First draft of website

I think they layout is good, but your home page is a run-on. You keep basically repeating yourself in the first paragraph about you expanding, your growth, and learning. I recommend you make your home page very simple, maybe a few bullet points, the picture is good, and maybe put your autograph or something on it. If you want to get more website hits, put a short video on your website, it will attract a lot more attention through google. Best of luck. Here is my website, Metropolitan Detail, Auto Detailing, Waxing, Paintless Dent Removal, Paint Protection - Home I think mine is also too busy, and I've been trying to clean it up for a year now. LESS is MORE.



John
 
JohnKleven said:
I think mine is also too busy, and I've been trying to clean it up for a year now. LESS is MORE.



John
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Try getting rid of the technicolor and growing/shrinking text. I think it would look a lot less cluttered if you would maybe pick one highlight color and tried to keep most of the text the same size.
 
JohnKleven said:
I think they layout is good, but your home page is a run-on. You keep basically repeating yourself in the first paragraph about you expanding, your growth, and learning. I recommend you make your home page very simple, maybe a few bullet points, the picture is good, and maybe put your autograph or something on it. If you want to get more website hits, put a short video on your website, it will attract a lot more attention through google. Best of luck. Here is my website, Metropolitan Detail, Auto Detailing, Waxing, Paintless Dent Removal, Paint Protection - Home I think mine is also too busy, and I've been trying to clean it up for a year now. LESS is MORE.



John
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Haha... The run-on paragraph is just text from the web designer. Its just filler text. All that will be replaced when I write the real stuff. If you look closely, the sentences repeat over and over. Also the site is being hosted on my designer's site at the moment. It will be moved to its own domain name upon completion, so the url will be different as well.



I clicked the link to yours but it didn't work?
 
I like it.



I like the fact that its clean. People will spend more time on clean, easy to navigate websites with short, concise text.



Some people on this forum might shoot me for saying this guy's name, but I think that Paul Dalton's site is one of the best detailer's sites around. I especially like the way he describes his services and handles his FAQ page. Its not overly technical or too lengthy to discourage reading.



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Also, when putting pictures on your site, make sure they're super high quality. The better the picture looks, the better you look.



That's my two cents.



I think you're off to a great start. As long as you keep it simple and everything is grammatically sound, I think it'll be a killer site. Let us know when you get it up!
 
JohnKleven said:
I think they layout is good, but your home page is a run-on. You keep basically repeating yourself in the first paragraph about you expanding, your growth, and learning. I recommend you make your home page very simple, maybe a few bullet points, the picture is good, and maybe put your autograph or something on it. If you want to get more website hits, put a short video on your website, it will attract a lot more attention through google. Best of luck. Here is my website, Metropolitan Detail, Auto Detailing, Waxing, Paintless Dent Removal, Paint Protection - Home I think mine is also too busy, and I've been trying to clean it up for a year now. LESS is MORE.



John
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Its workin now, your site. I LOVE that video still!
 
Looks good. Curious to see how it comes in the end. Make it easier to find your contact info. I'd add it as a permanent feature at the bottom of the page.
 
dfazekas said:
I like it.



I like the fact that its clean. People will spend more time on clean, easy to navigate websites with short, concise text.



Some people on this forum might shoot me for saying this guy's name, but I think that Paul Dalton's site is one of the best detailer's sites around. I especially like the way he describes his services and handles his FAQ page. Its not overly technical or too lengthy to discourage reading.



Miracle Detail - Car detailing - Paintwork Correction



Also, when putting pictures on your site, make sure they're super high quality. The better the picture looks, the better you look.



That's my two cents.



I think you're off to a great start. As long as you keep it simple and everything is grammatically sound, I think it'll be a killer site. Let us know when you get it up!
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paco said:
Looks good. Curious to see how it comes in the end. Make it easier to find your contact info. I'd add it as a permanent feature at the bottom of the page.
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Thank you :)
 
Nice and clean layout, I like it! A couple thoughts on first glance...it would be nice to have your phone number on all the pages, maybe try the footer or header? That way the customer isn't searching around for it.



Also, on your main page you may want to tweak the title tag for SEO purposes (so you will rank better in Google based on certain keywords). For example, you could try "Immaculate Reflections -- Chicago Detailing Services" I just put "Chicago" as an example city, but you can fill with your own.
 
site looks good man. simple and to the point. people now days are to busy to spend all this time trying to navigate through stuff.



State what you offer, some photo's and your prices and you are good . . . . not to mention your contact info.



Nice job. How much is that site running?
 
JohnKleven said:
I think they layout is good, but your home page is a run-on. You keep basically repeating yourself in the first paragraph about you expanding, your growth, and learning. I recommend you make your home page very simple, maybe a few bullet points, the picture is good, and maybe put your autograph or something on it. If you want to get more website hits, put a short video on your website, it will attract a lot more attention through google. Best of luck. Here is my website, Metropolitan Detail, Auto Detailing, Waxing, Paintless Dent Removal, Paint Protection - Home I think mine is also too busy, and I've been trying to clean it up for a year now. LESS is MORE.



John
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I really like your promo video, it showcases your service really well. I might need to get one put together for ours.



The tip above about high quality photo's is a good one too I think. The pic's on our site are not particularly good quality and I think we're worse off for it.



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One thing I'm about to get more serious about is working both our blog and facebook pages in together. with the blog having a more serious focus on ongoing care etc... while our facebook pages will be more timely and informative. Thats the plan anyway.
 
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