Thread: Websites

Looks good to me, hope it is a great success for you.

Hey Greg very nice mate well done love the site hope you sell some of those lovely pens mate Ian

Greg,

Well done on getting a website done, it's something I am still some way off doing (time poor mostly). I noticed on the home page the following paragraph:

If your choose a distinctive pen simply contact us at [email protected] and we will help you select the type of timber and pen style you prefer from our wide range. Artisan Pens will create a work of art unique to you.


May want to edit your to you. Other than that, looks good.

Cheers
Paul

Hi Greg,

Great effort, overall the site is easy to read and the pictures are large and don't take much time to load. You may want to warn your visitors and potential customers that if you add an item to their cart that they will be taken to "paypal" and have the option of using their credit card directly and don't need a paypal account. Wishing you all the success with your new venture!

Cheers

Have you thought about a page which has a picture of you and describes the passion you have for making pens so the customer can establish that there is a human face of the business?

My 2c

yep Greg awesome job, site looks good, pics look great, have you thought about putting in a page for the pen care or refil replacement like Ian has? a bit about you would go down well too i rekon, but thats just me. top job, hope it works out for you mate.

Neal.

A good looking site, congratulations. I would agree with the personalize it a bit and adding something on pen care, changing refills etc. Hope it is a great success for you.

I agree with most of the comments alreay made especially the last 3 or 4 because if there is one thing I miss with my website it is the fact that I don't have things like a care of pens page also a page about myself and my company. that is why I currently have my son looking into building me another website a bit more manager (Me) friendly so I can do that sort of thing.

Cheers
Ian

Thanks very much for the very helpful replies. I must have read that script on the front a hundred times and still didn't see the error. Thanks Paul, I will fix it up. I will also take on the other comments and place a page on about care of the pens and refills. As soon as I get my new shed setup I will put a page on the website to personalise it a bit. I hadn't put anything on before as I read an article about websites and it recommended targeting the client and telling them what they will get without trying to sell yourself too much. Now that I am on the bottom of the list on Google and Bing under about a hundred thousand other pen websites I have to work out an inexpensive way to get it progressed further up the pecking order as most people don't go past page 1 or 2 in a search. I might just have to sit up all night and keep entering a search for it into Google, if that works which I have doubts about.

Not too sure on website design or google search, but some sites have a hidden page with a whole stack of keywords relevant to the site, most bots scan this as a matter of course and the info is added to google search or whichever search engine is scanning at the time cheers ~ John
One day I will get this website bug hehe.

Site looks good Greg. Nice and crisp and clean.
Not sure if you have the correct photo for the Sedona on page 1?
It takes a while for your site to make it up the search engine list. I made one for our wood club with no prior knowledge of site building. I kept changing the wording of keywords until it eventually appeared on page one of a Google search. Good luck with it all.

Hey Mate,

Not a very easy thing to do these days with websites unless you wanna pay some decent $$$$, its all about SEO these days Search Engine Optimization. Plenty to read about on google, but not that easy to understand.

Cheers
Tony

Tony

That's a very professional website you have running. Mine is an on the cheap with the hope that it might sell a few pens as it is still really is a hobby for me and I have so many to make and so much to learn.

greg

Greg,

Mine was done on the cheap too done it myself. I had never done anything like that before, so learnt as I went.

I did have to buy my domain names, not that they were too expensive and I pay yearly for hosting.
Being honest my site has been running for some months now but really has not generated much in the way of sales. my sales so far have been word of mouth, friends and work colleagues, but you do have to start somewhere.
I do believe a website and google rankings can take some time unless you are prepared to pay for it.
It will never make us rich but if it pays to keep you in the hobby and to keep trying new things thats got to be a good thing as most other hobbies will normally suck you dry.

Good luck with your site.

Cheers
Tony