My first professional website/mine :)

I really like it, nice job. One thing is to put your phone number on the first page preferably top right alongside your logo.
 
Very nice. But, it looks like the "About" and "Services' has a different font text on it. Plus, when I clicked on the blog it wanted a username and password.
 
Very, very nice! I like how you increase the text sizes to highlight: Local, Mobile and Reliable. I also like your slogan at the bottom. Excellent!!!
 
It's quite nice.

Now some criticism!:

I think the logo and company name font looks dated and not quite up to professional quality. I'd consider getting a logo done. You can get them uber cheap anyway.

The main text area doesn't look quite right to me - not sure but think it might be too much, quite large text in one area. Maybe it could be broken up and made more hard-hitting. People don't tend to read more than a few words at a time when browsing. And I think the "Do you suffer from computer stress syndrome?" could be made to stand out more - maybe larger.

There is something not quite right about the menu bar. Home looks like it should meet the left edge
 
Martyn thanks point noted :)

datadatau thanks ingredients used : Beer - Adobe Dreamweaver - Beer- Adobe Photoshop - Beer

cmonova Thanks will need to check my css, blog is locked due to spam and my lack of time to sort out filter.

Hercomputers Thankyou i am glad that you liked it ":)

MobileTechie thanks - yea I havnt got around to changing it lol, it was one I created on a drunken whim- on the list to replace. I am capable of creating my own GFX :)

  • The font used is actualy not a dated font but a recent 2008 font. I quite like it as suits my needs and style.
  • The main content area is to full I agree I am in the process of a redisgn of the main content area - added to the list.
  • I am happy with the size of the "computer stress" for now - as it will force the user to scxroll if I make that class larger.
  • Menu bar yea I know I just cannot be bothered I gave up perfectionism when we had kids :)
 
1. consider placing contact details in header

2. consider placing contact form on each page

3. personally I found I got more conversions once I created a page for each service I was providing. At this stage you have a couple of small blocks of dot points explaining whats on offer. If you expand this and provide a page link to each point, it will be possible to extol the virtues of each service and to incorporate 'reasons to buy' for each, specials, more information on why the customer should call you instead of one of the 5 other google search results they have open for computer repairs services. Present your services each as unique and as appealing as possible.

Just stating the information is not the same as selling it :)

Extol benefits, compel customers to look at the site by making it bright, appealing and eye-catching, then give them an argument they cant refuse on each service that will make them want to pick up the phone and want to call you.

Make your contact details abundantly clear by not requiring people to search for them. They may not even have got as far as thinking of going back up to the top menu to fish for your phone number. If its right there on the page its a call to action. Once they see it, the opportunity is there. If its not, they could have moved on without making the call.

4. I think your home page could be put to better use. If this is your landing page (the page users get to when they click on a link from Google) then its the most important page on your site. I think it would be more effective without the blocks of text (less reading), and just with information on what customers can 'get' from you. Dot points, 'special', some eye-catching graphics, some colour. At this stage what people see is three paragraphs and three small monochrome stock photos - two keyboard shots and some binary code.

excerpt:

We are..
We offer...
We also...
Byte-able Solutions...
We offer...
Byte-able solutions...
We bring...
Give us...

If you reverse the thinking and consider the customer's standpoint, knowing about you is not their highest priority.

Knowing what they can get from you, is. - its a subtle distinction but might be useful to consider.

- on-site service (benefits, as opposed to going to a store)
- free pickup and delivery (benefits,)
- same day repairs (which is one of your strongest selling-points, possibly the strongest selling-point, but is buried under 3-4 paragraphs)

These three things from the text on the home page are what your customers are looking for. Benefits. Sell them on these, and they will go clicking, and explore your site. Possibly phone you. If you dont catch them at that initial point theres a good chance they will get bored or close the tab and move on to site #2, 3, or 4.

The home page, and its customer-appeal is where I think your focus needs to be.

After that, if you make a page for each service you provide, you will have more opportunity to sell each service individually. This approach will also work a lot better for SEO, particularly if you are going for keywords like "data recovery" "virus removal" "custom computers", "onsite repairs" etc.

Best of luck with it.

Jim
 
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Get your copywrite year in the footer up to date, and I also agree the phone number should have a home at the top right of the header.

The menus buttons look a little off to me as well, but youve already addressed that.

Good job (and also, great post Jim!)
 
It looks good! Something about the navigation though bugs me, but I dont know why. However to fix your bot problem for your blog just enable a capcha system.
 
Very nice job on your first site. The colour scheme and themes are nice, it looks professional and you've done a very good job. The only way I think it could be improved is as Martyn said; by putting your phone number in that nice little space to the right of your logo (people aren't good at finding stuff so it needs to be blindingly obvious)
 
All artwork is created by myself - some images have been re-edited to suit what I needed and to comply with copyright laws blah..enjoy:)

The image of the white men, one holding the HELP sign over a laptop on the Services screen is a copyrighted image. I know this because I also use this image and had paid for its use on my website.

You probably already know this but if not you should read Copyright infringement...beware!
 
Yea Im going to rework the nav as does seem odd and confusing.

cheers!

The image of the white men, one holding the HELP sign over a laptop on the Services screen is a copyrighted image. I know this because I also use this image and had paid for its use on my website.

You probably already know this but if not you should read Copyright infringement...beware!

-image removed-
 
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Ok have updated some things, dont have time to spend hours perfecting certain things.

Im going to leave this as is at this point in time, there may be other things but I am trying to get over perfectionism.

I might just simply get rid of the blog, as introducing a captcha system is simply annoying in my personal opinion.
 
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Ok have updated some things, dont have time to spend hours perfecting certain things.

Im going to leave this as is at this point in time, there may be other things but I am trying to get over perfectionism.

I might just simply get rid of the blog, as introducing a captcha system is simply annoying in my personal opinion.

The site looks wordpress based... if it is: I don't know why it hasn't been said yet, but: Wordpress + Akismet = NO SPAM (without captcha). http://akismet.com/

edit: And if it's not wordpress, it looks like they support a bunch of platforms after looking into their site again.

316 total spam comments auto filtered out over 5 months I've been using it
 
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I like it for reasons you've already pointed out. It is simple, but sometimes simplicity is the most effective way to accomplish the objective.

The only thing I would change are the three blue pictures in the middle of HOME. There's way too much blue going on, I think the page could use a little more color.
 
The site looks wordpress based... if it is: I don't know why it hasn't been said yet, but: Wordpress + Akismet = NO SPAM (without captcha). http://akismet.com/

edit: And if it's not wordpress, it looks like they support a bunch of platforms after looking into their site again.

316 total spam comments auto filtered out over 5 months I've been using it

No its my own custom CSS & Layout created in Dreamweaver. My webhost does have spam filtering in the CPanel, though havnt had time to tinker - its another one on the list of things to do.
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myPCTechs


Yea I stayed away from FLASH and kept it minimal (not that I do not have the skills). It was not to distract the viewer and keep it consistant with all users.

I dont really think any other colour would suit as the scheme I have is mainly blue/cyan all over really. Thouygh maybe I will have a look without the blue hue over those images, thanks.
 
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blinding advice there zx, I reckon this should be made either a sticky or one of Bryce's blog entries on the TN front page :)

I'm off to find your website now.....


1. consider placing contact details in header

2. consider placing contact form on each page

3. personally I found I got more conversions once I created a page for each service I was providing. At this stage you have a couple of small blocks of dot points explaining whats on offer. If you expand this and provide a page link to each point, it will be possible to extol the virtues of each service and to incorporate 'reasons to buy' for each, specials, more information on why the customer should call you instead of one of the 5 other google search results they have open for computer repairs services. Present your services each as unique and as appealing as possible.

Just stating the information is not the same as selling it :)

Extol benefits, compel customers to look at the site by making it bright, appealing and eye-catching, then give them an argument they cant refuse on each service that will make them want to pick up the phone and want to call you.

Make your contact details abundantly clear by not requiring people to search for them. They may not even have got as far as thinking of going back up to the top menu to fish for your phone number. If its right there on the page its a call to action. Once they see it, the opportunity is there. If its not, they could have moved on without making the call.

4. I think your home page could be put to better use. If this is your landing page (the page users get to when they click on a link from Google) then its the most important page on your site. I think it would be more effective without the blocks of text (less reading), and just with information on what customers can 'get' from you. Dot points, 'special', some eye-catching graphics, some colour. At this stage what people see is three paragraphs and three small monochrome stock photos - two keyboard shots and some binary code.

excerpt:

We are..
We offer...
We also...
Byte-able Solutions...
We offer...
Byte-able solutions...
We bring...
Give us...

If you reverse the thinking and consider the customer's standpoint, knowing about you is not their highest priority.

Knowing what they can get from you, is. - its a subtle distinction but might be useful to consider.

- on-site service (benefits, as opposed to going to a store)
- free pickup and delivery (benefits,)
- same day repairs (which is one of your strongest selling-points, possibly the strongest selling-point, but is buried under 3-4 paragraphs)

These three things from the text on the home page are what your customers are looking for. Benefits. Sell them on these, and they will go clicking, and explore your site. Possibly phone you. If you dont catch them at that initial point theres a good chance they will get bored or close the tab and move on to site #2, 3, or 4.

The home page, and its customer-appeal is where I think your focus needs to be.

After that, if you make a page for each service you provide, you will have more opportunity to sell each service individually. This approach will also work a lot better for SEO, particularly if you are going for keywords like "data recovery" "virus removal" "custom computers", "onsite repairs" etc.

Best of luck with it.

Jim
 
love the pic

Nvidia-VS-ATI.jpg
 
Been a while and thought I'd post changes since last :)

I am still thinking of linking the services to other more defined terms, but cant be bothered at this stage. Im fairly happy about everything else really, though of course good and bad criteques are welcomed.

cheers!:)

http://byteablesolutions.com.au/
 
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