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artalacarte

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Nov 12, 2007 1:06 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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After being ranked #2 in the Startupnation competition, in the "Hightest Vote-Getters" category, our traffic went through the roof. One feedback was "your website looks like a 8 year old built it". Of course, they could do a great job for me for $$$$. Could you please review it? Is it clear, confusing, user-friendly for potential customers, etc...

http://www.whineranddiner.net

Thank you so very much

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ToddF

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Nov 12, 2007 1:21 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Well I personally dont think it looks that bad. It`s simple and not an Amazon.com or anything but, sometimes you cant listen to every comment. If we changed our site based solely on one comment, we`d be making 50 changes a day just to suit 50 people.

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artalacarte

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Nov 12, 2007 2:03 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Thank you Todd! You are so right!

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artalacarte

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Nov 12, 2007 2:04 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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I think you have a great point there . I think that my website is not very clear!

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stonesledge

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Nov 12, 2007 2:23 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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I think it is simple and clean. the only change I would make is at the top. i would make that header a full logo and tagline. This can be a simple change that you can do or someone heere maybe able to whip something up for you as a favor. Other than that, I think it looks great. the products are great, very cool! Congrats on your win!

Erin

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John49

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Nov 12, 2007 4:27 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Your site doesn`t look like a 8th grader made it, but it does suffer from the limitations and standardization of all Microsoft Office Live websites. Almost anytime you use a website building all in one application, there are limitations... and resulting website look similar.

A quick example is your logo name (black letters on white background) in your header. It would look better is if was integrated into the header ... same background colors as your header rather than a white box containing your name.

There are other layout.design issues that give the impression it was a "homemade site"... centered text, lines around tables.....

artalacarte

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Nov 12, 2007 11:23 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Thank you Erin! I made the change and I have to say, it looks much better. Thank you again for you input.

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artalacarte

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Nov 12, 2007 11:29 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Hi John,

I know what you mean about limitations: very frustrating...but I erased the lines, some of the centered text (managed to loose my home page in the process..."do not panic"!) and I think I can match my logo background color to the Microsoft template.

Thank you again...Great advice!

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MackVVV

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Nov 13, 2007 5:19 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Youre way to harsh. its not made haphazardly. OIts quite simple, straight to the point and natural.

Especially important for older pets who are not as "flexible". The feeders reduce the need of leaning, bending and stress on the muscles and joints.

Its also equally important to older pet owners who are not that flexible bending so much anymore to put food in the crate.

Anyway. the nice , real pictures are the center of attention of your site so its pretty well.

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CampSteve

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Nov 13, 2007 11:23 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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I have a couple comments.

Do you have to have that orange stripe up in the header? When the site first loads, that`s the most attention grabbing element on the page (to me). It`s brighter than anything else and surrounded by greens, it pops out!

Also, someone already mentioned the logo in the white box. I also suggest not squashing the logo, or is the one on the bottom of the page stretched? And in the header, if you make the background green, then you will run into some difficulty with the black on green logo right above the black on green headline. You might want to play with the placement of the logo as well, maybe in the upper left corner to the left of the headline.

It doesn`t look like an 8 year old made the site but keep tweaking it and it will improve. Keep up the good work!

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