Critics Wanted!

[zoomactive.com]

Ok,

Set aside from the websites billing system still in progress, what do you all think of the website? You can visit the site at Home | Creative Design and Marketing Services -Your Small Business Partners - Zoom Active | Creative Design and Marketing Serv

How can we improve the site?
How can we make the site easier to use?

 

[digital29]

The "What you get" list...the text needs to be a little smaller..and to have a bigger padding...I mean a little more space on the white area to the left and to the right.

 

[zoomactive.com]

Thanks for the critic, will take a look at this. Any others?

 

[mmmpi]

Okay so you asked for it,

Just kidding your site looks good, particularly like the tabs and dropdowns, adds a nice smooth feel to the site. Have a have a list of things I would change as I do for every site I look at in a critical manner and its just a bit of food for thought

So from the top down:

• Make a proper favicon, the standard joomla one makes the site look unfinished
• The "FREE Givaways" button color is kinda gross:imho could be changed to a lighter green perhaps with a slight vertical gradient, then positioned to the right within the same toolbar
• The caution icon and font size of your beta notice could be scaled down a bit, it just appears to me to stick out too much and also seems to square off the top of your left menu
• The "Free with.." and "Why choose us" section of the left toolbar are not aligned correctly and knida remind me of adds, I'd consider taking them out or re-design and possibly relocate them
• I would split up the "What You get menu" into parts and have them rotating in a nice jquery slideshow type deal. Keeping it static, perhaps consider a fully rounded background, the spacing already mentioned, placing them in a single column, adding a slight gradient.
• For the main background image I would remove the top shadow and have slight shadows being shed on the (not so bright) grass from the heading, menu and buttons
• Below the main image, the large empty space seems excessive to me. I would shorten the space until the image is centered or put something there maybe paypal and something else.
• I would place the "we accept paypal" on a rounded button(in a shaded varient of the paypay gold perhaps) it seems lonely where is
• I would probably half the padding between the lower border and text in the bottom menus, it seems disproportionate particularly in relation to the spacing of the upper menus
• For the footer links I would put them into two columns and a group them with borders, background images or whatever. Stretches the page out unnecessarily :imho:

All that said though it looks very well, best of luck with it:kickass:

 

[zoomactive.com]

mmmpi,

you provided a lot of suggestions some of which we have not even looked at yet. We appreciate your efforts.

 

[andr69]

Hi! Sincerely speaking, the main central part of your page doesn't harmonize with the background - the color of the central picrure is too saturated. I think it is necessary to make the colors a little bit more pale or change the color of the background.

 

[web11]

i think it's too bright. i mean the colours are so similar, so i didn't even find at once the login in button. may be you could make such importants buttons with other colour?

 

[cappa1_2000]

Wow, 81 Errors, 4 warning(s) found in your XHTML code, you need to sort that out.
Some odd issues in your CSS also - W3C CSS Validator results for http://www.zoomactive.com/ (CSS level 2.1)
You have 2 title elements in there?
2 images don't have the alt attribute.
Each focusable element with an onmouseover attribute should also have an onfocus attribute, and their associated event handlers should trigger the same or similar actions - 3 of these dont really follow this best practice.
I think the code is suffering a bit of divitus, yet you still have 1 nested table found out of 5 table elements, so I'd be looking to straightening out your code.

Cant say Im a fan of the layout, alot of the content seems to be squashed in there.

 

[zoomactive.com]

web11, thanks for your feedback will look into this.

cappa1_2000, thank you very much for your feedback, we are aware of the coding and content pages issues and they have not been corrected yet as We are testing the site and making graphical changes prior to investing time into valid coding. We are not proud of the coding and this was a quick job as we are more looking for actual feedback right now which is why we have not done solid advertising yet. We are also working on making the content pages easier and the coding validation is somewhat at the bottom of our list for the time being.