website opinions

I've seen others get some great feedback on their website from the lovely people of Cake Central, so I thought I'd give it a try 

The website address is somewhat temporary. I had my brother in-law start a website for me at mysweetcosette.com, but is unable to complete it for me at the moment. I went ahead and started a different site on my own that was free and easy to set up. I just wanted something up until he can complete the original website, which should be much snazzier. I would like to keep the original name since it is more intuitive. My bro in-law said that he should be able to arrange it so that when people go to mysweetcosette.com, it will automatically redirect them to the free site I set up. He hasn't done this yet, so you will have to go to it directly.

I know a few things already that I'm missing. I need to add my cookie pricing and size info. I also don't have a phone number up yet (setting that up Monday).

I would really love some design feedback:

Does everything "flow" well? I tried to make sure most of the text (except for the header name and tagline) was the same font and the same 2 shades of purple. I tried to also make it so that most of the pages had the same look/feel. 
Is it easy to navigate?

I wanted it simple... Is it TOO simple? 

What do you think of my pictures? Do they "flow" well in the slideshow?

 

Have I left out any critical information?

 

I welcome all other critiques if you see any errors or anything that doesn't look right or read right or anything that's just missing.

 

http://mysweetcosette-biz.webs.com/

 

TIA for your time!!

@tabathaba: Thank you! I wanted to stay away from pricing by serving size. As a customer, this always confused me since different decorators go by different cutting guides. My prices are based off of my cost of ingredients, my overhead, and my time. Customers can cut it however they want. If I wanted to break it down by serving, my price/serving would go down the bigger the cake. Is the resulting pricing table too odd? Should I give some serving size examples?
I do explain in the text above the cake pricing that the prices are "BASE prices for a two layered cake with buttercream filling and frosting." Does this need further explanation? Should I say explicitly that this does NOT include ganache or fondant?

 

@shanter: Good point! Geez! So simple, but overlooked! That's why I came on here for feedback  I only mention in one spot (in the DETAILS tab) that I deliver for free throughout Thurston county. Yes, I would take a cake order from Seattle :) I would deliver that far too for a delivery charge. I guess I should add that to the front page! Hmmm... I think I'll add somewhere my introductory discount too.... Thank you!

 
Another option I'm mulling over: taking away some flavor options. I'm wondering if there are too many SMB flavors. Does it look odd that I have a lot more frosting flavors than cake flavors?

Edited by experimenting - 1/13/13 at 2:24pm

@ jason_kraft: thank you for the feedback! I took out the minimum cake order line. I reduced the text on the home page and added an "about us" page. I can't do anything with the navigation buttons though besides the color. I tried changing the size, but the site I'm using won't let me - at least not with the theme I'm using.

@CWR41: thank you for taking the time to look through my page! I made the edits you suggested. However, the quotation marks are a puzzle. My husband was just questioning it too. The site makes them that way automatically :/

 

Thanks CWR41. I'm working on it. I've tried retyping and just redoing the whole thing and that first quotation mark is still coming out that way. It's just that one spot on the entire website with quotation marks. Maybe I should just italicize it? I'll experiment with other fonts too.

Thanks so much for looking! I have to give my husband credit for the photography. I'm a lucky caker to be married to a photojournalist  I do like how the image viewer turned out. Great suggestion for my contact information and checking touch devices. I will make the change and I will check the site from my iPhone (don't have an ipad).