Ozcasemodz.com - Your Australian Case Modding Site

Hi everyone,

I saw this part of Dev Shed forums and thought i would get my website critiqued too...

What you all think:
http://www.ozcasemodz.com


Cheers

My Critique:

Good day,
First thing that popped out to me was your layout. Looks great, and I'm impressed. Seems like you put alot of time into it, but looks great. Only thing that dont' like too too much is the buttons on the left. And Google advertisements in the centre of a page always piss me off to be honest. Lol. But I understand that; we all need to some of cash flow.

SEO is an area I would look into exploring. All your buttons are made out of images, and many of your links within the images seems to be loading from a database or external file, using queries (?), which hurts you with google. You seem to have a good pageRank, and on doing a search for case modz and oz case modz, you came up 1st and 2nd respectively, but none the less, it never hurts to go that extra step to make your site a little more readable you know?

And on that note, what is an Oz Case Mod(z) or Case Mod(z)? I have no clue what you're selling or reviewing or anything you know? To users like me, I think you'd want some sort of explantion or help icon that would allow to figure out how to use your site in the way you want me to you know? Just an idea.

Finally, some good notes are I like your frontpage layout. It seems that I've been critiqueing some sites, and many of them have great index page layouts, but sometimes forget about the rest of the site? I understand that since the index page is arguably the most importnat since it's the first and sometimes only page a user sees, but, everything needs care. I like your boxes in the middle with reviews, and the email and print page buttons. It's even better than someone elses I was commenting on earlier. Very impressed.

So ya, there's my 2 cents. Hope I helped somewhat.

Oliver

The layout is really good except for a few things that really hurt the overall rating/quality of the site.

1) the images for the left menu... owch. Really ugly, you'd almost be better off using normal bold text. Tahoma or Verdana are two really nice fonts I often use.

2) the tables used to display the articles/reviews are ok, but could be designed so that no table cells are shown so that it is a seemly box. use border=0 and use more padding and or cellspacing.

I feel if you just change those two things it will dramatically improve the look of the entire site. Good luck !

Good looking website, as mentioned above text would probably be better for the menu links Also just my opinion but I think some padding between the text and the images on your homepage may look good.