Critique My New Website?

[dmr400]

Thanks everyone for your time and feedback. I've ditched the rollover pictures for now, I work on a 21" monitor and sometimes forget not everyone is so fortunate Still debating on how to make that work, some experimentation is ahead. Have also shortened the wait time page as suggested, and changed the wording for the packages.

[mulefool]

the website looks good, I have a Mac and viewed it with Safari. I'm sure surprised though about the comments regarding the phone #. I have mine listed on my website and yes sometimes I wish I didn't answer it, but there is always the option to let it ring. Personally if I had the choice between two makers to contact I would prefer the one with the phone, I have a better chance of getting an answer right now if I have a time sensitive question, rather than wait for someone to answer their email. If there is any problem I have another possible contact method so I would just feel more comfortable. Sure they can always use caller ID and ignore you, but I would just feel more comfortable with as many contact possibilities as possible. With the right message on your answering machine, if you are in the middle of getting things done you can still wait to fit it in to your schedule. But I think I was out voted....so! Chris

[David]

the website looks good, I have a Mac and viewed it with Safari. I'm sure surprised though about the comments regarding the phone #. I have mine listed on my website and yes sometimes I wish I didn't answer it, but there is always the option to let it ring. Personally if I had the choice between two makers to contact I would prefer the one with the phone, I have a better chance of getting an answer right now if I have a time sensitive question, rather than wait for someone to answer their email. If there is any problem I have another possible contact method so I would just feel more comfortable. Sure they can always use caller ID and ignore you, but I would just feel more comfortable with as many contact possibilities as possible. With the right message on your answering machine, if you are in the middle of getting things done you can still wait to fit it in to your schedule. But I think I was out voted....so! Chris

I want to put my $.02 also. I agree with Mulefool ... Chris.... Keep the phone number and the site works very well in Safari on my Mac also.

Dave Theobald

[BAD HIDE]

Nice site and excellent work. The phone # thing is up to you, I don't use mine simply because I only have one phone. I mainly use that for my real job and if I didn't compartmentalize, I'd go crazy. I give it out regularly to clients and customers, but you gotta e-mail me first so I know what's goin on. I have both my business emails set up to reroute to separate folders into my personal inbox - and I check that at least a dozen times a day.

Couple of little things - The handgun list is the only page that I have to side scroll, so if it was one column instead of two I'd just have to scroll down.

And this next one's a little bit of a pet peeve, but never put "under construction" on the front page. Saying "Pictures coming soon" is totally acceptable as most people know small sites are always works in progress - hell, there's plenty of big companies that have "pics coming soon" boxes. But "under construction" is almost the same as saying "not open for business yet." Sites don't have to be super fancy and 100% complete, a single page with your name, pics of a few holsters, and and e-mail is totally fine. If it's truly "under construction," it shouldn't be up.

[Ferg]

Hello everyone, I'm just about finished with my website and I was wondering if anyone would mind crawling through it and critiquing it. It can be found at:

PF Gunleather Home Page

or if the link doesn't work at:

www.pfgunleather.com

I've only tested it in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, so if you use a different browser I would appreciate your feedback on how it worked.

The most glaring things missing right now are the examples of the different colors (which will be fixed in the near future), and the lack of a picture of the pancake holster (I keep forgetting to take pictures before I send them to their new home so I'll have to make another one of my latest design).

All comments and feedback gratefully accepted now matter how big or small! Thanks,

Andy

Andy,

Get that "Under Construction" sign off your website. That is one of the biggest "Turn-Offs" for visitors.

Nice Site

ferg

[Ferg]

Thanks everyone for your time and feedback. I've ditched the rollover pictures for now, I work on a 21" monitor and sometimes forget not everyone is so fortunate Still debating on how to make that work, some experimentation is ahead. Have also shortened the wait time page as suggested, and changed the wording for the packages.

Andy,

Not knowing what you are working with for a Site Builder I will shoot in the dark.

If you are using CSS you should have a setting for how many pixels wide your format is. Seventy two pixels per inch in most cases so 15" would equal 1080 pixels wide.

If you aren't using CSS you should be able to shrink the width in whatever program you used.

ferg

[SimonJester753]

Works fine in Apple's Safari on a Mac.

Nice site. Things load quickly, which is important.

And I learned about vinagroon black! I'm currently working with black latigo, but when that runs out I might try some undyed leather and finish it as needed.