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| ark_ader:
The website is fine but your prices are very high. Prohibitive in the current economy. Three years ago maybe but a cabinet for the same price as a PS3 is a tad high. I would lose the many options and just sell them flat pack like Ikea. Get a cabinet maker to run you a bunch at a discount. Something tells me that big is not so good in UK homes as space (it is for us up North) is premium. I would just go for the Cabaret and a much smaller Bartop. Other than that good work and good luck. :cheers: |
| protokatie:
Did a view of your source HTML, and modded it a TINY bit in Notepad. Basically, changed the colors to more nuetral, and got rid of the links changing to italics when moused over (which would cause the table they were in to change size) This is basically the idea I was talking about. Much cleaner and a bit more professional looking. This is a snapshot of my desktop with the slightly altered HTML. Click here for a version that isnt so scaled down: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m105/protoplatapus/turnarcade.jpg |
| Sir Auros:
I also think you should replace the navigation table at the bottom with an image map. |
| johnperkins21:
--- Quote from: protokatie on February 07, 2008, 10:55:01 pm ---Did a view of your source HTML, and modded it a TINY bit in Notepad. Basically, changed the colors to more nuetral, and got rid of the links changing to italics when moused over (which would cause the table they were in to change size) This is basically the idea I was talking about. Much cleaner and a bit more professional looking. This is a snapshot of my desktop with the slightly altered HTML. --- End quote --- I see you did a search for Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation reviews in there. I love that guy. Anyone who's a huge fan of Psychonauts is ok in my book. On topic. I hate to say this Craig, but that website does not instill confidence. While it's definitely not fair, I do judge a business on the professionalism of their website. Whenever I'm looking for a local business, I always check their website. If it's really unprofessional, I move on. This site looks like it belongs on GeoCities man. I'd highly suggest you look into toning it down a lot. Find a color scheme and stick to it. Use a consistent font size and style. Take a look at mameroom.com. You guys have a very similar business, but their website is much more professional looking. I'm sure they paid a pretty penny for it, and that has to be made up by charging higher prices, but I'm sure they get more business from having a really nice website than they would if it was really bad. The DreamArcades website isn't great, but it gets the job done with a very clean and consistent design (apart from the way too busy banner). ST's site at surface-tension.net is really excellent. He has a high end product, and the website reflects that. I highly recommend you check out Ben Hunt's website: Web Design From Scratch. There's a lot of good info there to help get you started. Also please look at WebPagesThatSuck.com to get an idea of what not to do. I don't intend to be harsh, but there's a reason that Dell and Apple don't have garish backgrounds and colors on their sites. Amazon.com is the most successful online retail vendor, part of that reason is given the millions of products on their site, it's still relatively easy to navigate and read. Take a few minutes to look at successful business websites and see if you can find things that they do well, that help you find what you're looking for and try to emulate (don't directly copy) them. I'd definitely get in touch with ST's designer if possible. That guy (or gal) did a really good job. |
| johnperkins21:
--- Quote from: Sir Auros on February 07, 2008, 10:55:16 pm ---I also think you should replace the navigation table at the bottom with an image map. --- End quote --- Noooooooooooo! Don't do it. Horrible, horrible idea. Never, ever, ever use an image map for navigation. Ever! |
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