What Else Can I Add to My Site?

[compuclean]

Alrighty There People.

Initially, when I launched my website, it was a five page site. It has now grown to a ten page site.

I have the following pages:
Home Page
Why Valet?
What's Involved?
Case Studies
Contact Us
Special Offers
Prices
Downloads
Links
Articles

I was also thinking of putting in an image gallery, perhaps on the Case Studies page.

Anything else that I can add?

 

[MyNI]

You shouldn't really be thinking 'What else could I put on my website?' you should be thinking 'What do I really need, and what can I cut out?' The most successful websites are often the simplest, take google.com for example. There are endless things they could have added to the google page but it would only make the site messy and degrade its ease of use.

Think simple, for your site all you really need is contact information and a price list, simple as that. If you wanted to add anything I would maybe consider a computer related RSS news feed but anything over the top will only annoy your visitors.

 

[datahound]

I would think about removing the Google ads, there was a company advertising exactly what you do on your website. So your potential customer can give them a try instead? Russian wives??

It's a mess really, have one site for business, get another for get rich schemes etc.

The flash buttons don't work in IE anymore since last upgrade. Have to click them twice.

 

[BlackBerryUK]

Hi there,

i would recommend looking into investing some money into the logo and working on the site design a bit, to give it a professional look. the colour of the font is way too light, and it does not meet the accessability standards.. you need a darker font colour. I would also recommend having a border (thin grey one) around the content of your pages, to give it a more organised look and feel.

Good luck

 

[compuclean]

Okay, thanks for the feedback.

I don't know what's happened to the flash buttons, I know they need double clicking, I thought it was just on my machine. Any idea what that's about?

I'll change the colour of the font, I didn't want black, so thought grey was a better option, but I'll darken it a bit

 

[Toon]

I agree with the above. I think a site like yours needs to be simple. After all, you're offering one service and therefore 10 pages advertising one service is too many I think. You might want one as the homepage which can also be a brief about us and "why valet" then another for the services you offer and finally a contact us page. If you need to, you can also hae another page for your links and downloads etc.
I also agree with the Google ads. I can never understand why people have these on when the ads purpose is to trawl your site and offer sites that have similar content to yours - in other words your competitors! Your visitors, as stated in a previous post, are probably clicking on the links to your competitors and might even be giving them a go instead of you!
By the way, have you had any business as a result of your website if you don't mind me asking?

P.S. When you're in the area next, pop in and see me.

 

[datahound]

Flash was messed up by last security upgrade of IE. There is a javascript hack for it but I have not dug it out yet.

 

[kyber]

You could add darker text so that the large number of customers without 20/20 vision don't have problems with the lack of contrast

 

[compuclean]

Thanks kyber, I've been informed, I'll sort that at the weekend

 

[breaddesign]

Hi compuclean,

I agree with Toon. The site really does need to be simplified. Strip off all of the banner ads, etc. Also, keep it really simple

I can give you a quote if you need something produced.