I would like to know what you think about my website overall, about
how it looks and how easy it is to find relevant information and
contact details.

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Clarification of Question by paul_willis-ga on 05 Sep 2004 20:54 PDT

Oops, the website address is www.aberfoylecomputers.com

Hi! My opinion is free! (Hee hee)

You seem to have a "negative ad campaign" going on. The content is
good, the delivery is not, IMHO.

Try:

We specialise in providing small to medium businesses with solutions
that are affordable, reliable and highly supported. NO FIX-->NO
CHARGE-->NO EXCUSES!

We remove viruses, unwanted pop-ups, spam, spyware & adware and we can
supply and install peripherals (printers, scanners, etc.), new
systems, upgrades (CD burners, hard disk drives, video cards, etc),
internet connections, and more. NO FIX-->NO CHARGE-->NO EXCUSES!

We know how important your time and money is. NO FIX-->NO CHARGE-->NO EXCUSES!

(You can get that arrow from wingdings)

Anyway, you get the idea. Try to pump yourself up, don't put others
down. I hate that when the presidential nominees do it. LOL!

As for the layout, colors, etc., I love it! Very clean and
professional looking, informative, very simple to navigate. Kudos! And
the best of luck to you!

It's great!

Well done!

Generally very nice, I liked the colours and the clean feel to it. I
would note though that on my monitor the header frame took up between
1/3 - 1/2 of the screen, and obviously didn't move whilst scrolling
down the linked pages

wolvies

What resolution are you running in?

Hi Paul, 

I'm afraid I would give your site a 4/10 for design look and feel, but
much higher scores for navigation, content and so on. Specific
problems:

1. use of frames is very dated and gives a negative impression, as
well as having severe usability problems.
2. Use of times body copy is dated and looks undesigned.
3. At 800x600 fully half of IE's content area is lost to the
navigation and branding frames. This makes the content frame look
cramped and makes the site hard to use. Even at 1024 it's a bit
restrictive.
4. Needs some imagery to lift the visual design. e.g. use the AMD logo
in the news item about the AMD 64, have a nice photo for branding,
etc.

Good things:
* clear home page, good content
* news items up front - excellent
* you sound competent and trustworthy at your business

You've got the most important things in place; just needs some
professional polish, imho.

I'd recommend you get a web-savvy graphic designer to do you a
redesign that looks more in keeping with current design standards, and
use a sans-serif font to improve the readability of the body text. A
freelancer cost me just £300 sterling to give me two complete
alternative designs to choose from, based on my own site. I'm sure
you'd find someone in your area to help.

Hope this helps!

Cheers

flubba

1. Make your logo smaller and put it left from links,so the bottom of
the page would be smaller.

2.Maybe it would be better to chnge font to Arial?

3.It would be better also if there were links in every news with More
detailed info.

4. Im not sure if its good to use frames here.

It's best to get your message across in as few words as possible,
especially on your main page.
(imho)
delete this:
What can we do for your business?
We specialise in providing small to medium businesses with solutions
that are affordable, reliable and highly supported. We do not provide
"band-aid" solutions. Once you pay a professional to fix something you
should not have to pay to fix the same problem again. A lot of
so-called professionals use excuses like "it's a software problem" or
"it's the users fault" to cover up their own incompetence.

and put this in its place:
We have over 7 years experience in the computer industry and can fix
just about anything.

If I have a broken pc, that's what I want to hear!

Also, I agree with the other commentators that the frames are unnecessary.

Do you care about search engine optimization?

Needs proofreading:  "completley," "secretley," "somthing," etc.  Lack
of care with small details in a business such as yours (in any
business, actually!) detracts from customer confidence.  No matter
what you're saying, whether simple or complex, typos and misspellings
speak ill of you and make you look unprofessional.

Archae0pteryx
(not a researcher)

I am a web design student in College and I have taken several classes. 
First off if I were you, I would shorten the header by at least 40%
that would eliminate most of the scrolling. One of the first things
they teach us is to keep the scrolling to a minimum, also I agree with
the others you need to pay attention to the smaller details.

Hi Paul,

Looks good, quick to load, easy to navigate. 

Exclusion of "flaming logos" and extraneous crap keeps it crisp, clean
and to the point. Good choice of wording too.

Most of all, if you can do as you claim you will be a multi-millionare.

All the best, Phil