I need your opinion

[She_wolf]

Hi everyone!I need your opinion on my beaded jewelry .
The site is at http://www.sparklingfantasy.com please look at it and tell me what you think. '>
It is very important for me. :'>

[Kaytee]

>my beaded jewelry .
The site is at http://www.sparklingfantasy.com please look at it and tell me what you think.<

I didn't see any jewelry-- just kits for beaded flowers. This kits look nice and reasonably priced for somebody who just wants to "try it out".

Re: the site: the home page looks great-- nice/sharp image. The images on the kit pages are a bit blury-- the thumbnails especially, but also the text on the project pictures; maybe delete the text from the pictures, and put it along with the description if you've not included it already.

Problem for me with the site: even maximized, the pages do not fit my screen-- have to scroll back and forth to see everything. I'm using AOL 9, with Windows XP Pro, and it's on a new computer. You need to have several people with different ISPs/types of computers take a look; generally, it's recommended that a commercial site "fit" the "least common denominator".

[LynnK]

I'm not having the same problem with the site fitting on my screen, so might be your browser, Kaytee.

She-wolf, I like your jewelry and also the way you have it displayed. (Quite original!)  It looks professional and of good quality.

I would lend some critique to your text that accompanies it, however.  I hate to be harsh, but the descriptions detract from your photos - they sound very conversational, but not the style or level of writing I'd expect from a professional jewelry web site.

"This set is called the “blue and white” because the beautiful set is made out of blue beads and white beads. This set will look pretty with any clothing you wear. I think this set would make you look like drops of water are falling but its not raining"

I can tell from looking at the photo that it's made of blue and white beads. '> Tell me what kind of beads they are, if they are lapiz and pearls, it will make me more apt to buy them than if they are plastic pony beads (that I can't really tell from the photo.)  Here's a suggestion off the top of my head for copy:

Blue and White is the name of this beautiful necklace and bracelet set created from Blue Denim Lapiz stones and Swarovski Pearls.  The cascading drops will remind you of the soothing sound of a gentle rain shower.

That's pretty corny, but I think you can get the idea.  If you're not comfortable with descriptive writing, I'd suggest simply a good description of the materials used to make the pieces.

Good luck...I really like the design of your site!

[Kaytee]

>>I'm not having the same problem with the site fitting on my screen, so might be your browser, Kaytee.<<

Yes, that was why I said it was a "problem for me". However, I'm using the AOL browser, and although AOl does have it's problems, a whole lot of people do use it. So, in order to reach as many users as possible, pages need to "fit" those computers/browsers/monitors/whatever as possible. There are ways/codes to make things "one size fits all": for example, all the Rings and Things pages "fit", even when not maximized-- they resize themselves to fit the window; so do a lot of other commercial sites, and Yahoo Groups. It's not just something available to "big" websites, either-- there have been those just starting websites who had the problem, and were able to "fix" it (www.beadnerd.com was one-- the owner soliceted opinions re: how the site looked to people on various systems, and adjusted the codes herself so that those without access to the "better" system could see it properly).

[LynnK]

Hmm...I'm using AOL 9.0, windows XP too.  That's odd.

But you are correct - Explorer is going to fit a little differently from Netscape, AOL, etc.,  and a site owner should check as many browsers as possible to see how it's going to look.

[Todd]

Opinions.

Not a bad design, works in all the browsers I tried it in (Opera 7, Mozilla and IE 6). So it is likely that it looks as it should in most broswer type. The 3 browsers I used make up about a good portion of the browser market so you should be fine.

The biggest problem I found is that the pages scroll to the right for anybody who's resolution is 800x600 or below. Most people have their resolution set to that, so you may to rethink the width of your site. When a user has to side scroll to see your whole page it lessens the affect.

LynnK is right, your site's width should be resizable down to 800x600 minimum. Here at Rings & Things we try to make our site resize as far as we can realistically do it, with the bare minimum being 800x600. If it can't downsize to 800x600 we keep working on it till it can. Sometimes there is exceptions, but it can't be the whole site that is the exception. You can still have pretty with a functional website.

The color scheme reminds me of a test site I did over the weekend. http://wee.wheeloftime.org/

[She_wolf]

I want to say thank you to all of you! I trully appreciate your advices and we already started to change our web site. Hope it will help to serve better. Thanks again.
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