Looking for Feedback on our Site -

[SamPA]

Hello,

Just got the first layout rough draft back from my webmaster and I'm looking for other opinion's.

I was not at all blown away by this rough draft...can't quite figure out why, but I'm not digging it too much.

We're going for clean, professional and simple...and I'm not seeing professional in this rough draft. The boarders with the bolts are killing me...looks childish and cheap.

That’s my take on it at the moment - again, this site is only a rough draft and we're at least eight months from launch...so not worried on time - just looking for some early feedback on the initial layout.

*Disregard the text as it's only they’re for color*

http://airsoftusa.no-ip.com/

Thanks all!

Sam Burnette

[pete]

Hope you haven't spent a lot for that page!

Anyhow, you definitely need to revise your script.

"We strive to offer the highest quality of services as well as pricing to our dealers in an effort to ensure success to their business as well as ours."

Does this mean you are stiving to offer your dealers the highest pricing? If not The Lowest Pricing, at least Competitive Pricing. Of course, Guaranteed Lowest Pricing would get some more orders.

"We distribute exclusively to registered business's and do not condone in any shape or form of retail sales."

Business's is a possessive. You mean to businesses.

Condone means approve. "We do not approve in any shape or form of retail sales?" I don't think that's what you mean to say.

Better would be "We sell to only established businesses who can furnish us with license and sale tax numbers. Sorry, we do not sell to individuals. We support our dealers and will gladly furnish you with our nearest dealer if you will send an email listing your address."

[SteveC]

In a word, your proposed layout is boring... ask your web designer to get with the times, add some color and pizzazz to it... at the moment it looks less than professional.

Ask you developer to produce a more exciting layout for you... give them a few examples of websites you like... and tell them why you like them... profile your customers and give your website designer this info so that they can design to this marketplace... and this user’s technology profile.

And the website you have shown us, might meet these objectives... I don’t know all I can say is that it looks boring... it wouldn’t encourage me to look deeper in to your company... and if one of your competitors has anything half way more decent I would consider speaking to those people before your company.

My advice, ask the designer to show you another more colourful, exciting and vibrant layout... I’d also ask them to include meta tags, pay proper respect to incorporation of keywords/phases within the design... and of course... to put the css in an external file... these things might happen of course in the actual website... as this is as you say just a proposed layout.

These are of course just my opinions... what you do with them is up to you, although as you have posted for such comments... I’m probably only mentioning something you, yourself already know.

Steve Cartwright
FX Digital Pty Ltd
www.website-designs.com

PS – Get a $4,000 website package for $250 – http://ww1.fx-digital.com

[SamPA]

Thanks much for the feedback Steve - the site is definitely boring...but with our target market, I think anything more would probably scare them away!

**However, we will definitely be looking at some other alternative's and see what we can come up with - perhaps we can get a little more exciting without the risk of spooking anybody!

Pete - I placed emphasis on looking for feedback on the layout of the site alone and asked to have the text disregarded - but thanks anyway!

Have a good one and thanks!

Sam Burnette

[nsusa]

You should also get a real domain name. "airsoftusa.no-ip.com/" just does not sound like a business.

Christoph

[SamPA]

You should also read my thread

**Rough Draft** - of course I would never enter any market seriously with this site.

Do we need a sticky on this forum about reading the post before responding...?

This is the second non-related response I've gotten...???

Thanks anyway but it was posted we're a few months out from launch and was just looking for some feedback on the LAYOUT of the site...not the text, not the URL, etc...

Sam Burnette

[Netrepreneur]

In regards to the layout, there isn't much to look at. That is, I can't see any links on the page...where is the navigation going to reside? Left, top, somwhere else?

I think the border is clean, and perhaps related to your market segment, but it is monotone. It needs color, such as a hint of blue or something to bring it to life.

The bolted plate with your logo looks clean, but again it could use some color. It doesn't even need lots of color, but some highlight, etc. As for the layout of this page...after the border & the logo, and the "white" space, there the majority of the content would be below the fold, which is a big no no.

I would recomend asking for a layout that put the content area (or at least some of it) up closer to the top of the page. As far as the white background for the content of the site, stick with it - this is professional, conservitive, and easy to read.

All in all the quality of the grahpics are professional, but the "taste" or "flavor" of the site needs more work. And I can't say this enough, add a little color.

Best of luck.

Netrepreneur

[SamPA]

Awesome - I see what you mean with adding some highlights and such.

Right now we're working on getting a little more of a detailed sketch of what it will look like and going from there.

Thanks again -

Sam Burnette

[kyro]

Originally Posted by nsusa

You should also get a real domain name. "airsoftusa.no-ip.com/" just does not sound like a business.

Christoph

i'm guessin thats only temporary for he is running it off a personal server.

Well you can say much because its one page. I would add more color if I were you though!