Our New Garage and Beyond Website!

[thegarageguy]

Hey guys, please check out our new website. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and taken into serious consideration.

Since my business has 2 aspects, flooring and garage, I tried to separate or distinguish the 2 within one website. I hope I have been successful.

BTW, I am only 98% done with the site, I still have more galleries and things to put up.

Let me know what you think, thanks

 

[RaceDeck1]

Very clean,looks great

 

[JD in DFW]

Looks great dude. Clean, concise and to the point. Only thing I would change is add more color. Seems kind of dark to me, people seem to respond to brighter colors and layouts. But then look at my site and it's black with some yellows mixed in so what do I know! But I like the layout and the blog is a nice touch. Is it Wordpress based?
JD

 

[countrytech]

Not bad, but I would try to bring out the 2 primary aspects of your business a little more. Instead of forcing the visitor to use the drop-downs, especially since they may not know for sure what they are looking for when they first come to the website.

Maybe try dividing the homepae space under the search bar and above all the text into 3rds and have a clickable picture that goes to a blog-like page showing a preview of each of the different types of products for each section and then a 3rd block for the photo galleries. Pictures sell, and making them easier to find is a big plus.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[gnxtc2]

Looks good but not a fan of the drop down menus. Also the pics are kinda dark.

Where is the grape vine pic?

Billy T.
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[Garage Flooring]

Looks Great!

 

[thegarageguy]

@RaceDeck1, Hey Jorgen, did you see our RaceDeck page? http://garageandbeyond.com/garage-organization/race-deck-flooring/

@JD, thanks dude, I needed to stick with the darker background to stay in tune with my other advertising. I tried to brighten it with colorful font. BTW, yes, its wordpress

@countrytech, that was the original idea, it may still be implemented in the near future

@gnxtc2, I am working on brighter pics....one of the grapevine pics are here http://garageandbeyond.com/seamless-flooring-epoxy-decorative-concrete/concrete-flooring/ There are still many more pics and albums I need to add

@garageflooringllc, thanks

My main goal was first to distinguish the flooring side and the garage side of the business but also to make it easy for an architects and designers to find info on a particular flooring system and to find all the info they need on that one page. For example on my epoxy chip floor page, http://garageandbeyond.com/seamless-flooring-epoxy-decorative-concrete/epoxy-chip-floor/ you can find info on the system, architect specs, product data sheets and a gallery without having to navigate away.

 

[JD in DFW]

Who is doing your SEO? and are you doing any adwords campaigns by chance? I have been doing around $300-400 a month and have constantly booked 4-6 jobs per month just off of that. I know some hate pay-per click, but if the campaigns are managed right they can be productive lead and job generators.

Just my .02

JD

 

[mikeyr]

Looks good but not a fan of the drop down menus.

May I ask why not and how else you would do a site with lots of content if you don' do drop downs ? Reason I ask is that I manage a car site with hundreds of pages, I can't think of any other way to do it but drop downs, if you don't like his dropdowns, you wont like mine either Although that is ok, you don't have that type of car, I starting to redesign my site so thought I would ask.

 

[thegarageguy]

@JD, we haven't used ppc in a long while. We have someone we pay that has another way to get us noticed online and we have been seeing great results at about half the cost.

@mikeyr, thats the reason we went with drop downs, too many things to list, no good or more practical way to do it. Also, it seemed easier to navigate. Trying to keep it simple. The worst thing is having a fancy website with difficult navigation.