Posted by salami met bami on 10/11/06 23:07

"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@SeeScreen.com> schreef in bericht
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> "Glorywest" <glorywest@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>> Peter Olcott wrote:
>>> I have already hired a designer and want to provide him with more ideas.
>>> You
>>> indicated that the kind of advice that I was asking for can not be
>>> reasonably be
>>> provided, I have refuted this statement by providing two valid counter
>>> examples
>>> of the advice that you said could not be provided.
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>> Your designer should be providing the ideas. All you should have to do
>> is communicate the goals of the site, problems you are having, who the
>> audience is, long range considerations and your budget range. The
>> designer's job is to create a website that addresses and solves the
>> problems put forth-creatively and within your budget.
>>
>> You should review your designer's work to see if that is how they have
>> performed in the past. Your designer should also be interviewing you
>> for what you know is not working and why you think it's not working.
>> Not for suggestions about how to fix it.
>>
>> Example: Our clients cannot find the prices and we are still getting
>> calls about pricing when all that info is on the site. We want to be
>> able to get more qualified leads from the site, but all we get are
>> shoppers, not buyers. We have not been able to get into the first 10
>> results for our keyword phrases.
>>
>> Designer: To solve these issues I suggest we...
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>> If you have to ask us, your designer is not doing his/her job. What are
>> you paying for? It sounds like you want to design instead. You may want
>> to consider another designer or perhaps just find a production person
>> so you can give all the instructions to them. It should be less
>> expensive than hiring a designer.
>>
> I am looking for suggestions pertaining to style, not functionality. What
> are the kinds of things that can be done to a site like mine that look
> good.

Hire another designer if you don`t like the design now?
I didn`t like the small letters, they annoyed me.

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