Nerds for Hire Website Sketch

Nicely done, I like it a lot. When my first reaction was " I'd call them if I needed this kind of help. ", despite the fact that I don't need this kind of help, I realized you'd grabbed my attention - and while I'm browsing the technibble forum, no less! Best of luck to you...
 
Thanks for the comments guys,

I'm working on fleshing it out now, and for now I've launched a quick SquareSpace website. By next week or so I'll launch the real thing.

The SquareSpace thing is kinda cheesy to be honest, everything feels so "generic"
 
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kwest said:
Love the site. Is that a template or did you do that from scratch??
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Just from scratch. I'm a graphic designer (in fact, I built the Technibble CBK 2, and 3!) I'm converting it into a Wordpress theme now and It'll be done in a couple days actually.

The logo is a custom font I made years ago, all I did was recolor the logo from my original to match modern standards in graphic design and I removed my mascot, "Edward Moticon" or "E. Moticon"

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I'll be honest. Sliders like that are a fad, nothing more. They waste valuable space and don't convert well. Over 3/4 visitors to my website actually result in a call. I used to have a fancy website like that and maybe 1/6 people that landed on the website actually called. What people want to know is the following:

1. Where are you located?
2. How much do you charge?
3. Can you fix my particular problem?
4. Do you have any reviews?
5. How long have you been in business?
6. Can you tell me a bit about the person that's going to be touching my computer?
7. Do you have any computers for sale?
8. What are your hours?

People shouldn't have to hunt through an entire website to find all this information. Remember, the people that are going to be calling you are simpletons. A lot of them can barely use a computer. If you make it difficult for them, they give up. This is a great example of a functional website that works great (this is not my website):

http://www.datadoctors.com/locations/359-Bellingham-Computer-Repair-and-Data-Recovery/

This is a national computer repair company and they know what converts well. Having all the information on a single page is great. The only thing I would change is I would have a separate page for each of these blocks of information (reviews, hours, directions, about us, etc.) and have a "read more" at the bottom of each of these page elements.

I'll admit. Your website looks a lot better. But what you really want is to turn those visitors into phone calls and eventual clients. I've learned from experience as I've had 7 different computer repair websites across 2 different companies. I also run about a dozen other websites not related to computers. Sliders suck. Nobody actually reads them and they waste valuable screen real estate. Being a technician you probably have a 1080p display. But most of your clients are going to be on a 1366 x 768 resolution (or worse). You've got to use the limited space you have wisely.
 
sapphirescales said:
I'll be honest. Sliders like that are a fad, nothing more. They waste valuable space and don't convert well. Over 3/4 visitors to my website actually result in a call. I used to have a fancy website like that and maybe 1/6 people that landed on the website actually called. What people want to know is the following:

1. Where are you located?
2. How much do you charge?
3. Can you fix my particular problem?
4. Do you have any reviews?
5. How long have you been in business?
6. Can you tell me a bit about the person that's going to be touching my computer?
7. Do you have any computers for sale?
8. What are your hours?

People shouldn't have to hunt through an entire website to find all this information. Remember, the people that are going to be calling you are simpletons. A lot of them can barely use a computer. If you make it difficult for them, they give up. This is a great example of a functional website that works great (this is not my website):

http://www.datadoctors.com/locations/359-Bellingham-Computer-Repair-and-Data-Recovery/

This is a national computer repair company and they know what converts well. Having all the information on a single page is great. The only thing I would change is I would have a separate page for each of these blocks of information (reviews, hours, directions, about us, etc.) and have a "read more" at the bottom of each of these page elements.

I'll admit. Your website looks a lot better. But what you really want is to turn those visitors into phone calls and eventual clients. I've learned from experience as I've had 7 different computer repair websites across 2 different companies. I also run about a dozen other websites not related to computers. Sliders suck. Nobody actually reads them and they waste valuable screen real estate. Being a technician you probably have a 1080p display. But most of your clients are going to be on a 1366 x 768 resolution (or worse). You've got to use the limited space you have wisely.
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Thanks for the comments, this is exactly what I was looking for.

I don't do sliders, never did. I think what you see as a slider is actually my fullpage splash. A full page splash is used to grab your attention to your header on your landing page. It's an immediate call to action and is smack dab in the middle of the screen.

While you're right about me being in 1080p (1200p to be exact) I design my websites using responsive techniques. When I design a website I'm not just designing one website, but rather three similar looking ones. One for phones (0px - 599px wide), one for tablets (600px - 1231px wide), one for standard screens (1232px and above).

Web jerk jargon aside, I agree that it's only the effectiveness that matters. So with that taken into consideration I need to go down your list and see what I have and don't have.

1. Where are you located
Not really relevant since I'm going to be working out of home until I get a small office. There actually are offices available by me for $500/mo. w/ free heat and power for 150 sq. ft. but we'll see how things pan out before I make that move. Once I do though, I agree there needs to be a "Store Locator" option, which is an easy fix.

2. How much do you charge?
I don't believe putting prices on the front page is wise (which is why I hate my squarespace website so much right now), but I'll take it into consideration and look into other local tech's websites.

3. Can you fix my particular problem?
That's addressed in the big clickable squares, and drop down menus.

4. Do you have any reviews?
None younger than 3 years old, so I'm not quite ready for that.

5. How long have you been in business?
I can't say I've been in business since 2009 if I stopped working on tech in 2012, and saying I've been in business since 2015 discounts my services.

6. Can you tell me a bit about the person that's going to be touching my computer?
Good idea, it'll be another "feature" banner.

7. Do you have computers for sale?
No, I can't compete with Best Buy in that area. Don't plan to either.

8. What are your hours?
Good catch, I'll fix that.


Honestly, thanks for the input. I still got a lot of work to do and more to consider.
 
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