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[DetroitTechComputer]

www.DetroitTCS.com

Let me know what you think, I'd love some more ideas

 

[rapidcom]

Right off the bat I see that the flash is a bit wonky. Seems that at the end of the flash cycle you can see a little piece of your logo behind and to the right of the flash content.



Also, when the flash runs for the logo it seems to default to an image of your logo that is bigger than the flash.

 

[totalPCTechs]

I like the design overall and is headed towards a good direction. Here are some pointers:

1-logo behind slider needs to be removed.

2-no mention of virus removal and its one of the main focuses of a computer repair business. Well its on the 3rd slide but most ppl wont wait long enough to notice.

3-more content for SEO reason

4-below the slider i would add 3 boxes and in them focus on 3 main things in your business like virus removal, data recovery, diagnostics or hardware repair.

5-i would also make the phone number a little more noticeable since most ppl will call instead of emailing you

 

[DetroitTechComputer]

I'll tweak it after I get back from dinner. I'm not sure how much or what kind of content to add though. Any ideas? Thanks again!

 

[Paul Rodgers]

Personally I would ditch the flash banner. Do you really want your customers to have to install a flash plug-in for their browser when they visit your site?

 

[DetroitTechComputer]

Personally I would ditch the flash banner. Do you really want your customers to have to install a flash plug-in for their browser when they visit your site?

Very true Paul, I'll get on that tonight.

 

[techroc]

Not bad but looks too generic.

I would get rid of the flash (javascript is better) and add the like and +1 buttons to the bottom footer. I also think the fonts should be bigger. You also need more text content on your main page, and on your other pages.

Just some simple improvements I would make if it was my website.

ps. The site is a little bright, maybe change the color of the top header which also divides up the page making it easier to read.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

When I was setting my website up I took a look at other members websites. This gave me an idea of how to set things up on my own.

I'm not sure if you have done that or not, but I highly suggest you do just to get an idea of what others are doing.

As techroc said javascript is better. Take a look at my site to see how Bryan Vest did the banner.

 

[DetroitTechComputer]

got rid of the flash. getting a 404 on the landing page for some reason now.

 

[techroc]

got rid of the flash. getting a 404 on the landing page for some reason now.

<div id="page-content-header" class="container_24">
<div id="page-title">
<h1 class="pagetitle">Page Not Found (Error 404)</h1>
</div>
<!-- end page-title -->
</div>
<!-- end page-content-header -->
</div>
<!-- end page-content-title -->

<div class="clear"></div>

<div id="page-content">
<div class="container_24">
<p class="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://detroittcs.com">Home</a><span class="breadarrow"> &rarr; </span><span class='current_crumb'>404 - Page not Found </span></p>			</div>








<div id="content-container" class="container_24">
<div id="main-content" class="grid_24">
<div class="main-content-padding">

<br />
<h2 class="center warning"><div class="msg-box-icon pngfix">Oops..., I cannot find that page you are looking for, sorry... (Error 404)</div></h2>

<div class="grid_18 prefix_2 suffix_2">
<h3>Let me help you find it:</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<strong>Search</strong> for it:			    <form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="http://detroittcs.com" >
<div><label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">Search for:</label>
<input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>			</li>
<li>
<strong>If you typed in a URL...</strong> check the spelling and try reloading the page.			</li>
<li>
<strong>Start over again</strong> with the <a href="http://detroittcs.com">Homepage</a>.			    
</li>
</ol>
<br />
</div>

</div><!-- end main-content-padding -->
</div><!-- end main-content -->
</div><!-- end content-container -->

Was this generated some how by an editor or html generator? May I ask how you did this?

The content of 'page-title'

<div id="page-title">
   <h1 class="pagetitle">Page Not Found (Error 404)</h1>
</div>

Needs to be changed or updated.

Also, the 'breadcrumbs' under the page title

<p class="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://detroittcs.com">Home</a><span class="breadarrow"> &rarr; </span><span class='current_crumb'>404 - Page not Found </span></p>

And then everything in 'main-content'

<div id="main-content" class="grid_24">
<div class="main-content-padding">

<br />
<h2 class="center warning"><div class="msg-box-icon pngfix">Oops..., I cannot find that page you are looking for, sorry... (Error 404)</div></h2>

<div class="grid_18 prefix_2 suffix_2">
<h3>Let me help you find it:</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<strong>Search</strong> for it:			    <form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="http://detroittcs.com" >
<div><label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">Search for:</label>
<input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>			</li>
<li>
<strong>If you typed in a URL...</strong> check the spelling and try reloading the page.			</li>
<li>
<strong>Start over again</strong> with the <a href="http://detroittcs.com">Homepage</a>.			    
</li>
</ol>
<br />
</div>

</div><!-- end main-content-padding -->
</div><!-- end main-content -->

Some how that's what your website is actually displaying, the 404 html errors in your index page. If you update that, it should change to what you want it to. Basically the main-content should be replaced by some javascript slider or some image displaying script that isn't flash enabled.

p.s.

You should also add more text-content under it as stated above so it fills up your page, and actually gives potential customers some information. Details and such about your business, services and contact info. should also be included there again.

 

[rapidcom]

Not too sure about the 404 error. Is this a CMS based site? Possibly the CMS is still attempting to display the original flash content?

This is just a guess, I could be way out in left field.

 

[techroc]

Not too sure about the 404 error. Is this a CMS based site? Possibly the CMS is still attempting to display the original flash content?

This is just a guess, I could be way out in left field.

You could be right, I've never used a CMS so it could be for some reason that the code generated or edited may be creating the errors in code, causing the output of the CMS to replace the html with 404 errors.

My last post was regarding the straight raw HTML, if he wanted to get right down to it to fix and add more content without using a CMS, but he may be indeed using one!

 

[DetroitTechComputer]

Thanks for the response guys. Unfortunately I'm using a template called Udesign. I'm not all that familiar with HTML but I'll see if I can fix it through the template.

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

I love that 4x2 of panel things you've got going on there, excellent way of putting a lot of info into small chunks

what are they called? is it widgets or columns or something else?

 

[SmithFamilyDesigns]

Looks a lot better than the last time I looked. Still some unused space at the top but a vast improvement.

+1ed you while I was there.

 

[rmcg]

it looks good but i would move the Google and Facebook buttons to under call us.