Honest review needed for site

[roundman]

i see from your site Mal u not accepting anymore design work.

[roundman]

ok if somebody wants to email me with the damage, then i guess i'm ready

[roundman]

its true i don't know how to make a site myself, and every bit of advice is welcomed and taken on board.
I would like to thank all those who have added to this thread for their time and knowledge.
Its all the things i knew was wrong just been bumbling along really.

[gabrielcrowe]

Oh dear Maurice.

This thread wins all sorts of awards.

You may be interested to know that the people that have replied to this thread are all responsible for (probably multiple) very successful actinic based stores, so you can be assured that they know there stuff. You'd be a fool not to heed every morsel of their advice.

My honest opinion, in light of your crowded and failing market, is to get the most beautiful website you can afford. I'd be paying about about 2k for a REALLY good site. If you take this into consideration when you look at the big picture, you'll see that its the best investment you'll ever make.

Would you expect to furnish a beautiful showroom for 2k?

It sounds to me like you don't know how to make sites yourself. Don't try. Get someone else to do it, or you'll lose more than 2k profit during your learning curve than you will paying someone for a site.

[RuralWeb]

i want a long term fix

It will help long term as you will have to convert to SPP - what I ment is that the code path software will convert all your products in a few minutes - it will take days otherwise. A designer would still charge you for doing this so you are saving in the long run

[roundman]

i want a long term fix, i know that money will have to be spent but it's a question of how much.

[RuralWeb]

A very quick fix would be to use codepaths SPP generator to turn all your products into single pages

[RuralWeb]

Well i would offer him a cheap drill for helping out but.........

Yep got mine - the more I look about I think that they must have priced it wrong but Im not complaining

[roundman]

Even if you spent £2000 pounds wouldn't it be worth to get to this stage:



You'll find a designer that will quote anything from a few hundred up to a few thousand. Have a chat with a few and see what they say.

Well i would offer him a cheap drill for helping out but.........
LOL

[RuralWeb]

but are u allowed to put a ballpark figure

As Lee says every site is different - there are people that will sell you a template for £145 (see other thread) and others that will charge many thousands - It all depends what you want.

Sit down and write a spec sheet for everything you want your site to do

[roundman]

at the moment we have spent out on new premises and i don't want to overstretch my budget, especially at this time of financial uncertainty.
And an extra k+ would be eating into reserves i dont want to touch at the moment.
Yes i know speculate/accumulate, but we are a small firm still building and i dont want to lose the ground we have taken so far.

[leehack]

Forget cost Maurice, find yourself the right person, have a look on the actinic site for a local designer to you. Design costs to involve a professional are an absolute pittance to what a successful site can take online, it really is pennies in the grand scheme.

[roundman]

will do, but are u allowed to put a ballpark figure??
a quick roughtimate perhaps.

[Rich Brady]

Even if you spent £2000 pounds wouldn't it be worth to get to this stage:

eg I have a client with a site that sells a competive branded product - he normally sells 70+ a day of them.

You'll find a designer that will quote anything from a few hundred up to a few thousand. Have a chat with a few and see what they say.

[RuralWeb]

but i have put alot of time into it

You will have by adding all the products but that will not be lost. You will need to contact Lee direct as members are not allowed to post such things as quotes.

Gabe also has a find a designer service if you want to try that