need a site review

[danmayna]

Hi I would be grateful if you could give my site a good review including the content review.

My site can be found at Piano Keyboard Reviews for Electronic Composers and Keyboardists

cheers,

Dan

[Julia]

Hi Dan,

wow- great niche!

Your site looks pretty good at first glance. I'd recommend shortening the written content on the homepage though - either break it up into more than one 'blog' entry, add some bullet points or something, etc. - it just seems like a lot of text that most people would skip over when landing on your site. Perhaps you could have a short, punchy intro paragraph that explains your site, and then link to the more in-depth stuff?

I also might re-name the 'Products' section to somthing less salesy, like 'Individual product reviews' or maybe add a section on which keyboards you recommend.

Great start though, and I think you've got a really neat topic!

[danmayna]

Hi Julia,

Thanks for the quick response. I had entertained the idea of shortening my index page as well as providing a better hook in the title and summarize what visitors will find on the site within the first paragraph. I actually redesigned the site a couple of weeks ago and witnessed a 20% reduction in bounce rate!

Cheers,

Dan

[route609]

Hi Dan
Good niche!

I would definitely add a background colour to your website. This will help the content area stand out and be more visible.

I would shorten the text on the index page. Only by a couple of paragraphs, i don’t think you need to cut much from it. I would maybe increase the line height of the text, maybe to 21px. This will help the reader feel as though there is not much content as there actually is.

I would maybe add one or two images in the content area just to break up the text. Try and make it look visually smaller will be a good tip.

Also i am unsure if the blue text works on the brown for the articles, products etc. I think maybe changing this colour and maybe use a graphic instead would look visually better.

You can then add an alt tag to the graphic to help with the SEO side of things.

All in all great niche, nice site.

Good luck

[danmayna]

HI,

Good comments from all of you. I have started to incorporate some of your suggestions.

Thanks

Dan

[Linda Buquet]

Thanks route609. It's great to have a designer in our midst.
We appreciate your suggestions, ideas and feedback a lot!