Hi Folks,

 

Joined up a few weeks ago and got some useful feedback that my site was a bit TOO simple.

 

As a background, I'm aiming a fairly basic service towards local tradespeople to get them online. A lot of these guys want a site, but find it very confusing. SEO, hosting, domains etc.. are alien language. So I want to keep it simple, but at the same time the intial feedback was that it was a little TOO simple, lacking in navigation options and frankly dull!!!

 

What do you think now? (Yes STILL Times New Roman .. and deliberatly so !!!)

 

http://trade-site.co.uk

 

Thanks for your thoughts!

 

Mike

hmmm I don't really like it I'm afraid. The textured background reminds me of old-school 90's style sites and your header gives the impression of being a construction company. You need to employ some current design concepts to bring it up to date! Follow a few PSD tutorials and you will be well on your way to getting a good eye for design.

it does look a little out of date, and even if your targeting the cheaper end they will still want you to have a good site, maybe its just the background try changing it and testing others.

Hi Folks,

 

Joined up a few weeks ago and got some useful feedback that my site was a bit TOO simple.

 

As a background, I'm aiming a fairly basic service towards local tradespeople to get them online. A lot of these guys want a site, but find it very confusing. SEO, hosting, domains etc.. are alien language. So I want to keep it simple, but at the same time the intial feedback was that it was a little TOO simple, lacking in navigation options and frankly dull!!!

 

What do you think now? (Yes STILL Times New Roman .. and deliberatly so !!!)

 

http://trade-site.co.uk

 

Thanks for your thoughts!

 

Mike

 

I agree with mrchristoph.

In addition, Times new Roman is not the standard font to use and all this mixture of gray and red is giving the reader a hard time. Not very user friendly I'm afraid.

The design looks nice and clean

 

 

But slow loading page

Thanks folks. I'll not sit back then. I'll keep working on it.

 

I was going for an old-fashioned red-top tabloid look with the black / red / greyscale, but if it's not easy on the eye then I've missed the point.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike