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BobbyDouglas

 

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  		Back for another round - 9/5/2003 17:01:25   
After constantly working for another month on this site, I think I am ready for another round of critics.

The URL is www.mrbobdouglas.com

Does anyone feel it loads fast for a site with all the graphics/flash and content it has?

I have GZipped the pages to about 70% compression as well as shaving off another 50kb/page by using png files where I can reduce the size as well as compressing my flash movie.
gorilla

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/5/2003 19:39:57   
Yes it's a nice site very professional, very nice, - elegant in fact. But I'd have strong reservations about contacting you because nowhere, not even on your contact page do you give any indication of where your located. The only hint that you're in the USA is this:

quote:

Hours of phone operation are Monday-Friday, from 8am-6pm (PST).


Fast loading, elegant, thoroughly professional site. But a couple of "confidence building measures" :) might more than repay the effort involved.

Algorithm:

Possible adverse reactions:

"Who are these guys?" > "No info" > www.google.com

"Hang on a mo I have to contact them with my details to find out that" > How do I know they're not going to sell my details on? > leave site > www.google.com




Portfolio - nice, but screen shots very unclear. I'd "scarifice :)" a bit of bandwidth for clarity there if I were you.

I wouldn't include the "still in progress" in the portfolio if were you either.

I got redirected to register.com for this link:

http://www.draggincustoms.com/

Then I got a heap of tacky popups. Sorry there's no way in hell I'd ever use a firm that subjected me to that. It just wrecked all the good impressions I'd got and confirmed my reservations about the lack of contact info.

I got the infamous "page cannot be displayed" for

http://www.goldxtractor.com/

So again I lost confidece in you.


I'm not really answering what you asked. But a lovely and thoroughly professional looking site lost a lot of credibilty for me surfing as "John Smith, visitor" because 'the ship's been spoilt for a ha'porth of tar.'

Hope this might be of some use to you.

Rory Bunbarr

The single solitary United Kingdom Gorilla (also the newest one but ssssssshhhhh we don't want anyone to think that I'm not a truly stupendous alpha silverback male gorilla just like my sponsor (with a "K"):))

PS: Where's PreludeOK95? - I want to give her a demonstration of my invention the exploding pineapple in gratitude :) :)

Copenhagen
Denmark
September 5th 2003

< Message edited by gorilla -- 9/5/2003 8:41:32 PM >

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dzineworkz

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/5/2003 22:19:58   
You go Mr. Bob! I didn't dive in as deep as the others..but I think it is visually a super site. I do, however, agree about the size/clarity of your thumbnails in the portfolio, they get lost.

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BobbyDouglas

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/6/2003 2:29:51   
I am not sure what I should do with the thumbnails. I would like to leave the still in progress info up just so that it can be known we have a client atm.

But I should take down the links for it. I am going to make an "About Us" page somewhere mainly so I can use Overture's search term dealing with Arizona.

You totally lost me on this part
" Possible adverse reactions:

"Who are these guys?" > "No info" > www.google.com

"Hang on a mo I have to contact them with my details to find out that" > How do I know they're not going to sell my details on? > leave site > www.google.com "

Wtf? lol


" Portfolio - nice, but screen shots very unclear. I'd "scarifice " a bit of bandwidth for clarity there if I were you. "

I dont see how I can make them at all bigger, or more realistic other than making them larger- larger wont really work tho for it.

Thanks for the suggestions. Do you see any others at all?

You would be suprised to see the difference in speed on my site. I totally re did the aspect of it to be faster. I can even tell on my 800kb/s cable modem.

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gorilla

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/6/2003 9:28:15   
What my colleague was saying was that the current lack of contact info on your site would be likely to cause those reactions. :) He and I went through your site together.

As his native language is English and mine is not he did the review.

It is a very good site - your efficient use of bandwith was a professional pleasure to both of us to see - I concur re: your screen shots - I'd work hard to find a solution if I were you - maybe even to the point of reletively low res clickable which opens a window with a higher res screen shot.

Carsten Pedersen
Spokesgorilla
Copenhagen
Denmark
September 6th 2003

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gorilla

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/6/2003 14:10:01   
I used a completely standard tool of action/reaction prediction methodology to try to highlight what I saw as a potential problem with your site. I don't know why it generated a WTF - I'll have to check my syntax by being thrown into a pond of freezing cold icy water by the other gorillas tomorrow morning. Of course it's also possible that you haven't had the correct mime type upgraded in your WTF error processing proxy overload and ye gods I've spent ages developing this site coder burnout #config routines. :)

Joking aside - surely you use scenarios in some shape or form as a standard part of your developers armoury? Your site is a true pleasure to see, but did you develop it to present your skills to would be clients or not?

Presumably you did, so its a pity to see some of the skill that went into doing so vitiated by not giving adequate contact info to prospective clients. From the research I've seen, many surfers are becoming understandably wary of giving out either personal or company details on the web. (In the light of that you might think about about doing a paragraph or two on your privacy policy too btw.)

Hope that helps you a little more. - Once again my compliments - a thoroughly professional "job of work" is always a pleasure to see.

RB

< Message edited by gorilla -- 9/6/2003 3:19:19 PM >

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BobbyDouglas

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/6/2003 15:22:33   
It heps a lot. I am thinking about making a History or About Us page. On the frontpage tho I added we are located in Arizona.

Anyone have an idea how I could add the info about us inside the Contact Us page, and still make the page flow?

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gorilla

 

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  		RE: Back for another round - 9/6/2003 15:28:03   
Very quickly because break is about to end. An "about us" page would more than do the trick IMO a link to that page from your contact page via a sentence ....to learn more about us .... or however you phrase it shouldn't disprupt the flow too much......

Don't forget the privacy policy - that one is becoming really important to many people.

No doubt others will suggest also ....

GTG

RB

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