Critique my detailing website please

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WillWashesCars

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I have been working on my detailing website for over a year now. Constantly revising, updating, and simplifying. Everything you see is done by yours truly. It is running off of Wordpress as a CMS and the theme is a heavily modified theme I chopped up and made my own. I have High School level education in programming (Html, Java, and CSS). So I am definitely no pro, and it took days to get it to pass W3C. But I think I finally am happy. Or close to being happy. What would you do differently? As a consumer or a professional.


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Looks good dude! Really simple and clean look to it.
 
KMG said:
Looks good dude! Really simple and clean look to it.
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I agree, definitely clean and professional looking. You're giving me motivation to go back in and change mine up.
 
pricing is up where it supposed to be, great photos. However, I would explain a bit more about certain auto detail steps. I see you had an iron remover on the tesla rims, maybe even a bit more pictures on the shop or certain tools
 
KMG said:
Looks good dude! Really simple and clean look to it.
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Thank you!


jakonrad said:
I agree, definitely clean and professional looking. You're giving me motivation to go back in and change mine up.
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Thanks! And I look around on websites and graphic design forums daily. It helps motivate you to work and get everything going. I don't believe it needs to be fancy. Just effective.


Bill1234 said:
pricing is up where it supposed to be, great photos. However, I would explain a bit more about certain auto detail steps. I see you had an iron remover on the tesla rims, maybe even a bit more pictures on the shop or certain tools
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That is somewhere where I am lacking right now. I completely redid the entire packages section yesterday and never finished. It was all on one page original and now I am running multiple pages. Definitely need to finish them before the big season begins again.
 
It looks really good. I would not be one to critique, but from a potential customer point of view it is easy to navigate which is a plus! I like it.
 
I really like the changes you made since you last asked for opinions.

The SEO is MUCH better. :xyxthumbs:

The only thing I would do is add a little space between the headings of your 3 sections on the homepage.

For example, PAINT CORRECTION SPECIALIST
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK increase the vertical gap between the rows.
 
530inv said:
It looks really good. I would not be one to critique, but from a potential customer point of view it is easy to navigate which is a plus! I like it.
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Thank you! I really need honest critiques. It's hard to critique your own work and even harder to view from a potential clients perspective.

Scott@IncrediblyDetailed said:
I really like the changes you made since you last asked for opinions.

The SEO is MUCH better. :xyxthumbs:

The only thing I would do is add a little space between the headings of your 3 sections on the homepage.

For example, PAINT CORRECTION SPECIALIST
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK increase the vertical gap between the rows.
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Are they overlapping on your web browser? I have had issues in the past with my code causing display issues. They are set to be only a few pixels apart, its sort of the visual style I was going for. And yes, I've definitely gotten better at optimization :)
 
Looks very nice. It's easy to navigate, and if I were looking for a professional and using the website as a proxy, I'd send my car to you to detail. Thumbs up on those Teslas!:dblthumb2:
 
WillWashesCars said:
Thank you! I really need honest critiques. It's hard to critique your own work and even harder to view from a potential clients perspective.



Are they overlapping on your web browser? I have had issues in the past with my code causing display issues. They are set to be only a few pixels apart, its sort of the visual style I was going for. And yes, I've definitely gotten better at optimization :)
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They are so close together it looks out of place.
 
What website creater did you use ?

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Scott@IncrediblyDetailed said:
They are so close together it looks out of place.
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I will add a few extra pixels to them. What browser are you using btw?

jgibson2980 said:
What website creater did you use ?

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None. I am using Wordpress as content manager because I wanted to run a blog and then I took a basic theme and modified the hell out of it. Althought I did a lot of it wrong, it works. All modifications I did were directly by code.
 
I like it. Prices are way too low though. You should be charging a minimum of $400 just to apply Opti-Coat especially since you are a certified installer. Do not say "Never Wax Again" unless you put it in quotes like I just did and state a disclaimer. People will hold you up to that.
 
Simple and elegant. Make sure masking each image where appears a license plate (white Tesla and Audi). You can use Gimp and you have to pay nothing, because is open source.

A modern site, congratulations :dblthumb2:
 
TundraPower said:
I like it. Prices are way too low though. You should be charging a minimum of $400 just to apply Opti-Coat especially since you are a certified installer. Do not say "Never Wax Again" unless you put it in quotes like I just did and state a disclaimer. People will hold you up to that.
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I might have a typo somewhere on the website but does it say Opti-Coat applications anywhere other than the Stage Four detail which says only by estimate?

javip2k said:
Simple and elegant. Make sure masking each image where appears a license plate (white Tesla and Audi). You can use Gimp and you have to pay nothing, because is open source.
A modern site, congratulations :dblthumb2:
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I have Photoshop, I've been working on blocking out license plates but never reuploaded any images yet. Hopefully I can get off my lazy behind and finish it.
 
WillWashesCars said:
I might have a typo somewhere on the website but does it say Opti-Coat applications anywhere other than the Stage Four detail which says only by estimate? I have Photoshop, I've been working on blocking out license plates but never reuploaded any images yet. Hopefully I can get off my lazy behind and finish it.
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It could be, maybe I misread it. Just make sure you charge as much as your market will support for Opti-Coat. You've earned that right.

Never ever put a car you have done on the Internet without explicit permission of the owner, and certainly not with the license place visible. I got seriously chewed out and almost lost a premier customer for doing this. People are "funny" my friend, people with money are even "funnier". Guess my mother was right all along.....
 
I liked it. Looked over everything and all the links worked and all the pictures came up which doesn't happen very often on my work computer since so many things are blocked online.
 
TundraPower said:
It could be, maybe I misread it. Just make sure you charge as much as your market will support for Opti-Coat. You've earned that right.

Never ever put a car you have done on the Internet without explicit permission of the owner, and certainly not with the license place visible. I got seriously chewed out and almost lost a premier customer for doing this. People are "funny" my friend, people with money are even "funnier". Guess my mother was right all along.....
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It's true you have to be careful with wording but technically, with the lifetime warranty package, you will not ever be waxing again :) But yes, I might go and change the wording. I am not one to be deceiving and if even one person sees it that way, then it should be changed.

And my prices are right on target with Opti-Coat standards and fellow detailers in my region I believe. I spent a lot of time balancing out the pricing schedule.

DevilsNDetails said:
I liked it. Looked over everything and all the links worked and all the pictures came up which doesn't happen very often on my work computer since so many things are blocked online.
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Thank you. Yes everything is hosted on my server, which as far as I know, shouldn't be blocked by offices for any reason.
 
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