Know-How Exchange : Website Critique

I agree with elliemk,

You should also add Alt tags to your images, this will improve SEO and help blind people and people with dial up connections.

You should also specify the height and width attributes of your images, the site was jumping around when loading which is very annoying.

When I went to this page:

https://www.fruitjuicemarket.com/Products_ProductShow.asp?productid=435

there was no information in the boxes. Then when I went to the company home page I found that the link was broken.

https://www.fruitjuicemarket.com/Companies_HomeShow.asp?CompanyID=36

This page didn't render properly in firefox 1.0,

https://www.fruitjuicemarket.com/News_Display.asp?NewsID=184 it is all skwished to one side. Also the site that wrote the article link is not a link, it is just a bit of text. It is annoying that I have to open a new tab (window in internet explorer) and type the address out.

When I tried to visit the page www.foodingeredientsfirst.com it turns out that the page does not exist. This makes me think "did they just make up the address, if they made up the address they may have made up the story" which takes down your credibility.

Carl Crawford

All in all this is a good "draft" but it is not quite ready to launch. Here are some page by page comments.

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default.asp

There is nothing on the page (or any other) that tells me what page I'm on. Use some coloring convention in the navigation bar or other technique to tell me visually where I am.

All text with a link really should follow the standard web convention of blue with underline. Headlnes, for instance, don't tell me that if I click I go somewhere.

Typos on page--two examples:

Tomatoes,quality and supply up, prices down

thousands of industry proffesionals

Typos on every page and even in some linked-to URLS--some of the URL typos still take me to a page (Headlines_Archieve.asp), and some take me to a 404 page. Spell checker will find the text and you just have to test every URL.

It is not clear to me what "Trade Board" means . . . so I don't understand what "Applicant" means in the table at the bottom . . . if I click on a link it looks like a request for proposal, but here in the states at least "Trade Board" might imply the current prices on commodities market.

Under Featured Products . . . each page takes me to a seondary window. That's fine but the English language text is a little awkward . . . and at top right where it says "Visit our Profile" there is no live link.

The secondary window is the same for every link, so that if I open that window, return to the main window, and then click on a link that opens in that same secondary, the secondary window remains hidden (does not get focus is the technical term I know it by). Give each secondary window its own name, with a way to close each one . . . like this (I've removed the starting < and the closing > so the marketingprofs server doesn't think it's javascript:

a href="#" onclick="window.close();">close window
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TradeDirectory.asp

The link from Buy and Sell Messages is a dead one

The links to each category are good . . . but when you try to link to the provider of product--for example, Companies_HomeShow.asp?CompanyID=7--it appears to be all 404 pages.

The Trade Directory headline at left links back to the same page. Remove the link and use some convention to tell me that I'm already on that page. The same is true about the skyscraper banner at right, which links back to the page I'm on.

The area titled "Main Sections" at left is displayed only on the home page and not anywhere else. If it is a list of main sections it needs to be on all pages.

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Headlines_Archieve.asp

Notice the typo in the page name.

Instead of starting each criteria text box with a blank, use something like "Search All"

Where no results are available, (e.g., keyword=Apples and Subject=Companies) don't take the user to blank page, but instead put something like "No results found, would you like to try again" with a link back to the search page.

The way around any potential copyright issues with reusing text (and I don't think this is a significant issue since you attribute the article to the correct source and most people are OK with that), is to link via a secondary window to the page where the article originally appeared. Problem is you have no control over what that site does so if they remove the page you'll link to a dead one.

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NewsLetter.asp

You use the blue text as both a visual link indicator, and as just a headline. Once you establish some kind of convention for indicating that text is a link, don't use that convention for anything else.

You also use two conventions for the links....the light blue, and then the darker blue at right. Pick one and use only it . . . the best is always standard blue with underlne.

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Advertising.asp

I would remove the section altogether (yes, it means changing the navigation bar and then changing it back) until you have content there. "Under Construction" is in my view bad form.

In either case, put the links at the left back in so I can go somewhere else.

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AboutUs.asp

In first three lines of text you refer to Iranian Fruit Juice & Concentrate twice and Iran Fruit Juice & Concentrate once. Same thing should have the same name.

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ContactUs.asp

I can successfully submit a completely blank form. You require fields to be filled out elsewhere and you should do the same here.

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SiteMap.asp

The page lists about two billion pages with the exact same name, each of which takes me to a different page.
Those pages need to be translated for an English speaking audience

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As I say, this is close to being complete . . . fix the typos and the awkward English, get all pages working, perfect the logic of links and navigation and it will be in much better shape.

Hope this helps