Hi all...

I have recently been "hired" to design and maintain the website for a company called Little Guy (it is a teardrop trailer company). The guy I took over for was awful, but I am not sure how much better I actually am.

I started about a month ago and this is my first real client. I have used some cool aspects (IMO), but I don't know how practical they are. I really appreciate the help because I am self-taught and none of my friends or other contacts really know much about websites.

If you guys could take a look at what I have so far and give me any HONEST, BLUNT, FRANK feedback that would be great. I really want to make this an awesome site. (Beware, this is still a work in progress!)

http://www.teardroptrailersexpress.com

Thanks in Advance!

I voted 1 (poor) immediately.

Turn off the sound! Ask me if I want to listen to the story, but don't force me to. (And, don't tell me I can turn it off!)

My Firefox browser stopped a pop-up window. Have no idea what was in it.

Don't care for the brown color.

Copyright 2007, not 2006.

Layout and navigation are good.

This is a very good site.

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Dave Barnes
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http://www.marketingtactics.com

Nice site.
Some thoughts on improvement. I really don't like scroll bars in the body of the site.

There are 21 html markup errors. You certainly need to sort these.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...ttleguy.com%2F

Pity that it is a table design but hey could be worse.

I think the font size is too small at 10px. On monitors is excess of 1024x768 this will be almost unreadable and as the font sizes are hardcoded will cause a problem for IE6 users -especially those with visual impairment.

I prefer to work in ems. But make sure in the body that you specify the font-size as 100%. (16px)

There are those who like to use 62.5% as this equates to 10px making the math easier. No matter what convention you use the font will be scaleable then

The menu breaks on zooming (presumably because the portal is hard coded and menu not).

Just as well that it is a work in progress. Much still to do

Ian

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Ian Young
http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk

Thank you both...

I know I have things to address, but most people just say, "it's pretty cool."

I will definitely be making some changes soon.

I really appreciate your input.

The site isn't super bad, but the color scheme is really "blah" and makes me depressed. 90% of ecommerce sites have white backgrounds. Generally the Logo of the company is top left with partners on bottom or right. I thought the left navigation was cool at 1st but now it's kind of annoying because the items don't always drop down.

The ecommerce popup window (bad idea) doesn't have scrollbars so I couldn't even scroll down to "Add to Cart"!

Basically a product this cool should have a cooler website that better reflects it's brand.

This is bad advice because in a court of law the person who copyrights their content 1st wins. A lot of people think this needs to be updated every year because they think it "dates" their site. If you don't want to "date" your site but still maintain your original copyright then do something like "Copyright 1990-2007".

"Use of the notice may be important because it informs the public that the work is protected by copyright, identifies the copyright owner, and shows the year of first publication. Furthermore, in the event that a work is infringed, if a proper notice of copyright appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant in a copyright infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant’s interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in section 504(c)(2) of the copyright law."
www.copyright.gov

I like it a lot

I bet it converts well with the sound and the brown colour scheme.

Text is a little too small for me also.

But because you never know what works for the customers, I would just test with few variables to see if you can increse conversions.

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thanks much. it appears i have some 're-wiring' and some testing to do. i greatly appreciate all of the comments thus far.