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General Community => WebsiteBaker Website Showcase => Topic started by: dbfcs on October 19, 2006, 09:52:23 AM

Title: Dyson Review Site
Post by: dbfcs on October 19, 2006, 09:52:23 AM
Here is another baked website:

Title: Dyson Reviews - Reviews of Dyson Vacuum Cleaners (http://www.dysonreviews.co.uk)

URL: http://www.dysonreviews.co.uk (http://www.dysonreviews.co.uk)

Description: Dyson Reviews is packed with reviews and photographs of all the Dyson vacuum cleaners available to purchase. Here you can find reviews of the best Dyson vacuum cleaners that are available on the UK market.

I have integrated the Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/?%5Fencoding=UTF8&tag=dandconli-21&linkCode=sb1) API with the template.

I think the template has a warm feel about it plus the information is easy to access.

I have run accessibility tests at Cynthia Says (http://www.contentquality.com/) and it passes Section 508, WCAG 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. There are a few warnings but no fails. The XHTML and CSS is the same. Both pass with a few warnings - these will be ironed out over the coming weeks.

What do you think?
Title: Re: Dyson Review Site
Post by: kweitzel on October 19, 2006, 10:09:28 AM
Your sites start improving ... finally you can distinguish between ads and content ...

and the design is the best till now, it fits the topic!

cheers

Klaus
Title: Re: Dyson Review Site
Post by: coyoteRick on October 26, 2006, 01:20:29 AM
I think it's a lovely site! Very clean, very simple, very intuitive navigation... everything an internet surfer needs in a website.

Technical application looks superb... my only real area of expertise... art direction... is where I feel confident enough to rant.

-- While everything looks clean and neat, it's almost too clean and neat. Perhaps using slightly different background colors to differentiate navigation/content/ads would help divide the content instead of having it so open and airy.
-- I really like the dashed border around the featured product at the top, very effective at corralling that ad to show you it's different from the standard header content. However, perhaps you could implement that dashed border into other areas of the page? It'd look great as a "border-right" property for your left-side navigation

My biggest aesthetic problem is the need to divide the content from the ads and such, so as to encourage a surfer to draw his attention to the main content.

Aside from my snooty, artistic, subjective opinions, I love it! A great bake indeed... probably one of the best baked goods I've come across in my brief experience as a baker. ;)

Keep up the great work!