Name of Site/Business: Central Maine Web

Site's Main Purpose: Ecommerce/Sales

Please Review the following:
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?

Does/can the site achieve its main purpose?

Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?

Appearance/Attractiveness



Additional Comments/Notes
Hi
I love my website, and of course that's the problem. I may not be seeing the forest for the trees. The main goal here is to get people to trust us as a small, personal service oriented hosting and design company and find the "signup now' button simply irresistable. Any thoughts on how to make this site more attractive, with emphasis on home page? I want "enough" info on the homepage, yet, is it too cluttered?? Please "let me have it!" I'm ready to jump to the next level.

Hey there, here are my humble thoughts:
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?
-It does, through good use of navigation and the overall "idea" that if I don't see what I'm looking for straightaway, I can at least find it with minimal fuss. The search feature is great for this as is your useful, though not TOO full, navigational structure.

Does/can the site achieve its main purpose?
To be brutally honest, it's all there, there's just a few things I would tweak to make it more usable and attractive (see below). For usability, I would try and structure each of the "sections" more similarly. You primarily offer 3 services right? Hosting, Design and Promotion. Each of those needs a somewhat similar setup. EG, Hosting has prices listed and packages and such, then Design and Promotion should have the same type tables and schemes. I wouldn't want to think that, while you are upfront about your hosting (which everybody is) your going to shaft me on SEO because you won't list your prices/packages. The SEO link says "Packages" but all it really shows is a brief paragraph that I'm not enticed to read and then a link to somewhere else. I'm a web user, I've got the attention span of a flea. WOW me quick or lose me forever.

Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?
-Yeah, like I said above, your menus are great and pretty well categorised as far as the information is concerned.

Appearance/Attractiveness
-The overall design is nice but, like my own site, I see too much blue. Too cold of a colour to be out on it's own unless your going for cold and impersonal. Balance it out with some other colours (the green from one of your clients screenshots was nice).
OMG, please drop the horizontal lines too. I'm sorry to be so down on them, but they seriously are giving me a headache. Don't be afraid of solid colours, the busy-ness of your site doesn't need that extra touch and your design can stand up on its own without them.

Good luck to you, I've BEEN to Central Maine and I love it there.

Hi

Just one little thing that I noticed ... Under your main heading and before you let people know what your product is about - you offer a 60 day money back guarantee ... which to me puts doubt into the mind of the reader ... before they start ... possibly tell the reader about how good the product is in the first instant then offer the guarantee if they are not completely satisfied.

You want them to buy the product ... not give them a refund.


[ Message was edited by: smithguy 05/20/2008 07:49 am ]