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Hi all, i have just rebuilt my website but not to sure on it. could do with some opinions.

let me know what you think, CLICK ME

Thanks In Advance.

Not really Dynamic , you could add some sound, and you have spelt neighbours wrong ,you missed the u :thumbup:

IMO, if they have to stay, the three main columns of content on the front page need something to differentiate them - backgrounds maybe.

The use of a capital letter at The Start Of Each Word in the What I Do & contact page is grating, as is the use of ALL CAPITALS on your About Me page. Punctuation & spelling needs a work-over to help the flow of the text.

I'd also use the About Me page (retitle What I do maybe?) to talk about your services more rather than the brief summary on the home page. Sounds harsh but most people won't give a damn about what you were doing at age 7 but will want to know what you can do for them now! Most folk don't spend a lot of time reading stuff that's not immediately relevant online. Or do without About Me & just put more about what you offer on the home page.

List of equipment, if needed at all, would maybe be better on a separate page rather than home page. Looks cluttered & over the head of a lot of people. Good pictures of some discos or recording sessions & some testimonials might be better than a list of equipment.

The big banner - clickable but just jumps up the page. A lot of screen real estate there for little gain. What are the movie links for?

I like your logo but would make it smaller. I'm using a big monitor but have to scroll down past your logo & banner to get to the content. I'm a user & we're lazy!

Good luck with your venture!

Maybe a bit too technical for your target market.

Think about what a customer is looking for...

Are you available when they need you - if you could add a book me page or show an availability diary this would help.

How much will it cost - give some idea of what you charge (even if this varies) people like to have some idea.

Would anyone else recommend you - feedback from your previous customers, people love to read reviews.

Yes keep the gear list but it does not need to be on your front page. Save the front page for latest news, quotes from clients and special offers. Compare your site to others selling products and services and see how they try to engage their potential customers. Maybe add a blog section discussing trends in music, gear or what you expect from your clients (as you know who you don't want to work for).

Think about what a customer is looking for...

This. The way you'd target the wedding DJ/domestic market is different from how you'd target the commercial sound engineering market/film production market - trying to mix them on the same page/site will probably miss both markets (eg. someone browsing for a wedding DJ doesn't really care about what equipment you use but probably cares how much you charge, whilst someone looking for a sound engineer might not take you seriously if you've got a bunch of stuff on the site about doing weddings).

Someone browsing your site is looking to fulfil a requirement, so you need to figure out what questions they'll be asking themselves about those requirements, and make sure they can find the answer(s) on your site within 30-60 seconds.

On this note, having large images/objects on pages is going to eat into that time - it took about 40 seconds to bring the page up first time round (and that's on a modern spec laptop/fast connection). Susbequent loads are quicker due to caching, but chances are someone won't wait that initial time for the first page to load and will leave your site without having seen it - which would be a shame.

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Massive Thank You.

I have spent most of today modifying my site so it eliminates most of the issues that you found in my site the new site is up and running could do with some more opinions. on this site. :thumbup:

Again thanks guys

Large banner in the middle of each page - I have to scroll down to see the content - this is not good.

Bad use of colours - e.g. Contact page has "Optional" in white on a light background.

Too many fonts - stick to 3.. Heading 1, Heading 2, Main text..

Background image is a bad choice - you can see the joins.

Spellcheck and Thesaurus - "I DJ weddings, birthdays...." commas missing.

What resolution did you design the site for? Lots of wasted space left and right of the menu - does it really need to be that big?

Images / Fonts don't work - "Sounds Enginee" on the first image on the Sound Engineer page.

Equipment List - any reason for this? If I were hiring you for a gig, I wouldn't care if you turned up with iPod and a set of speakers - as long as you were good.

Contact Me image on the Equipment List page.

Whats with the shaking form if you don't enter a field? It doesnt look too professional.

If you really must use Captcha - I don't think you need too for a Contact page, as you have your email at the top of it which can be screen scraped - then have the Captcha recycle on an invalid entry. Also go with a standard Captcha - which you can recycle or read aloud for partially sighted.

Change the page names - "page1/index.html" doesn't really tell me anything.

Everyone seems to be going Web 2.0 - if you use Twitter / Facebook / G+ - Advertise it - no better advertising than FREE word of mouth, link back from these to your site.

If you need some ideas - take a look at some of your competitors - or google "Free website templates".

Good luck

All of the above.

Less is more - keep it simple. eg Please Fill Out This Form If You Wish To Contact Me (why the caps?) on the Contact Form - no **** Sherlock! Your name: Enter Your name etc Just leave the fields blank,

The movies (?) on your DJ page aren't loading for me - might be I don't have the plugin required. Big Contact Me image isn't clickable in my browser

Some of the images are really good (mixing desk etc) but could be scaled down much smaller & the text beefed up.

Put as much effort into telling folk what a great service you'll give them as you do listing the (yawn) equipment you've got.

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