Topic: A New One - JoesGarageBBS.com

Okay, I finally put together *my* site, and yes, it was sorta thrown together more than I'd like in the end, but i think its better than what I've been doing thus far.

I haven't been around in a while, but all of you guys were helping me out with www.drisson.com for a while. Well, my new one is this:

http://www.joesgaragebbs.com/

Any advice on it would be great.

Wow, all images, no text, not even any meta tags!

How you expect to rank anywhere on any search engine is beyond me let alone land any clients.

As for the design... Red, yellow, Orange, Green, Brown, hite, Black. Only one ya missing is blue!

The layout. Well the garage motif is cute but I think it can be executed better. Make it feel like the customer's just walked into "JOE's GARAGE!" The most prestigious garage the world has ever seen. The kind of garage you'd take your car to if you were so dememted you thought your car was your soul mate!

I only managed to find one link in your content area, and even the it didn't jump out at me saying, I'm a link, click me! And when I clicked it, it took me away from your website. Not something you want to do to your customers. Make it stand out, make it look like a link and make it open in another browser window.

Put some real text in there. The only reason you should be using images for text is because your attempting some rather difficuly layout, but even with CSS anything is possible. So there's really no excuse for using images for everything. Ever thought of what would happen if you need to fix more that one paragraph of information onto one page? Most business provide a fair ammount of information about them selves to try and win over the customers that are discerning enough to read it all.

Right now it all just seems rather shallow. So get crackin! Ya got a lot of work to do before you can pass that off as a design company's site.

My first impression was that is was a print design ported directly to the web. I suppose the fact that there is absolutely no text has something to do with that...

I've also got to say that something about the fonts bugs me. I think you've got four fonts that you're using there in for a relatively small amount of text. They do all have a similar feel, but I think they may be a little much.

Drac did a pretty good job, so I'll just leave it at that.


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