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Originally Posted by BillR
Hi Guys,
I have created a website for my business. I built it from a packaged program at Sam's Club called web.com. I decided to try it myself after getting a proposal for $15,000 from a website development company.
I feel that the site gets the points across but it is lacking a smooth professional appearance. I'll go to some of my competitors sites and am kind of embarrassed with what I built. I feel that some potential customers might get a negative impression of my company based on my web site.
I don't want to spend any more money on the site until I start to see a positive cash flow coming in. (This is actually more of my wife's opinion.)
If anyone could offer any thoughts or comments on how I can improve my website, I would really appreciate it. I have never created a site before and have been flying blind.
Thanks.
Bill
http://turbobid.net
PS. I am thinking of adding a user forum to the site. In my estimating program, users can create new assemblies. I would like them to be able to share what they have created with other users. Is this forum a template that I can purchase and use on my site? |
I believe that the site is pretty OK. You may consider adding more pages and more content that is targeting particular keywords. See
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com and select and target relevant keywords.
One thing I have observed is that the image on the page is blurred. I think the compression ratio was too high. You may have to export the image again with a lower compression ratio.
As for setting up the forum, this forum uses vbulletin. The script is not free, however there are many free scripts available. vBulletin is currently the best. Free versions include snitz (based on ASP), simplemachines, Yabb and PHPBB. If you have a cpanel based linux web hosting account you can install simplemachines forum, Yabb and PHPBB with ease using Fantastico. There are free templates available as well for these.