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Please review my design for a self cert mortgage company
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:42 pm
by wenczmastah
Hey everyone, I just recently finished a new design for the company am working with, i am still learning webdesign and I would love to get some feedback from fellow web designers
the website is :
http://www.self-cert-mortgage-centre.co.uk (self cert mortgage company)
thanks a lot
Re: Please review my design for a self cert mortgage company
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:01 am
by pickle
Document:
- I'd recommend using a more recent, XHTML DOCTYPE. Certainly not required though. There's no harm in picking an old DOCTYPE, as long as you validate...
- However, I see 26 validation errors on your homepage. You should fix that.
Header:
- Don't use JPG for everything. Your logo will look much better (and probably be a smaller filesize) if you use a PNG or a GIF
- Not sure you need to have "Self Cert Mortgage Centre" in the top right corner. Kind of seems like beating a dead horse.
- I'd use text instead of the phone number image. Anywhere you have words, you should have text - better for SEO & smaller download size.
Tabs:
- I like the look - very clear
- Don't use <b> tags. Use <strong> instead.
- I'm not sure if you are, but sprites are always a good idea for tab background images
Homepage:
- The top graphics are mis-aligned.
- The shadow looks cut-off
- Body text & headers are very clear - well thought out colour choice
- However, the link colour is too similar. I'd recommend making orange your link colour.
- The images on the left can easily be turned into <div>s and text, rather than full images. My first, gut reaction to them is that the designer was just a Photoshop junkie that doesn't know how to code properly. Convert them to text & background images (for example, for the shadow) and they'll be more flexible for the future, quicker to download, and parsable by search engines.
- If you're using orange for a link colour, make only links that orange colour. Don't use it as a highlight colour as well
Image on the bottom
- Again, don't make it an image. Make it text & photos. Especially don't use an image map - horribly inaccessible.
- Again, make only links orange.
Not bad for a first go. There are some things to clean/tighten up, but I've seen
waaaay worse. Well done.