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04/20/2004 08:34:03 PM · #1 |
My fiancee and I have started up a website featuring some of my digital photography and her poetry. I was wondering if maybe some of you could give me some honest feedback on the site. Do you think it's a product worth buying? Does the price seem fair? Any suggestions that might improve it? Since I don't really know anyone here yet I thought you all would be the perfect people to give me some honest, unbiased opinions.
I'm also wondering if anyone knows a good place that makes prints of various sizes where I could feature them on our site and have the ordering go through a third party.
I welcome your comments!
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04/20/2004 08:41:21 PM · #2 |
and the web site
URL_____________ ! :)
DPC prints is good. Have you looked at it? //www.dpcprints.com/ I've never been disappointed.
Message edited by author 2004-04-20 20:41:57. |
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04/20/2004 08:42:22 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by justine:
and the web site
URL_____________ ! :)
DPC prints is good. Have you looked at it? //www.dpcprints.com/ I've never been disappointed. |
It's in his signature.
I don't know much about what makes a good website etc, however I do like the presentation on the home page. The pages containing your larger images are a little stark though. I don't know what to suggest to add to them.
Message edited by author 2004-04-20 20:46:24.
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04/20/2004 08:44:11 PM · #4 |
| Don't have signatures turned on. So could not see it. THANK you. |
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04/20/2004 08:51:01 PM · #5 |
Sorry I forgot signatures do not alway show. The url is www.angelcorpdesigns.com.
Cpan, what do you mean by stark...too plain?
I'm more interested in what people think of the product rather than the website itself.
Thanks everyone!
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04/20/2004 09:10:50 PM · #6 |
$14.95 for the photo, poem and frame? Seems cheap to me. Can't tell from the site how high quality the photos are.
I'd also include a sample of what the frame looks like, or end product all finished.
I only saw buy now buttons for the Mothers Day products. Also, you have to click buy now to see what the price is, I'd put the price right under the picture/poem.
It took a long time for the images to load when I clicked to see the product. I'm on high speed and got tired of waiting so I clicked off. |
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04/20/2004 09:13:24 PM · #7 |
Hi Steven. I like you idea for Mother's day and beyond. The combination of poetry, text and photos is very appealing to many. I have a few recommendations.
Like cpanaitoti said your site is a little stark.
To increase your business you will want viewers to stay, look around and click all your links. Keep them there!!
First thing I'd do is when they click the image, have that image centered and viewable so that people can read the text. Also lower it a bit on the page.
Then I'd suggest you change the background color from bright white to a neutral color like soft grey or even black.
All in all the product is good.
You should offer gift or greeting cards. Poems/sonnets/etc on photos should sell!!
Best of luck...you two have a good combination going. :) |
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04/20/2004 09:14:51 PM · #8 |
| maybe its just me but i cant see the links, the print is too small, i would want to know what i was buying. |
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04/20/2004 09:20:53 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by sbrandt:
Sorry I forgot signatures do not alway show. The url is www.angelcorpdesigns.com.
Cpan, what do you mean by stark...too plain?
I'm more interested in what people think of the product rather than the website itself.
Thanks everyone! |
If you actually want to make a few bucks, then the website design is just as important as the product. I really like the idea, and I think you are off to a great start.
I wish you the best ! |
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04/21/2004 02:15:46 PM · #10 |
Thank you all for the feedback!
Unfortunately I was in the middle of working on the site when the idea struck me to ask for opinions here so when some of you looked things were probably messed up. Bad timing on my part :)
I appreciate you guys taking the time to look though!
Riggs...you brought up a good point. I need to try to make the site more attractive instead of focusing solely on the product.
Thanks again!
Message edited by author 2004-04-21 14:17:47.
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04/21/2004 10:51:23 PM · #11 |
Okay I was looking at DPCPrints and I was wondering if anyone would like to share an opinion on that:
It says they get the base cost plus 50% of the profit. Do a lot of people sell their prints through here? What are the alternatives?
I can't make the prints myself so I have to go through someone...please share your ideas.
Thanks!
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04/21/2004 11:14:00 PM · #12 |
| Since you asked for honest feedback, I'll give you mine. The photos are rather well done and the poetry is average. This is honestly not my cup of tea, but it seems like something I've seen before. It needs an element to really separate itself from similar products. Again, I'm likely not your core consumer, so take my honest feedback with that grain of salt. |
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04/22/2004 12:34:47 AM · #13 |
Here's an honest and non-sugar coated quick critique:
It looks like your URL is redirected and the website is on AOL. It seems very slow to me, and I suspect that's why (not the redirection, but the AOL part).
Price seems fair, but if I were buying more than one, I would consider the shipping now to be a "prohibitive" part of the price. There should be a scaled shipping rate based on qty or price.
Here's the real non-sugar coated part, please don't take offense. The site looks ok, but doesn't seem very professinal to me. For one thing, it looks like it was done in Front Page (and I just looked at the HTML source and it says it was done using Yahoo Page Builder). It's hard to say why it gives me that impression, but I think it's partly the colors, the fact the the logo isn't integrated into the theme (it has a white background). When you enlarge an image, it comes up without any background at all, just the JPG in the window, rather than keeping it in the HTML framework.
Not that it's not fine as is, perhaps with some evolutionary rather than revolutionary changes. Many people open up "amateur-HTML" stores like this and they may do just fine. After all, it's the product that counts.
After you make some money selling some of these, you might consider using one of the PHP based packages to give the store a bit more professional polish: you could easily develop a nice interactive store using one of many of the PHP based Content Management Systems like PHPWebsite, PHPNuke, Xaraya, etc.
Hope that's the kind of advice you were looking for. |
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