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Old 01-02-2009, 02:36 PM New Look for DetSynergy
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Hello,

First of all Happy New Years! We hope you all are having a safe and successful new year so far.

DetSynergy is a web design, marketing, and general internet Service Company. Most of our work is generated locally from word of mouth throughout the companies we deal with. However we wanted to get more of a general feedback from you all. Please feel free to post your comments and or suggestions. We would love to see them and or use those suggestions to better the overall site!

http://detsynergy.com

Networking and helping other people throughout our Industry is a good thing to do. Which we do often. That is what brings us here!

BTW the site is still being updated. We need to finish the blog script and a few other pages. Plus the Portfolio is a bit out of date but we are working on updating that soon!

Thank you and Happy New Years!
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Old 01-04-2009, 01:13 AM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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I really like this site!

You've picked a classically effective color scheme with blue/orange and implemented it very nicely with your creative little icons. The flow of the site and the load time are very nice and make it easy for anyone to find the exact information they are looking for.

But, there are 2 things that I would suggest:

The whole time I was on your site I found myself thinking "I wonder what their prices are?". So, I started searching for a page that would give me a simple list of prices for all the products you offer. I found there was none.
I clicked around and thanks to the smooth design was able to find some prices, but left the site feeling like I didn't quite get what I needed.
In other words, it would be nice to see that page added. You could just split it up into a sectioned list and include links to the info pages. Of course there will be some things you can't put final prices on, but an estimation would at least be good.
Besides, you advertise affordability as one of your three main selling points, so we should get to see exactly what that means.

Secondly, it's a touch noticeable that you are a group (or person?) of great designers who know how to build a great site but who are lacking a bit in the content department.
Not that the writing is horrible. It certainly passes as decent and serves the purpose, it just doesn't hold the same sparkle that the actual design of the site does.
Have you maybe considered looking into a professional content writing firm?
I did a quick search for you and these guys offer a free consultation session: www. proedit .com/web_content .asp

But, like I said, small faults in an otherwise great design.

Hope I've helped!

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Old 01-04-2009, 02:38 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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Zac,

Thank you for the great reply. We are happy that the design is to your liking. We put together several mock-ups and sat down with them to figure out which one would work which wouldn't and what color schemes / layout would work best with our company logo and slogan. This is the outcome of it and so far we have had great response from it.

The price list is a bit tucked away because we would like the clients to at least scan through the site before they hit the price lists. This way they get a more personal feel for the company and the services that we offer. Maybe we should include it in more sub sections like you mentioned?

As for the content yes I agree to a point. We tried to make the content easy for the non technical people to understand and or follow. We wanted to focus the attention on people that need the services which normally is the people that have no idea about any of it. So we tried to simplify it as much as possible.

I will link this topic over to a few people that work for me including my partner and sit down and talk about it next week.

Again I want to personally thank you for taken the time out to give such a great review. We welcome suggestions and or critics as often as possible. Without them we would have never got this far!

Thank you again Zach!

Jake Guthrie
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:16 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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Not that we are not thankful for the reply we got. But I am very surprised to of only got 1 reply at all...

We are still looking forward to any of your reviews and or suggestions!
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Old 01-07-2009, 08:12 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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The site is nicely designed the template, the color scheme, and the page layout is excellent however, I agree with arcanepsyche I think you should list the prices on a page, this will let your viewers know whether or not they can afford your services before contacting you.
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Old 01-07-2009, 10:26 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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King thank you for the your review. This week we need to sit down and talk about the reviews which is why I asked for another or even more. Once we sit down everything that is mentioned here will be addressed and changed. But we work as a team so everything is dealt with that route..

Thank you again very much!

Anymore before I go ahead and make any final changes?
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Old 01-22-2009, 02:49 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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I really like the template and colors chosen for the site. I do think better use can be made at bottom of home page where the simple, professional and affordable sections are. When I was clicking through your site I found myself just reading the headlines of those sections and nothing else. I think that much space on home page is to valuable to put that type of information. I believe you can fit the info in all those boxes into one and still have a quarter page left to promote something else. That is just my opinion.
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:51 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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The site looks good for me. Professional and neat. I really wanna see it with PR higher that 1 though. I guess you need to take some actions to make it even more reputable.
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Old 01-23-2009, 01:21 AM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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Nice site. the banner though... Not sure what you are going for with that. It isn't linked so what ever purpose it serves must be done in simply looking at it. But it doesn't communicate anything either by text or graphic. If it had some bulleted text outlining what you could do for a potential client.. boost conversion.. increase traffic with examples of your doing so for former clients it would be relevant. Even if it displayed several linked images of homepages you designed just to show the customer what your capable of that might be cool.. But as is its a distraction from your primary calls to action. Seriously man you replace that banner and your page will be much more effective. Apart from the banner I'd say 8+/10 with the banner 7/10 maybe worse. Run some tests with a simpler banner with a definite purpose and call to action.

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Old 01-23-2009, 07:49 AM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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I think that you pick the right layout and color scheme, and the site is really appealing, you really done a great job on it!
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Old 01-23-2009, 08:25 AM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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Hello detsynergy,
The website is great, the graphics have been saved at a low quality. This means to me, it looks very tacky.
The text on the frontpage banner, seems unprofessional such as the text is near the edges, the underline also underlines the bullet point, which is not needed as you have underlined each point. The graphic itself is great, but again saved in low quality causing some pixalation.
The font on the left menu seems, not to match the fonts used on the rest of the website. You could also make your favicon background transparent.

Im being picky, as your a webdesign company with what I see as mistakes in their own design. You could also improve your seo such as Short Urls instead of dynamic pages, customers also wanting to use your SEO services, will also notice the bad dynamic paging and go elsewhere.

I hope I have been of some help,
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Old 01-23-2009, 02:04 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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I really like the site. It is so clean and easy to navigate through. Nicely done.
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Old 01-24-2009, 08:36 AM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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Hi-

Do you really need the logo twice on the front page? If you were to remove it from the banner in the middle you could take the text below that make it centered rather than pushing it down and making the affordable part look like you just barley fit it in.

I also think the cartoony looking characters in the upper right look kinda amatuer. I think you could use a banner or text or something and make it look cleaner and a little more professional looking.

Overall a very good site. Those are just the two little picky things I thought I might suggest.
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Old 01-25-2009, 12:21 PM Re: New Look for DetSynergy
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no comments, this good site. =)
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