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Hey, I have a site that needs review from some REAL professionals. A close friend of mine made this site for his business, and I would LOVE to hear some IM professionals tell me what they think of it so that we can fix it accordingly.

Thanks for the help...again. And feel free to lay it on.

The site is TNT Home Improvements.

So, what does this site need?
 


Posted April 16th, 1996 4:37PM

I think it's looking good, and completely modern. especially like the use of frames, and a graphical hit counter. That's really the way to go.
 
I'm going to TRY to approach this a bit more kindly, if I can.........

Lose the background, the contrast is horrible.

Take all of that stuff you have on the left and put it at the top of your screen. You need to consider what is actually necessary.

I recommend Home - Products - Contact or something like that...Products can be a drop down if you want. You seem really keen on giving free estimates, but I would include that as part of the contact section. If you are feeling lazy, just move the link navigation you have at the bottom to the top...

Since decks are your specialty, I think you should demonstrate that more. Right now when I look at your site it seems that you are a jack-of-all-trades that needs some cash.

I could go on, but you really just need to start over. Good Luck
 
I'll try to be a bit more constructive than the others, (but only because I'm new here :1bluewinky:)

1. Some sites can make an argument for using frames; this isn't one of them.

2. Their work might be "dynamite," but their site looks like shite! Seems this site is suffering from a case of "trying to hard." Sometimes simpler really is better. The large backgrounds are noisy. The pages don't have a consistent feel to them and do not flow from one to the next.

3. Ditch the site counter. Do you really think customers care how many other people had their eyes burned out viewing that page? How about replacing it with a "satisfied customer quotes" ticker. That'd be of much more use to a prospective customer.

4. You need better copy written for the home page. The bullet points are alright (excusing the formatting). How long has the company been in business? How many jobs have they successfully performed? A link to pictures of completed jobs might be nice? Is the company part of any associations or the BBB, anything worth noting? Give the customer more info about the company there.


Visit OSWD for some free designs, like this, this or this: nice, simple and with a little tweaking and swapping of images would be a good fit.

In the WF treasure trove thread, post #13 has some links to other threads about good copywriting.

The good news is that it shouldn't be too hard to fix up a 10 page site.

Oh yeah, and for the love of all things unholy, stop using MS Word for web development. :disgust:
 
Yeah, I was expecting to get ripped on. Thanks to codemonkey and schoolishard for the constructive advice.

I know it's not the strongest site, but I wanted to get some pros comments on it so that I could use that to approach my friend instead of just me saying 'uhhhh, no'.

Cool, I'll be showing my friend these comments, and hopefully he listens.

Thanks again guys.
 
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