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#1. <b>First, the color scheme and logo is fabulous.</b> I love simple, succinct lines - no fluff design in a logo ... this one is memorable and represents the QuirkyBaby name well. I can see it on business cards, invoices, letterhead, etc... Nice.<br><br>
#2. <b>Next, I appreciate the diversity of women and sizes represented.</b> When I click on <a href="http://www.quirkybaby.com/catalog.php" target="_blank">Browse Categories</a> I see women of all sizes wearing your product line. When I was babywearing, I was in a size 18/20 and struggled to find anything that would fit comfortably with my frame and breasts. This website, I feel, best represents women's frames in general ... and not just the pretty, thin, mommies we see all over magazine covers, articles and commercials. Not that I'm against pretty, thin women - it is just that having the diversity of women represented celebrates motherhood as a whole. Again, fabulous.<br><br>
#3. <b>I am a visual searcher.</b> Others like text links. In the Categories area it is nice to have both the text option (good for search engines and text-oriented clickers) and the photo option for clicking through to each category. I was surprised recently to stumble upon a site where I couldn't click thru the images. I believe most of the new carts are smarter than that, but now I'm noticing it.<br><br>
#4. <b>Again with the visual</b> - the extension of the circular "q" and "b" in the logo to the circular images below makes an excellent flow. And the upside down "i" is indeed, quirky ... love it.<br><br>
The business as a whole is focused. I know exactly what you sell when I get there - no confusion; very straightforward.<br><br>
***Oh, and kudos that it validates XHTML, making it highly compatible across all browsers. There are 19 Warnings, but no errors in the code.<br><br>
I like your approach ... it is very professional. I'd trust that you are a professional business and purchase products from you based on this website.<br><br><span style="text-decoration:underline;">There are a few things that I think need tweaking</span>.<br>
#1. On the contact page, you do not "show" the email for contact ... instead you have to click thru. Not everyone's browser or OS will draw up email in that way, so you may indirectly make it difficult for someone to communicate with you. It would be best to use an obfuscator like this <a href="http://alicorna.com/obfuscator.html?text=shipping%40motherofeden.com" target="_blank">free one here</a> to also offer your actual email address. This will keep you from getting shredded by spam bots, but at the same time, give visual contact information that is clickable on your site.<br><br>
#2. On your home page, your links are not all integrated with the CSS. The one that stands out is at the bottom of the breastfeeding graphic (right above the footer) where it say "Continue reading..." I see it in the standardized blue link color. I'm sure you intend it to match the others.<br><br>
#3. Some of your links below images need some padding. For instance, on the home page underneath your featured picture (the link is white to show up on the blue background). It is jammed up pretty close to the image. I noticed this on your Categories pages as well.<br><br>
#4. Your site is graphic heavy. I'm on high speed DSL and it took a bit of time for the images to all fall together. The more images that can be worked into the CSS of your site, the faster your download would be.