what does my website need?

Question

http://www.illustratedimagery.com/testsite/illustratedimagery.htm

what can I do to make this better?
what should I change?

Answer 1

I hate to be so harsh, but it needs many things.

1) A spell checker. Gallerys? Do you mean galleries? I'm in New Zealand, maybe we spell differently here.

2) White (bold?) text on a black background is quite nasty, it reminds me of the Internet 8 years ago. I would look to redesign this. It's very hard to read and the initial look of the page makes me think "Time to look elsewhere", the text is too packed together. Make better use of the space you have available to you!

3) The feedback page: Why say "Here's what your friends say about us" ? It instantly makes me think "You don't know my friends and they don't know you" which isn't so great. Just make it say "Satisfied customers" or something similar.

4) You shouldn't need to say "There is a lot more to see on this website, so take a look around. We update these pages frequently, so be sure to check back with us often." - This should be obvious from the first view. Remove this, it sounds like another way of saying "Under construction"

Redesign the menu on the left hand side. What does "General" mean? What does "Learn" mean? Should that say "Our Business" and "About Us"?

Overall you're on the right track. But I'd take the time to review a lot of other small business' websites and see how they work, their layout and especially their use of colours and graphic design/image layout. You seem to have a lot of images that are just placed there for the sake of images, some menu items don't work and the text is very hard to read.

Good luck and don't give up, a little bit of work and you'll have a great website.

Answer 2

1 You want less than 100 words per picture on a professional web page.

2. It should only be less than 800 pixels in width. About the size of your heading Ilistarted Imagery. I like the look of the mirrored heading.

Answer 3

ur stupid get a life looser