Please critique my website

[Dedicatech]

Please let me know what you think about my site. I've been working on for quite some time now and would really like some feedback.

www.dedicatech.co.uk

 

[Martyn]

Really like the layout and colours though normally I don't like dark designs. There are some typos around and you still have some content to put in. A couple of things that bother me, and the first will bother people, mobile number only. People want transparency and the minimum you want is a landline and an address. I would want to know who is working on my computer especially if taking it away. Secondly I'm not sure you will survive on your pricing. £60 max for a call which is 2 hours. I charge £45 per hour and am thinking about raising prices again. Bear in mind a lot of calls you may want to take away to your workshop, is that still £60?. What about businesses? What about home businesses? There are lots of them about.

 

[Markverhyden]

Looks nice but it's a little on the dark side. Maybe lighten up some, maybe a complimentary color for the partner bar area. Also some of the language seems a bit odd to me. Maybe it's a UK English vs American English thing. Such as backup solutions - "We can ensure that your system is prepared for any type of disruption". I would think that business is a better choice than system. As mentioned you need a lot more content since the few pages I checked were all empty.

 

[glennd]

Losing data is stressful and can result to a huge blow financially your business.

"... can result in a huge blow financially to your ... "

One call connects you with a powerful IT professional who will be there to thelp.

powerful? thelp? a big powerful man to thelp me?

Before panicking, check that:

check what?

Symptoms that your laptop has a virus include:

what?

etc...

i recommend you go over your web site again with a much more critical eye than you have so far

 

[Dedicatech]

Looks like I've messed the site up yesterday a bit and most of the content went missing. SEO and Joomla usually get along quite OK, but one character plus or minus and you can kill your entire "mainboody"

 

[Dedicatech]

Really like the layout and colours though normally I don't like dark designs. There are some typos around and you still have some content to put in. A couple of things that bother me, and the first will bother people, mobile number only. People want transparency and the minimum you want is a landline and an address. I would want to know who is working on my computer especially if taking it away. Secondly I'm not sure you will survive on your pricing. £60 max for a call which is 2 hours. I charge £45 per hour and am thinking about raising prices again. Bear in mind a lot of calls you may want to take away to your workshop, is that still £60?. What about businesses? What about home businesses? There are lots of them about.

Thanks, I've now changed the number to the land line. I've just thought that in the case I'm not in the workshop customers could reach me faster and not wait till I return and call them back. Regarding the prices I'm not sure and it is a big question like probably for everyone in the startup phase. Looking around other businesses I've seen rates ranging from £20 to £50 for domestic customers. I've also read a lot of the others pricing structure around here in the forum. How do you price your other services? (sorry I couldn't find your company page on your forum profile). Any advise on the pricing is greatly appreciated as I feel like I'm in the dark a bit regarding this

Looks nice but it's a little on the dark side. Maybe lighten up some, maybe a complimentary color for the partner bar area. Also some of the language seems a bit odd to me. Maybe it's a UK English vs American English thing. Such as backup solutions - "We can ensure that your system is prepared for any type of disruption". I would think that business is a better choice than system. As mentioned you need a lot more content since the few pages I checked were all empty.

This darker template raised some questions with me as well when I've started doing the website, but I think it turned out nice with the addition Intel blue color I'll try and give a go for a brighter partners row, although I don't want to shift the visitors focus down there from the main body... If the language feels odd please do correct me. I can assure you it's not a US vs UK wording thing, it's me not being a native Briton (I've lived here for more than 4 years now, love fish&chips and just discovered salt&vinegar coated roasted nuts... but all this is a whole different story and only writing it down in hope that other fellow UK techs would accept the new kid )

"... can result in a huge blow financially to your ... "



powerful? thelp? a big powerful man to thelp me?



check what?



what?

etc...

i recommend you go over your web site again with a much more critical eye than you have so far

Thanks for the observations, I'm correcting them this afternoon. Critical eyes are not the problem, rather me not using 100% native English because of translating phrases from my Hungarian mother tongue

 

[Martyn]

Thanks, I've now changed the number to the land line. I've just thought that in the case I'm not in the workshop customers could reach me faster and not wait till I return and call them back. Regarding the prices I'm not sure and it is a big question like probably for everyone in the startup phase. Looking around other businesses I've seen rates ranging from £20 to £50 for domestic customers. I've also read a lot of the others pricing structure around here in the forum. How do you price your other services? (sorry I couldn't find your company page on your forum profile).

I removed my website from my signature after an incident last year. Only because i'm one of the admin on here.

About your phone number, my phone trips to my mobile if I don't answer it within the number of rings I defined. I use Voipfone which works really well and allows you to block numbers you don't want to hear from again i.e Yell

The thing is with rates is that if you are cheap you will get cheap customers. I charge £45 per hour which is mid range. The highest locally is £60 + vat and there are people that charge £30 per hour and one that charges £10 per hour!

I will pm my website which is nowhere as good as yours but there are things that I think will benefit you. I have a picture of me and my car on there just to give that transparency. Remember they want you to go in your house so they want to know all they can about you.

 

[ArtemusComputerTechnology]

I agree. Your website is on the dark side, but I see you are still working on it. I would go with adding a nice color for the background like a nice shade of gray, white, etc. Work on the things mentioned and have everyone critque it again.

 

[cypress]

I agree it is too dark but I really like the menu bar. Looks real nice and flows nicely.

 

[mhelpdesk]

I actually like the dark colour although the fashion is for lots of white lately. The navigation is easy and intelligent. The Microsoft logo, however, is fuzzy. Can you clean that up a bit? Otherwise I'd say it's a good, professional looking website.