Hello James,

the design is not bad, but the google adsense in the middle kind of ruins the thing !

The logo is not vertically centered in the green section and the menu is a bit too small.

I would probably decrease the height of the suppliers section and expand the width of the latest topics. There is quite a lot of space wasted in the left column and adding suppliers all the way to the bottom would make the website too busy.

Now if you sell those links, that's another story !

There is no website link in the supplier detail page (and the address for zenith is duplicated). If you do not want to lose your users make sure to have a link that opens in a new window, and if you do not want to give away some ranking, then you should apply a no-follow.

Maybe a picture gallery of things with description for novices in DIY would help them a lot, as well as an FAQ.

Good luck !
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Thanks for the feedback, all very valid points. We are going to move into DIY tips and advice as well as double glazing industry news as you suggest; it can be tricksy building up content and doing the design too.

JH

I think the site has quite alot going on on the page which makes it a bit hard to know where to go for the information I need - perhaps clearer columns might help along with titles and intros for each section.

Like the site visually though and it looks quite professional

Good luck!
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Hi buddinghealth,

I know what you mean. I am going to reorganise the site somewhat, and put the information on each supplier on a page with the relevant reviews and news for that company as I think this will help streamline the content on the site.

I think this might help with the issue of overload - I personally like sites with lots of information on the front page but I think you have to be quite pro. to design it an easy to navigate way!

Thanks for your help! Any other suggestions let me know!

Hi James,

I've come accross the site before when surfing the web and think it's not too bad at all. I'm not a great fan of having the forum with a tailored section to the large national firms - but that might just be my feelings from a smaller firm!

Overall good work.

Chris

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Hi James.

Not bad at all. I like the colour scheme and header. I can see why you have the Google Ad banner, but with the log-in section too, it means that visitors must scroll down on every page before reaching the content.

It's a hard balance to strike, when the Ads are the revenue source, yet it's the content that people are after.

Populating the forum is going to be the trickiest part of the project at this point though. And it's often a killer to many forum-type start-ups. People are hesitant to join in when there isn't much activity already on show. It's a catch-22 situation.

Also, thinking about your target audience, I might suggest increasing the text size for the primary content. Many home-owners will be in their fifties and find small fonts hard to read. I've come across this problem before and discovered that perhaps 20 to 30% of my target audience were navigating away from a site for just that reason.

Matt
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yeah its a nice site sorry to bump I am hoping to contact the op

Why not use the contact form on his site then?
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Ian

NIce clean look and feel
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