hi all, this is a site a am working on for a client. the want polkadotred and well then they can have it. i am still working on it so lots of the links dont do a thing. just go see and give some honest opinion. it is goin to be a bag selling and stuff selling site. it is supossed to be a happyhappy joy girly site. suggestions are welcome

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lol they certainly have got that!!!

I think the rosa thing is awesome the way it drops the roses down and shakes when you point to it!!!
In my honest opinion I think it's a bit garish as a site, but it sounds like that was what they are going for you never know... people are different!

On a more important note, you should really change the colours of the scrollbar thing. I didn't know it was possible to scroll down at all!! (just noticed something odd on second look at your site )

maybe make the scroll block that you drag up and down solid white or something...?

 

 

 

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Well first off I would tell them to dump that design, or at least that background, because it is very distracting and people won't give that site a second thought. Another big no no, especially for a business website is to make it completely in flash, this is due to the fact search engines do not spider full flash sites, due to the lack of html, keywords and other stuff. Finally the scroll bars, change the color so people can see it and get rid of that horrible blue color as it clashes with the site. I would recommend a pink or a Dark red to go along with the "Girly Love theme", same goes with he blue roses, since you can use different shades of red and pink to help that out.

Yeah I know what you are going to say, thats what they asked for, but as a designer it is your duty to let them know about proper web designing techniques and that site broke every single one of them.

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Yeah man that red background is very bright. So u need to work on that & also try to u lighter shades of Pink.

Designing in Flash is a Big no, as it will not allow spiders to read the content & site will suffer in SERP's.

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the bleu was pinkish before, and they asked for blue. that is also a part of designing a site for some one if they want it they can have it. customer is king, or queen in this case.
and there are ways around the spider thing. you can put text in the html that "carries the flash" there are great sites all designed in flash. flash if used well is at least as good as other things used.
the thing that it is with flash is that loads donnot know how to use it and go overboard on animations the customer can see the progress of the site and is on cloud nine.
and the scrollbars, i agree i will change that.
but thanks all for reacting. i really like honesty!
but in the end it is still the customer that pays, and what i think is place two. i wear sunglasses while working.
and i dont agree about breaking the webdesign rules, and what if i did. my opinion is that the web is very boring in lots of sites. and since this is no information-site but a fashion-bag-itemselling site, it can be loud and bright and screaming.
but agian i like other peoples opinion, so please don be shy and give your opinion and suggestions.

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Well they are not official rules more like guidelines as to make a good SEO friendly site, flash is good to use sparingly and in hte right places; like the banner you did that was perfect. It is rue when building for someone else your input is meaningless, however like I mentioned before you can mention some idea's to them, but alas it's their design and they will have to live with it.

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the site is okay.... but the text is not very visible in the box on the left side. put someother background color or image. the roses falling is a very good idea. overall the site is okay. best of luck.

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Dude, I forgot me sunglasses.
Now I can safely tell you that I'm blind.
This site is really confusing for the eye.

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Wow. I think i'll be seeing polka dots for awhile. I skipped over the sunglass warning .
Not my favorite thing to stare at, but the client get what they want. Understandable. In general the site looks really descent. I love how the top logo toggles as you pass your mouse over it, and especially the falling objects. One thing, though. The words are really hard to read against the background you have it on, so you might want to work on that- just a suggestion.
All in all, you did well.

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