Honest review needed for site

[RuralWeb]

It makes it easy for them to come after you!

[bamboo]

a friend of mine was experimenting with music and video editing and made kind of advert, he wanted to upload it to Youtube but we were concerend about copyright as it was a well known video with a recently released tune on it, is it legal to upload this type of thing with your name all over it???

My god. Naivety is no defence. You are in effect stealing video & audio produced by someone else without their express permission for your financial gain & you would be vigorously sued.
This isn't China!

[Darren B]

This isn't China!

i thought it was, every made in label says "made in china" these days

[roundman]

yeah thats why we didn't post it.
Although it was done for "educational purposes"
Have found a site who will let me link to them for how2 vids, i have a designer on the case for a site overhaul, everything is coming together and i am busy researching other sites that are good AND bad.

[bamboo]

yeah thats why we didn't post it.
i am busy researching other sites that are good AND bad.

I'll lay odds that you uncover more of the latter

[roundman]

Seems to e a few, especially as you get past page 8-9 in the search list,
i was thinking of changing the sections, and have an image for each part, so 24v drills would have picture of 24v drill and so forth, perhaps make it almost so you could navigate thru by just looking at the pix,
Still wondering about colour scheme, i dont want to lose the corporate id of black and orange, but is it quite limited for making the site slick and stylish???
As was pointed out before it looks like a site from 4-5 years ago.

[roundman]

thinking about something like this for image nav
http://www.elliotts4tools.co.uk/prodtype.asp
What do you guys think??

[leehack]

Along the right lines but too many options, I get bored looking through that lot to find what I want.

[Duncan Rounding]

I thought this was fitting to this thread:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7874998.stm

[leehack]

LOL that dragster was pretty funny. Certainly the best use for silverline tools anyway IMO.

[bamboo]

Personally I would trial a big search box front and centre with a variety of questions such as;

"What are you here to buy today?"
"What are you looking for today?"
"Which power tool are you looking for?"

etc, etc so that those that do land on your homepage may be taken to the most likely product page. To be honest I would put more effort into getting your product pages optimised correctly so Auntie Google, or Uncle Adwords drops your potential customer right onto them.

[roundman]

Have made a start with the page titles am going thru and finding what words on the most popular sites and renaming mine.
So images good but too many options bad.

[roundman]

Hi Guys
Have made some ammendments to my site, wanted to know if i was going in the right direction, i have had some top advice from an award winning designer.
Just wanted to know if i was implementing it properly.
If you go into my site and look at the power tools, angle grinder section and see if there is anything i should be doing different.
Thanks

[bamboo]

This may seem like nit picking but believe me it isn't.
You have to go to powertools>corded>angle grinders!

As I've said earlier you really need your search box front and centre on the homepage. The reason?
Women shop, men BUY and I presume your target customer is male. Don't expect men to be fannying around with navigation trying to find the perfect power tool. They'll just click onto a better laid out site IMO.

[parklifeclothes]

fannying around with navigation .

Too true and to the point, no prisoners taken.

I vote Derek (Bamboo) to be chief site review guru, you're sure of getting no bull, no beating round the houses, but straight to the crux and honest critique.