Please comment on my website design

I am just very comfortable with Frontpage, so there is no Learning curve. Right now I just want to complete the website asap so I will do all of it in Frontpage. Once the site is complete I will look at other softwares and edit it with them. Right now I am making the info section which will take a while because I want to give a lot of technical info. Then I need to translate all of that to french.

I also need to put some kind of calendar in there to show availability. Not sure how I will do that yet or even if I should. Maybe I should just do that offline.
 
Calendyr said:
I also need to put some kind of calendar in there to show availability. Not sure how I will do that yet or even if I should. Maybe I should just do that offline.
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I wouldn't do that, because some people will try to push you to do a enhancement when they see you've got 2 hours somewhere in a day, not realising how long it really takes, and when you decline, they won't come back and go around telling negavtive stuff about your business...
keep your calendar to yourself:xyxthumbs:
 
Wow. That shows you how much I know. I was reading the thread about aprons and viewed Calendyr's profile. I clicked on the link and thought "this is a really nice website".
THEN I came across this thread coincidentally. I was surprised at all the criticisms (probably valid), but I'm not a professional detailer nor a web designer.
I'm just a regular person not unlike someone driving around Montreal wishing their car was cleaner.
 
With all the construction work going on in Mtl , it s impossible with all the dust to have a clean car , wash it , dust on it 5 minutes later . Luckily I don t live there .
 
Calendyr said:
Right now I am making the info section which will take a while because I want to give a lot of technical info. Then I need to translate all of that to french.
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Don't waste your time with that. No one wants to read all that
 
2shiny said:
Frontpage doesn't use CSS, so he will have to place it within the html code from the table that is used for that content
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Well, if the OP is gonna start digging into the code by hand, it shouldn't be too big a deal to add CSS. Surely, Frontpage at least allows manual manipulation of the code? If not, there's always notepad.exe.

I don't really know if it's possible to do what I was picturing, though... not with the current code.

OP, you can inline the CSS; example:
Code: 
<table width="100%" border="0" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85);">
 
Yes Frontpage allows for manual coding.

Only use it very sparingly to add things like tracking codes and the like. Don't have time to learn CSS unfortunatelly, I barelly have time to do web design so Learning anything about it is a no-no right now.

Thank you for the comments Dogfather. The website is headed in the right direction. Still a lot of work to do on it but slowly getting there.
 
If your going to keep the water beading I would find an HD quality pic that looks better than that one. It looks cheap, no offense but as soon as I looked at it I thought teenager which I am sure you will not want people thinking as you are in business.

I used beading for my business card and did a gradient in photoshop to tone it down a bit. The white text pops more. I would also go with a different font for your text on the beading but that's just my opinion.

Take what you want from it and good luck:)
 
Had time to work on the website tonight. Did a very big change in the look. I still have some content to produce and I still need to spell check but I would like some feedback on the new look. What do you guys think?

I will have 2 days off this week, so I should have time to finish it at last. Been about 2 months without a day off now. It's finaly slowing down a little.
 
now, that's a good looking website :dblthumb2:
looks more professional now. good job
 
Calendyr said:
Had time to work on the website tonight. Did a very big change in the look. I still have some content to produce and I still need to spell check but I would like some feedback on the new look. What do you guys think?

I will have 2 days off this week, so I should have time to finish it at last. Been about 2 months without a day off now. It's finaly slowing down a little.
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Nice, who did your logo?
 
Thanks guys, will concentrate on finishing the content today then.
 
Calendyr said:
I used MycroBurst » Leader in Graphic, Web and Logo Design Contests
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How was your expierence using this service for your logo?

On your home page using English option I'd recommend ending the sentence regarding valet service after the word "once" and text wrap the remaining sentence into the one below it.

It will make a curve in your text complimenting the curvature of the car. Just an
aesthetic suggestion.

Restoration tab
I don't care for the text describing Level 1 detail running into the bumper of the car (hard to read). Maybe just line space it down a few.

I'm missing something about you. A personal introduction. I think something that connects the customer to you in important.

Your website has come a long way congrats!
 
Mycroburst was great to use. If you decide to use them here are some advices from my personnal experience:

- Leave comments and suggestions to designers when they submit a logo. They will come back with something more to your liking.

- Designers are artists and thus people who use their right brain a lot and their left brain very sparcelly... result? They will submit their design at the last second of the time allowed (well most of them).
I submited the designs for a vote to everyone I knew the day before the deadline. I had like 30 designs by then and wanted to be able to select a winner by the time the deadline fell. I got a ton of designs minutes before the deadline and did not want to go to the voting process a second time so I was forced to disregard those logos even if I liked some of them alot. So don't plan ahead, you have to wait for the deadline to fall unfortunatelly.

- Mycroburst is an american company and as such they are really annoying trying to sell you tons of things. I must have received 4 phone calls and 10 emails for upgrades and secondary services from them. That is the only downside but I really hate company that keeps bugging me to buy more from them.

Thanks for the input regarding text formating. I was planning to do the final formating after doing the re-writting (if needed) and spell checking. But I can fix that real quick in the meantime ;)

I was not planning on talking about myself. Do you guys all feel this is important? I always felt like when someone talks about himself on a webpage it makes it a lot less Professional. Maybe it's just me. When I deal with a company I don't care about the owner's personnal life. Maybe I am alone thinking like that, I don't know.

Thanks again for the comment, back to producing content...
 
The only thing I see is that you should put your prices starting at ? so you don't get burnt on a bad car. It happen to me one time and will never happen again. Now all my prices say starting at!. For interior work I never quote a price till I see it.
 
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