Brilliant!! Thank you all for your input!
the GTI Pic a little more realistic as it looks a little squashed currently.
+1 on sorting the pic at the top as it does look squashed.
Remove the main top image with the golf on, replace this with the one mentioned above.
Banner is now no longer squashed, and changed to “welcome to Distinct Detailing”
Under showrooms header your "basic Bi-weekly wash" currently reads "Baic Bi-weekly wash".
DONE
a testimonial page for your customers to write reports would be helpfull for others thinking of using your services.
Ive now added a ‘Testimonials’ Page. It looks horrible. But im really limited to how it looks. I want yellow font with a black background. But it doesn’t alow that colour scheme.
I can have a black background, but yellow font then isn’t an option.
And if I have yellow font, I can’t have a Black background
Need to test it out. I might have to change it later, so I just get personal quotes from customers. And just write the quotes out myself, and just list the quotes, rather than having an imput system.
Services page is too long. Too much text and takes too long to read. A website should have impact, be simple, and most the pages should be limited to 1 screen.
Will leave that to Jack ;)
there's too many different styles and fonts, too many different colours, etc. on the home page.
DONE
the bottom of the Homepage It should read "Discover What's Possible" as per the top of the Homepage
DONE
get rid of the hit counter thats so 1960's,
DONE
Another thing to look at is the pictures. Your pics on there are very hard to see any detail, (with the exception of the Mazda which is fairly good)
This will hopefully get sorted after Christmas, when a new camera arrives
For the "service" section, consider links on the side so you can jump down to the relevant section without having to scroll.
Would love to do that, and looked into before as it was something I wanted to. But as far as I could find (searching thru the 1&1 website) it doesn’t seem to be something they offer.
If anyone knows how to do this let me know ;)
When I hit show rooms it leads to what can appear to be a blank page, either have this page and then large clickable icons to other pages or make it so it's options drop on hover of showroom. It took me a while to find the sub-navigation in all honesty.
This might have been whilst the page was under construction. The page went nuts the other day. Just kept showing the ‘renovation details’ page, and also the banner and nav bar came up 3 times.
I phone 1&1 and the only solution they could come up with was to delete the page completely and start again.
Its looks slightly like it did originally, except some of the links I’ve put up don’t work. This seems to be hit and miss with 1&1. I had a problem for ages with the links not working. I could link to facebook fine. But links to pages inside the website, just wouldn’t work. I phoned 1&1 helpline, and the reply was ‘uuummmmm…..it should work’. One day the page links started working fine. But now since re-doing the page. Only 2 out of 4 work. I have no idea why! I do all the links the exact same way. They just seem to choose of their own accord if they work or not
THE NAV BAR
the main Purple bar at top, it has jagged edges as if its not coded correctly
dont think the purple suits the color scheme.
I'd redesign the menu into a single bar (rather than two)
The top menu bar shouldn't really be on 2 rows,
Next up is the Nav Bar, the colour isn't too bad, not my personal preference, but try a nice simple CSS3 nav bar, nice gradient on there with drop down menus. If you are 100% commited to keeping that navigation bar then align the "Products" and "About Us" links to the center and remove and excess purple blocks.
Obviously something you all agree on!
We are using 1&1 as our webhost. And use the ‘simple builder’ web design. This is really really limited. Jack has been asking me for ages to get a Black background. As we’ve always had white. But there was never a pure black background.
I finally found one the other day. But the purple Nav Bar is part of it I’ve tried changing the colour, but change the colour and the background changes. They seem to have certain colours that go together.
And there’s no option at all to change the shape, or make all the pages appear on one row
It defiantly would be worth upgrading ‘web design’ so I could have more options. Especially as the purple is something you have all picked up on. But im not sure if actually designing layouts would be beyond me – if anyone uses 1&1 and is more experienced , and has advice, I would appreciate it! ;)
That's a nice touch, but I seriously don't see your main logo as a company identity.
The Logo thing changes quite a bit atm.
One of the first things we did was buy the business cards, and invoice paper and t-shirts and so on. Which uses the certain fonts we use. When we set up the website, I managed to work out which fonts and colours were used on the cards and such, and match them up to use on the website.
I’d prefer not to have the image at all. But just the words and phrase, but we weren’t certain if this was to simple or boring.
If you need any help then just ask me I will see what I can do ;)
Please make it all for me! I’m not even kidding!
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Thanks again for all your replies. I’m still working on it bit by bit, and working on the other comments that i haven’t quoted above.
if anyone is experienced with 1&1 webhosting website builder, feel free to give me some tips. the people on the helpline, don’t even seem to know how to use it, so I feel a little blind half the time!
