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Roger,

 love the concept!! get yourself on all the home rebuild / ownerbuild / DYI sites immediately, without a doubt they will love your stuff as well.

loose the intro page

the home page has; i don`t know to much detail? it`s kind of like that commercial " hey boss the email is down" (thats all I need to know) "so I switched servers and made the primary the secondary" (who cares fix the damn email) I suggest you move the "how it works" to a seperate page and feature your "done stuff" up front.

about all the seo /html /keyword /metatag stuff, I know nothing but there are a very talented bunch here that do. 

my opinion

Stan

Thank you so much for the suggestions.  I took out the intro page.  I`m trying to find a different layout to reduce the overwhelming color.

I will try to add a button for "upload" to encourage the interaction.

I`ll definitely get on my feet to find some home build type of websites.

Thanks again.  Keep the suggestions coming!

Great offering, pretty lousy site.

For anyone who want to have a profitable business, some usability reading is essential - "Designing Web Usability" from Jacob Nielssen is a good one. Most of the feedback you got are covered in the book.

The details shouldn`t be on the home page. Instead, it should simple say "transfer your photos to tiles", with a "See how" link, which gives the details. 

You need to have an account system, where people can upload images (drop the email, it is so unreliable these days and very unprofessional), pay, and see status of their order. Basically, you need a real e-commerce system.

And how much does it cost? I had to dig to find out....and I still don`t know how anyone would pay.

However, you have a killer business there. I love your offering. Congrats!

More problems I see.

You need real contact information - phone number, address etc. That`s the most important thing when you do online business to make people have confidence in you.

Thank you for your inputs, Johnqh.  With my limited budget, I couldn`t get the account system setup.  I did manage to link to a web store for the shopping cart though.

I`ll work on getting a business phone number.

Thanks!

It doesn`t have to cost a lot. Use rentacoder and you can get your whole site done for a few hundred dollars, or maybe a little over $1000 if you pay for a professional designed unique template.

Also, I think you need to do some local marketing too....take your samples to the local festivals so people can see and touch them. They can order online. I think you will get great responses from that.

Of course, the biggest problem is timing. With the down housing market, there is less remodeling activities. Still, I think you have a killer product.