website

[Rolling_Thunder]

looking for constructive criticism on my website...     it is simple (for a reason) with just some information and a couple pictures...    what do ya'll think ?

www.iconengineeringinc.com


Keep in mind I am 21 and have never done a website before - if you have any tips feel free to let me know

[Khyron]

Clean, simple, and you fought the urge to use frames. good job 

I did a site for a friends garage, actually the guys that painted my car. I incoporated a photoalbum into the site. You may want to look into doing that if your host allows you to have a SQL database.

http://www.teamvintage.net

[Charger74]

Looks pretty good so far.

[Orange_Crush]

Needs Titties.

[ramit]

I like it!  I like the fact that it is very simple and it isn't too "busy" looking.

[chargerman68]

good job with it looks great

now u justy need to pm me some pricing for my 68 charger

[Troy]

Overall it is a very nice and clean design. I like it. There are a few things that I would fix...

On the home page:
"ICON Engineering has multiple restorations under our belt and our work speaks for itself, that itself. That is why our cars have won numerous awards. Our technicians are ASE certified so you, the customer, knows know your car is in caring and capable hands. We at ICON Engineering love working on these cars and will work hand in hand with owners to help them make decisions and plan the entire build."

You also have some weirdness in the HTML (multiple font tags) before the last two sentences: "What are you waiting for? Give us a call and tell us what we can do for you." It wouldn't hurt to list the phone number there as well so the user doesn't have to go looking for it. You may want to add the contact information - at least some basic stuff - at the bottom of the page where the copyright information is. This is a business site. Your goal is to make it easy for people to spend their money.

It is one of my pet peeves to put "Under Construction" pages on a site - with the possible exception that you are renovating an existing site and user expect to see those pages. I'd remove the links for Awards, Testimonials, and Magazines until you have content on those pages. Another major pet peeve of mine is navigation on the right or bottom of the page. It's not intuitive for the user AND it disappears when viewed with a small(er) screen.

On the "View the Cars" and "Staff" pages your subheadings are larger than your page titles. The page title on the "Testimonials" page is left aligned instead of centered and it is black instead of red on the "Events" page. There are descriptions but no pictures for many of the cars listed in the "View the Cars" section. Also, "Chevrolet" is spelled incorrectly in the title for the 66 Chevelle. You may also want to indent the car page titles in the places where they show up in the menu.

On the "Contact Us" page you may want to modify this sentence: "Please Call to make an Appointment to View Our Shop". It's always a good idea to avoid choppy sentence fragments - especially when you have all that white space to fill up. I'd probably remove the capitals from the words within the sentence as well. I didn't proofread most of it but I can later if you'd like. One of the best ways to present a professional image is to go through all the marketing material with an eye towards proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. It's the same reason you dress up for an interview - first impressions and all that.

Troy

[Brock Samson]

Hey Troy,    you shold do that for all the posts.. here... 

[70charger_boy]

Hey Troy,    you shold do that for all the posts.. here... 

WTFRU talking about, Willis?   

Anyway I agree with Troy.  There are a few Grammar and punctuation issues. 

[last426]

Our technicians are ASE certified so you, the customer, knows know your car is in caring and capable hands.
Troy

Since "customer" is singular, then I think it was correctly written as "knows".  Actually, what I would do is make customer plural.  But, what do I know?  The site looks fine. Kim

[RD]

Our technicians are ASE certified so you, the customer, knows know your car is in caring and capable hands.
Troy

Since "customer" is singular, then I think it was correctly written as "knows".  Actually, what I would do is make customer plural.  But, what do I know?  The site looks fine. Kim

troy is correct.  personally, i would remove "the customer" from it altogether.  If the person sent the car to you for you to fix, they should know already that they are the customer.

[last426]

Our technicians are ASE certified so you, the customer, knows know your car is in caring and capable hands.
Troy

Since "customer" is singular, then I think it was correctly written as "knows".  Actually, what I would do is make customer plural.  But, what do I know?  The site looks fine. Kim

troy is correct.  personally, i would remove "the customer" from it altogether.  If the person sent the car to you for you to fix, they should know already that they are the customer.

The customer know your car is in capable hands?  I'm not too sure but that just doesn't sound right but whatever. Kim

[Brock Samson]

 

                         "You the customer will know your car is in capable hands"           

[Troy]

I was using this reasoning: the base of the sentence is "you know your car is in caring and capable hands". I don't see "the customer" as a required part - more as a modifier for the subject "you". I agree that "knows" would be correct when discussing "the customer" *IF* the sentence never said "you". However, why would "the customer" care that "your car is in caring and capable hands" unless "the customer" happens to also be "you". Either way, it's not a very smoothly flowing sentence. I could be completely wrong of course.

Troy

[Brock Samson]

oh boy...


   "The customer will know their car is in capable hands"?.. 

   seems concise enuff to me.. we used to argue these things all day long around the newspaper's copy desk...
  brevity was usually the deciding factor.

or how about?..

"Customers will know their cars are in culpable hands"?.. 

[PocketThunder]

oh boy...


   "The customer will know their car is in capable hands"?.. 

   seems concise enuff to me.. we used to argue these things all day long around the newspaper's copy desk...

and then look what happened... you got the axe!!            

[Brock Samson]

Editors just love to edit,..
   When i was starting out many years ago a good friend and writer let me in on a little tip, when one's writing has to pass through an editors mitts, allways have a "gorilla", purposely have at least one paragraph or sentence or two or some grammatical and/or punctuation errors that the editor can chop out or change, because if you don't, the editor/s will end up messing up your perfectly good copy just to exercise their power...
 

[hemi68charger]

Although I haven't read every page, the format looks good.. Good job on the linking and picture placement.........
Ask your boss if he wants to trade his v-code 'bird for a j-code Charger..... 
Troy

[Rolling_Thunder]

He loves that car...          He said he will never sell it - unless it is necessary to pay for his kid's schooling