Hello again

 

Can you please let me know what you think about our latest site?

 

www.sabbathbicycles.com

 

Its a mixture of flash, html, php and ajax.

 

I look forward to your reviews.

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

Jeff,

 

Site looks really nice, what CS suite did you use for the flash part?

 

Also, I did notice that it looks like you had the same problem as I once faced with mysite when using clear png files.

Be sure to fix the alpha transparency for the rollover images on the menu bar. Also you could use some css to color the submit button on the dealer login.

 

Other than that, very nice layout and design!

 

Hello again

 

Can you please let me know what you think about our latest site?

 

www.sabbathbicycles.com

 

Its a mixture of flash, html, php and ajax.

 

I look forward to your reviews.

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

looks good

Visually it's a very nice site, although my personal preference would be to see a little less flash and a little more html. I did notice however that the flash elements obscure your drop down menus. (Using firefox 3 on linux).

Nice site though

Very nice! Cool and slick. A 3D bike viewer would really finish it off where you can drag and pan 360 degrees around the bikes.

Visually it's a very nice site, although my personal preference would be to see a little less flash and a little more html. I did notice however that the flash elements obscure your drop down menus. (Using firefox 3 on linux).

Nice site though

 

Thanks for your input. There is not much flash on this site. We normally do a lot more!

 

I will look into firefox on linux issue.

 

Have you seen our site www.matmi.com

 

or our job site www.jobpapers.tv (lots of flash)

 

cheers

 

Jef

Although I also dislike the general overuse of Flash I have to say the site is really impressive, it doesn't even load too slowly.

The coloured nav thing is really nice too.

Thats an awesome and really cool design! Very-very good! Classic combination of colours black-red! And I love sites which have flash! Good job!

Although I also dislike the general overuse of Flash I have to say the site is really impressive, it doesn't even load too slowly.

The coloured nav thing is really nice too.

 

I agree, very nice website, maybe a bit to dark in some places. Im glad you decided not to make it 100% flash, it would of really ruined the website.

I agree, very nice website, maybe a bit to dark in some places. Im glad you decided not to make it 100% flash, it would of really ruined the website.

 

Thanks for you review.

 

This site needed to be SEO friendly so it had to be a mix of html and flash. I think the balance worked well.

 

We do make some flash only sites. Have you seen our pasty site? www.westcornwallpasty.co.uk

 

Let me know what you think to this (it is all in flash!)

 

cheers

 

Jeff

I love the site, great design.

Very professional. Impressed.

Hi

 

We have just updated the and designed a forum.

 

Please let me know what you think.

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

So far people have only commented on the design (which is very nice!) but here's somethings that have not been mentioned

 

Your page does not validate, there are a lot of errors, a lot easily fixable like "onMouseOver" etc should be lowercase "onmouseover" since its XHTML.

 

Also things like using border="0" on your images... this is deprecated and can be done using css instead of repeating throughout your code.

img, img a {
  border: 0;
}

 

Your css does not validate either which could cause issues for different browsers. I see that you've used some hacks so obviously it may not validate but there are some fixable errors there. Best to iron them out to get your site displaying exactly how its supposed to!

 

Also a shame the design uses tables as its not very accessible at all. Your javascript does not degrade at all, rendering the navigation useless with javascript disabled.

 

You mentioned SEO in your post. The best thing you can do to improve this sites SEO is to include H1/H2/H3 etc tags. Currently there are none.

 

I do like this site but the main problem is that if you have to use javascript etc for navigation then you must make it degrade gracefully.

I really like the look of the road bikes!!!!!!!

Design looks great! Nice use of Dark grays with the red logo. Cool and professional design. I also like the zoom in/out on your products; helps the user in seeing the bikes up close.

Hi

 

If you take the advice of those who have commented it will become a stunner.

 

That’s my opinion.

One minor detail, using mod rewrite to show the urls in a more friendly format - without the .php at the end...this will also help disguise the server side language being used...just a simple security practice.

 

Ex: say i type sabbathbicycles.com/gallery - it should show that page

 

Another possible detail, not sure if it matters for client but if they are looking for International Sales, including some global branding wouldn't be a bad idea...UK, JAPAN, US, etc.....it seems like the missing link for making this a big name...If I see that this brand is sold in UK USA etc...I would be more interested in seeing what all the hype is about. For me, USA is the closer region that would make a possible-Sale possible. (<< tongue twister)