doug748
Well-Known Member
I know nothing about web design so maybe I am well placed to comment.
There is little fundamentally wrong with the site, it loads quickly , on my old machine, and moves without hitch from one screen to the next. This is key. prv has put his finger on one of the key points to ponder:
"As for chaotic, the most noticeable aspect is that everything seems to be shown at least three times in different places, maybe more - but in only one of those places can you actually find out the price or buy it."
Some of the introductory text also needs a bit of finesse.
Prices including VAT and postage is great, I should bring that to the fore, on every page.
Cut some of the generalized waffle and show the product right off and explain what it does in simple terms. There is a boat alarm (I think) that can be hung on a wall, but no explanation of what it is and what it does. Trying to buy stuff was a problem, I was thinking of a purchase but gave up trying to find out the price and how to do it. I kept finding screens that told me the advantages of products I had already decided I wanted to buy. These are simple things to improve, you certainly will not get rich by paying others to do stuff you can do yourself.
Keep your prices at a sound level or you will be working for nowt. Concentrate on service. For example: payment methods, do you take cheques, bank transfer, and the rest? Loads of people will not touch Paypal with a bargepole. I look at stuff on Ebay and just keep on going till I find a UK phone number and a supplier that takes cheques - I am happy to pay more.
The lit magnifying glass is as old as the hills, no problem there, some people will buy it for chart use, even though it may not be ideal. The trick is to point out how many other uses it has around the boat; then it becomes an inpulse buy, a small birthday gift or a Christmas stocking filler. Good luck with it, there are others in the same game, as you no doubt know.
Here is a suggestion for a product, a simple, quality, split clamp like this:
http://www.motorcycleproducts.co.uk/handlebar-clamps-p-4424.html
But not at that silly price, more like £8 a pair. I always seem to be looking to mount stuff on push and motorbikes, pushpits and pulpits. There are loads on E bay but are often in two camps: very cheap and flimsy, or very, very expensive bike products.
There is little fundamentally wrong with the site, it loads quickly , on my old machine, and moves without hitch from one screen to the next. This is key. prv has put his finger on one of the key points to ponder:
"As for chaotic, the most noticeable aspect is that everything seems to be shown at least three times in different places, maybe more - but in only one of those places can you actually find out the price or buy it."
Some of the introductory text also needs a bit of finesse.
Prices including VAT and postage is great, I should bring that to the fore, on every page.
Cut some of the generalized waffle and show the product right off and explain what it does in simple terms. There is a boat alarm (I think) that can be hung on a wall, but no explanation of what it is and what it does. Trying to buy stuff was a problem, I was thinking of a purchase but gave up trying to find out the price and how to do it. I kept finding screens that told me the advantages of products I had already decided I wanted to buy. These are simple things to improve, you certainly will not get rich by paying others to do stuff you can do yourself.
Keep your prices at a sound level or you will be working for nowt. Concentrate on service. For example: payment methods, do you take cheques, bank transfer, and the rest? Loads of people will not touch Paypal with a bargepole. I look at stuff on Ebay and just keep on going till I find a UK phone number and a supplier that takes cheques - I am happy to pay more.
The lit magnifying glass is as old as the hills, no problem there, some people will buy it for chart use, even though it may not be ideal. The trick is to point out how many other uses it has around the boat; then it becomes an inpulse buy, a small birthday gift or a Christmas stocking filler. Good luck with it, there are others in the same game, as you no doubt know.
Here is a suggestion for a product, a simple, quality, split clamp like this:
http://www.motorcycleproducts.co.uk/handlebar-clamps-p-4424.html
But not at that silly price, more like £8 a pair. I always seem to be looking to mount stuff on push and motorbikes, pushpits and pulpits. There are loads on E bay but are often in two camps: very cheap and flimsy, or very, very expensive bike products.
