www.expectations-ultrasound.co.uk

Hi,

Would you be able to give me a review on a recently launched
site for a local business. I'd like information on time loading, ease of navigation
etc.
The url is http://www.expectations-ultrasound.co.uk.

Many thanks

how do I say this. In my opinion its maybe a little twee or is the word kitsch. Maybe less flowers
The website is pretty quick and makes a nice brochure. Please dont feel offended by my crit, My idea of good design varies drastically from others. My motto is keep it simple.

Guy

Thanks. Perhaps I'll look at cutting down the flowers. I'm seeing the director of the business soon, so I'll ask her then.

You know what! I think the flowers are perty!! And ya know what else.. i feel like the site feels like you!

I would however, do some cleaning up.. and here's what I mean.

Case 1: The photo of you is wonderful! Keep it, but crop it closer. Fill the frame with your lovely smiling face and machine (or whoevers face that is) (i would also do this to fill more of the picture but at the same time cut down the horizontal size of the photo)

Case 2: Use boxes (div tags) to allow the text say to the left of the photo to be left aligned within it's own space. This also allows you a lot of room to add a bit of padding where needed and outlines if you like via css. If you are unsure of how to make one.. just ask

Case 3: It's ok for some of the text to be unbolded.

Case 4: The only problem that i have with the flowers is on the right side. If i had a small monitor, the flowers on right eat up much needed horizontal space. Always be sure to see how your site looks at the lower resolutions. 800x600 and such.

Otherwise, I think you are on the right track. A site like yours is not mainstream in any sense. More important is to appeal to the nature of the conversation going on in an expecting mothers head and just as important, that nervous fathers head (who also holds the checkbook 9 times out of 10)

Thanks. Not sure what you mean by
so could you give me a little more info on that?

Many thanks

Oh, just to let you know, the face is not mine - I just designed the site!

Absolutely!

Try this..

Open you a new document.. a fresh one..

And in the body type this (in code of course)

<div style="border:1px solid #cccccc;padding: 4px; width:200px; ">This is my div tag! I would love for the world to see my wonderful wonderful div tags.</div>

I'll follow up with an explanation.

Ok .. A div tag is basically a block level container element.

It by itself will create a container for content.

<div> this is my div tag</div><div> this is my second div tag</div>

Code above will create a break between the two elements, even though there is no break.

The cool thing about div tags is that you can attach attributes to them. In the example above above, i used an inline "style" to contain the width to 200 pixels, give it a border AND put 4 pixels of padding around the entire inside.

Notice also the the content IN the div tag is left aligned. Sometimes you have to specify that based on how the the code that contains the div tag is configured. For instance, if the div tag is contained with a table TD that has it's valign set to center, then the contents of the div tag will also be centered. But you can fix that.

Also, I notice that your source code starts like this..

<div align="center">
<center>

No need for both, i would keep the div and dump the center tag altogether.

also if you can stand it..
<a href="index.htm" title="Home Page" onMouseOver="window.status='Home Page';return true"
onMouseOut="window.status='Expectations Pregnancy Ultrasound Studio';return true">

id dump the java. All SE's dislike and it truely doesnt seem to hold any value..

Thanks for your info. I'll set about doing that next time inportant modifications need to be made to the site. (Coming up soon I think!)

Thats cool.. if you need any help.. ill be subcribed.. so feel free to ask