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Originally Posted by chiron
Nice site, initial impression is a good one.
Perhaps toss the T/F/E contact info into the header?
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Thanks Chiron, i did try putting the contact details into the header but it looked a bit crowded. I was thinking that so long as i have it on every page and in a prominant place on the contact page then it should be easy to find.
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Originally Posted by chiron
Picture rollovers are not necessary to use, so it's not "bad" but I think most people will miss them as nav elements aside from accidental mouseover.
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Well they are only css rollovers, the main reason for those images was for decoration. Initially they were CSS background images. But then i thought why not make them img's and then get the power of the alt tags too. Then I thought that some people may try and click on them, so made them links. They link to the same pages as the primary nav at the top so it doesnt matter if they're missed.
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Originally Posted by chiron
Would consider flipping (home page) the check marks of what you can do with the latest news scroller. Not a big fan of news scrollers, so a personal bias there, but I might replace it with a menu-dropdown (pick a kind) of the cost estimators on the other pages, since these buttons look nice and such tools beg to get clicked, unlike - again maybe just me - company news.
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I was thinking the same thing about the news scroller and the list on the homepage. I dont really like the news scroller either, its something the customer requested! I like your ideas about the menu drop down. I could put that right at the top with 'Get an estimate now for: [dropdown]. Neat idea!
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Originally Posted by chiron
CAPTCHA might lower converts, ever tried hidden divs? Seems to work all right and bugs the bots, not the users.
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The capcha was put there to stop people spamming the tool. Otherwise the server will fill up with useless pdf estimates. What do you mean by hidden divs? How could that be used instead?
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Originally Posted by spiderbait
Regarding the menu of pictures at the top, I think this could be a lot more effective if the mousover condition altered the opacity for the bottom half of the picture, revealing some descriptive text about that link and the services the link takes you to.
I'm not suggesting how you implement it, simply that it would make the links more obvious, provide a bit more assistance for people finding their way around and if done with real text and CSS it could give you an anchor text boost.
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Thats a great idea, really not sure how to implement something like that! I made them links to tie each picture with the section it represents. You're totally right though, a bit of text will help make that even more obvious. Your idea sounds like it would need some javascript. I'll have to have a chat with my programmer!