If You Go To A Commercial Website...

[olds]

Do you do like me and just close it without looking at their products?
Or will you browse their site?

 

[Mo0o]

I leave right away.

 

[Safeway]

Link it.

 

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I leave right away.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Safeway
Link it.

http://www.bigbee.com/

 

[Hossenfeffer]

I'll check it out. Nothing saying that it can't still have decent content.

Depends a bit on whether I would be interested in their stuff or not.

 

[nater]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Safeway
Link it.

http://www.bigbee.com/

that site's not that bad

 

[mugs]

http://www.arbys.com/

Different situation since they don't actually sell anything on the site... it doesn't stop me from eating there, my desire to not be fat does though.

Edit: Just looked and the one you linked doesn't either. I think the site you linked looks alright, it does the job. It won't win any awards, but at least they have a website.

I'd expect a big company like Arby's to put a few bucks into their site.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: nater

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Safeway
Link it.

http://www.bigbee.com/

that site's not that bad

Nah. I just don't expect to see it on a commercial site. I guess I feel if they can't spend some money building a professional looking site, what else do they do un-professionally?

 

[MikeMike]

so your figuring that since ALL businesses should have the knowledge of making their own website that those w/o a perfectly professional one get ignored even though their website has really no reason at all other than to give minor info, which if you called you could get anyway?

MIKE

 

[alkemyst]

I do web design and other programming...when I am shopping I am looking for price.

I could care less if they had a totally price list only site.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
so your figuring that since ALL businesses should have the knowledge of making their own website that those w/o a perfectly professional one get ignored even though their website has really no reason at all other than to give minor info, which if you called you could get anyway?

MIKE

No
Mike

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Nah. I just don't expect to see it on a commercial site. I guess I feel if they can't spend some money building a professional looking site, what else do they do un-professionally?

I look at it the opposite way. If a small, regional, family-owned construction firm can pay a few thousand for a jazzy website then they don't need my business. They're a construction company, why do they need a flashy website?

ZV

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I do web design and other programming...when I am shopping I am looking for price.

I could care less if they had a totally price list only site.

I wish it was like that.
I want a 36X40X16 metal shop building. 14' roll up door on one gable end and a 36' man door on one side wall. 6 sky light panels on the roof.
I have only found one site that will let you price it online.

 

[Appledrop]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Nah. I just don't expect to see it on a commercial site. I guess I feel if they can't spend some money building a professional looking site, what else do they do un-professionally?

I look at it the opposite way. If a small, regional, family-owned construction firm can pay a few thousand for a jazzy website then they don't need my business. They're a construction company, why do they need a flashy website?

ZV

:thumbsup:

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Nah. I just don't expect to see it on a commercial site. I guess I feel if they can't spend some money building a professional looking site, what else do they do un-professionally?

I look at it the opposite way. If a small, regional, family-owned construction firm can pay a few thousand for a jazzy website then they don't need my business. They're a construction company, why do they need a flashy website?

ZV

I close web sites that use flash almost as fast.


I see your point.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Nah. I just don't expect to see it on a commercial site. I guess I feel if they can't spend some money building a professional looking site, what else do they do un-professionally?

I look at it the opposite way. If a small, regional, family-owned construction firm can pay a few thousand for a jazzy website then they don't need my business. They're a construction company, why do they need a flashy website?

ZV

You can get a decently designed website for less than you'd spend on many other advertising venues, and a website has the potential to reach a lot more people. If I saw a small, family-owned company with a well-designed website, I'd think they're smart for presenting themselves well.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Nah. I just don't expect to see it on a commercial site. I guess I feel if they can't spend some money building a professional looking site, what else do they do un-professionally?

I look at it the opposite way. If a small, regional, family-owned construction firm can pay a few thousand for a jazzy website then they don't need my business. They're a construction company, why do they need a flashy website?

ZV

You can get a decently designed website for less than you'd spend on many other advertising venues, and a website has the potential to reach a lot more people. If I saw a small, family-owned company with a well-designed website, I'd think they're smart for presenting themselves well.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[DaveSimmons]

You're expecting the company owner to be tech-savvy enough to understand the difference between presenting the information and doing it using a "modern" user interface. Also, the site design might have been done several years ago when the look was less dated.

To some 60-something guy who knows his steel buildings, the need to refresh his website design every year just to stay cutting-edge might seem like a silly waste of money. "It works, why fix it? We don't change the rivet spacing every year just for fun do we?"

And stay off my lawn!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
You can get a decently designed website for less than you'd spend on many other advertising venues, and a website has the potential to reach a lot more people. If I saw a small, family-owned company with a well-designed website, I'd think they're smart for presenting themselves well.

You can get a decently designed website for less than you'd spend on many other advertising venues, and a website has the potential to reach a lot more people. If I saw a small, family-owned company with a well-designed website, I'd think they're smart for presenting themselves well.

Waste of money. Builders and contractors get business almost exclusively by word of mouth or telephone books. It's a poor spending choice to pony up money on a website when you only service maybe a 200 mile radius.

ZV

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You're expecting the company owner to be tech-savvy enough to understand the difference between presenting the information and doing it using a "modern" user interface. Also, the site design might have been done several years ago when the look was less dated.

To some 60-something guy who knows his steel buildings, the need to refresh his website design every year just to stay cutting-edge might seem like a silly waste of money. "It works, why fix it? We don't change the rivet spacing every year just for fun do we?"

And stay off my lawn!

I only drove up there to smell the daises.

 

[Deeko]

ummm, I fail to see how the quality of the website has anything to do with their products.

Look at this site: http://www.patskingofsteaks.com/

Hideous, but they still make the best steaks in philly, and thus I still go there all the time.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Do you do like me and just close it without looking at their products?
Or will you browse their site?

Uh...who cares? The quality of their site might have very little correlation to the quality of their products