Site Review Plse - don't hold back !!!

[Kate (newbie)]

Hello !

I'm an Actinic Virgin at the moment but I have big plans to be a full blown Actinic Slut - if you can help me out !!!

This is my first site. I (think) read everything and done everything I can.

I really interested in SEO so any advice is greatful
Any improvements as well - I see lots of threads for added features but scared this will affect my SEO ranking

Tell me straight - I'm used to critisim (long story) !

Thanks so much in advance.

PS what does "IMHO" mean?

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

IMHO = In My Honest Opinion or In My Humble Opinion

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

Only had a very quick look and noted the following:

1. The price listed doesn't make it clear that VAT is excluded until you go to the cart.

2. The progress bar in the checkout doesn't look good

3. It may be worth making it clearer to customers that the quantity field should be entered with the number of minutes of film, as you may find many will not read further down and keep the quantity as 1 maybe you could add the word minutes after the quantity box.

Generally I quite looked the overall look, although I am not a designer.

[RuralWeb]

All your previous posts implied that you were a site owner not a designer building a site for a client. This does wind some people up including me - if you are a designer then come clean about it.

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

Hi Mal,

Is this aimed at me or Kate?

P.S. I am a store owner and NOT a designer

[RuralWeb]

Both barrels ate Kate. If people are honest store owners then they will get all the help they deserve from me but if they are designers that hide behind thier clients then from past experience I don't want to help tbh. now if I've got it wrong and Kate is a site owner then I take it back but let's see what she says - after all she said don't hold back.

[Darren B]

My biggest point is who are you, weres the address & phone number?

the T & C's are missing until checkout, same theme used here http://www.kitesrus.co.uk/ with the t & c's added to the bar and they include the address.

[malbro]

Both barrels ate Kate.

Cannibalism on a Friday evening

[malbro]

Hello !

I'm an Actinic Virgin at the moment but I have big plans to be a full blown Actinic Slut - if you can help me out !!!

This is my first site. I (think) read everything and done everything I can.

I really interested in SEO so any advice is greatful
Any improvements as well - I see lots of threads for added features but scared this will affect my SEO ranking

Tell me straight - I'm used to critisim (long story) !

Thanks so much in advance.

PS what does "IMHO" mean?

On the main theme of this thread, you need to review the dark text on dark background in the checkout, very difficult to read.

[Tricky]

Kate

Overall I like the clean look of the site, and a great service to offer, but I looked at one of the sections and noticed this :

Some better transfer studios try to reduce this ''flicker'', using variable-speed equipment and attempt to ''match up'' the speed.

Are you saying there are other companies othering a better service, and customers should go there...

The resultant film quality comes out awful, but you do not know because you can not remember what it was like the last time you saw it 20 years ago!

Yep, don't need to comment on that !

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

I think the text metioned in the previous post has been copied from other sites as a quick search of google will show.

[Tricky]

Well spotted Darren, your sharp this time in the morning...

[Mike Hughes]

All your previous posts implied that you were a site owner not a designer building a site for a client. This does wind some people up including me - if you are a designer then come clean about it.

This seems a bit harsh Mal, Kate's first post:

Just Starting Out

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Hello Everyone,
I've must have read every post on here in last 2 months. You old pro's probably forgot how hard it is starting up and thus prob don't appreciate how helpful this forum really is to Actinic Virgins like me. Superb forum!

I'm setting up several websites to bring my old dad into 2008 (the exciting world of transferring cine and video's onto DVD ! LOL) I've tested and I'm buying Business Plus.

It doesn't look to me as if Kate's been pretending to be anything other than she is. Is there a reason for the cynicism? (speaking as one cynic to another).

Mike

[george]

I'm an Actinic Virgin at the moment but I have big plans to be a full blown Actinic Slut

Great idea for a (very low cut) t-shirt.

[grantglendinnin]

Darren - agreed.

As has been mentioned before the-long-ass-domain-name-filled-with-hyphens-wont-help...

Try running your site through Copyscape and you'll soon see your biggest problem.

Presumably you are aiming at the Cine-to-XXX market. Then why have all your three main pages about these topics got the exact same content repeated? That certainly won't do you any favours.

One thing I have noticed is your product options, which allow your customer to select how long you hold on to the original film - the meanings aren't clear cut, and in reality you don't give the customer the option to have his/her films returned to him/her in the condition they were sent.

Regarding the checkout, I agree with all previous comments, it's far too dark. And your prices are thrown in at the last minute. I thought 'sure, £1.50 per minute isn't too bad'...then you throw in labour costs and astronomical postage costs. Let's be fair - a 'Second Class' packet can only cost a maximum of £2.49 to send. Search the forum for 'postage costs' and have a read - you'll find no customer is going to pay so highly inflated postage costs. I for one wouldn't pay more than two quid to have a DVD sent through the post via second class mail. Further to that, is the £10 'Handling' fee really necessary?

Not particularly impressed with the 'testimonials' page - formatting is very poor, some just copied straight from Outlook. Have you gained the customers permission to use their personal e-mails to you in the public domain?

Finally, I'm not a fan of your slogan:

Big enough to Cope - Small enough to Care

Is it just me or does the phrase 'Just' come to mind?

You did say not to hold back, after all