http://www.beebee-design.co.uk/

www.BeeBee-Design.co.uk

Your comments please ladies and gentlemen.

I would appreciate some opinions on:

- Overall look and feel etc.
- SEO tuning.
- graphic design.
- functionality.

Thank you.

Ben

You may not have noticed it on a smaller resolution, but here at 1280x1024 the background tiles and repeats both at the bottom and right sides. You can fix this by simply adding excess white to either side to allow full coverage.

I think your header could use some loving. It's overly basic and suffers from dullness. Perhaps so much as a gradient fill or small shadow would be in order.

The abstract first theme is pretty neat despite the tile background. The option to allow multiple is a welcome addition, though the others pale in comparison. If you're going to add multiple available, I'd suggest making them as worth while as your first.

Best of luck.

I agree that the background tiling on a large resolution is a clear problem, but I don't agree that extra white on the image is the way to fix it. That means a larger image which all users will have to download all of. Why not just set background-repeat to no-repeat and have a white background-color?

The code looks good, but I think basing the whole layout on a fixed background image is an approach you should possibly reconsider. Anyone using a larger than standard text size will see it flow right out of the 'box' portion of your image. In Firefox, this actually happens on the About Us page with standard size text.

In Ff, the UKWDA logo is, rather ironically, covering half of the submission button on your message form, seemingly on all pages which feature it.

The two images on your portfolio page take far too long to load because they are resized down from 1000px+ wide images. Thumbnails serve little purpose if a 150k file has to download so that a tiny image can be shown. Resizing images from their true dimensions with height and width properties is usually a Bad Thing. Resize the images as appropriate with a graphics program.

Your Get a Quote page has a form hovering in the top left in Firefox, covering other parts of the layout. This is probably related to a small number of HTML errors returned by the same page.

I do like the overall design of your site, but this is a rather longer list of issues than I'd like to see from people I was considering hiring for web design.

Thanks guys.

That is an embarrassingly long list of problems!!

I have sorted a few out - thanks for the testing. I will find a way to stop the text resizing in the nav bar tomorrow - friday night is calling!

What every designer must do to move standards along - show the world you aren't a dreamweaver wysiwyg designer - show them you are a real designer! Use CSS for positioning! Save download time - get higher search positioning and most of all - save TIME TIME TIME on redux.

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also - SEO concern: in your title tag - start with your keyword targets and end with your company name - proven better search results - leaps and bounds - 'cause title tag is still very very important. order of words in title, meta keyword, meta description, h1, and link text is very impolrtant to the current algorithms.

Unless you have a sheeitload of backlinks, a table based layout won't be near the top of the search results for you keywords ("web design") - CSS, once again, is the answer.

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