Sitecritic.net Website Reviews – How can your website be improved?

Form

The menu and layout is simple – cool. It might be a good idea to make the menu stand out more by adding background colors, more pronounced mouseover effects…etc. This is not critical because the current system is already quite functional. The display, however needs to be re-looked. The varying image widths on the right causes the entire table to stretch and contract. They author might want to work on the image sizes or even replace them by adding quick links or texts.

Function

The content of all the pages is short and sweet – good. Long stories tend to bore people easily. The images used in the site need professional help and some are inserted inappropriately. We would also like to see more images relating to customer services. The keywords in the header image could be extracted so that they are visible to the search engines. The author might therefore want to use transparent gifs instead of jpegs for the headers.

The news page should only contain news and not other things. Putting links, judgements and other sections there is not a good idea.

Because of the nature of the industry, we would expect the site to be content focus. All design elements in the site should sell the content and not distract users from reading it; We were particularly distracted by the animated gifs used in the website. As the site is not convincing in terms of its design, the company might want to consider adding a testimonial section with customer faces and quotations to boost the user confidence in the company.

Conclusion

The site is simple and is able to convey its messages easily across to the end-users. However, as a commercial law firm, we would expect some level of professionalism in their website. More work could definitely be done on the fonts, images and layout.