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Just saw a thread about someone wanting critique on there website and saw how many pages long and the mayhem it caused lol.

So a thought it would be a good idea if everyone who has a website for their business post the link and let others critique it.

Get posting !
 
I've made over 2000 posts with a link to mine in my signature, plenty of opportunity to be at the receiving end of critique :D

Go on, ave a go if ya think yer 'ard enough!
 
I've made over 2000 posts with a link to mine in my signature, plenty of opportunity to be at the receiving end of critique :D

Go on, ave a go if ya think yer 'ard enough!

Homepage - Don't like the freeindex box...draws attention away from stuff that matters and that box unfortunately reminds me of a bad 90s blog. It also slows the page load down markedly..

Portfolio Page - On Firefox on Win 7 x64, rolling over some images (in particular the industrial customer on the top right) causes the order of photos below to change and move around the screen.

Having 2 nav bars is slightly confusing, I'd choose either a side mounted bar or a top bar, not both as it makes the navigation disjointed and could be clearer.

Thats just from a few minutes mucking around.
 
All the guys here have seen mine, however I have told Yell. com to get stuffed and have decided to build a new site I control and for 3 quid a month instead of the 25 they wanted for doing nothing, watch this space lol.
 
I know this is totally off topic but it says on you're that you don't charge vat. Your business looks like it handles a reasonable amount of work so how do you get round the vat? The reason I ask is I'm swithering wether to go vat registered or not?
 
A comment for all your websites.
Do you use pictures of your own work, a lot just pull pics off the web. I generally believe very little I see on the web.
If you do use your own, make a point that they are examples of your work.

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Holy moly! How could I have missed that!

Give us a min.

Photoshopping per chance?!?!?!?!?!?
 
Just shut mine down pal, I had it up with my signature here for over 2 years until recently, I will let you have a link to my new site when it is up and running.
 
A comment for all your websites.
Do you use pictures of your own work, a lot just pull pics off the web. I generally believe very little I see on the web.
If you do use your own, make a point that they are examples of your work.

Mine is a mix of the two throughout. The portfolio is all our work




Photoshopping per chance?!?!?!?!?!?

Sorted ;)
 
Not that I know much about websites , ( have not even got one , as near on all our work is word of mouth ) but I think your web site looks very professional Damian !
The only thing I have noticed are in the pictures that are associated with your free index page .

The earth connection on that swa is not one I would personally be showcasing , and I may be wrong but I am sure you yourself were extoling the virtues of only ever using brass nuts and bolts in a thread only the other day ?

Also I would be surprised if those adhesive pads that have the aerial cable fixed to them on that tiled roof would still be secure within the week , let alone after a winter .

Having said that , you have a web site and what appears to be a company that I would be proud to say was my own . So good on yer !
 
LED Lighting page - "warrantee" shouldn't that be "warranty"?

Good spot!

I know this is totally off topic but it says on you're that you don't charge vat. Your business looks like it handles a reasonable amount of work so how do you get round the vat? The reason I ask is I'm swithering wether to go vat registered or not?

Not currently registered.

Not that I know much about websites , ( have not even got one , as near on all our work is word of mouth ) but I think your web site looks very professional Damian !
The only thing I have noticed are in the pictures that are associated with your free index page .

The earth connection on that swa is not one I would personally be showcasing , and I may be wrong but I am sure you yourself were extoling the virtues of only ever using brass nuts and bolts in a thread only the other day ?

I didn't even know that one was up! It was something I knocked up a few years back to show someone what you could 'get away' with if you were in the middle of nowhere and you ran out of crimps. You need the roofing bolt with this set up to keep the twisted loop compressed.

Fair point though, it is obviously not the best way of doing it, the pic has been deleted :)

Also I would be surprised if those adhesive pads that have the aerial cable fixed to them on that tiled roof would still be secure within the week , let alone after a winter.

It wasnt just them securing the cable, after the picture was taken I stuck my own fabricated tile hooks on, but they aren't very photogenic. You'll have to take my word for that though :D

Having said that , you have a web site and what appears to be a company that I would be proud to say was my own . So good on yer !

Thank you :)
 
Homepage - Don't like the freeindex box...draws attention away from stuff that matters and that box unfortunately reminds me of a bad 90s blog. It also slows the page load down markedly..

Portfolio Page - On Firefox on Win 7 x64, rolling over some images (in particular the industrial customer on the top right) causes the order of photos below to change and move around the screen.

Having 2 nav bars is slightly confusing, I'd choose either a side mounted bar or a top bar, not both as it makes the navigation disjointed and could be clearer.

Thats just from a few minutes mucking around.

Appreciate the feedback :)
 
ok, ill add apart from JRCProperty lol, like a said loads of content to be added lots of work still to be done, i only posted my website because i got asked and because i started the thread, most likely the full website will get changed, i think its too plain for my liking.
 
Not currently registered.




Do you get your vat registered customers to pay the wholesalers direct for the material so they can claim the vat back?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. We do a fair amount of labour only work for larger companies and main contractors.

Sorry to be blunt but I'd rather not go into detail about my tax affairs. I pay what I need to.

No offence :)
 
ok, ill add apart from JRCProperty lol, like a said loads of content to be added lots of work still to be done, i only posted my website because i got asked and because i started the thread, most likely the full website will get changed, i think its too plain for my liking.

:) I welcome healthy competition.....but not like todays ...I won a rewire today which was very cheap at 2k. 2 bed flat, will take 2 days , in and out still decent earner. My competition on this particular job priced it at £1200 and another at £1500 both quoting one week to complete. People in Glasgow are desperate for work and undercutting ridiculously just to get a weeks work. Poorshow.
 
Mr Skelton that is a very impressive website, it instils confidence and assures potential customers of you company's capabilities .
 
I doubt iam any competition of yours yet mate lol have you seen my threads about how to get customers haha, thats crazy who would quote 1200 for a rewire they must be mad

Someone who has paid off their mortgage, has no kids to feed anymore and enjoys holidays at butlins rather than the Carribean.

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Mr Skelton that is a very impressive website, it instils confidence and assures potential customers of you company's capabilities .

Thank you very much :)
 
its here on the site if you look for it.

Do you get many takers for your £200 CU installed offer?

none actually ive not had any customer through my website, as i said its no where near finished its only been up a few week but i think iam going to redo it becoz i dont like how plain it is.

How i am i going to find where you have posted a link to your site on a big forum like this haha, i am sure in the time it took you too write its here on the site if you look for it you could have just put the link to your site
 

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