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smitty27
Joined: Aug 27, 2004
# Posts: 4
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Posted: 2004-Aug-28 06:12
Name of Site/Business: D.J. Smith Design
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
Typos and grammar
Images failing to load
Is the Contact, Privacy and Legal information adequate in relation to main purpose of site?
Search engine marketing. Can the pages be reasonably well indexed by search engines?
Additional Comments/Notes
I own the design studio and use the site for portfolio purposes. I primarily use the site as a tool to send prospective client to when they call and need to see a sampling of our work or request an online portfolio. While I would love to learn how to code my own site (I own Dreamweaver and GoLive) I actually just designed the graphics and layout and outsourced the programming as I do with sites I'm commissioned to create. It's hard for me to be objective, or subjective for that matter. I would appreciate your comments and suggestions. Thanks for your time.
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smitty27
Joined: Aug 27, 2004
# Posts: 4
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Posted: 2004-Aug-28 06:18
Sorry, I wanted to just edit this and I ended up submitting it again. I didn't really didn't mean to post twice.
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babywebmaster
Joined: May 02, 2004
# Posts: 10
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Posted: 2004-Sep-01 16:56
G'day mate, I instinctively went to the porfolio section for websites & would like to see the actual website not just a screenshot.
The "shop" does not serve any useful purpose.
Using miniclip as you do only drives your visitors away, why not incorporate the flash games into your site?
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gerardio
Joined: Feb 14, 2001
# Posts: 69
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Posted: 2004-Sep-08 00:27
Hello,
Very nice looking site. I would advise having more content on the site including having some text on the index page as well. If you run the index page thru a lynx viewer, you can see exactly what the search engines will index.
Ultimately, I would look to continue to build out more pages with content and your work. Look to writing a few articles for your site to draw in users.
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lindawarren
Joined: Aug 29, 2004
# Posts: 19
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Posted: 2004-Sep-10 03:33
The site is attractive but you need to let people know what to do once your home page comes up, a little patter would be nice. I understand your intent with the Shopping page, but calling it Shopping is mis-leading, think of another name for your other linking sites.
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smitty27
Joined: Aug 27, 2004
# Posts: 4
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Posted: 2004-Sep-10 03:49
Thanks to everyone who has posted a review so far. I'm thinking that it actually might be a good idea to kill the shopping section. As mentioned already, it does seem a bit "worthless." I like the idea of writing some articles and having them posted on the homepage. I know my craft and I have plenty to say about it for sure. Nowadays people get a computer and think that the templates they get with their office utilities program is sufficient for their marketing needs and that simply isn't the case. They make the mistake of making their business look cheap and sub-professional. But I digress.
I wanted a clean and professional look with the site; avoiding Flash movies or music that many have told me annoy them. As for building out pages, what specifically would you build out? I will be adding more projects as they are deemed worthy to showcase. I have a few logos that are slated for publishing on the web. Is there something that you suggest I add that would better demonstrate my skills as a graphic designer. I'm thinking of dropping the websites because that isn't one of my better strengths. I do more print design. I want to learn more web programming but I'm having a hard time learning. I have a freelance programmer that I use for work now but he isn't readily available and doesn't know Flash.
That is a great suggestion on having the game section available. That has been the plan all along but I wasn't able to pull it off with my programmer's schedule and so it goes without doing. I've got to learn this coding stuff. You guys are just way too smart!
Thanks so much for the wonderful, and sometimes painful, suggestions. I really do appreciate your time and attention to my website.
Take care,
D.J. Smith
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swapx
Joined: Jun 21, 2004
# Posts: 10
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Posted: 2004-Sep-10 05:14
Your home page is too pale, specially the buttons. I had to look hard to find and rea dthe buttons to click on.
From your tagline, "Creative Communication Specialist" I could not tell what it is that your are selling or advertising. I assumed it is about high tech communications devices, like cell phones, etc.
I clicked on "SHOP" button twice and still couldn't tell its purpose. Seeing the big Expedia box there I assumed that you sell travel. But then there is boks by B&N. Are you affiliate of those two sites?
All your pages use white text on light gray background. I am still young with good eyes and still have trouble reading them. It might look artistic, like B&W photos, but is that your purpose?
With no product ifo on your home page, how would search engines index you? Site title and then what?
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rmar
Joined: Sep 14, 2004
# Posts: 12
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Posted: 2004-Sep-15 01:40
Hi there,
I like the site, however I agree with "lindawarren". The shopping is kinda mis-leading. It gave me the intention I was able to order anyhting from your webiste. I also would like to recommend you to integrate the games in your website or if that's not possible have another browser window open when people decide 2 play the game. Cause when people would click on the game image they're redirected to another website which means they leave your website and might not come back.
Overall looks good.!!
Cheers!
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