Review : foreveryoungvegas.com

[kevalin]

This is a new website customer I am working with and I am currently in the design process, but I would welcome any ideas or suggestions for the website.

Review : http://www.foreveryoungvegas.com

I know I need to add more pictures in the sections. I have only been working on this website since Saturday of last week, but so far it has been a lot of work.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[d1976]

it is good one.
add some more attraction yet.
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[kevalin]

Attraction? what do u mean?

[corneo]

Great job. Looks very professional. The only thing I saw that made me go hhmm needs to change was "Experience You Can Trust" right hand side. Just my opinion: change from hard corners to rounded corners. (I would give that a softer look)
Here's a place to get a css code for doing that.
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/four_cornered

Just my thoughts

[countolaf]

i do agree.. aside from it, i think it would look more professional... im not saying the site doesnot look professional, but it adds something..

[mit]

Its not completed yet, I think.

Bottom Navigation ??

[vaderfied]

foreveryoungvegas website looks mid-level amatuerish.

the over all idea of layout seem like a nice idea, but then a few things draw your eye that the site has an amatuer quality.

1. the Forever Young Health logo in top left. it just doesnt look like the quaility logo that a rea lhigh class spa would be using. (maybe hire a logo designer that will do one in color, and with optimized vector graphics? )

2. the rollover navigation at the top - Home, Services, etc
All those tabs are different sizes. notice size difference between Contact Us and Search. That makes anyone thats seen enough sites or made them say = "ohhh" It says = "webdesigner with 2 to 4 years ezperience!"

Solution: Look at high end sites ,and mimick their navigation. trying to be creative with things like that doesnt always work, people expect a certain feel to the navigation on high end sites.

3. Your roll javascript rollover pictures are ok, but they look 1990's-ish
the light up when rolled over was big i nmid to late 1990's.
Now everything is on shiny, and reflections. see some high-end corporate and other sites like apple, etc ..
It's so easy to do and keeps your site right up with the 'times'

Your site is going to be based on aesthetics to give that serene relaxed feel . maybe a lot of white and some faded in palm tree island , ocean front etc ?

In my opinion I would just re-do the theme , the picture navigation.
Use CSS style sheets t omake your navigation text smaller and light up different color when rolled over.

It doesnt seem youre using much CSS styles, because that white box on the right side, could have a border on it , dotted or solid.

There just seems to be a lot you could do with that site to better it i na short time, a day or two with higher-end reflections and 'white fade-in' images, some relaxation theme of light sky blue ocean and green plams fading into white where your different categories would be selected. etc.

spend a day or two reading about CSS Style sheets on a good site like:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

check out reflection and hite fade in technique on images at
www.apple.com (notice the faint reflection underneath objects in images)
Photoshop copy layer, flip vertical, put it underneath the original image layer, then cut it off about 1/3 left of the picture..and use gradient tool white 100% to fade it in. ..makes a that kind of reflection.

and a thing seems to be these days in the new style, = never use words in images ..just overlay the CSS text onto the images - unless you absolutely have to ..like if you need that fancy font. Otherwise , always go with easy to read CSS

The rest of the site seems to be OK with that warm sand brown color. I just dont think the home page does the rest of the site justice. and the header of the navigation - that part I would start over, make a new CSS navigation in a couple hours time.

[Goldjobber]

I like the feel and layout of the site. I do agree with the logo comment made previously, provided they have a decent logo for you to work with.
I am seriously confused though and maybe someone can explain it to me.
concerning the url itself..
www (dot) foreveryoungvegas.com/index.php/Microdermabrasion.html

I did not know that you could have an index page and html in the same address like that.
I presumed that once you went one way with the script either php or html, you stayed there for the whole site.

[kevalin]

Ya the logo is something I have been working on, but until it got approved by the owners, so I just put used a place holder in that spot. I have css'd on most of the website, but I do agree with rounding the corners on the box on the right, so I will get that changed.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[kevalin]

Originally Posted by Goldjobber

I like the feel and layout of the site. I do agree with the logo comment made previously, provided they have a decent logo for you to work with.
I am seriously confused though and maybe someone can explain it to me.
concerning the url itself..
www (dot) foreveryoungvegas.com/index.php/Microdermabrasion.html

I did not know that you could have an index page and html in the same address like that.
I presumed that once you went one way with the script either php or html, you stayed there for the whole site.

The entire website is built on php, but I am using a Cache system that makes static pages, easier on the webhost and the website loads faster since it doesn't have to ask the database for the website every time a visitor comes by to the website.

I am going to remove the index.php part, but so far since I am only about 40% done with the website I have just let it be....

[zeruel]

I think you should finish the site first so that we could recommend a better structure. The site doesn't look finished yet.

Better add a content onto what you offer for your visitors. Also, the bottom looks very empty. You could add a bottom navigation over there. You can also create a sitemap for your site.

[thewebdude76]

permanent makeup?!!

i would style the links in the content section differently. (the bright red underlined ones)
put something at the bottom in the whitepace: contact info, mini site map, etc.

[kevalin]

Alright all the suggestions and ideas I have added to the website and I think I am finished, minus a few pictures in the content areas. If anyone else notices anything that you think would be beneficial and should be changed, please let me know.

If anyone has any suggestions on colors to add for hyperlinks I would be interested, Right now I have left them at a red underline until I can think of a good color that works with the website.

Thank you for all the advice and help.

PS. I submitted the website on here slightly unfinished because it has been a lot of work getting the website finished and it's easy to over look things. My main concern was, I didn't want to miss anything from the most important part of the website which is the front page. So I added it for review to see if anyone would catch something I am missing.

[knslms]

everything looks great to me

[Jobbertown]

Yes I think you have done a much better job with the new logo. and the header and overall mood of the site fits. Links check out, did validate against w3c but I am sure if you were worried bout that you would have done so already.

[Enclave]

It is good, but some fonts are horrible, above the image.

And links are red and bold, that is a bit to much!

[rirara]

I agree with vaderfied, he gave you nice tips.