Criticize / Praise my new website

Patrick, it looks pretty good to me. I can navigate around the site easily enough and everything is pretty straight-forward. Have you considered putting your address and contact information on your welcome page? the way it is set up now you can be contacted only via e-mail and must go have a Windows ID account, which, for instance, I do not.

Just a thought.

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Bookmarked, thanks for the link.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

All looked good and clean to me.
Only thing I’d say is that, having looked at the source code for the home page, I see no meta-tags for (some of) the search engines to use to help people find you. There’s a lot of meta-tag info out there if you do a search for it.
I didn’t understand Scott’s comment though – the “contact us” bits looked like normal “mailto:” links to me, so I don’t see what a Windows ID has to do with it? I guess if “mailto:” isn’t set up on the user’s machine they won’t work, so a “written out” email addy would be a good idea.

-- "Do not speak – unless it improves on silence."

I’m not quite sure either. I have clickable links with “mailto” mostly on the FAQ page, so people can just click on the link, and their mail program should start, filling in my address and the subject line.

-- Have a blessed day!

I’ve added a “hard” email address in a couple of places, so people can just copy and paste it into whatever email program they use….

-- Have a blessed day!

Not bad , clean and simple. Best of luck with it!

In the Welcome.html line 63 is a only mistake.
In the FAQ.html line 57 and 127 are mistakes and something wrong whit the last “mailto”.

And its good idea to have written out email address too ( I do not have eny email reading programs installed on my PC).

And certainly U need
<meta name=”keywords”>
<meta name=”description”>

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Interesting combination of products. Lecterns and clocks.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Thanks much!

-- Have a blessed day!

Very clean, which is what I prefer. I want to be able to go to a website and instantly find what I’m looking for without hunting all over the screen.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

You should consider building lecterns with a clock on the front :)

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Hopefully, I’ve accomplished cleanliness with style, Greg.

-- Have a blessed day!

Content – It’s all about you and your hopes… not about the customer and his
self-interest. Hard to read that tiny serif type against that background.

You need to make it very, very easy for people to buy. Tell them how much
and where to click to get it.

All i could do was get to the Welcome page you must be working on the rest.

I really like the colors you chose. As others have noted, the navigation is straightforward and easy to use. I think it is a well designed site. Good luck with your ventures.

Nice site and nice work.

I notice you use iWeb. So do I. You can put a great web site together with no html skills if you want to. It works almost like a word processor then voila. It’s web pages. Cool program.

If you want search engines to pick up on your site more this little freeware program can make a simple webpage that you upload at your site folder. Google will then pay particular attention when it crawls the net looking for new pages. Link below. (iWeb and this program only work on Macs btw).

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/205708

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