Website critique please

[777php]

The site looks like an amateur designed it, for 4 grand, I would expect flash, PHP/JSP/ASP/XML/DHTML, and database connectivity. Looks to me that they guy did everything in plain HTML.

 

[lavagirl669]

my friend is really gonna be crying when he hears all this

but he needs to.....or he'll get further ripped off....
poor guy didn't have a clue.
I wish he had asked me before he did this!

 

[screw3d]

No kidding.. way overpriced :Q

I wish people paid me that much for that

 

[glenn beck]

horrible navigation and extreme lack of content-rip off!

 

[nmcglennon]

I have been doing freelance web-design/programming for the past 3 years. I have many Austin area partnerships with IT companies who bring me work and clients.

I charge around $1000-$5000 per site, depending on what is involved (programming, Flash, admin panel, etc.)
For monthly updates, I charge $100-$200/mo.
Hosting fees, domains, etc. are extra and usually add $300-$500 depending on the options.

This site is simple would only be around $1000. (No programming is necessary. )
The site doesn't even load very fast!!! Pictures take awhile, and things don't **exactly** line up right.
The site is also sort of boring, with no dynamic content, not many colors, etc.
Frankly, I could make a better site in around 4 hours.

Bottom line: You are getting ripped off.

 

[lavagirl669]

thanks for all the feedback guys....I'm passing along the info to him

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: 777php
The site looks like an amateur designed it, for 4 grand, I would expect flash, PHP/JSP/ASP/XML/DHTML, and database connectivity. Looks to me that they guy did everything in plain HTML.

Good. The world is full of commercial websites that are so sophisticated they are completely invisible to search engines and completely inoperable under browsers with high security settings. I'd rather have a website that customers can find and use than one that's state-of-the-art but unuseable. It depends on your goals: do you want to show off your web design skills, do you want to make a slick-but-unmaintainable site, or do you want to sell products?

But speaking of such things, while it is HTML, I don't see any sign that the designer is giving any thought at all to search engine placement. I'm also not fond of the "put everything in a small corner of the screen design philosophy; while that's great for a network status monitor, I don't care for it for an interactive website.

Apart from that, it looks pretty slick, but hard to expand upon, and it's very limited in what information it provides about the company's services. The pictures are nice enough, but if I were a potential customer, I'd move on to a site that told me what they did, how much it would cost, what kind of specials they might be running, or had some more concrete sales pitches, even if it were a lot less polished-looking and didn't have pretty pictures. Just giving me a page of links to manufacturer's websites doesn't do much for me as a potential customer.

 

[dquan97]

I agree that this site is way overpriced (I could do it easily for $1K with $300/yr for updates). It doesn't have much text, so it may not rank well with search engines.

 

[DougK62]

The phone/fax numbers on there need area codes. It looks really unprofessonal without them.

 

i'd charge about 1k for that
but my design would be better and more functional

the chick on the events page has a really nice right boob

 

[lavagirl669]

cool....any more feedback
feel free to jump in, thanks!