Need Help Making a Site look better!!!

[Macs R Us]

I have been running and working on my site but I don't have money to pay a profesinal to work on it, I'm just a poor high school student, but anyway, it needs to have a better look to it and have some neat Java and other such addons, I have made it from HTML and it really is way to hard to keep it ever up and running, any help would be great! heres the site http://macsruscomputers.com/ ... Please help:) I'd also like to have a small logo I made by the webaddress some sites have them but I don''t know how they did it.

[scem0]

How does a high school student go about getting all this hardware? :eek: ;)

Suggestions for the site:

Make some higher quality navigational images, or just don't use images at all. Plain text looks good too, especially with rollovers.
Same goes for the header image. It looks like it was made in a crappy imaging program :cool:.
Use color. I don't see much color on your site. This is unfortunate.
Learn CSS in and out. I can't tell you how helpful CSS is when it comes to making a website match the idea in your head.


I have to go to church now, but when I come back I'll have more suggestions, and I'll do a mock-up design for you to look at too (if I have the time - which is likely, as I am in highschool too ;) ).

Sorry for the fragmented response.

Oh, and good work so far. :)

scem0

[Macs R Us]

Ok, I'll wait til then I too am going to church and talk after.

[Wes]

The thing in the address bar is called a 'favicon'.

http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/favicons.php

Tutorial there should help you.

EDIT: Tutorial is very windows orientated, Graphic Converter can create .ico files, it calls them 'Windows icon' in the saving menu.

[Chaszmyr]

The thing in the address bar is called a 'favicon'.

http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/favicons.php

Tutorial there should help you.


Thanks for this, I've been wondering about that.

[Macs R Us]

How does a high school student go about getting all this hardware? :eek: ;)

Suggestions for the site:...

scem0

I'm back well you are right about my main banner it was made using AppleWorks (yes, I know it goes without saying). I have complied over 180 Macs from varius locations. I used Adobe PhotoShop to Make the newer buttons on th main page but it looks worse then the other ones did. The so called favorcons look hard to get on there I can make a image but installing it I don't understand, Well futher advice would be great.

[scem0]

I tried to make a colorful design, but it turned out ugly:
http://emoonline.com/macrus/index.htm

Oh well.

It doesn't work in IE and probably not Safari either, because I coded very quickly and badly. It works in PC mozilla though, so it should work in mac mozilla. The code isn't meant to be copied, just the design to look at, but the design ended up looking bad. So poo on me.

Don't follow my lead in making an ugly, non-standards compliant, non-browser compliant webpage. But try to add more color to your current one.

That design could possibly work if you worked on it a lot, and then made a good logo instead of the filler image that is there right now.

scem0

[Macs R Us]

The thing in the address bar is called a 'favicon'.

http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/favicons.php

Tutorial there should help you.

EDIT: Tutorial is very windows orientated, Graphic Converter can create .ico files, it calls them 'Windows icon' in the saving menu.

I did what it said and I put it in the Directory heres where it is http://macsruscomputers.com/favicon.ico . Still no luck getting it to work... The image took 45 minuts to make becuse its so small. Please let me know. I also made the buttons smaller until I replace them.

Thanks All!

[Wes]

Works for me!

[Wes]

Further info!

http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html

[Macs R Us]

Further info!

http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html

I think I got it working. Some of my computers still don't reconiz it. I'm going to continu working on it.

Thanks!

[MikeLaRiviere]

Macs if you want a good looking site I'll design it for you for a low price. Get back to me if you'd like to see some of my work.

Mike LaRiviere

[Macs R Us]

Macs if you want a good looking site I'll design it for you for a low price. Get back to me if you'd like to see some of my work.

Mike LaRiviere

Sure feel free to e-mail them to me at sales@macsruscomputers.com or post them on here.

Thanks!!!

Mark Jozaitis

[The Past]

Here are some tried-and-tested rules that will increase the chance of clicking (purchase).

1. Your site is currently scroll-intensive. Quite a bit of scrolling is required to view any page. If you cut that down, you will increase the chance that only content relevant to the current view is delivered, navigation is less tiring, and there will be fewer distractions.

2. View cart should move to the top than bottom.

3. Content on many of the second-level pages can be presented via user-friendly and intutitive menus. For example, one should be able to get to the memory listings in one click than having to scroll an entire page.


Good luck!