On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best), what number would you rank this home page www.thepetdepot.net ?

Answer 1

6

The link formatting for the Home, About Us ... etc. doesn't format correctly when viewed in Firefox 1.5.0.4. The 'Contact Us' link busts out of table row.

I'd suggest listing your contact phone number more than just once on the front page. If missed at the top of the page by a reader who has scrolled down, they may not find it easily.

The Christian Fish symbol may be well intentioned but is out of place. Could alienate those who don't share your faith?

It's a simple, clear design that I'd imagine will be effective for you. Good luck!

Answer 2

Daryl :), I give it 9.

I think the site is well balanced and well structured. It downloads at an acceptable speed on a busy 56k connection.

Overall I would have given it a 10 if it were not for two things.
You loose 0.5 for the featured pet. It is dark text on a dark background. On a slightly dark monitor the text is unreadable. change the text to a lighter colour if you can. I think maybe that part is being serverd by a different website, so changing it may be difficult. Okay i see it looks better in IE but the links are still slightly blured because it's blue on a blue background. The problem with the other dark text is most likely to do with the way FIREFOX interprets your style sheets. IN my experience firfoex does a good job with style sheets i write bu then they don't work prperly in IE. it's very irritationg for me because i am new to style sheets.

The other 0.5 point you loose for the reservation page. Using firefox i get an error saying my "the current browser is either too old or too modern (usind DOM document structure)" and then a date picker is way off at the bottem of the page. I would have taken 1 point but i see it works in IE6 which is means it will display correctly on more than 80% of the worlds computers.

I also like the fact that it's not rotten with images. The colour scheme is very consistent and doesn't change from page to page. There are no popups or flash content which i also like about it.

The last but no least you have provided alternate contact details not just a webform. People who don't like to uise the web forms can contact you by phone or email.

Worthy of mention is that all the links worked, there is no iritating background sound or moving text or flashy banners. Navigation is also a breeze, not confusing like some other pages.

Oh yes in the menu part, little strips are displayed in FIREFOX instead of 1 long one like in IE