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Now that I have been around for a bit, I was wanting to know what everyone thinks of my website. I have been getting hits from technibble so I figured on seeing what the consensus is.

Note: I intentionally do not list my prices. And the link is in my sig.
 
http://www.jagcomputersonline.com/ for those of us who keep signatures turned off.

I see wasted space. Either move your ToS elsewhere (why not the bottom of the page?) or move your buttoned links to the sidebar.
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Same with the top of the page. Your company name looks pushed up against the top and the line of white text is up there with it. Pull 'em both down a bit ... or shrink the size of the whole top section to balance it out. OR....
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Your phone number is buried and almost invisible. Use that wasted space above for it.

You've got that footnote "1" at the beginning, but it's not even a superscript. Change that to an asterisk and maybe colour it.
 
http://www.jagcomputersonline.com/ for those of us who keep signatures turned off.

I see wasted space. Either move your ToS elsewhere (why not the bottom of the page?) or move your buttoned links to the sidebar.
0f58ca7c4ffaac6ebca15936bc5b2010.png

Same with the top of the page. Your company name looks pushed up against the top and the line of white text is up there with it. Pull 'em both down a bit ... or shrink the size of the whole top section to balance it out. OR....
d46d0fb29a964b7a1e41dd87e0090904.png


Your phone number is buried and almost invisible. Use that wasted space above for it.

You've got that footnote "1" at the beginning, but it's not even a superscript. Change that to an asterisk and maybe colour it.

I placed the main navigation buttons in the top of the page so as to be more visible then the sidebar. This is intentional. The terms of service I want to be seen and not buried down at the bottom.

As for the rest, take a look at this test page. I altered it before I made the changes to the main page.

As for the logo being pushed up there, I am not certain how to do that without destroying the sizing of the page. I am a novice when it comes to HTML.


Also, my point for this was to get what everyone likes and dislikes about the site. Please don't just critique what you don't like. I want the whole range of opinions.
 
Please don't just critique what you don't like. I want the whole range of opinions.

Its site critique. The dislikes are the important bits for you to be aware of. Praise is icing on the cake if you can get it, but nowhere near as useful.

You could suggest a 'my website: please pat me on the back' forum section, or change the topic of your thread if thats what you need. Not sure how much it would contribute to improving your site though.

Agree with everything ehousecalls has said.

BTW, if you are serious about getting quality feedback on your website, check this out
 
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I have to agree with E and 16k. We only wish to be insightful and help you bring more traffic to your business. No disrespect.


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Its site critique. The dislikes are the important bits for you to be aware of. Praise is icing on the cake if you can get it, but nowhere near as useful.

You could suggest a 'my website: please pat me on the back' forum section, or change the topic of your thread if thats what you need. Not sure how much it would contribute to improving your site though.

Agree with everything ehousecalls has said.

BTW, if you are serious about getting quality feedback on your website, check this out

As I have stated before, I want the whole range of opinions. This is intentional as I have visited many sites that change the layout, and other things that were just fine. I want to know what everyone likes AND dislikes.

When I say feedback, I mean complete feedback. In my past experience, when all I get is a critique on how I can improve but no info as to what I am doing good I eventually come to the point of ignoring the source. The reason why is that I feel those people can only seem to focus on what they don't like.

I am not angry, upset, or otherwise emotional about this. Just stating some facts.
To be honest I never was looking for a pat on the back.
 
I'll be honest, I've looked over your site several times over the past few hours and haven't replied because I've been trying my hardest to find something I like so I could give you more than just dislikes as you requested.

Now forgive me, I don't intend for anything I say to sound harsh, or to bash you in any way. But from not just a designers standpoint but a consumers as well your site is very off putting. It is very cluttered and oddly makes me frustrated just looking at it. There is too much going on, no design standards at all, and I see no ascertainable color palette.

Starting with the design layout, you have a layout meant for sidebar navigation that you've completely ignored by adding top navigation so you have an entire area of wasted space. Your header is a mess, you have a stock photo in the corner that ties in well with the layout but when added with your generic cooltext logo there are several noticeable breaks that just make it look unappealing. That coupled with the fact that none of the fonts really tie together really causes some strain and takes away from the content of the site. Then you have for some reason a strange dark brown color that completely breaks up the flow of the site.

My recommendations would be first, either move your navigation to the sidebar or completely do away with it and move your terms of service to the bottom of the page. Second, either change the odd brown color to black so it doesn't break up the site or completely change the color palette of the site. Try working your stylesheet a little bit to get away from the look of the stock browser text and really tie your whole site together. Lastly try creating an actual logo, not just something you generated on the web, I've seen that same cooltext nova look in forum signatures for years. If you have trouble creating one yourself graphic designers are a dime a dozen these days, a couple hundred bucks goes a long way.

Like I said I don't mean to sound harsh but I really had a hard time reading any of the text on the site because everything else was so distracting. I wasn't even going to comment until I finally read far enough down that I noticed one of your services was "business website design" and I felt an odd duty to step in and help you become a better designer so it could become a usable service. My apologies if you took any offense but you asked for a critique and I don't BS, that is my honest critique. Good luck to you.
 
As I have stated before, I want the whole range of opinions. This is intentional as I have visited many sites that change the layout, and other things that were just fine. I want to know what everyone likes AND dislikes.

When I say feedback, I mean complete feedback. In my past experience, when all I get is a critique on how I can improve but no info as to what I am doing good I eventually come to the point of ignoring the source. The reason why is that I feel those people can only seem to focus on what they don't like.

I am not angry, upset, or otherwise emotional about this. Just stating some facts.
To be honest I never was looking for a pat on the back.


Speaking generally about getting good quality website feedback, the process reminds me of a quote from the cartoonist Michael Leunig.

He said, "We must make do with scraps".

This same statement is a truism in regard to obtaining good website critiques. If the volume of honest comments were there, we could all get rich off our fantastic websites because we could literally create the perfect marketing vehicle from that quality and volume of feedback.

The fact is, that genuine honest feedback is, in real-life, in short supply. Its actually incredibly hard to get.

The rare moments when people do (a) take the time to think hard about our work, and (b) then are generous enough to share their thoughts with us, are nuggets of gold.

Unfortunately, they are often not appreciated as such.

The trick, as a webmaster to making this process work, is to find opportunities to locate people who are willing to do this, (TN, and its generous community being one such place), and then to create a context where they feel they are able to be open and honest about what they see.

The easy part, comparatively speaking, is applying the ideas to the design.

Just a thought...
 
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My thoughts....

I too have spent a while mulling over your site in attempt to find a piece I can say that I like. Unfortunately the only thing that I can praise you on is having a copyright notice on your pages.

IMHO I would completely re-do your website, I have learned from first hand experience that your website sets the tone with your clients. I have re-designed my website 3 time since I opened in 2009 and every single time my "regular" clients have express how much more professional it looks ( I am still in the process of re-design #3).

I am not going to list any of the reasons why I think a re-design is the best option, as they have been sufficiently covered in the first 1 or 2 comments.

My recommendation is to check out http://theultimatetechsite.com/. By no means am I any good a web design, but I have managed to grasp the concept with UTS very easily.
 
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