean... I like the design...

Your CSS looks great with no errors... But your HTML needs some adjustments...

navyfalcon · 12-26-2007, 07:08 PM

You have 0 errors and 14 warnings. You can use HTML Tidy in HTML Kit (free HTML Editor) to clean them up automatically.
http://www.htmlkit.com/
and Tidy
http://www.htmlkit.com/plugins/
or any HTML Editor that has Tidy incorporated
This is a good resource and you will want to use it often
hope this helps
falcon

navyfalcon · 12-26-2007, 07:17 PM

tried your MSDS search on alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, alcohol isopropyl.
unable to locate msds sheets
tried at http://www.msds.com/ they located several ??
hope this helps
falcon

TechSup · 12-28-2007, 11:09 AM

Just a small tip, the layout looks great but to just add another navigation table on the bottom left and to increase the amount of articles you have on your site to fill it in just a bit more will make the site a more presentable view for those looking for detailed content and more resources that pertain links to them.

@navfalcon, You look just like bill gates

1bigdawg · 12-29-2007, 11:35 AM

It is a very professional looking site and I found it functioned well as I navigated through it.

As a suggestion on the presidents statement, you present the following

"We want to be your valued vendor" how about "We want to be your vendor of choice."

I also think you should promote the "green" cleaning more. From the Think Green link this is a great mission statement "cleaning to protect health without harming the environment" and I think this should be prominent on the home/main page.

On the "Think Green" page
Looks like you've got a typo error in this sentence; Replacing multifold hand towels with large roll towels dispensed from touch-free dispensers reduces paper consumption by 30 percent and saves $2,00 per year in paper costs.

In the "What do we Gain" section how can you support your claims? I like where you use % but words like "significantly" can mean 99% to one person and 10% to someone else. Also when you use specific dollar amount like above that is only true if your yearly paper costs are in the neighborhood of $6700.00 per year. Again I think if you can stay with % that helps your customer to determine what they might expect to save.

The "Green Cleaning for Dummies" link did not work for me.