New v7 site - comments please?

[jxm28788]

Hi, here's my latest effort -

www.dymo-label-printers.co.uk (http://www.dymo-label-printers.co.uk)

I would appreciate any comments / suggestions (especially on the home page, which looks a bit naff, but not sure what to do with it...)

[george]

Put the labellers on the index page?

Gotta make it more interesting laddie.


PS The labellers ROCK!

[jxm28788]

do you have any specific labellers in mind? phase 2 is to add more products, phase 1 was just to get the site up and running, and decent templates with the labelwriter stuff.

[george]

We've got a 400 I think it is. Had it ages with no problems at all.

Not quite a website feedback, but just in case someone on here wondered what they were like to use.

I like how you can do b & w images on the labels. ;)

[Paul Bulpit]

Seems to be some discrepancy in the Retail Price field on the More Info page for each of the four printers.

[jxm28788]

oh yeah... fixed...:rolleyes:

[gabrielcrowe]

with your lack of content, i suggest you switch to fixed width.

it looks boring-tacular on my widescreen lappy.

but if i smallify the window, its fine. was it designed on a 4:3 display?

[pinbrook]

looks abit out of proportion to me - tiny text, huge button images

[jxm28788]

It was designed on a standard screen, and should scale down all the way to 800x600.

Your the 2nd person to say it was boring which is interesting. But if you were in the market to buy such a label printer would you let that stop you buying from the website...? Would you buy from somewhere else that had the same product with a more exciting site?

Personally, if several sites were selling the same thing I would buy from the site with the cheapest prices, excluding any sites that didn't look trustworthy.

hmmm.... I think I'll start another thread for this one...

[pinbrook]

Your the 2nd person to say it was boring which is interesting. But if you were in the market to buy such a label printer would you let that stop you buying from the website...? Would you buy from somewhere else that had the same product with a more exciting site?

I don't think the "boring " element should be much of an issue for this site- at risk of atating the obvious you are selling quite a boring object so you don't need bells and whistles, maybe the answer is to try to make it look more as if it is intentionally a simple site. ie concentrate on proportion, and consider Gabe's comment re fixing the width, it would still have the same content but without looking boring.

[jxm28788]

with your lack of content, i suggest you switch to fixed width. it looks boring-tacular on my widescreen lappy.
consider Gabe's comment re fixing the width, it would still have the same content but without looking boring.

Not quite sure what you mean about fixing the width...? Fixing it at what width? How will that make it look less boring?

[Mark H]

There's a lot of white space on 1920x1200.......

I think Jo means fix the width of the page (around 900 pixels wide would be my guess) so that it doesn't automatically expand to fit the screen. This way your information would be fixed closer together and would look better.

[Mark H]

ie like this:

2680

rather than this:

2681

[jxm28788]

oh, you mean like left justify it? I think the width is already fixed to some extent which is why it's all squished in the middle of your widescreen rather than spread out.

Isn't that going to still look odd though, as there will be a ton of white space down the right side if the window is maximised?

[Duncan Rounding]

I think what they are referring to is to fix the width of the whole layout so that it sits 900px wide so the whole page is centralised in the browser. Similar to the sewinglines site in my signature.

[pinbrook]

yep and fill the left and right columns with a blending colour

[jxm28788]

Similar to the sewinglines site in my signature.As yes, that is less "boring-tacular". So how do I do that blend effect background...?

[pinbrook]

Similar to the sewinglines site in my signature. i like the sewing site Duncan :D

although I would make the grey box where you've got the Copyright Sewinglines 2007 full width to balance with the header :rolleyes:

[Duncan Rounding]

...although I would make the grey box where you've got the Copyright Sewinglines 2007 full width to balance with the header :rolleyes:

Jo - you're right I've been pondering on that for a while.

John - the background and most of the other images are managed by the css file, the images themselves where created in PS. (I wasn't by any means implying your site was boring - I only mentioned it to demonstrate the width :) ).

[jxm28788]

I wasn't by any means implying your site was boringNo, that comment came from ealier on, and I agree.

My websites go through 1 stages - stage 1, get it up and running and selling stuff; stage 2 - pretty it up and optimise it for higher conversion. If I did it all in one go I'd never get round to launching it because I'd wait for it to be perfect...:D

so this thread is looking for suggestions for stage 2, and now I have a few for the weekend...

[TraceyHand]

I'd never get round to launching it because I'd wait for it to be perfect

*sigh*
and we all know that's an unachievable goal!

from one Dymo fan to another :D (I have a bit of a label addiction lol)

[jxm28788]

from one Dymo fan to another :D (I have a bit of a label addiction lol)well now you know where to get your next fix... ;)

[jxm28788]

with your lack of content, i suggest you switch to fixed width. it looks boring-tacular on my widescreen lappy.

ok, is this any less bore-tastic? it doesn't fit on 800x600 anymore, but what the heck I guess anyone still using that resolution is pretty much resigned to using the horizontal scroll bar by now...

[TraceyHand]

MUCH better!
I'm on 1280x800 and it looks much tidier now.

[jxm28788]

sweeeeet... someone just bought a shedload of labels - must be this lovely new design... ;)

[TraceyHand]

just one thing...all your label printers have identical descriptions (including spec)

I wouldn't buy without being able to compare spec between the 4.

JMO anyway

[pinbrook]

yep on dymo-label-printers.co.uk/DYMO-labelwriter-printer.html there's nothing to tell you the difference between 400 turbo, duo,twin

it would be nice to compare as tracey says without having to click on more info

in fact the detail on the Duo says its a turbo

[TraceyHand]

they all have the same description...all 4 of them!

[jxm28788]

oh yeah. created one printer, then copied it for the other 3 - forgot to update the description files and customvars... done it now... :D

Will add a comparison table later today, along with more printers and tapes...

[jxm28788]

ok the comparision table is there, and have added handheld labellers and more labels.

I'm a bit stuck on the home page though, still looks a bit lame - any suggestions...?