www.cocktailstars.com

[cocktailstars]

Hi All
I was hoping you would be able to review my site www.cocktailstars.com

It has recently been redesigned by Seb Eynott at www.aottoa.com. We are very pleased with the look etc.

This is a commercial site as we are a premium mobile cocktail bar service.
The site is very important to us to gain new business and therefore am interested in several aspects of its usability:

1. Do you think it is easy to navigate and find information.
2. Is it clear what we do - content wise?
3. Against the advice of Seb I have insisted that the video be embedded directly into the pages - so that visitors have to view the video. This is because the videos are the best way to show people what we do (we have some of the world's best flair (bottle-throwing Tom Cruise style). We have chosen to use Quicktime videos. Some people do not have quicktime installed - do you think there will be any usability problems with the current arrangement?
4. We are aiming at the premium events market, large/prestigious corporate events, celebrity & VIP private parties - do you think the design /feel of the site reflects this?

Any other comments are of course welcome!
Thanks
Kate
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Kate O'Neil
CocktailStars 0870 950 55 66
www.cocktailstars.com

[hasnatme]

Well all I can say is outstanding!!! I'm really pleased but onething make me very dissappoint and that is about the quick time video. Auttoa is a very good webdesign company..but they shouldn't mistakes like this.

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Problem Every download manager caught the quicktime file when we click on that page containing the quicktime..even when we click on back button of the browser..its really dissappointed

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Sugesstion: Give the still picture of that movie clip with high and low resolution link or you can embed the file in macromedia flash file. I hope everyone will agree with me..cause this is boaring when I click my browser button and it caught by my download manager.

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[quantum]

It's very well done. One of the best websites I have seen in some time. Nice color scheme, outstanding graphics, simple but effective use of flash.

1. Navigation is clear and user friendly. I was never lost on where I was and also could reach any page I wanted within two clicks.

2. Content is concise and to the point.

3. The quick time video was not embedded right. Something wrong with the code. You should really use Flash to embed the video in that page with a preloader. Flash is much more ubiquitous than quicktime.

4. The theme is perfect for the message you are tryingto convey.

Other comments: It is not very clear which localicty you are targetting. I cannot get help from you in USA on mobile cocktail services. But I can't know that until I hit the contact section or take the moment to think about the phone number on top of the pages. It should say somewhere in Bold on the front page that you are serving UK people. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints. I must commend the developer for the site map on each page, which offset the adverse effects of the Flash navigation for the search engines.
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[emm]

Good and outsanding job. I hope you get a lot of clients with that website.
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[dinangkur]

Good works and nice color combination. But I would love to see a more attractive picture at the top of homepage. It's bit fainted. A more exotic look needed in the picture.

At the bottom where site map font color can be changed. thin ash color will look more glommy. Menu style looks really cool and you can try white font color for menu word. I think that will be more attractive.

Other than that. A lovely and cool webpage.

-DK
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