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protokatie:


--- 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.
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Unlike Fozzy the bear (who I turned on to Yahtzee) I have yet to bookmark him (even tho I was there during the "Yahtzee takes on the world" web comic, years back).

Also, I COULD make a simple (HTML only) web site for our guy here for free, one that could easily be modified and wouldnt look like a myspace page. I am limited in my HTML, but I do understand that a good web site is more about how it conveys its information, and not about how flashy and neat it looks.

johnperkins21:


--- Quote from: protokatie on February 08, 2008, 02:03:45 am ---
--- 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.
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Unlike Fozzy the bear (who I turned on to Yahtzee) I have yet to bookmark him (even tho I was there during the "Yahtzee takes on the world" web comic, years back).

Also, I COULD make a simple (HTML only) web site for our guy here for free, one that could easily be modified and wouldnt look like a myspace page. I am limited in my HTML, but I do understand that a good web site is more about how it conveys its information, and not about how flashy and neat it looks.

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I offered up my services pro bono as well, and gave him links to some sample sites I've done. I'm nowhere near a designer either, but like you I understand that a simple, easy to navigate site is much more important than flashy graphics. My guess is he wants to do it himself, which I commend. But it looks like there's too much of his style in the site. It reminds of all those designed to sell shows on TV, where designers go into someone's house and say "this style may be great for you, but when you're trying to sell your house you need to appeal to as many people as possible." The same thing applies here. This is not a personal site, it's a business site and should look like one if he wants his customers to take him seriously.

I hate to sound like I'm being a dick, but I really believe that people underestimate the value of a quality website. I know I'm not the only person who goes to a website and immediately clicks the back button when it looks like a Myspace page.

protokatie:


--- Quote ---I hate to sound like I'm being a dick, but I really believe that people underestimate the value of a quality website. I know I'm not the only person who goes to a website and immediately clicks the back button when it looks like a Myspace page.
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Neither of us are being ---Deutsche Frankfurters---, we both want to see him succeed and we both want to help. Maybe now that there are two "pro bono" (ugh why does that make me think of something wrong) people willing to help him, he will change his mind and let one of us do so.

Additional note: I could just make a version of his site with a slightly different URL, and have all the links for ordering (IE his email) go to his site... Not like I would be profiting off of it, but he might... (Until they hit his page(s) that is)

*sighs* you are right tho, you cant fault someone for doing something themselves. In the end, that is how we all get things done....

paigeoliver:

Your main url should go to http://www.turnarcades.co.uk/TurnarcadesMain.htm and should have a picture of a machine on it. The first page you have now looks like a personal website. You might also want to decide if you are a we or a me, as your website is inconsistent about that.

All the pictures under cabinet info should go, they do more harm than good. Pictures of unfinished cabinets sitting out in your backyard or in your computer room totally breaks the company illusion that you are otherwise trying to create here.

Also, this has nothing to do with the website, but why do all your control panels have 8 admin buttons on the front of the panel where the user will invariably bump into them. That is a design flaw my friend and a huge one at that. I like the rest of your main design otherwise, it is very atari. Also, I know you are probably doing this to reduce costs, but the monitors on most of your machines are too small. A 21" computer monitor is the same size as a 19" arcade monitor.

I would also suggest getting rid of those renderings of "the cocktail" "the king" and "the supreme". It makes it really obvious that you have never actually built those machines and no one wants to order the first one.

Also, for "The king" I suggest closely examining pictures of american 4 player cabinets, as yours closely resembles a Defender cabinet with a homemade frankenpanel grafted on. Pay close attention to the design of the control panel itself and how it interacts with the rest of the machine. I would also REALLY suggest that you don't sell a 4 players cabinet without a 25" monitor in it.

The supreme. Why does this have a widescreen display? No arcade games did, and thus everything will be wrong, 100 percent of games will be wrong.  On the plus side the control panel looks pretty much spot-on. May want to examine some american showcase cabinets for the rear section though, as your design looks more complex than needed and is sort of funny looking.

Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 07, 2008, 10:43:27 pm ---The website is fine but your prices are very high.
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Sorry!!! Are you and I looking at the same web site!!! His prices are very good. Have you priced a sheet of MDF in B&Q lately?? by the time you add the time taken to cut and rout it the price is quite low.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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