Drop shipping and feedback on site [Archive]

MAMESHAK

2nd April 2005, 02:27

Hi
I am interested in finding people who can help me sell my product; basically i will be there drop shipper.

I would like to know if any one can help or can offer advice on the pitfalls or advantages of this kind of set-up.

Any kind of help will be appreciated.

I have also had to design the website my self to keep costs down.

My website can be viewed at www.mameshak.co.uk.

I would appreciate any feedback about my site.

I am particularly interested if the font colours are easy on the eye, and if it is easy to navigate around the pages.

It sells arcade machine so any one who helps and finds them selves interested, get an instant 10% discount after helping : D

Thanks in advance Mario

kyber

22nd April 2005, 17:34

Hi Mario,

You want feedback on your website eh? Well, as no one else has... here we go...

Yuk! I appreciate you are involved with arcard games, but this just looks tacky. Black can work but needs some high style design. You need an identity, a brand, for people to associate with. Look at this site for example. Strong branding. Now, look at your. Who are you, what is this site about. Remember, people do not hang around for long, they make a very quick decision whether or not to stick on a site and explore it. Some of your graphics are too big (this one (http://pages.123-reg.co.uk/mameshak1-756859/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mameshakultimatelogo.jpg) is over 160Kb). You need to keep them to just a few kilobytes. Your worldwide delivery graphic is a smaller file but is ugly, terrible text. Find a better small graphic of the world and use actual text underneath. Remove the Google ads. Distracting. Not worth having until you have a decent amount of traffic. Do not use Frame markup if you can help it. Avoid using tables for layout unless you have to. You don't. Do not use old style markup (e.g. font), use CSS instead. Better design options, easier to maintain, quicker to load. See my post at the top of the IT forum on building website and following the links about presentation/content. Your product images are not good enough. The blue background really does not work well. You are really not using a decent compression tool on your graphics. Do not underline text that is not a link - it confuses people. Focus on your offer on the first page and make sure visitors can understand it easily and quickly. Add an About Us page to provide information about the company, experience of the staff, etc.

Will that do for now? If you need a little more guidance on how to create the website, send me a PM.

Regards,

Stuart