Exclusivereels.com- Please review this fly fising reels website

Coleus · #1 (**permalink**) 06-27-2007, 07:21 PM

Any inputs is appreciated! Here is the link Exclusive fly fishing reels by Ari 't Hart

davebarnes · #2 (**permalink**) 06-27-2007, 07:40 PM

Some people will be shocked as I have nothing negative to say.

Looks very good.

bj · #3 (**permalink**) 06-27-2007, 09:10 PM

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Some people will be shocked as I have nothing negative to say.

OHMIGOD! CALL THE PARAMEDICS! DAVE ISN'T WELL!

Back to our regularly scheduled program . . .

Looks great (really!) but the code is messy, and the mistakes in the meta code might cause confusion to arachnids of the SE variety. It's possible adding a doctype will clean up 90% of the errors. Run it through htmltidy, but make sure you have a backup first. The design is code heavy, most of the positioning can be moved to the css file if you remove all that table stuff.

Coleus · #4 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 02:57 PM

Thank you very much and we will try to clean up the code

Chris · #5 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by davebarnes

Some people will be shocked as I have nothing negative to say.

Looks very good.

this post should be a sticky...

i concur w/what everyone else said. good looking site. clean up the backend w/search engines in mind and you will be fine. now all you need is links...

iany · #6 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 07:09 PM

I cannot really comment as the site doesn't load for me!

bj · #7 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 07:22 PM

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I cannot really comment as the site doesn't load for me!

I just had the same problem. A timeout issue.

iany · #8 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 07:49 PM

Yep! Same here

John · #9 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 10:10 PM

If only I knew anything about fishing ...

Few comments:

on the "how to buy" page, you explain to go back to the home page and click the order button. Would it not be way simpler to put the "order" button on the "how to buy" page as well?

the text in the footer is not centered, I guess because of the "back to the top" image pushes it over to the left. Nothing wrong with it of course, just looks a bit strange?

No shipping costs to Australia! Cool! I'll order one today. But then again, for the price of the reel I can go to the fish shop for a few years without having to go out and fish myself.

Like I said, if only I knew anything about fishing ...

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John

iany · #10 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 12:53 PM

Site working now. I do like the look and feel apart from the footer, where I suspect that it should be in the center. I agree with bj that it is code heavy and the metas need some substantial tidying.

Which e-commerce package are you using?

Coleus · #11 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 03:17 PM

Thank you for Jany,Chis and John comments. I am working on cleaning up code.

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Which e-commerce package are you using?

We only sell one product, therefore we do not have a shopping cart system in place. Optimal Payments Inc. takes care of the payment process for us.

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now all you need is links..

I was wondering if this EnterURL - Moving Business Online... will help improve links that I need for my site?

Thanks again for your help!

bj · #12 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 04:04 PM

This may be of some assistance:
The Basics of Search Engine Marketing

Also, why do you not have a link to your site in your forum signature? Use good link text, it counts! For that matter, you should find some fishing forums and participate with a good sig line. They'll count even more. Make sure they don't use "nofollow" by simply using view/source and searching for the string "nofollow" (no quotes.)

hbonline · #13 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 01:21 AM

Nice site! but I don't like the small white text and the fact that it is centered. I am into fishing but have never fly fished, but found it difficult to understand what the "Trilogy" was, it took me reading some excerpt from Izaac Walton and a flowery message that I finally understood what it meant THREE INTERCHANGABLE SPOOLS. Whay don't you explain that at the beginning?? and save me from the wanabe commercial

the link "Trilogy" is the front page, I clicked on it to find out what the Trilogy was and did not get any clearer explaination.

Your photos on top are washed out I would replace them with clearer more contrasty photos.

So my suggestion would be to make your front page a cool flash demonstrating the transformation of the reel, and then have your other pages be the way they currently are.

I especially like the background graphic showing the drawing to the finished product. or I would raise the background graphic and eliminate your main body text, or make your large grey area a fading transparancy like your side boxes are, that way you would see the background graphic slightly.

Nick
HBonline.com

apwade · #14 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 06:56 AM

Nice site, i know hard it it is to make a good looking site as i am on my third change to improve its looks and useability.

Andrew

Coleus · #15 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 01:35 PM

Thank you bj for your suggestion again.

About hbonline suggestion, I was wondering what everyone else think about putting a flash on my site. Would flash hurts chance of my page get indexed by search engine? Plus putting a flash will slow down the load time for the page, would my customer with slow connection will quit viewing my site?